1889 in Canada explained
Events from the year 1889 in Canada.
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Events
Full date unknown
- The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote
Births
Deaths
- April 9 – Andrew Charles Elliott, jurist, politician and 4th Premier of British Columbia (b. c1828)
- May 4 – A. B. Rogers, surveyor (b.1829)
- June 5 – John Hamilton Gray, Premier of New Brunswick (b.1814)
- July 5 – John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
- August 1 – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (b.1847)
- September 5 – Louis-Victor Sicotte, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1812)
- September 13 – Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (b.1833)
- October 28 – Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1826)
Full date unknown
Historical documents
Archbishop Taché cites education report from England to support Manitoba separate schools[3]
Report on repatriating French Canadians living in New England[4]
Table: Of 7 U.S. cities with more than 10,000 Canadian-born residents (including Newfoundlanders), 4 are in New England, mostly in 3 industrial towns[5]
Table: In all 6 New England states, whites with both parents born in "Canada (French)" far outnumber those with parents born in "Canada (English)"[6]
"A thrill of horror pulsed through the whole city last night" - Rockslide from cliff below Citadel destroys several Quebec City houses[7]
Canada should be equal to Britain in Empire, and under "Queen of Canada"[8]
John A. Macdonald on missed opportunity to create Kingdom of Canada with "gradation of classes"[9]
Methodist minister's brief description of Stoneys concentrates on their problems[10]
Nova Scotia orphanage holds housewarming[11]
Ad for "Aphroditine[...]Sold on positive guarantee to cure any form of nervous disease, or any disorder of the generative organs"[12]
Notes and References
- Web site: Queen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 5 December 2022.
- Web site: A Historical Perspective on the North . . 2011-08-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110822084737/http://www.mndmf.gov.on.ca/about/historical_perspective_e.asp . 2011-08-22 .
- http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1822/3.html "Archbishop Tache Thinks his Ideas with Regard to Religious Instruction in Schools fully Corroborated in England"
- Rev. C.A. Beaudry, "No. 35; Report on French Canadian Repatriation" Sessional Papers (No. 6) (1890), pg. 165. Accessed 11 October 2019
- Department of the Interior, Census Office, Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census: 1890, pg. 670. (Note: enter URL usa.ipums.org/usa/resources/voliii/pubdocs/1890/1890a_v1-16.pdf#[0,{%22name%22:%22FitH%22},805] and scroll to PDF frame 66) Accessed 26 February 2023
- Department of the Interior, Census Office, Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census: 1890, pgs. 684-5. (Note: enter URL usa.ipums.org/usa/resources/voliii/pubdocs/1890/1890a_v1-17.pdf#[0,{%22name%22:%22FitH%22},807] and scroll to PDF frame 5) Accessed 26 February 2023
- "The Old Story!; Another Fatal Landslide," Quebec Morning Chronicle Vol. XLIII, No. 15,407 (September 20, 1889), pg. 2. Accessed 27 May 2022
- https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofsir01skeluoft/page/n8 Globe editorial excerpt
- http://www.archive.org/stream/correspondenceof00macduoft#page/450/mode/2up "From Sir John Macdonald to the (1st) Baron Knutsford"
- http://scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/solr?query=ID%3A24619&mode=view&pos=0&page=4 "Letter from Rev. John Nelson, dated, Woodville Mission, March 7th, 1889"
- Emma M. Stirling, Our Children in Old Scotland and Nova Scotia (1892), pgs. 106-10. Accessed 11 October 2019
- http://archive.org/details/dailycolonist18891218uvic/mode/1up?view=theater "The Celebrated French Cure, Aphroditine"
