1891 in Canada

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Events from the year 1891 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)

Federal government

• Governor general – Frederick Stanley (viceregal consort – Lady Constance Villiers)
• Prime minister – John A. Macdonald (until June 6) then John Abbott (from June 16)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson
• 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
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – John Robson
• 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 – Neil McLeod (until April 27) then Frederick Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier (until December 21) then Charles Boucher de Boucherville

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

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

Premiers

• Chairman of the Lieutenant-Governor's Advisory Council of the North-West Territories then Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Robert Brett (until November 7) then Frederick Haultain

Events

Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald lying in state in the Senate Chamber

• February 21 – The first Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 125.
• March 5 – Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority
• April 27 – Frederick Peters becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Neil McLeod
• June 6 – Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald dies in office
• June 8 – Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald lies in state in the Senate Chamber
• June 16 – Sir John Abbott becomes prime minister following the death of Sir John A. Macdonald
• September 29 – Thomas McGreevy is expelled from the House of Commons due to corruption.
• November 7 – The election of the 2nd North-West Legislative Assembly
• December 10 – The Calgary and Edmonton Railway opens, connecting Edmonton to the national railway network for the first time.
• December 21 – Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Honoré Mercier
• The Legislative Council of New Brunswick is abolished

Sport

• The Canadian Rugby Football Union is renamed the Canadian Rugby Union

Births

January to June

• January 6 - Tim Buck, politician and long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada (d.1973)
• January 26 - Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon (d.1976)
• April 1 - Harry Nixon, politician and 13th Premier of Ontario (d.1961)
• May 3 - Thomas John Bentley, politician (d.1983)
• June 13 - Hervé-Edgar Brunelle, politician and lawyer (d.1950)

July to December

• July 12 - Adhémar Raynault, politician and Mayor of Montreal (d.1984)
• August 30 - Elmer Jamieson, educator
• September 16 - Julie Winnefred Bertrand, supercentenarian, oldest living Canadian and oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death (d.2007)
• October 30 - Ada Mackenzie, golfer
• November 14 - Frederick Banting, medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate (d.1941)
• December 10 - Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, military commander and Governor General of Canada (d.1969)
• December 25 - William Ross Macdonald, politician, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons and 21st Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1976)

John A. Macdonald

Deaths

• January 4 - Antoine Labelle, priest and settler (b.1833)
• January 21 - Calixa Lavallée, musician and composer (b.1842)
• May 31 - Antoine-Aimé Dorion, politician and jurist (b.1818)
• June 6 - John A. Macdonald, politician and 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b.1815)