| Years in Canada: | 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 |
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| Years: | 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 |
Events from the year 1901 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Monarch – Victoria (until January 22) then Edward VII
Federal government
- Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
- Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
- Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
- Parliament – 9th (from 6 February)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – 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
- Premier of British Columbia – Edward Gawler Prior
- Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
- Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson (until December 29) then Arthur Peters
- Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie (until March 11) then James Hamilton Ross
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget
Premiers
- Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain
Events
- January 22 – Death of Queen Victoria and ascension of King Edward VII
- March 9 — Japanese Canadians win the vote in British Columbia
- December 12 — Guglielmo Marconi receives a transatlantic radio message at St. John's, Newfoundland
- December 18 — The Territorial Grain Growers' Association is founded
- December 29 — Arthur Peters becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Donald Farquharson
- First ascent of Mount Assiniboine by James Outram's party
Births
January to June
- January 12 — Jack Humphrey, painter (d.1967)
- January 14 — Dana Porter, politician and jurist (d.1967)
- January 29 — E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder (d.1989)
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Dr. W.R. Franks
- March 4 — Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (d.1986)
- March 25 — Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944 (d.1985)
- April 15 — Thomas Ricketts, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient in 1918 (d.1967)
- May 5 — Donald Buchanan Blue, politician
July to December
- July 15 — James Litterick, politician
- September 8 — Harold Connolly, journalist, newspaper editor, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1980)
- September 14 — George Carlyle Marler, politician, notary and philatelist (d.1981)
- September 15 — Gweneth Lloyd, choreographer
- September 22 — Charles Brenton Huggins, physician, physiologist, cancer researcher and Nobel prize laureate (d.1997)
- October 14 — John Oates Bower, politician, businessman and executive (d.1981)
Full date unknown
- Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1989)
Deaths
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George M. Dawson in May 1885.
- January 22 — Queen Victoria, Queen of Canada (b.1819)
- March 2 — George Mercer Dawson, scientist and surveyor (b.1849)
- May 4 — John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1831)
- May 7 — George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick (b.1839)
- June 13 — Arthur Sturgis Hardy, lawyer, politician and 4th Premier of Ontario (b.1837)
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Arthur Sturgis Hardy
- July 24 — George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (b.1822)
- October 25 — Colin MacDougall, politician and lawyer (b.1834)
Historical Documents
N.W.T. premier says territories are ready for and financially need provincial powers[1]
Influential Liberal MP Frank Oliver objects to immigration of Slavs[2]
Manufacturing process described in huge chair factory in Owen Sound, Ontario[3]
Mining and miners in Nanaimo, BC's booming coal industry[4]
Trail, B.C. and its gold, silver and copper smelting operations described[5]
Architect gives examples of good design to counter people's ill-informed criticism[6]
Visitor laments various classes of loafer in British Columbia (Note: racial stereotypes)[7]
Humorous character study of people in dining and smoking cars on train crossing Prairies[8]
Chicken Okra à la Portugaise and other items on Chateau Frontenac menu[9]
References
- ^ "Haultain Roblin All Night Debate At Indian Head On Annexation To Manitoba," Regina Leader (December 26, 1901), pg. 4. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://library2.usask.ca/sni/stories/beg8.html Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ House of Commons debate, 9th Parliament, 1st Session (April 12, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020 https://www.lipad.ca/full/permalink/9885/
- ^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 11-13. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2638/19.html
- ^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 214-21. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2638/254.html
- ^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 251-6. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2638/293.html
- ^ C.H.C. Wright, "Design in Modern Architecture," The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. XIV, No. 158 (February 1901), pgs. 40-1. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p40.gif http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p41.gif
- ^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 155-8. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2638/191.html
- ^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 89-96. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2638/109.html
- ^ "Chateau Frontenac; Quebec; Luncheon" (July 22, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020 http://menus.nypl.org/menus/14224