Events from the year 1891 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• February 21 - The first Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 125.
• March 5 - Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority
• April 27 - Frederick Peters becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Neil McLeod
• June 6 - Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald dies in office
• June 16 - Sir John Abbott becomes prime minister following the death of Sir John A. Macdonald
• September 29 - Thomas McGreevy is expelled from the House of Commons due to corruption.
• November 7 - The election of the 2nd North-West Legislative Assembly
• December 10 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is extended to Edmonton
• December 21 - Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Honoré Mercier
• The Legislative Council of New Brunswick is abolished

[edit] Sport

• The Canadian Rugby Football Union is renamed the Canadian Rugby Union

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• January 6 - Tim Buck, politician and long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada (d.1973)
• January 26 - Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon (d.1976)
• April 1 - Harry Nixon, politician and 13th Premier of Ontario (d.1961)
• May 3 - Thomas John Bentley, politician (d.1983)
• June 13 - Hervé-Edgar Brunelle, politician and lawyer (d.1950)

[edit] July to December

• July 12 - Adhémar Raynault, politician and Mayor of Montreal (d.1984)
• August 30 - Elmer Jamieson, educator
• September 16 - Julie Winnefred Bertrand, supercentenarian, oldest living Canadian and oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death (d.2007)
• October 30 - Ada Mackenzie, golfer
• November 14 - Frederick Banting, medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate (d.1941)
• December 10 - Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, military commander and Governor General of Canada (d.1969)
• December 25 - William Ross Macdonald, politician, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons and 21st Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1976)

John A. Macdonald

[edit] Deaths

• January 4 - Antoine Labelle, priest and settler (b.1833)
• January 21 - Calixa Lavallée, musician and composer (b.1842)
• June 6 - John A. Macdonald, politician and 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b.1815)