1893 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria

  Federal government

• Governor general – Frederick Stanley then John Hamilton-Gordon
• Prime minister – John Thompson
• Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong
• Parliament – 7th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley then John Boyd then John James Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – George Airey Kirkpatrick
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

  Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Theodore Davie
• 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 – Louis-Olivier Taillon

  Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal then Charles Herbert Mackintosh

  Premiers

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

  Events

• May 27 – Algonquin Provincial Park is established as a wildlife sanctuary in Ontario
• September 16 – Calgary incorporated as a city
• October 27 – The National Council of Women meets for the first time
• December 18 – Robert Machray is elected first Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

  Full date unknown

• The Redpath Library is bestowed upon McGill University
• Canada Evidence Act created
• Jacques Cartier Monument unveiled

  Sport

• March 22 – The Montreal Hockey Club wins the First Stanley Cup by defeating the Ottawa Hockey Club 3 to 1 at Montreal's Victoria Rink

  Births

January to June

• January 8 – Jean Désy, diplomat
• February 7 – Joseph Algernon Pearce, astrophysicist
• April 16 – Germaine Guèvremont, French-Canadian writer
• May 5 – J. Dewey Soper, Arctic explorer, zoologist, ornithologist and author
• May 7 – Frank J. Selke, ice hockey manager
• May 28 – Donald MacLaren, World War I flying ace, businessman
• June 5 – George Croil, first Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force
• June 16 – Ernest Lloyd Janney, Provisional Commander of the Canadian Aviation Corps
• June 20 – Austin Claude Taylor, politician
• June 23 – Merrill Denison, playwright

  July to December

• July 7 – James White, World War I flying ace
• August 18 – Ernest MacMillan, conductor and composer
• August 21 – Wilfred Curtis, Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force
• October 12 – George Hodgson, swimmer and double Olympic gold medallist
• November 12 – Roy Kellock, jurist and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• November 22 – Raymond Collishaw, World War I flying ace
• December 8 – J. Arthur Ross, politician
• December 23 – John Patrick Barry, politician and lawyer
• December 23 – Roy Brown, World War I flying ace

  Full date unknown

• Parr, artist

  Deaths

January to June

• January 26 – James Armstrong, politician
• February 18 – George-Édouard Desbarats, printer and inventor
• March 18 – David H. Armstrong, United States Senator from Missouri from 1877 till 1879.
• March 30 – Jane Mackenzie, second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
• April 2 – Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land

  July to December

• July 22 – John Rae, doctor and explorer
• September 19 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, politician and a Father of Confederation
• October 30 – John Abbott, politician and 3rd Prime Minister of Canada
• November 9 – Henri Bernier, politician, businessman and manufacturer
• December 9 – Charles Sangster, poet

  Historical Documents