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Events from the year 1889 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• August 1 - Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
• August 2 - John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
• September 19 - A rock slide in Quebec City kills 45
• November - Neil McLeod becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir William Wilfred Sullivan.
• The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote

[edit] Births

• February 27 - Samuel Bronfman, businessman (d.1971)
• May 16 - Morris A. Gray, politician (d.1966)
• August 13 - Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (d.1958)
• October 13 - Douglass Dumbrille, actor (d.1974)
• December 4 - Leslie Gordon Bell, politician and lawyer (d.1963)

[edit] Deaths

• April 9 - Andrew Charles Elliott, jurist, politician and 4th Premier of British Columbia (b. c1828)
• May 4 - A. B. Rogers, surveyor (b.1829)
• July 5 - John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
• August 1 - Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (b.1847)
• September 13 - Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (b.1833)
• October 28 - Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1826)

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• Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (b.1818)

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