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Events from the year 1900 in Canada.

## Incumbents

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### Crown

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* Monarch – Victoria[1]

### Federal government

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* Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
* Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
* Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
* Parliament – 8th (until 9 October)

### Provincial governments

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#### Lieutenant governors

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* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Robert McInnes (until June 21) then Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson (until October 10) then Daniel Hunter McMillan
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly (until July 26) then Alfred Gilpin Jones
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter Adolphus McIntyre
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté

#### Premiers

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* Premier of British Columbia – Charles Augustus Semlin (until February 28) then Joseph Martin (February 28 to June 15) then Edward Gawler Prior
* Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway (until January 10) then Hugh John Macdonald (January 10 to October 29) then Rodmond Roblin
* Premier of New Brunswick – Henry Emmerson (until August 31) then Lemuel John Tweedie
* Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
* Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
* Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson
* Premier of Quebec – Félix-Gabriel Marchand (until October 8) then Simon-Napoléon Parent

### Territorial governments

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#### Commissioners

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* Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie

#### Lieutenant governors

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* Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson (until October 10) then Daniel Hunter McMillan
* Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

#### Premiers

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* Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

## Events

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### January to June

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* January 8 – Hugh John Macdonald becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Thomas Greenway.
* February 18 – February 27 – Boer War: The Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry plays a decisive role in the Battle of Paardeberg.
* February 27 – Charles Semlin is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.
* February 28 – Joseph Martin becomes premier of British Columbia.
* March 16 – Boer War: Strathcona's Horse leave for South Africa.

Hull fire on April 26, 1900.

* April 26 – Two-thirds of Hull, Quebec, is destroyed in a fire.
* June 15 – James Dunsmuir becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Joseph Martin.

### July to December

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* August 31 – Lemuel John Tweedie becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Henry Emmerson.
* September 25 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Premier of Quebec, dies in office.
* October 8 – Simon-Napoléon Parent becomes premier of Quebec.
* October 29 – Sir Rodmond Roblin becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Hugh John Macdonald.
* November 7
* Federal election: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.[2]
* Boer War: The Battle of Leliefontein begins. Three Canadians receive the Victoria Cross for their valour in the engagement.
* December 6 – Alphonse Desjardins founds Mouvement Desjardins, the first credit union in North America.

### Full date unknown

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* -The federal government doubles the head tax on Chinese immigrants
* -The Canadian Tuberculosis Association meets for the first time

## Births

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### January to June

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* January 1 – Sam Berger, lawyer, businessman and football player (d.1992)
* January 8
* Harry Cassidy, academic, social reformer and civil servant (d.1951)
* Solon Earl Low, politician (d.1962)
* February 20 – Graham Spry, broadcasting pioneer, business executive, diplomat and socialist (d.1983)
* March 12 – David Croll, politician (d.1991)
* April 3 – Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1958)
* April 19 – Roland Michener, lawyer, politician, diplomat and Governor-General of Canada (d.1991)
* April 30 – David Manners, actor (d.1998)
* May 25 – Alain Grandbois, poet (d.1975)

John Babcock in 1920

* May 25 – Malcolm Norris, Métis leader (d.1967)
* May 29 – Antonio Talbot, politician (d.1980)
* June 3 – Gordon Sinclair, journalist, writer and commentator (d.1984)
* June 21 – Edward S. Rogers, Sr., inventor and radio pioneer (d.1939)

### July to December

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* July 6 – Paul Métivier, World War I veteran (d. 2004)
* July 23 – John Babcock, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran (d.2010)
* August 13 – Gordon Sparling, filmmaker (d.1994)
* August 23 – Frances Adaskin, pianist (d. 2001)[3]
* August 31 – James Campbell Clouston, naval officer (d.1940 in Dunkirk evacuation)
* September 6 – W. A. C. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia (d.1979)
* October 2 – Rod Keller, general (d. 1954)[4]
* November 20 – Athole Shearer, actress (d.1985)
* November 27 – Jovette Bernier, journalist, author and radio show host (d.1981)[5]
* November 28 – Mary Bothwell, classical vocalist and painter (d. mid-1970s)[6]

## Deaths

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* February 25 – Benjamin Pâquet, Roman Catholic priest and educationist (b.1832)
* March 1 – Frederick Carter, Premier of Newfoundland (b.1819)
* March 20 – George Hope Bertram, politician (b. 1847)
* August 4 – Marc-Aurèle Plamondon, lawyer, journalist, publisher, and judge (b.1823)
* August 11 – Georges-Isidore Barthe, lawyer, publisher, journalist and politician (b.1834)
* September 25 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author, notary, politician and 11th Premier of Quebec (b.1832)
* December 21 – Désiré Olivier Bourbeau, politician and merchant (b.1834)

## Historical documents

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Political cartoonist shows Canadian farmer's preference for Liberal over Conservative record [7]

After spreading fire destroys Ottawa power plant, House forced to adjourn as governments seek help from military and nearby cities[8]

Fire that destroyed much of Hull (Gatineau), Quebec, and part of Ottawa described[9]

Hartley Bay girl describes her time in Kitimat, B.C. boarding school[10]

Newspaper publishers' problems with costs and paper supply[11]

Cape Town thanks Imperial volunteer forces for their South African War service[12]

Saint John, New Brunswick program includes two women's military drill teams [13]

Whitefish, spuds and Klondikers: the news from Lesser Slave Lake, N.W.T.[14]

## References

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1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
2. ^ "GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS SINCE 1867". Parliament of Canada. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
3. ^ King, Betty N. (July 8, 2007). "Frances Marr Adaskin". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
4. ^ "Keller, Rodney Frederick Leopold". generals.dk. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
5. ^ New, William Herbert, ed. (2002). Encyclopedia of literature in Canada. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press. pp. 105. ISBN 978-0802007612. OCLC 244767732.
6. ^ "Mary Bothwell". The Canadian Encyclopedia. July 2007. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
7. ^ J.W. Bengough, "Swap?," John Wilson Bengough collection, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 29 December 2019 http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item?id=e010958287_s1-v8 http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item?id=e010958287-v8
8. ^ "The Fire in Hull and Ottawa" (April 26, 1900), Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons, Vol. LII, 4331-2. Accessed 4 July 2021
9. ^ Report of the Ottawa and Hull Fire Relief Fund (1900), pgs. 3-8. (See also photo of fire) Accessed 29 December 2019
10. ^ Alice Bates (Nohsdahmtk), "A Home Girl's Letter" Na-Na-Kwa, or Dawn on the Northwest Coast, No. 10 (April 1900; unpaginated). Accessed 13 April 2020
11. ^ "The Newspaper Situation in Canada," The Canadian Printer and Publisher, Vol. IX, No. 5 (May 1900), pgs. 1-3. Accessed 22 December 2019 https://fishercollections.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/cpp:CPP190005 (turn to page 1)
12. ^ "Thank You card, from the Citizens of Cape Town, Showing Table Bay, South Africa." Accessed 22 December 2019
13. ^ "Military Entertainment in Aid of the Funds of the New Brunswick Portions of the Canadian Contingents Now Taking Part in the War in South Africa." Accessed 22 December 2019
14. ^ "Report from Lesser Slave Lake," Edmonton Bulletin (January 1, 1900). Accessed 22 December 2019 http://explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa010100a.htm (scroll down to "Edmonton Bulletin.")

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