1886 in Canada

1886 in Canada
Events from the year 1886 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch – Victoria
Federal government
Governor General – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
Parliament – 5th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Rodrigue Masson
Premiers
Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe
Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair
Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding
Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan
Premier of Quebec – John Jones Ross
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney
Events
March 25 – Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario
April 6 – Vancouver incorporated as a city
April 26 – 1886 New Brunswick general election
June 7 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinal
June 8 to 15 – 1886 Nova Scotia general election: William Stevens Fielding's Liberals win a third consecutive majority.
June 13 – Great Vancouver Fire
June 30 – 1886 Prince Edward Island general election: William Wilfred Sullivan Conservatives win a fifth consecutive majority.
July 20 – 1886 British Columbia general election
October 14 – 1886 Quebec general election: Honoré Mercier's Liberals win a majority
December 9 – 1886 Manitoba general election
December 14 – Yoho National Park established
December 28 – 1886 Ontario general election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.
Full date unknown
Mohawk men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River, beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois.
Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel
Births
January 15 – C. D. Howe, politician and Minister (d.1960)
January 21 – George Kingston, meteorologist (b.1816)
May 13 – William John Patterson, politician and 6th Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1976)
August 4 – Pierre-François Casgrain, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d.1950)
August 30 – Ray Lawson, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1980)
September 20 – John Murray Anderson, Canadian-born American actor, dancer, theatre director (d. 1954 in the United States)
October 16 – Joseph-Arthur Bradette, politician (d.1961)
Deaths
March 30 – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, politician and 6th Premier of Quebec (b.1837)
March 31 – Amos Wright, farmer and politician (b.1809)
June 25
Auguste Achintre, journalist and essayist (b.1834)
Jean-Louis Beaudry, entrepreneur, politician and 11th Mayor of Montreal (b.1809)
July 4 – Poundmaker, Cree chief (b. c1842)
November 23 – William Jack, astronomer (b.1817)
Historical documents
Edward Blake speaks on Louis Riel's execution and Northwest maladministration
Wilfrid Laurier's House of Commons speech condemns Louis Riel's execution
Crown issues amnesty for all those not convicted of crimes in 1885 conflict
Ojibwe, Cree and Inuit medical practice and materials (Note: "primitive" and other stereotypes)
Painting: Agent dispenses flour rations to Siksika people
Account of destruction of Vancouver by fire
"Decent Canadian" robs Qu'Appelle stage coach
New York City businessman wants Chief Poundmaker for Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
References
Years of the 19th century in Canada
Canada
1886 in North America