Events from the year 1894 in Canada .
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George Alexander Drew in 1947
January to June
January 3 – James Lorimer Ilsley , politician, Minister and jurist (d.1967 )
January 5 – Norman MacKenzie , author, lawyer, professor and Senator (d.1986 )
February 8 – Billy Bishop , First World War flying ace (d.1956 )
May 7 – George A. Drew , politician and 14th Premier of Ontario (d.1973 )
May 13 – William Earl Rowe , politician and 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1984 )
May 29 – Beatrice Lillie , comic actress (d.1989 )
June 4 – La Bolduc , singer and musician (d.1941 )
June 5 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet , newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur (d.1976 )
July to December
July 17 – Phillip Garratt , aviator
July 24 – Theobald Butler Barrett , politician
July 25 – Norman McLeod Rogers , lawyer, politician and Cabinet minister (d.1940 )
August – Gladys Porter , politician and first female member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia (d.1967 )
September 9 – Humphrey Mitchell , politician and trade unionist (d.1950 )
September 10 – H. H. Wrong , diplomat (d.1954 )
October 7 – Del Lord , film director and actor (d.1970 in the United States )
November 5 – Harold Innis , professor of political economy and author (d.1952 )
November 13 – James Allan , politician (d.1992 )
November 26 – James Charles McGuigan , Cardinal (d.1974 )
December 13 – Chester Ronning , diplomat and politician (d.1984 )
John Sparrow David Thompson
March 19 – John Langton , businessman, political figure and civil servant (b.1808 )
April 16 – Joseph-Charles Taché , a Canadian noted for his contributions to many aspects of the fabric of Canada (b.1820 )
May 27 – Francis Godschall Johnson , politician (b.1817 )
June 22 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché , Roman Catholic priest, missionary, author and Archbishop (b.1823 )
September 5 – James Macleod , militia officer, lawyer, police officer, magistrate, judge and politician (b.1836 )
September 14 – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau , lawyer, businessman and politician (b.1808 )
September 15 – Philip Carteret Hill , politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1821 )
October 30 – Honoré Mercier , lawyer, journalist, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1840 )
November 28 – Patrick Leonard MacDougall , General and author (b.1819 )
November 29 – Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck , Governor General (b.1819 )
December 12 – John Sparrow David Thompson , lawyer, judge, politician, university professor and 4th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1845 )
Prime Minister John Thompson 's invitation to his Imperial Privy Council swearing-in at Windsor Castle [4]
Prime Minister John Thompson's death at Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria's response[5]
Ethnologist crashes Dogribs' three-week muskox hunt[6]
Chignecto Ship Railway would shorten voyages of eastern New Brunswick, P.E.I. and other shipping to U.S.A.[7]
"Landslides" . Get Prepared . Public Safety Canada. Retrieved 4 March 2016 .
J. Castell Hopkins, Life and Work of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Thompson [....] (1895), pgs. 440-1 Accessed 25 December 2019
Frank Russell, "Chapter VII; The Musk-Ox Hunt," Explorations in the Far North: Being the Report of an Expedition [....] (1898), pgs. 108-19 Accessed 19 December 2019