1892 in Canada

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "1892 in Canada" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

* 1891
* 1890
* 1889
*   *

|  | 1892

Canada |

* 1893
* 1894
* 1895
*   *

|
|
|

Decades:|

* 1870s
* 1880s
* 1890s
* 1900s
* 1910s

See also:|

* History of Canada
* Timeline of Canadian history
* List of years in Canada

Part of a series on the

History of Canada

Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe

* * *

Timeline (list)

* Pre-colonization
* 1534–1763
* 1764–1867
* 1867–1914
* 1914–1945
* 1945–1960
* 1960–1981
* 1982–present

Significant

* Events
* Sites
* People

Topics

* Agricultural
* Cultural
* Constitutional
* Economic
* Former colonies
* Immigration
* Indigenous
* Medicine
* Military
* Monarchical
* Peacekeeping
* Population
* Sports
* Religion
* Territorial evolution

* Women

Provinces

* Alberta
* British Columbia
* Manitoba
* New Brunswick
* Newfoundland and Labrador
* Nunavut
* Northwest Territories
* Nova Scotia
* Ontario
* Prince Edward Island
* Quebec
* Saskatchewan
* Yukon

Cities

* Brampton
* Charlottetown
* Edmonton
* Fredericton
* Halifax
* Hamilton
* Lethbridge
* Markham
* Moncton
* Montreal
* Northwest Territories capital cities
* Ottawa
* Quebec City
* Regina
* Richmond Hill
* Saint John
* Saskatoon
* Toronto
* Vancouver
* Winnipeg
* Name etymologies

Research

* Bibliography
* Historiography
* Historians
* Studies
* Indices
* The Canadian Encyclopedia

* Canada portal

* v
* t
* e

Events from the year 1892 in Canada.

## Incumbents

[edit]

### Crown

[edit]

* Monarch – Victoria[1]

### Federal government

[edit]

* 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

[edit]

#### Lieutenant governors

[edit]

* 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

[edit]

* 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

[edit]

#### Lieutenant governors

[edit]

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

#### Premiers

[edit]

* Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

## Events

[edit]

* 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

[edit]

* The Toronto Star founded
* Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
* Humberside Collegiate Institute opened
* Worthington, Ontario, is incorporated as a mining community.[citation needed]
* The first Canadian National Rugby-Football Championship game is played (Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal 45–5).[citation needed]

## Sport

[edit]

* First documented women's ice hockey game takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on an outdoor ice surface.

## Births

[edit]

### January to June

[edit]

* 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

[edit]

* 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

[edit]

Alexander Mackenzie

* 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

[edit]

* Newspaper coverage of Great Fire of St. John's, Newfoundland[2]

* U.S. accuses Canadian Pacific Railway of helping Chinese illegally cross border from British Columbia[3]

* Running Wolf and Owl Child's performance of Moon Dance described[4]

* "Completely won the hearts of her audience" - Poet of Kanien'kéhà:ka origin, Pauline Johnson, gives first solo recital in Toronto[5]

* English visitor rides out from Lethbridge, Alberta to watch 2000-head cattle roundup[6]

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
2. ^ "Great Fire; Burning of Saint John's East on the 8th July Last - Origin of the Fire and Its Disastrous Effects[....]," The (St. John's) Evening Telegram (September 1, 1892), pg. 2 Accessed 23 December 2019
3. ^ United States Department of State, "Mr. Herbert to Mr. Foster [and enclosures]," The Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fifty-Second Congress; 1892-'93, pgs. 309-10 Accessed 19 December 2019
4. ^ Philip H. Godsell (ed.), "Part 5; Moon Dance" The R.N. Wilson Papers, Volume II (1958). Accessed 19 December 2019
5. ^ E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), "Biographical Sketch," Flint and Feather (1912?), pg. xvi (PDF pg. 24). Accessed 13 November 2022
6. ^ P.R. Ritchie, Manitoba and the North-West Territories: Being a Report by Mr. P.R. Ritchie of Essex, England, of a Tour [in] 1892 (1892), pgs. 18-19 Accessed 19 December 2019

* v
* t
* e

History of Canada

Year list
(Timeline)|

* 18000 BCE–1500 CE
* 1534–1763
* 1763–1867
* 1867–1914
* 1914–1945
* 1945–1960
* 1960–1981
* 1982–present

Topics|

* Canadian Confederation
* Fathers of Confederation
* Canadians \- (Persons of significance)
* Constitutional
* Crown and Indigenous peoples
* Cultural
* Economic
* Etymology
* Events of significance
* Former colonies and territories
* Heritage Minutes
* Historic Sites
* Immigration
* Chinese immigration
* Military
* Operations
* Peacekeeping
* Monarchical
* Population history
* Sports
* Territorial evolution
* Women

Provinces
and territories|

* Alberta
* British Columbia
* Manitoba
* New Brunswick
* Newfoundland and Labrador
* Northwest Territories
* Nova Scotia
* Nunavut
* Ontario
* Prince Edward Island
* Quebec
* Saskatchewan
* Yukon
* Name etymologies

Cities|

* Brampton
* Charlottetown
* Edmonton
* Fredericton
* Halifax
* Hamilton
* Lethbridge
* Markham
* Moncton
* Montreal
* Northwest Territories capital cities
* Ottawa
* Quebec City
* Regina
* Richmond Hill
* Saint John
* Saskatoon
* Toronto
* Vancouver
* Winnipeg
* Name etymologies

