1892 in Canada

1892 in Canada
Events from the year 1892 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch – Victoria
Federal government
Governor General – Frederick Stanley
Prime Minister – John Abbott (until November 24) then John Thompson (from December 5)
Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) (until 25 September) then Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario) (from 13 December)
Parliament – 7th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson (until November 1) then Edgar Dewdney
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell (until May 24) then George Airey Kirkpatrick (from May 30)
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers (until December 5) then Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Premiers
Premier of British Columbia – John Robson (until June 29) then Theodore Davie (from July 2)
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 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville (until December 16)then Louis-Olivier Taillon
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal
Premiers
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain
Events
June 29 – John Robson, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office
July 2 – Theodore Davie becomes Premier of British Columbia
July 8 – The Great Fire of 1892 destroys two-thirds of St. John's, Newfoundland
July 9 – Parliament passes the Criminal Code, 1892, the first unified criminal law for all of Canada, under the direction of the Minister of Justice, John Thompson
November 24 – Sir John Abbott resigns as Prime Minister
December 5 – Sir John Thompson becomes Prime Minister
December 16 – Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville
Full date unknown
The Toronto Star founded
Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
Humberside Collegiate Institute opened
Worthington, Ontario, is incorporated as a mining community.
The first Canadian National Rugby-Football Championship game is played (Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal 45–5).
Sport
First documented women's ice hockey game takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on an outdoor ice surface.
Births
January to June
March 4 – J.-Eugène Bissonnette, politician and physician
April 8 – Mary Pickford, actress and studio co-founder (d.1979)
May 3 – Jacob Viner, economist (d.1970)
May 18 – John Croak, VC
June 2 – Edward LeRoy Bowerman, politician (d.1977)
July to December
July 8 – Sir Victor Tait, Canadian-born British airman and businessman (d.1988)
July 14 – John Sissons, barrister, author, judge and politician (d.1969)
August 2 – Jack L. Warner, studio mogul (d.1978)
August 18 – Hal Foster, cartoonist (d.1982)
September 21 – Donald Elmer Black, politician
September 24 – Adélard Godbout, politician and 15th Premier of Quebec (d.1956)
October 25 – Nell Shipman, actress, screenwriter, producer and animal trainer (d.1970)
December 27 – Alfred Edwin McKay, World War I flying ace (d. 1917 in Belgium)
Deaths
January 1 – John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (b.1817)
January 20 – Samuel Barton Burdett, politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.1843)
March 7 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1820)
April 6 – John Ostell, architect, surveyor and manufacturer (b.1813)
April 17 – Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1822)
May 24 – Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1822)
June 9 – William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer (b.1863)
June 29 – John Robson, journalist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1824)
July 15 – William Donahue, merchant and politician (b.1834)
August 30 – Frederick Newton Gisborne, Laid first under-sea cable in North America
September 12 – Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (b.1822)
December 14 – Adams George Archibald, politician (b.1814)
Historical documents
Newspaper coverage of Great Fire of St. John's, Newfoundland
U.S. accuses Canadian Pacific Railway of helping Chinese illegally cross border from British Columbia
Running Wolf and Owl Child's performance of Moon Dance described
"Completely won the hearts of her audience" - Poet of Kanien'kéhà:ka origin, Pauline Johnson, gives first solo recital in Toronto
English visitor rides out from Lethbridge, Alberta to watch 2000-head cattle roundup
References
Years of the 19th century in Canada
Canada
1892 in North America