1894 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria

  Federal government

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

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – 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 then George William Howlan
• 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 – Charles Herbert Mackintosh

  Premiers

• Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Northwest Territories – Frederick Haultain

  Events

• January 1 – the town of Calgary is incorporated as a city
• February 20 – Manitoba Schools Question: The Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal of Manitoba francophones.
• April 27 – Canada's largest known landslide occurred in Saint-Alban, Quebec. Displeasing of rock and dirt, leaving a scar, that covered.
• May 17 – Pioneers' Obelisk unveiled
• June 14 – Massey Hall opens in Toronto.
• June 26 – 1894 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a seventh majority.
• June 28 – July 9 – Colonial Conference of 1894 held in Ottawa.
• September 3 – Labour Day celebrated for the first time in Canada.
• October 31 – The third election of North-West Legislative Assembly.
• December 12 – Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister, dies in office.
• December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes prime minister.

  Full date unknown

• Rondeau Provincial Park is established in southwestern Ontario.
• St. Albert cheese factory is founded.

  Arts and literature

• Toronto Mendelssohn Choir is founded.

  Sport

• March 22 – Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa to win the first Stanley Cup challenge.

  Births

January to June

• January 3 – James Lorimer Ilsley, politician, Minister and jurist
• January 5 – Norman MacKenzie, author, lawyer, professor and Senator
• February 8 – Billy Bishop, First World War flying ace
• May 7 – George A. Drew, politician and 14th Premier of Ontario
• May 13 – William Earl Rowe, politician and 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• May 29 – Beatrice Lillie, comic actress
• June 4 – La Bolduc, singer and musician
• June 5 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur

  July to December

• July 17 – Phillip Garratt, aviator
• July 24 – Theobald Butler Barrett, politician
• July 25 – Norman McLeod Rogers, lawyer, politician and Minister
• August – Gladys Porter, politician and first female Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia
• September 9 – Humphrey Mitchell, politician and trade unionist
• September 10 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat
• October 7 – Del Lord, film director and actor
• November 5 – Harold Innis, professor of political economy and author
• November 13 – James Allan, politician
• November 26 – James Charles McGuigan, Cardinal
• December 13 – Chester Ronning, diplomat and politician

  Deaths

• March 19 – John Langton, businessman, political figure and civil servant
• April 16 – Joseph-Charles Taché, a Canadian noted for his contributions to many aspects of the fabric of Canada
• May 27 – Francis Godschall Johnson, politician
• June 22 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Roman Catholic priest, missionary, author and Archbishop
• September 5 – James Macleod, militia officer, lawyer, police officer, magistrate, judge and politician
• September 14 – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau, lawyer, businessman and politician
• September 15 – Philip Carteret Hill, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
• October 30 – Honoré Mercier, lawyer, journalist, politician and Premier of Quebec
• November 28 – Patrick Leonard MacDougall, General and author
• November 29 – Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, Governor General
• December 12 – John Sparrow David Thompson, lawyer, judge, politician, university professor and 4th Prime Minister of Canada

  Historical Documents