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Events from the year 1902 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Edward VII

Federal government

  • Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
  • Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
  • Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario) (until 18 November) then Henri Elzéar Taschereau (Quebec)
  • Parliament – 9th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Abner Reid McClelan (until January 28) then Jabez Bunting Snowball
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – 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 – James Dunsmuir (until November 21) then Edward Prior
  • Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
  • Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
  • Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Commissioner of Yukon – James Hamilton Ross (until February 8) then Henry W. Newlands (acting) (February 8 to August 15) then Zachary Taylor Wood (acting)

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
  • Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

Premiers

  • Premier of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

  • February – The town of Crofton, British Columbia, is founded on Vancouver Island
  • May 21 – 1902 Northwest Territories general election
  • May 24 – The first Victoria Day is celebrated
  • May 29 – 1902 Ontario general election: G. W. Ross's Liberals win a second consecutive majority. Margaret Haile runs as a candidate of the Canadian Socialist League in Toronto North, becoming the first woman ever to stand in a provincial election.
  • May 31 – The Second Boer War ends
  • July 1 – Ray Knight stages the first Raymond Stampede in Raymond, Alberta. This was the first use of the word stampede in the name of a rodeo. The Raymond Stampede is now Canada's oldest rodeo
  • August 9 – Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom and of Canada.
  • October 10 – Altona schoolhouse shooting
  • October 20 – The first train enters Edmonton, by way of the Canadian Northern's Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway across the Low Level Bridge
  • November 21 – Edward Prior becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing James Dunsmuir
  • December 15 – The first transatlantic radio press report is filed from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
  • The first ascent of Mount Forbes by James Outram and party

Arts and literature

  • The first symphony orchestra in Canada begins in Quebec City.
  • The first movie theatre in Canada opens in Vancouver

Births

January to June

  • January 22 – Jean-Paul Beaulieu, politician and chartered accountant (d.1976)
  • February 17 – Howard O'Hagan, writer
  • April 14 – Olive Diefenbaker, wife of John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1976)
  • April 20 – Elizabeth Goudie, writer (d.1982)
  • May 24 – Sylvia Daoust, sculptor (d.2004)
  • June 17 – Anna Hilliard, doctor
  • June 19 – Guy Lombardo, bandleader and violinist (d.1977)
  • June 21 – Howie Morenz, ice hockey player (d.1937)

July to December

  • July 15 – Donald Creighton, historian (d.1979)
  • July 30 – Dorise Nielsen, politician (d.1980)
  • August 10 – Norma Shearer, Academy Award-winning actress (d.1983)
  • September 2 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (d.1973)
  • November 8 – A. J. M. Smith, poet (d.1980)
  • November 21 – Foster Hewitt, radio pioneer (d.1985)
  • December 29 – Nels Stewart, ice hockey player (d.1957)

Deaths

  • February 12 – Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Governor General of Canada (b.1826)
  • February 19 – Richard Maurice Bucke, psychiatrist (b.1837)
  • August 5 – Thomas Christie, physician, professor and politician (b.1834)
  • August 10 – James McMillan, United States Senator from Michigan from 1889 until 1902. (b.1838)
  • October 31 – John A. Dawson, politician (b.1826)

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