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Events from the year 1889 in Canada.

## Incumbents

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### Crown

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* Monarch – Victoria[1]

### Federal government

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* Governor General – Frederick Stanley
* Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
* Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
* Parliament – 6th

### Provincial governments

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#### Lieutenant governors

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* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Archibald McLelan
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – A.A. Macdonald (until September 2) then Jedediah Slason Carvell
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers

#### Premiers

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* Premier of British Columbia – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (until August 1) then John Robson (from August 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 – William Wilfred Sullivan (until November 1) then Neil McLeod
* Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier

### Territorial governments

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#### Lieutenant governors

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* Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
* Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal

#### Premiers

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* Chairman of the Lieutenant-Governor's Advisory Council of the North-West Territories – Robert Brett

## Events

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Rockslide in Quebec City, September 19, 1889

* August 1 – Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
* August 2 – John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
* August 12 – The Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 of the British Parliament expands Ontario's boundaries west to the Lake of the Woods and north to the Albany River.[2]
* September 19 – A rockslide in Quebec City kills 45
* November – Neil McLeod becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir William Wilfred Sullivan.
* November 6 – Newfoundland election: William Whiteway's Liberals win a majority, defeating Robert Thorburn's Reforms

### Full date unknown

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* The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote

## Births

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* February 27 – Samuel Bronfman, businessman (d.1971)
* May 16 – Morris Gray, politician (d.1966)
* August 13 – Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (d.1958)
* October 13 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor (d.1974)
* November 20 – John B. McNair, lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (d.1968)
* December 4 – Leslie Gordon Bell, politician and lawyer (d.1963)

## Deaths

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* April 9 – Andrew Charles Elliott, jurist, politician and 4th Premier of British Columbia (b. c1828)
* May 4 – A. B. Rogers, surveyor (b.1829)
* June 5 – John Hamilton Gray, Premier of New Brunswick (b.1814)
* July 5 – John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
* August 1 – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (b.1847)
* September 5 – Louis-Victor Sicotte, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1812)
* September 13 – Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (b.1833)
* October 28 – Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1826)

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* Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (b.1818)

## Historical documents

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Archbishop Taché cites education report from England to support Manitoba separate schools[3]

Report on repatriating French Canadians living in New England[4]

Table: Of 7 U.S. cities with more than 10,000 Canadian-born residents (including Newfoundlanders), 4 are in New England, mostly in 3 industrial towns[5]

Table: In all 6 New England states, whites with both parents born in "Canada (French)" far outnumber those with parents born in "Canada (English)"[6]

"A thrill of horror pulsed through the whole city last night" - Rockslide from cliff below Citadel destroys several Quebec City houses[7]

Canada should be equal to Britain in Empire, and under "Queen of Canada"[8]

John A. Macdonald on missed opportunity to create Kingdom of Canada with "gradation of classes"[9]

Methodist minister's brief description of Stoneys concentrates on their problems[10]

Nova Scotia orphanage holds housewarming[11]

Ad for "Aphroditine[...]Sold on positive guarantee to cure any form of nervous disease, or any disorder of the generative organs"[12]

## References

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1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
2. ^ "A Historical Perspective on the North". Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry. Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
3. ^ "Archbishop Tache Thinks his Ideas with Regard to Religious Instruction in Schools fully Corroborated in England" Two Letters of Archbishop Taché on the School Question (1889). Accessed 20 October 2019
4. ^ Rev. C.A. Beaudry, "No. 35; Report on French Canadian Repatriation" Sessional Papers (No. 6) (1890), pg. 165. Accessed 11 October 2019
5. ^ Department of the Interior, Census Office, Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census: 1890, pg. 670. (Note: enter URL usa.ipums.org/usa/resources/voliii/pubdocs/1890/1890a_v1-16.pdf#[0,{"name":"FitH"},805] and scroll to PDF frame 66) Accessed 26 February 2023
6. ^ Department of the Interior, Census Office, Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census: 1890, pgs. 684-5. (Note: enter URL usa.ipums.org/usa/resources/voliii/pubdocs/1890/1890a_v1-17.pdf#[0,{"name":"FitH"},807] and scroll to PDF frame 5) Accessed 26 February 2023
7. ^ "The Old Story!; Another Fatal Landslide," Quebec Morning Chronicle Vol. XLIII, No. 15,407 (September 20, 1889), pg. 2. Accessed 27 May 2022
8. ^ Globe editorial excerpt in Oscar Douglas Skelton, Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Volume I (1921), pg. 366 footnote. Accessed 19 October 2019
9. ^ "From Sir John Macdonald to the (1st) Baron Knutsford" Correspondence of Sir John Macdonald[...] (1921), pgs. 450-1. Accessed 11 October 2019
10. ^ "Letter from Rev. John Nelson, dated, Woodville Mission, March 7th, 1889" The Missionary Outlook, Vol. IX, No. 5, pg. 79. Accessed 11 October 2019
11. ^ Emma M. Stirling, Our Children in Old Scotland and Nova Scotia (1892), pgs. 106-10. Accessed 11 October 2019
12. ^ "The Celebrated French Cure, Aphroditine" The Daily [Victoria, B.C.] Colonist, Vol. LXIII, No. 7 (December 18, 1889), pg. 1. Accessed 10 April 2022

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