1895 in Canada

Events from the year 1895 in Canada.

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See also:	History of Canada Timeline of Canadian history List of years in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – John Hamilton-Gordon
• Prime Minister – Mackenzie Bowell
• Chief Justice of Canada – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
• Parliament – 7th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
• 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 – George William Howlan
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Theodore Davie (until March 4) then John Herbert Turner
• 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 (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Charles Herbert Mackintosh

Premiers

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

Events

• March – Maria Grant is the first woman in Canada to be elected to any office. She served six years on the Victoria School Board and was presented to the future George V as the only woman elected as a school trustee in Canada.
• March 2 – Theodore Davie resigns as premier of British Columbia
• March 4 – John Herbert Turner becomes premier of British Columbia
• April 16 – The town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, is incorporated.
• April 24 – Jean-Olivier Chénier Monument unveiled
• July 1 – Maisonneuve Monument unveiled
• October 2 – Additional provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established: the districts of Ungava, Mackenzie, Yukon, and Franklin. The districts of Keewatin and Athabaska are enlarged so that all points of Canada are either within a province or a district.
• The Chinese Board of Trade is formed in Vancouver
• First ascent of Mount Hector in Banff National Park.^[2]

Sport

• March 9 – The Montreal Hockey Club wins their second Stanley Cup by defeating Queen's University 5 goals to 1 at Montreal's Victoria Rink

Births

January to June

• February 1 – Conn Smythe, ice hockey manager and owner (d.1980)
• February 15 – Earl Thomson, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1971)
• March 23 – John Robert Cartwright, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d.1979)
• April 30 – Philippe Panneton, physician, academic, diplomat and writer (d.1960)
• May 12 – William Giauque, chemist and Nobel laureate (d.1982)
• May 27 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, politician and 13th Premier of Manitoba (d.1995)

July to December

Leslie Frost

• July 5 – Frederic McGrand, physician and politician (d. 1988)
• July 7 – Thane Campbell, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1978)
• July 29 – Albert A. Brown, politician and lawyer (d.1971)
• September 7 – Pete Parker, radio announcer (d.1991)
• September 18 – John Diefenbaker, politician and 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1979)
• September 20 – Leslie Frost, politician and 16th Premier of Ontario (d.1973)
• November 5 – Howard Charles Green, politician and Minister (d.1989)
• December 1 – Edwin Hansford, politician (d.1959)

Deaths

• January 17 – Joseph Tassé, politician (b.1848)
• January 28 – Camille Lefebvre (b.1831)
• April 4 – Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (b.1842)
• August 4 – Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, seigneur, journalist and politician (b.1818)
• September 4 – Antoine Plamondon, artist (b.1804)
• September 11 – Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (b.1822)
• September 15 – Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (b.1842)

Historical documents

Liberal Party of Canada pamphlet comments on economic conditions^[3]

Maria Grant, elected to Victoria, B.C. school board, hopes next election will return two more women^[4]

Medical education of women, and how to answer objections to it^[5]

Dominion's Indian Head farm sees trees leafed out by May 1 (3 weeks early), but fruit destroyed by 18° Fahrenheit (-7° Celsius) cold snap^[6]

Report on domestication of Barren Grounds caribou^[7]

Toronto Trades and Labor Council supports continued restriction of Chinese immigration^[8]

References

1. "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
2. "Mount Hector". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
3. Liberal Party, "Facts for the People" (June 11, 1895). Accessed 20 December 2019
4. "Trustee Mrs. Grant" The Daily Colonist (March 12, 1895), pg. 6. Accessed 26 December 2019
5. Mrs. Ashley Carus-Wilson (Mary L.G. Petrie), "The Medical Education of Women; A Lecture" (1895). Accessed 20 December 2019
6. "Experimental Farm for the North-West Territories; Report of A. Mackay, Superintendent" (November 30, 1895), Sessional Papers; Volume 6; Sixth Session of the Seventh Parliament (1896), pg. 329. Accessed 26 September 2021
7. Department of the Interior, Lt. Gov. Schultz's Report on the Domestication of the Caribou of Northern Keewatin (1895). Accessed 20 December 2019
8. Memorial from the Legislation Committee of the Trade and Labour Council(....) Accessed 20 December 2019