1895 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 |
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| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 |
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Events from the year 1895 in Canada.
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Incumbents[edit]
Crown[edit]
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
Federal government[edit]
- Governor general – John Hamilton-Gordon (viceregal consort – Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair)
- Prime minister – Mackenzie Bowell
Provincial governments[edit]
Lieutenant governors[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Lieutenant governors[edit]
- 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[edit]
Events[edit]
- 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 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
Births[edit]
January to June[edit]
- February 1 - Conn Smythe, ice hockey manager and owner (d.1980)
- February 15 - Earl Thomson, athlete and Olympic gold medalist (d.1971)
- March 23 - John Robert Cartwright, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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)
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