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Events from the year 1884 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• January 2 - "Humber Railway Disaster" 32 men and boys were killed upon the head on collision of a of a Grand Trunk Railway commuter train with an unscheduled freight train #42C near Toronto, Ontario. Most of the dead were workers being transported on the freight train to the Ontario Bolt Works in Swansea.
• January 10 - David Scott elected as the first mayor of Regina
• January 23 - John Jones Ross becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Joseph-Alfred Mousseau.
• July 28 - William Fielding becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing William Pipes.
• September 15 - The Nile Voyageurs depart for Africa
• October 15 - The La Presse newspaper is founded
• Canadian Parliament passes the Indian Advancement Act, encouraging democratic elections of chiefs. Mohawks at St. Regis, Ontario, resist the provision, preferring their traditional method of choosing leaders.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• February 18 - Andrew Watson Myles, politician (d.1970)
• April 6 - Walter Huston, actor (d.1950)
• April 12 - Maurice Brasset, politician and lawyer (d.1971)
• April 30 - Murdoch Mackay, politician (d.1963)
• May 1 - Henry Norwest, sniper in World War I (d.1918)
• June 11 - William George Bock, politician (d.1973)

[edit] July to December

• July 25 - Davidson Black, paleoanthropologist (d.1934)
• August 27 - John Edward Brownlee, politician and 5th Premier of Alberta (d.1961)
• September 2 - Angus MacInnis, politician (d.1964)
• September 27 - Silby Barrett, labour leader
• December 15 - James MacDonnell, soldier, lawyer and politician (d.1973)

[edit] Deaths