1895 in Canada

1895 in Canada
Events from the year 1895 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch – Victoria
Federal government
Governor General – John Hamilton-Gordon
Prime Minister – Mackenzie Bowell
Chief Justice of Canada – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
Parliament – 7th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – John James Fraser
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – George Airey Kirkpatrick
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George William Howlan
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Premiers
Premier of British Columbia – Theodore Davie (until March 4) then John Herbert Turner
Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair
Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding
Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Peters
Premier of Quebec – Louis-Olivier Taillon
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Charles Herbert Mackintosh
Premiers
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain
Events
March – Maria Grant is the first woman in Canada to be elected to any office. She served six years on the Victoria School Board and was presented to the future George V as the only woman elected as a school trustee in Canada.
March 2 – Theodore Davie resigns as premier of British Columbia
March 4 – John Herbert Turner becomes premier of British Columbia
April 24 – Jean-Olivier Chénier Monument unveiled
July 1 – Maisonneuve Monument unveiled
October 2 – Additional provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established: the districts of Ungava, Mackenzie, Yukon, and Franklin. The districts of Keewatin and Athabaska are enlarged so that all points of Canada are either within a province or a district.
The Chinese Board of Trade is formed in Vancouver
First ascent of Mount Hector in Banff National Park.
Sport
March 9 – The Montreal Hockey Club wins their second Stanley Cup by defeating Queen's University 5 goals to 1 at Montreal's Victoria Rink
Births
January to June
February 1 – Conn Smythe, ice hockey manager and owner (d.1980)
February 15 – Earl Thomson, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1971)
March 23 – John Robert Cartwright, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d.1979)
April 30 – Philippe Panneton, physician, academic, diplomat and writer (d.1960)
May 12 – William Giauque, chemist and Nobel laureate (d.1982)
May 27 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, politician and 13th Premier of Manitoba (d.1995)
July to December
July 7 – Thane Campbell, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1978)
July 29 – Albert A. Brown, politician and lawyer (d.1971)
September 7 – Pete Parker, radio announcer (d.1991)
September 18 – John Diefenbaker, politician and 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1979)
September 20 – Leslie Frost, politician and 16th Premier of Ontario (d.1973)
November 5 – Howard Charles Green, politician and Minister (d.1989)
December 1 – Edwin Hansford, politician (d.1959)
Deaths
January 17 – Joseph Tassé, politician (b.1848)
January 28 – Camille Lefebvre (b.1831)
April 4 – Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (b.1842)
August 4 – Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, seigneur, journalist and politician (b.1818)
September 4 – Antoine Plamondon, artist (b.1804)
September 11 – Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (b.1822)
September 15 – Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (b.1842)
Historical documents
Liberal Party of Canada pamphlet comments on economic conditions
Maria Grant, elected to Victoria, B.C. school board, hopes next election will return two more women
Medical education of women, and how to answer objections to it
Dominion's Indian Head farm sees trees leafed out by May 1 (3 weeks early), but fruit destroyed by 18° Fahrenheit (-7° Celsius) cold snap
Report on domestication of Barren Grounds caribou
Toronto Trades and Labor Council supports continued restriction of Chinese immigration
References
Years of the 19th century in Canada
Canada
1895 in North America