Events from the year 1888 in Canada. [edit] Events [edit] Arts and literature [edit] New books [edit] Births [edit] January to June - January 18 - Charles Gavan Power, politician, Minister and Senator (d.1968)
- January 20 - Ethel Wilson, novelist and short story writer (d.1980)
- February 28 - George Pearkes, politician, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (d.1984)
- March 24 - Samuel Rosborough Balcom, politician (d.1981)
- April 6 - Leonard Brockington, lawyer, civil servant and first head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (d.1966)
- April 8 - Dora Mavor Moore, actor, teacher and director (d.1979)
- April 23 - Joseph Georges Bouchard, politician (d.1956)
- April 23 - Georges Vanier, soldier, diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d.1967)
- April 28 - Harry Crerar, General (d.1965)
- May 3 - Johan Helders, photographer
[edit] July to December - July 11 - John Keiller MacKay, soldier, jurist and 19th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1970)
- August 3 - Margaret Murray, journalist
- September 2 - Dorothy Stevens, artist
- September 7 - William Bryce, politician
- September 15 - Filip Konowal, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient in 1917 (d.1959)
- September 18 - Grey Owl, writer and conservationist (d.1938)
- September 18 - William Duncan Herridge, politician and diplomat (d.1961)
- November 3 - Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger, politician and lawyer (d.1958)
- November 11 - S. E. Rogers, politician (d.1965)
- November 25 - Joseph W. Noseworthy, politician (d.1956)
- December 2 - Major James Coldwell, politician (d.1974)
[edit] Deaths
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