1889 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria

  Federal government

• Governor general – Frederick Stanley
• Prime minister – John A. Macdonald
• Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie
• 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
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – A.A. Macdonald then Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers

  Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie then 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 – William Wilfred Sullivan then 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

• August 1 – Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
• August 2 – John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
• September 19 – A rock slide 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

• The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote
• An Act of the British Parliament gives control of northern Ontario to the Ontario government to allow the province to set policies to develop the region's natural resources.

  Births

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

  Deaths

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

  Full date unknown

• Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician

  Historical Documents