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Events from the year 1892 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Victoria

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.
  • The first Canadian National Rugby-Football Championship game is played (Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal 45–5).

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

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  • 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
  • U.S. accuses Canadian Pacific Railway of helping Chinese illegally cross border from British Columbia
  • Running Wolf and Owl Child's performance of Moon Dance described
  • "Completely won the hearts of her audience" - Poet of Kanien'kéhà:ka origin, Pauline Johnson, gives first solo recital in Toronto
  • English visitor rides out from Lethbridge, Alberta to watch 2000-head cattle roundup

References

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