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1898 in Canada

Events from the year 1898 in Canada.

Incumbents
Crown MonarchVictoria Federal government Governor GeneralJohn Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen (until November 12) then Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of MintoPrime MinisterWilfrid LaurierChief JusticeSamuel Henry Strong (Ontario) • Parliament8th Provincial governments Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of British ColumbiaThomas Robert McInnesLieutenant Governor of ManitobaJames Colebrooke PattersonLieutenant Governor of New BrunswickJabez Bunting SnowballLieutenant Governor of Nova ScotiaMalachy Bowes DalyLieutenant Governor of OntarioOliver MowatLieutenant Governor of Prince Edward IslandGeorge William HowlanLieutenant Governor of QuebecJoseph-Adolphe Chapleau (until January 20) then Louis-Amable Jetté Premiers Premier of British ColumbiaJohn Herbert Turner (until August 15) then Charles Augustus SemlinPremier of ManitobaThomas GreenwayPremier of New BrunswickHenry EmmersonPremier of Nova ScotiaGeorge Henry MurrayPremier of OntarioArthur Sturgis HardyPremier of Prince Edward IslandAlexander Warburton (until August 1) then Donald FarquharsonPremier of QuebecFélix-Gabriel Marchand Territorial governments Commissioners Commissioner of YukonJames Morrow Walsh (until July 5) then William Ogilvie Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of KeewatinJames Colebrooke PattersonLieutenant Governor of the North-West TerritoriesCharles Herbert Mackintosh (until May 30) then Malcolm Colin Cameron (May 30 to September 26) then Amédée E. Forget (from October 4) Premiers Premier of North-West TerritoriesFrederick Haultain ==Events==
Events
• March 1 – 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority. • June 13 – Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories. • July 29 – White Pass and Yukon Route opens (Skagway–Whitehorse). • August – Donald Farquharson becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing A. B. Warburton. • August 8 – John Herbert Turner is dismissed as premier of British Columbia. • August 15 – Charles Semlin becomes premier of British Columbia. • September 11 – New Westminster, British Columbia destroyed by fire. • September 29 – The Canadian referendum on the prohibition of alcohol. • November 4 – The fourth election of the North-West Legislative Assembly. Full date unknown • The Parliament of Canada passes the Quebec Boundary Extension Act, expanding the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal Cree. • Kit Coleman covers the Spanish–American War as Canada's first female war correspondent. ==Births==
Births
• May 17 – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992) • May 20 – Paul Gouin, politician (d.1976) • May 27 – William Arthur Irwin, journalist • July 7 – Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, diplomat, civil servant and 5th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (d.1992) • July 15 – Howard Graham, army officer (d. 1986) • July 17 – Osmond Borradaile, cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of First and Second World War (d.1999) • August 23 – Brooke Claxton, politician and Minister (d.1960) • August 27 • Gaspard Fauteux, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d.1963) • John Hamilton, bank robber (d. 1934) • August 30 – Gleason Belzile, politician (d.1950) • November 9 – Emmett Matthew Hall, jurist, civil libertarian and Supreme Court justice (d.1995) • December 1 – Stuart Garson, politician, Minister and 12th Premier of Manitoba (d.1977) • December 15 – George Lawrence Price, last Commonwealth casualty of World War I (d.1918) Full date unknownMaurice Spector, Chairman of the Communist Party of Canada (d.1968) ==Deaths==
Deaths
• January 1 – John Arthur Fraser, artist (b.1838) • February 15 – Wilfrid Prévost, lawyer and politician (b.1832) • March 7 – Theodore Davie, lawyer, politician and 9th Premier of British Columbia (b.1852) • May 1 – Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier, lawyer and politician (b. c1860) • May 13 – François Bourassa, farmer and politician (b.1813) • April 12 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec (b.1820) • June 13 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, lawyer, politician and 5th Premier of Quebec (b.1840) • July 14 – Louis-François Richer Laflèche, diocese of Trois-Rivières (b.1818) • August 24 – Casimir Gzowski, engineer (b.1813) == See also ==
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