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Events from the year 1900 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

  • Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
  • Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
  • Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
  • Parliament – 8th (until 9 October)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Robert McInnes (until June 21) then Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson (until October 10) then Daniel Hunter McMillan
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly (until July 26) then Alfred Gilpin Jones
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter Adolphus McIntyre
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté

Premiers

  • Premier of British Columbia – Charles Augustus Semlin (until February 28) then Joseph Martin (February 28 to June 15) then Edward Gawler Prior
  • Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway (until January 10) then Hugh John Macdonald (January 10 to October 29) then Rodmond Roblin
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Henry Emmerson (until August 31) then Lemuel John Tweedie
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
  • Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson
  • Premier of Quebec – Félix-Gabriel Marchand (until October 8) then Simon-Napoléon Parent

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson (until October 10) then Daniel Hunter McMillan
  • Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

Premiers

  • Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

January to June

  • January 8 – Hugh John Macdonald becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Thomas Greenway.
  • February 18 – February 27 – Boer War: The Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry plays a decisive role in the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • February 27 – Charles Semlin is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.
  • February 28 – Joseph Martin becomes premier of British Columbia.
  • March 16 – Boer War: Strathcona's Horse leave for South Africa.

thumb|Hull fire on April 26, 1900.

  • April 26 – Two-thirds of Hull, Quebec, is destroyed in a fire.
  • June 15 – James Dunsmuir becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Joseph Martin.

July to December

  • August 31 – Lemuel John Tweedie becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Henry Emmerson.
  • September 25 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Premier of Quebec, dies in office.
  • October 8 – Simon-Napoléon Parent becomes premier of Quebec.
  • October 29 – Sir Rodmond Roblin becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Hugh John Macdonald.
  • November 7
  • Federal election: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.
  • Boer War: The Battle of Leliefontein begins. Three Canadians receive the Victoria Cross for their valour in the engagement.
  • December 6 – Alphonse Desjardins founds Mouvement Desjardins, the first credit union in North America.

Full date unknown

  • The federal government doubles the head tax on Chinese immigrants
  • The Canadian Tuberculosis Association meets for the first time

Births

January to June

  • January 1 – Sam Berger, lawyer, businessman and football player (d.1992)
  • January 8
  • Harry Cassidy, academic, social reformer and civil servant (d.1951)
  • Solon Earl Low, politician (d.1962)
  • February 20 – Graham Spry, broadcasting pioneer, business executive, diplomat and socialist (d.1983)
  • March 12 – David Croll, politician (d.1991)
  • April 3 – Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1958)
  • April 19 – Roland Michener, lawyer, politician, diplomat and Governor-General of Canada (d.1991)
  • April 30 – David Manners, actor (d.1998)
  • May 25 – Alain Grandbois, poet (d.1975)

thumb|right|100px|John Babcock in 1920

  • May 25 – Malcolm Norris, Métis leader (d.1967)
  • May 29 – Antonio Talbot, politician (d.1980)
  • June 3 – Gordon Sinclair, journalist, writer and commentator (d.1984)
  • June 21 – Edward S. Rogers, Sr., inventor and radio pioneer (d.1939)

July to December

  • July 6 – Paul Métivier, World War I veteran (d. 2004)
  • July 23 – John Babcock, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran (d.2010)
  • August 13 – Gordon Sparling, filmmaker (d.1994)
  • August 23 – Frances Adaskin, pianist (d. 2001)
  • August 31 – James Campbell Clouston, naval officer (d.1940 in Dunkirk evacuation)
  • September 6 – W. A. C. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia (d.1979)
  • October 2 – Rod Keller, general (d. 1954)
  • November 20 – Athole Shearer, actress (d.1985)
  • November 27 – Jovette Bernier, journalist, author and radio show host (d.1981)
  • November 28 – Mary Bothwell, classical vocalist and painter (d. mid-1970s)

Deaths

  • February 25 – Benjamin Pâquet, Roman Catholic priest and educationist (b.1832)
  • March 1 – Frederick Carter, Premier of Newfoundland (b.1819)
  • March 20 – George Hope Bertram, politician (b. 1847)
  • August 4 – Marc-Aurèle Plamondon, lawyer, journalist, publisher, and judge (b.1823)
  • August 11 – Georges-Isidore Barthe, lawyer, publisher, journalist and politician (b.1834)
  • September 25 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author, notary, politician and 11th Premier of Quebec (b.1832)
  • December 21 – Désiré Olivier Bourbeau, politician and merchant (b.1834)

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