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Events from the year 1906 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Edward VII

Federal government

  • Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
  • Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
  • Chief Justice – Henri Elzéar Taschereau (Quebec) (until 2 May) then Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec) (from 2 June)
  • Parliament – 10th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri Joly de Lotbinière (until May 11) then James Dunsmuir
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones (until March 15) then Duncan Cameron Fraser
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
  • Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
  • Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
  • Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
  • Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
  • Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Commissioner of Yukon – William Wallace Burns McInnes (until December 31) then John T. Lithgow (acting)
  • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

  • January 1 – Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal
  • January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
  • March 27 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
  • April 30 – The Ottawa Public Library opens
  • May 7 – Ontario Hydro created
  • May 23 – Regina decreed capital of Saskatchewan
  • June 24 – Octave Crémazie Monument unveiled
  • August 26 – Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Saskatchewan
  • The Revillon Frères trading post opens at Fort Saint John, British Columbia, as competition against the Hudson's Bay Company
  • August 28 – Treaty 10 is signed.

Sport

  • February 23 – Tommy Burns becomes the First Canadian to be Boxing's Heavyweight champion by defeating Marvin Hart

Births

  • January 15 – Edna Staebler, author (d. 2006)
  • January 27 – Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (d.1987)
  • January 29 – Joe Primeau, ice hockey player (d.1989)
  • February 14 – Roland Beaudry, politician, journalist, publicist and publisher (d.1964)
  • March 10 – Lionel Bertrand, politician, journalist and newspaper editor (d.1979)
  • May 15 – Robert Methven Petrie, astronomer (d.1966)
  • May 16 – Alfred Pellan, painter (d.1988)
  • June 22 – Stanley Fox, politician (d.1984)
  • June 24 – George Alexander Gale, chief justice of Ontario (d. 1997)
  • June 26 – Marian Scott, painter
  • July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic and politician (d. 1992)
  • September 24 – Leonard Marsh, social scientist and professor (d.1983)
  • November 20 – John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (d.1996)
  • December 16 – Barbara Kent, Canadian actress

Deaths

  • February 2 – Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (b.1823)
  • March 31 – James McIntyre, poet (b.1828)
  • April 12 – Robert Thorburn, merchant, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1836)
  • May 3 – Peter White, politician (b.1838)
  • May 19 – Gabriel Dumont, Metis leader (b.1837)
  • June 9 – William Carpenter Bompas, Church of England clergyman, bishop and missionary (b.1834)
  • June 11 – Hector-Louis Langevin, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1826)
  • October 7 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (b.1848)

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