1892 in Canada

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Events from the year 1892 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria ^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Frederick Stanley
• Prime Minister – John Abbott (until November 24) then John Thompson (from December 5)
• Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) (until 25 September) then Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario) (from 13 December)
• Parliament – 7th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson (until November 1) then Edgar Dewdney
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell (until May 24) then George Airey Kirkpatrick (from May 30)
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers (until December 5) then Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – John Robson (until June 29) then Theodore Davie (from July 2)
• Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
• Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair
• Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding
• Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Charles Boucher de Boucherville (until December 16)then Louis-Olivier Taillon

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal

Premiers

• Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

• June 29 – John Robson, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office
• July 2 – Theodore Davie becomes Premier of British Columbia
• July 8 – The Great Fire of 1892 destroys two-thirds of St. John's, Newfoundland
• July 9 – Parliament passes the Criminal Code, 1892, the first unified criminal law for all of Canada, under the direction of the Minister of Justice, John Thompson
• November 24 – Sir John Abbott resigns as Prime Minister
• December 5 – Sir John Thompson becomes Prime Minister
• December 16 – Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville

Full date unknown

• The Toronto Star founded
• Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
• Humberside Collegiate Institute opened
• Worthington, Ontario, is settled as a mining community. ^[2]
• The first Canadian National Rugby-Football Championship game is played (Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal 45–5).^{[ citation needed ]}

Sport

• First documented women's ice hockey game takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on an outdoor ice surface.

Births

January to June

• March 4 – J.-Eugène Bissonnette, politician and physician
• April 8 – Mary Pickford, actress and studio co-founder (d.1979)
• May 3 – Jacob Viner, economist (d.1970)
• May 18 – John Croak, VC
• June 2 – Edward LeRoy Bowerman, politician (d.1977)

July to December

• July 8 – Sir Victor Tait, Canadian-born British airman and businessman (d.1988)
• July 14 – John Sissons, barrister, author, judge and politician (d.1969)
• August 2 – Jack L. Warner, studio mogul (d.1978)
• August 18 – Hal Foster, cartoonist (d.1982)
• September 21 – Donald Elmer Black, politician
• September 24 – Adélard Godbout, politician and 15th Premier of Quebec (d.1956)
• October 25 – Nell Shipman, actress, screenwriter, producer and animal trainer (d.1970)
• December 27 – Alfred Edwin McKay, World War I flying ace (d. 1917 in Belgium)

Deaths

Alexander Mackenzie

• January 1 – John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (b.1817)
• January 20 – Samuel Barton Burdett, politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.1843)
• March 7 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1820)
• April 6 – John Ostell, architect, surveyor and manufacturer (b.1813)
• April 17 – Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1822)
• May 24 – Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1822)
• June 9 – William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer (b.1863)
• June 29 – John Robson, journalist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1824)
• July 15 – William Donahue, merchant and politician (b.1834)
• August 30 – Frederick Newton Gisborne, Laid first under-sea cable in North America
• September 12 – Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (b.1822)
• December 14 – Adams George Archibald, politician (b.1814)

Historical documents

• Newspaper coverage of Great Fire of St. John's, Newfoundland ^[3]

• U.S. accuses Canadian Pacific Railway of helping Chinese illegally cross border from British Columbia ^[4]

• Running Wolf and Owl Child's performance of Moon Dance described ^[5]

• "Completely won the hearts of her audience" - Poet of Kanien'kéhà:ka origin, Pauline Johnson, gives first solo recital in Toronto ^[6]

• English visitor rides out from Lethbridge, Alberta to watch 2000-head cattle roundup ^[7]

References

1. "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
2. "Worthington History". ghosttownpix.com. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
3. "Great Fire; Burning of Saint John's East on the 8th July Last - Origin of the Fire and Its Disastrous Effects[....]," The (St. John's) Evening Telegram (September 1, 1892), pg. 2 Accessed 23 December 2019
4. United States Department of State, "Mr. Herbert to Mr. Foster [and enclosures]," The Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fifty-Second Congress; 1892-'93, pgs. 309-10 Accessed 19 December 2019
5. Philip H. Godsell (ed.), "Part 5; Moon Dance" The R.N. Wilson Papers, Volume II (1958). Accessed 19 December 2019
6. E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), "Biographical Sketch," Flint and Feather (1912?), pg. xvi (PDF pg. 24). Accessed 13 November 2022
7. P.R. Ritchie, Manitoba and the North-West Territories: Being a Report by Mr. P.R. Ritchie of Essex, England, of a Tour [in] 1892 (1892), pgs. 18-19 Accessed 19 December 2019

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