1898 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1898 in Canada.

Incumbents

March 1 – 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority.
June 13 – Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories.
July 29 – White Pass and Yukon Route opens (Skagway–Whitehorse).
August – Donald Farquharson becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing A. B. Warburton.
August 8 – John Herbert Turner is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.
August 15 – Charles Semlin becomes premier of British Columbia.
September 11 – New Westminster, British Columbia destroyed by fire.
September 29 – The Canadian referendum on the prohibition of alcohol.
November 4 – The fourth election of the North-West Legislative Assembly.

The Parliament of Canada passes the Quebec Boundary Extension Act, expanding the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal Cree.
Kit Coleman covers the Spanish–American War as Canada's first female war correspondent.

May 17 – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)
May 20 – Paul Gouin, politician (d.1976)
May 27 – William Arthur Irwin, journalist
July 7 – Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, diplomat, civil servant and 5th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (d.1992)
July 15 – Howard Graham, army officer (d. 1986)
July 17 – Osmond Borradaile, cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of First and Second World War (d.1999)
August 23 – Brooke Claxton, politician and Minister (d.1960)
August 27
- Gaspard Fauteux, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d.1963)
- John Hamilton, bank robber (d. 1934)
August 30 – Gleason Belzile, politician (d.1950)
November 9 – Emmett Matthew Hall, jurist, civil libertarian and Supreme Court justice (d.1995)
December 1 – Stuart Garson, politician, Minister and 12th Premier of Manitoba (d.1977)
December 15 – George Lawrence Price, last Commonwealth casualty of World War I (d.1918)

January 1 – John Arthur Fraser, artist (b.1838)
February 15 – Wilfrid Prévost, lawyer and politician (b.1832)
March 7 – Theodore Davie, lawyer, politician and 9th Premier of British Columbia (b.1852)
May 1 – Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier, lawyer and politician (b. c1860)
May 13 – François Bourassa, farmer and politician (b.1813)

Federal plebiscite on prohibition finds apathetic electorate (compared to general election turnout) delivers small majority in favour^[2]

Touring U.S. farmers find paradise of meadows, prairies and woodlands in Saskatchewan^[3]

Questionable building standards lead to fatal collapse of city hall floor in London, Ontario^[4]

Web site: Queen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 5 December 2022.
Samuel E. St. O. Chapleau, "Report on the Prohibition Plebiscite Held on the 29th Day of September 1898" (January 2, 1899), Sessional Papers, Volume 14, Fourth Session of the Eighth Parliament, pgs. vi, viii and x (pages interspersed with text in French). Accessed 4 October 2020
Department of the Interior, Reports of United States Delegates on Western Canada (1898), pgs. 9-12 Accessed 21 December 2019
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/Volume%2011/Issue%201/v11n1p2.gif "The London Building Disaster"