1887 in Canada

Events from the year 1887 in Canada.

Incumbents

Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall (until February 8) then Hugh Nelson
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 (until June 1) then Alexander Campbell
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Rodrigue Masson (until October 4) then Auguste-Réal Angers

Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe (until March 28) then Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (from April 1)
Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay (until December 26) then David Howard Harrison
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 (until January 25) then Louis-Olivier Taillon (January 25 to January 27) then Honoré Mercier

January 25 – Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec, replacing John Jones Ross.
January 27 – Honoré Mercier becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon.
February 22 – Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority.
March 3 – The United States imposes the Fisheries Retaliation Act putting limits on Canadian fishermen and traders
March 28 – William Smithe, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
April 1 – Alexander Davie becomes premier of British Columbia.
April 23 – McMaster University founded
May 3 – 148 coal miners are killed in a mine explosion near Nanaimo, British Columbia
June 7 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
June 20 – Golden Jubilee of Victoria's accession as Queen
December 3 – Saturday Night founded
December 26 – David H. Harrison becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing John Norquay.
The first premiers' conference is held at Quebec City, Quebec

January 21 – Georges Vézina, ice hockey player (d.1926)
February 20 – Vincent Massey, lawyer, diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d.1967)
February 25 – Andrew McNaughton, army officer, politician and diplomat (d.1966)
April 13 – Gordon S. Fahrni, medical doctor (d.1995)
May 21 – James Gladstone, first Status Indian to be appointed to the Senate of Canada (d.1971)

July 4 – Tom Longboat, long-distance runner (d.1949)
July 5 – Joseph Charles-Émile Trudeau, entrepreneur and father of Pierre Trudeau, who would later become Prime Minister of Canada (d.1935)
September 17 – Georges Poulin, hockey player (d. 1971)
October 8 – Huntley Gordon, actor (d. 1956)
October 14 – Frances Loring, sculptor (d.1968)
December 20 – Walter Russell Shaw, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1981)

February 25 – Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, missionary (b.1797)
March 28 – William Smithe, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (b.1842)
May 4 – William Murdoch, poet (b.1823)
May 8 – Sir William Young, Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1799)
June 25 – Matthew Crooks Cameron, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1822)
August 18 – John Palliser, explorer and geographer (b.1817)
October 11 – Louis-Adélard Senécal, businessman and politician (b.1829)
October 12 – William Annand, 2nd Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1808)