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* 1888
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Events from the year 1887 in Canada.

## Incumbents

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### Crown

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* Monarch – Victoria[1]

### Federal government

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* Governor General – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
* Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
* Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
* Parliament – 5th (until 15 January) then 6th (from 13 April)

### Provincial governments

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#### Lieutenant governors

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* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall (until February 8) then Hugh Nelson
* 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 (until June 1) then Alexander Campbell
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Rodrigue Masson (until October 4) then Auguste-Réal Angers

#### Premiers

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* Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe (until March 28) then Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (from April 1)
* Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay (until December 26) then David Howard Harrison
* 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 (until January 25) then Louis-Olivier Taillon (January 25 to January 27) then Honoré Mercier

### Territorial governments

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#### Lieutenant governors

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* Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins
* Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney

## Events

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* January 25 – Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec, replacing John Jones Ross.
* January 27 – Honoré Mercier becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon.
* February 22 – Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority.
* March 3 – The United States imposes the Fisheries Retaliation Act putting limits on Canadian fishermen and traders
* March 28 – William Smithe, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
* April 1 – Alexander Davie becomes premier of British Columbia.
* April 23 – McMaster University founded
* May 3 – 148 coal miners are killed in a mine explosion near Nanaimo, British Columbia
* June 7 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
* June 20 – Golden Jubilee of Victoria's accession as Queen
* December 3 – Saturday Night founded
* December 26 – David H. Harrison becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing John Norquay.
* The first premiers' conference is held at Quebec City, Quebec

## Births

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### January to June

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* January 21 – Georges Vézina, ice hockey player (d.1926)
* February 20 – Vincent Massey, lawyer, diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d.1967)
* February 25 – Andrew McNaughton, army officer, politician and diplomat (d.1966)
* April 13 – Gordon S. Fahrni, medical doctor (d.1995)
* May 21 – James Gladstone, first Status Indian to be appointed to the Senate of Canada (d.1971)

### July to December

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* July 4 – Tom Longboat, long-distance runner (d.1949)
* July 5 – Joseph Charles-Émile Trudeau, entrepreneur and father of Pierre Trudeau, who would later become Prime Minister of Canada (d.1935)
* September 17 – Georges Poulin, hockey player (d. 1971)
* October 8 – Huntley Gordon, actor (d. 1956)
* October 14 – Frances Loring, sculptor (d.1968)
* December 20 – Walter Russell Shaw, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1981)

## Deaths

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* February 25 – Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, missionary (b.1797)
* March 28 – William Smithe, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (b.1842)
* May 4 – William Murdoch, poet (b.1823)
* May 8 – Sir William Young, Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1799)
* June 25 – Matthew Crooks Cameron, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1822)
* August 18 – John Palliser, explorer and geographer (b.1817)
* October 11 – Louis-Adélard Senécal, businessman and politician (b.1829)
* October 12 – William Annand, 2nd Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1808)

## Historical documents

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Senate committee suggests seeding North-West with wild rice, developing bison hybrid, and preserving food using Indigenous ways[2]

Senate debate on North-West Territories growth blames decades of delay on British ignorance (Note: "Indians" and "civilize" stereotypes)[3]

Canadian Pacific Railway offers land seekers $25 return fare to Winnipeg, with option to go on westward (and fare refunded if 160 acres purchased)[4]

Statistical snapshot of Ontario, with note on reciprocity with U.S.[5]

Royal commission hears that labour and small business in Toronto are squeezed by increasing competition and rising rents[6]

"A blot on our Statute Book" - Sen. William Johnston Almon against Chinese head tax law penalizing any immigrant with "yellow skin and an almond eye"[7]

Opposition Leader Wilfrid Laurier comments on "cancer of emigration" to United States[8]

## References

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1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
2. ^ "Second Report of the Select Committee of the Senate on the Existing Natural Food Products of the North-West Territories[....]," pgs. 4-5. Accessed 5 October 2020
3. ^ "The Natural Food Products of the North-West; Debate in the Senate[...]on the Report of the Committee[....]," pg. 2 Accessed 5 October 2020
4. ^ "To Land Hunters!" (May 12, 1887), University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 10 July 2022
5. ^ Archibald Blue, Resources and Progress of the Province of Ontario (1888). Accessed 10 October 2019
6. ^ "Phillips Thompson, Journalist, of Toronto, called and sworn" (November 28, 1887), Report of the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital in Canada; Evidence, Ontario (1889), pgs. 98-100 Accessed 21 May 2020
7. ^ "Chinese Immigration Bill; Second Reading" (June 10, 1887), Senate Debates, 6th Parliament, 1st Session; Vol. 1, pgs. 297-8 (PDF pgs. 297-8). Accessed 8 January 2023
8. ^ Ulric Barthe, Wilfrid Laurier on the Platform; Collection of the Principal Speeches[...] (1890), pg. 376 Accessed 19 October 2019

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