1906 in Canada

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Events from the year 1906 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Edward VII (consort – Queen Alexandra)

Federal government

• Governor general – Albert Grey (viceregal consort – Alice Holford)
• Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri Joly de Lotbinière (until May 11) then James Dunsmuir
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones (until March 15) then Duncan Cameron Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
• Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon - William Wallace Burns McInnes (until December 31) then John T. Lithgow (acting)
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

• January 1 - Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal
• January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
• February 23 - Tommy Burns becomes the first Canadian to be boxing's heavyweight champion
• March 27 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
• April 30 - The Ottawa Public Library opens
• May 7 - Ontario Hydro created
• May 23 - Regina decreed capital of Saskatchewan
• June 24 - Octave Crémazie Monument unveiled
• August 26 - Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Saskatchewan
• The Revillon Frères trading post opens at Fort Saint John, British Columbia, as competition against the Hudson's Bay Company

Births

• January 15 - Edna Staebler, author (d. 2006)
• January 27 - Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (d.1987)
• January 29 - Joe Primeau, ice hockey player (d.1989)
• February 14 - Roland Beaudry, politician, journalist, publicist and publisher (d.1964)
• March 10 - Lionel Bertrand, politician, journalist and newspaper editor (d.1979)
• May 15 - Robert Methven Petrie, astronomer (d.1966)
• May 16 - Alfred Pellan, painter (d.1988)
• June 22 - Stanley Fox, politician (d.1984)
• June 26 - Marian Scott, painter
• July 18 - S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic and politician (d. 1992)
• September 24 - Leonard Marsh, social scientist and professor (d.1983)
• November 20 - John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (d.1996)
• December 16 - Barbara Kent, Canadian actress

Deaths

• February 2 - Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (b.1823)
• March 31 - James McIntyre, poet (b.1828)
• April 12 - Robert Thorburn, merchant, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1836)
• May 3 - Peter White, politician (b.1838)
• May 19 - Gabriel Dumont, Metis leader (b.1837)
• June 9 - William Carpenter Bompas, Church of England clergyman, bishop and missionary (b.1834)
• June 11 - Hector-Louis Langevin, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1826)
• October 7 - Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (b.1848)