Research|

* Bibliography
* Historiography
* Historians
* Surveys

Search|

* Category
* Canada portal

* v
* t
* e

List of years in Canada

Pre-Confederation
Prehistory–1866|

* Prehistory to 1 BC
* 1st millennium
* 1000s
* 1100s
* 1400s
* 1500s
* 1600s
* 1610s
* 1620s
* 1630s
* 1640s
* 1650s
* 1660s
* 1670s
* 1680s
* 1690s
* 1700
* 1701
* 1702
* 1703
* 1704
* 1705
* 1706
* 1707
* 1708
* 1709
* 1710
* 1711
* 1712
* 1713
* 1714
* 1715
* 1716
* 1717
* 1718
* 1719
* 1720
* 1721
* 1722
* 1723
* 1724
* 1725
* 1726
* 1727
* 1728
* 1729
* 1730
* 1731
* 1732
* 1733
* 1734
* 1735
* 1736
* 1737
* 1738
* 1739
* 1740
* 1741
* 1742
* 1743
* 1744
* 1745
* 1746
* 1747
* 1748
* 1749
* 1750
* 1751
* 1752
* 1753
* 1754
* 1755
* 1756
* 1757
* 1758
* 1759
* 1760
* 1761
* 1762
* 1763
* 1764
* 1765
* 1766
* 1767
* 1768
* 1769
* 1770
* 1771
* 1772
* 1773
* 1774
* 1775
* 1776
* 1777
* 1778
* 1779
* 1780
* 1781
* 1782
* 1783
* 1784
* 1785
* 1786
* 1787
* 1788
* 1789
* 1790
* 1791
* 1792
* 1793
* 1794
* 1795
* 1796
* 1797
* 1798
* 1799
* 1800
* 1801
* 1802
* 1803
* 1804
* 1805
* 1806
* 1807
* 1808
* 1809
* 1810
* 1811
* 1812
* 1813
* 1814
* 1815
* 1816
* 1817
* 1818
* 1819
* 1820
* 1821
* 1822
* 1823
* 1824
* 1825
* 1826
* 1827
* 1828
* 1829
* 1830
* 1831
* 1832
* 1833
* 1834
* 1835
* 1836
* 1837
* 1838
* 1839
* 1840
* 1841
* 1842
* 1843
* 1844
* 1845
* 1846
* 1847
* 1848
* 1849
* 1850
* 1851
* 1852
* 1853
* 1854
* 1855
* 1856
* 1857
* 1858
* 1859
* 1860
* 1861
* 1862
* 1863
* 1864
* 1865
* 1866

Post-Confederation
1867–present|

* 1867
* 1868
* 1869
* 1870
* 1871
* 1872
* 1873
* 1874
* 1875
* 1876
* 1877
* 1878
* 1879
* 1880
* 1881
* 1882
* 1883
* 1884
* 1885
* 1886
* 1887
* 1888
* 1889
* 1890
* 1891
* 1892
* 1893
* 1894
* 1895
* 1896
* 1897
* 1898
* 1899
* 1900
* 1901
* 1902
* 1903
* 1904
* 1905
* 1906
* 1907
* 1908
* 1909
* 1910
* 1911
* 1912
* 1913
* 1914
* 1915
* 1916
* 1917
* 1918
* 1919
* 1920
* 1921
* 1922
* 1923
* 1924
* 1925
* 1926
* 1927
* 1928
* 1929
* 1930
* 1931
* 1932
* 1933
* 1934
* 1935
* 1936
* 1937
* 1938
* 1939
* 1940
* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944
* 1945
* 1946
* 1947
* 1948
* 1949
* 1950
* 1951
* 1952
* 1953
* 1954
* 1955
* 1956
* 1957
* 1958
* 1959
* 1960
* 1961
* 1962
* 1963
* 1964
* 1965
* 1966
* 1967
* 1968
* 1969
* 1970
* 1971
* 1972
* 1973
* 1974
* 1975
* 1976
* 1977
* 1978
* 1979
* 1980
* 1981
* 1982
* 1983
* 1984
* 1985
* 1986
* 1987
* 1988
* 1989
* 1990
* 1991
* 1992
* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000
* 2001
* 2002
* 2003
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025
* 2026

Quebec|

* 1608
* 1609
* 1610
* 1611
* 1612
* 1613
* 1614
* 1615
* 1616
* 1617
* 1618
* 1635

Canadian electoral
calendars|

* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025
* 2026

Related|

* List of Canadian monarchs
* List of governors general of Canada
* List of prime ministers of Canada
* List of Canadian federal parliaments
* Population of Canada by year
* Timeline

Research|

* Bibliography
* Historiography

* Category
* Canada portal

* v
* t
* e

1892 in North America

Sovereign states|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Canada
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* El Salvador
* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States

Dependencies and
other territories

* Anguilla
* Aruba
* Bermuda
* Bonaire
* British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Curaçao
* Greenland
* Guadeloupe
* Martinique
* Montserrat
* Puerto Rico
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Martin
* Saint Pierre and Miquelon
* Saba
* Sint Eustatius
* Sint Maarten
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* United States Virgin Islands

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template