1904 in Canada

1904 in Canada
Events from the year 1904 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch – Edward VII
Federal government
Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (until December 10) then Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
Chief Justice – Henri Elzéar Taschereau (Quebec)
Parliament – 9th (until 29 September)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter A. McIntyre (until October 3) then Donald Alexander MacKinnon
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
Premiers
Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Tennyson Congdon (until October 29) then Zachary Taylor Wood (acting)
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget
Premiers
Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain
Events
April 8 – In the Lansdowne-Cambon Convention France gives up some of its longstanding rights in Newfoundland
April 19 – The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but kills no one.
June 24 – The North-West Mounted Police become the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
September 10 – American criminal Bill Miner stages Canada's first-ever train robbery
October 8 – Edmonton is incorporated as a city of the North-West Territories.
Full date unknown
Henry Ford opens an automobile manufacturing plant in Windsor, Ontario
Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg opens
Births
January to June
January 4 – Pegi Nicol MacLeod, artist (d.1949)
January 14 – Walter Harris, politician and lawyer (d.1999)
February 29 – Lloyd Stinson, politician (d.1976)
March 6 – Farquhar Oliver, politician (d.1989)
March 26 – Gustave Biéler, Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (d.1944)
April 16 – Fifi D'Orsay, actress (d.1983)
April 26 – Paul-Émile Léger, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d.1991)
May 1 – Wally Downer, politician (d.1994)
May 13 – Earle Birney, poet (d.1995)
May 29 – Eugene Forsey, politician and constitutional expert (d.1991)
June 26 – Frank Scott Hogg, astrophysicist (d.1951)
July to December
July 22 – Donald O. Hebb, psychologist (d.1985)
August 15 – George Klein, inventor (d. 1992)
September 7 – Matthew Halton, radio and television journalist (d.1956)
September 14 – Frank Amyot, sprint canoer and Olympic gold medallist (d.1962)
September 23 – Geoffrey Waddington, conductor
September 29 – Robert Legget, civil engineer, historian and non-fiction writer (d.1994)
October 20 – Tommy Douglas, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1986)
November 18 – Jean Paul Lemieux, painter (d.1990)
November 26 – Armand Frappier, physician and microbiologist (d.1991)
December 18 – Wilf Carter, country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and yodeller (d.1996)
December 25 – Gerhard Herzberg, physicist and physical chemist (d.1999)
December 28 – Bobbie Rosenfeld, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1969)
December 29 – Léo Gauthier, politician (d.1964)
Deaths
January 9 – Christian Kumpf, mayor of Waterloo, Ontario (b. 1838)
February 9 – Erastus Wiman, journalist and businessman (b.1834)
March 9 – Robert Machray, clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada (b.1831)
April 17 – Joseph Brunet, politician and businessman (b.1834)
May 11 – David Breakenridge Read, lawyer and 14th Mayor of Toronto (b. 1823)
August 8 – James Cox Aikins, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1823)
August 31 – Jean-Baptiste Blanchet, politician (b.1842)
September 26 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman (b.1848)
Historical documents
Great Toronto Fire and its aftermath, in eyewitness accounts and critical postmortem
Film of Great Toronto Fire
Photo of Toronto fire ruins
Anaconda, B.C. forest fire starts in "dry brush several feet thick" made of fallen trees amid much scrubby pine and fir killed by smelter smoke
Dubious story about people smuggling prompts editorial on journalistic accuracy
Burrowing owl increasing and Passenger pigeon disappearing in Manitoba
Manitoba Free Press special Christmas issue contains goose quill pen
References
Years of the 20th century in Canada
1904 in North America