Events from the year 1890 in Canada.
Incumbents Crown Monarch – Victoria
Federal government Governor General – Frederick Stanley Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) Parliament – 6th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors 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 (until June 26) then Malachy Bowes Daly (from July 11) Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers
Premiers Premier of British Columbia – John Robson 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 – Neil McLeod Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier
Territorial governments Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal
Premiers Chairman of the Lieutenant-Governor's Advisory Council of the North-West Territories – Robert Brett
Events March 31 — Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec. June 5 — Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority. July 20 — British Columbia election. August 10 — Prince Edward Island election.
Births January to June
April 20 — Maurice Duplessis, politician and 16th Premier of Quebec (d.1959) March 3 — Norman Bethune, physician and medical innovator (d.1939) March 21 — Norman Hipel, politician and Minister (d.1953) March 24 — Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada (d.1954) March 27 — John Horne Blackmore, politician (d.1971) May 4 — Franklin Carmichael, painter and Group of Seven member (d.1945) May 17 — Lionel FitzGerald, artist May 30 — John Stuart Foster, physicist (d.1944)
July to December July 9 – Joseph-Alphida Crête, politician (d. 1964) July 27 — Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician and Minister (d.1949) August 10 — Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1954) September 20 — Kathleen Parlow, violinist (d.1963) October 9 — Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (d.1944) October 28 — Louis Orville Breithaupt, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1960) December 10 — Byron Ingemar Johnson, politician and 24th Premier of British Columbia (d.1964) December 12 – Charles Basil Price, soldier and politician (d. 1975)
Deaths
January 1 — Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician (b.1829) January 17 — François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel, politician (b.1838) January 25 – William Kennedy, explorer involved in the search for Sir John Franklin (b.1814) February 13 — Éphrem-A. Brisebois, police officer (b. 1850) April 4 — Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Premier of Quebec (b.1820) April 25 — Crowfoot, a chief of the Siksika First Nation (b. c1830) September 26 — Henri Faraud, bishop of the Roman Catholic Church (b.1823) December — Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner (b.1842)
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