1892 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1892 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria^[1]

Federal government

• • Governor General – Frederick Stanley Prime Minister – John Abbott (until November 24) then John Thompson (from December 5)
• Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) (until 25 September) then Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario) (from 13 December)
• Parliament – 7th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• • • • • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson (until November 1) then Edgar Dewdney Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell (until May 24) then George Airey Kirkpatrick (from May 30)
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers (until December 5) then Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – John Robson (until June 29) then Theodore Davie (from July 2)
  • • • • • 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 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville (until December 16)then Louis-Olivier Taillon

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

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

Premiers

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

Events

• June 29 – John Robson, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office
• July 2 – Theodore Davie becomes Premier of British Columbia
• July 8 – The Great Fire of 1892 destroys two-thirds of St. John's, Newfoundland
• July 9 – Parliament passes the Criminal Code, 1892, the first unified criminal law for all of Canada, under the direction of the Minister of Justice, John Thompson
• November 24 – Sir John Abbott resigns as Prime Minister
• December 5 – Sir John Thompson becomes Prime Minister
• December 16 – Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville

Full date unknown

• The Toronto Star founded
• Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
• Humberside Collegiate Institute opened
• Worthington, Ontario, is incorporated as a mining community.
• The first Canadian National Rugby-Football Championship game is played (Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal 45–5).

Sport

• First documented women's ice hockey game takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on an outdoor ice surface.

Births

January to June

• March 4 – J.-Eugène Bissonnette, politician and physician
• April 8 – Mary Pickford, actress and studio co-founder (d.1979)
• May 3 – Jacob Viner, economist (d.1970)
• May 18 – John Croak, VC
• June 2 – Edward LeRoy Bowerman, politician (d.1977)

July to December

• July 8 – Sir Victor Tait, Canadian-born British airman and businessman (d.1988)
• July 14 – John Sissons, barrister, author, judge and politician (d.1969)
• August 2 – Jack L. Warner, studio mogul (d.1978)
• August 18 – Hal Foster, cartoonist (d.1982)
• September 21 – Donald Elmer Black, politician
• September 24 – Adélard Godbout, politician and 15th Premier of Quebec (d.1956)
• October 25 – Nell Shipman, actress, screenwriter, producer and animal trainer (d.1970)
• December 27 – Alfred Edwin McKay, World War I flying ace (d. 1917 in Belgium)

Deaths

• January 1 – John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (b.1817)
• January 20 – Samuel Barton Burdett, politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.1843)
• March 7 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1820)
• April 6 – John Ostell, architect, surveyor and manufacturer (b.1813)
• April 17 – Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1822)
• May 24 – Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1822)
• June 9 – William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer (b.1863)
• June 29 – John Robson, journalist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1824)
• July 15 – William Donahue, merchant and politician (b.1834)
• August 30 – Frederick Newton Gisborne, Laid first under-sea cable in North America
• September 12 – Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (b.1822)
• December 14 – Adams George Archibald, politician (b.1814)

Historical documents

• Newspaper coverage of Great Fire of St. John's, Newfoundland^[2]
• U.S. accuses Canadian Pacific Railway of helping Chinese illegally cross border from British Columbia^[3]
• Running Wolf and Owl Child's performance of Moon Dance described^[4]
• "Completely won the hearts of her audience" - Poet of Kanien'kéhà:ka origin, Pauline Johnson, gives first solo recital in Toronto^[5]
• English visitor rides out from Lethbridge, Alberta to watch 2000-head cattle roundup^[6]

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Queen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 5 December 2022.
2. "Great Fire; Burning of Saint John's East on the 8th July Last - Origin of the Fire and Its Disastrous Effects[....]," The (St. John's) Evening Telegram (September 1, 1892), pg. 2 Accessed 23 December 2019
3. United States Department of State, "Mr. Herbert to Mr. Foster [and enclosures]," The Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fifty-Second Congress; 1892-'93, pgs. 309-10 Accessed 19 December 2019
4. [Philip H. Godsell]
5. E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), "Biographical Sketch," Flint and Feather (1912?), pg. xvi (PDF pg. 24). Accessed 13 November 2022
6. P.R. Ritchie, Manitoba and the North-West Territories: Being a Report by Mr. P.R. Ritchie of Essex, England, of a Tour [in] 1892 (1892), pgs. 18-19 Accessed 19 December 2019