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Events from the year 1890 in Canada.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of Canada
• Governor General - Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
• Prime Minister - John A. Macdonald

Ontario

• Lieutenant Governor - Sir Alexander Campbell
• Premier - Sir Oliver Mowat

Quebec

• Lieutenant Governor - Auguste-Real Angers
• Premier - Honore Mercier

Nova Scotia

• Lieutenant Governor - Sir Malachy Bowes Daly
• Premier - William S. Fielding

New Brunswick

• Lieutenant Governor - Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
• Premier - Andrew G. Blair

Prince Edward Island

• Lieutenant Governor - Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Premier - Neil McLeod

Manitoba

• Lieutenant Governor - John Christian Schultz
• Premier - Thomas Greenway

British Columbia

• Lieutenant Governor - Hugh Nelson
• Premier - John Robson

[edit] Events

• March 31 - Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec.
• June 5 - Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

Maurice Duplessis campaigning in the 1952 election

• April 20 - Maurice Duplessis, politician and 16th Premier of Quebec (d.1959)
• March 3 - Norman Bethune, physician and medical innovator (d.1939)
• March 21 - Norman Hipel, politician and Minister (d.1953)
• March 24 - Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons (d.1954)
• March 27 - John Horne Blackmore, politician (d.1971)
• May 4 - Franklin Carmichael, painter and Group of Seven member (d.1945)
• May 17 - Lionel FitzGerald, artist
• May 30 - John Stuart Foster, physicist (d.1944)

[edit] July to December

• July 27 - Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician and Minister (d.1949)
• August 10 - Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1954)
• September 20 - Kathleen Parlow, violinist (d.1963)
• October 9 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (d.1944)
• October 28 - Louis Orville Breithaupt, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1960)
• December 10 - Byron Ingemar Johnson, politician and 24th Premier of British Columbia (d.1964)

[edit] Deaths

• April 25 - Crowfoot, a chief of the Siksika First Nation (b. c1830)