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Events from the year 1886 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

  • Governor General – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
  • Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
  • Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
  • Parliament – 5th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Rodrigue Masson

Premiers

  • Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe
  • Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding
  • Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan
  • Premier of Quebec – John Jones Ross

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins
  • Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney

Events

  • March 25 – Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario
  • April 6 – Vancouver incorporated as a city
  • April 26 – 1886 New Brunswick general election
  • June 7 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinal
  • June 8 to 15 – 1886 Nova Scotia general election: William Stevens Fielding's Liberals win a third consecutive majority.
  • June 13 – Great Vancouver Fire
  • June 30 – 1886 Prince Edward Island general election: William Wilfred Sullivan Conservatives win a fifth consecutive majority.
  • July 20 – 1886 British Columbia general election
  • October 14 – 1886 Quebec general election: Honoré Mercier's Liberals win a majority
  • December 9 – 1886 Manitoba general election
  • December 14 – Yoho National Park established
  • December 28 – 1886 Ontario general election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.

Full date unknown

  • Mohawk men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River, beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois.
  • Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel

Births

  • January 15 – C. D. Howe, politician and Minister (d.1960)
  • January 21 – George Kingston, meteorologist (b.1816)
  • May 13 – William John Patterson, politician and 6th Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1976)
  • August 4 – Pierre-François Casgrain, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d.1950)
  • August 30 – Ray Lawson, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1980)
  • September 20 – John Murray Anderson, Canadian-born American actor, dancer, theatre director (d. 1954 in the United States)
  • October 16 – Joseph-Arthur Bradette, politician (d.1961)

Deaths

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  • March 30 – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, politician and 6th Premier of Quebec (b.1837)
  • March 31 – Amos Wright, farmer and politician (b.1809)
  • June 25
  • Auguste Achintre, journalist and essayist (b.1834)
  • Jean-Louis Beaudry, entrepreneur, politician and 11th Mayor of Montreal (b.1809)
  • July 4 – Poundmaker, Cree chief (b. c1842)
  • November 23 – William Jack, astronomer (b.1817)

References