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Canada-related events during the year of 1891
Events from the year 1891 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Events
Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald lying in state in the Senate Chamber
Sport
Births
January to June
July to December
July 12 –
Adhémar Raynault , politician and
Mayor of Montreal (d.
1984 )
August 30 –
Elmer Jamieson , educator
September 16 –
Julie Winnefred Bertrand , supercentenarian, oldest living Canadian and oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death (d.
2007 )
October 30 –
Ada Mackenzie , golfer
November 14 –
Frederick Banting , medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate (d.
1941 )
December 10 –
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis , military commander and
Governor General of Canada (d.
1969 )
December 25 –
William Ross Macdonald , politician,
Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and 21st Lieutenant Governor of
Ontario (d.
1976 )
John A. Macdonald
Deaths
Historical documents
Residential school principal says teaching
Gospel and how to live better compensates for robbing and half-starving Indigenous people
[2]
Poster:
Conservatives campaign against
reciprocity with United States as destructive of industry nurtured by Canada's
National Policy
[3]
Prime Minister
John A. Macdonald dies
[4]
Death of Prime Minister Macdonald , Conservative Party's "tyrannical master," leaves power vacuum
[5]
Imprisonment of ejected MP
Thomas McGreevy strikes at pernicious level of corruption in public contracts
[6]
[7]
Heroism of rescuers at
Springhill, Nova Scotia mining disaster
[8]
Bilingual English and
Chinook
periodical is published to improve Indigenous people's literacy
[9]
Federal bill aligns Canada with international time system based on
global time zones and
Greenwich, England time
[10]
Calm
messenger pigeons by replacing trap-door entrance (which scares birds) and long roosting rail (on which they fight) in their loft
[11]
References
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"Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 5 December 2022 .
^ Miss Walker, "Work Among the Indians of Portage la Prairie," Monthly Letter Leaflet, Vol. 8, No. 8 (December 1891), in Denise Hildebrand,
Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 89. Accessed 10 June 2021
^ "Election Poster - Conservative Campaign against reciprocity" (ca. 1891). Accessed 2 May 2021
https://www.picturingpolitics.com/friends-or-foe/ (scroll down to "What do sand")
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"He Is Gone; Death of Rt. Hon. Sir John Alexander Macdonald;...Canada Mourns the Loss of Her Greatest Statesman...." The (Victoria) Daily Colonist (June 7, 1891), pg. 1. Accessed 20 December 2019
^ "The Tory Position," The (Toronto) Globe (June 16, 1891), pg. 4. Accessed 7 December 2019 via ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail (on-line through many Canadian public and academic libraries)
^
Editorial The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. VI, No. XII (December 1893), pg. 122. Accessed 23 December 2019
^
"Charges against the Honourable Thomas McGreevy" Reports of the Select Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections Relative to[...]Tenders and Contracts[;] Also Relative to the Resignation of Honourable Thomas McGreevy, pgs. ivb-ivy. Accessed 9 October 2020
^ R.A.H. Morrow,
"Chapter IV; Searching for the Dead and Injured" Story of the Springhill Disaster (1891) Accessed 3 December 2019
^ J.M.R. LeJeune,
"This paper is named Kamloops Wawa" Kamloops (B.C.) Wawa, No. 1 (May 2, 1891). Accessed 25 July 2020
^
"An Act respecting the Reckoning of Time" (1891), Senate and House of Commons Bills, 7th Parliament, 1st Session: A-U, 2-175, images 1189-92. Accessed 30 May 2021
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"Report of Major General D.R. Cameron on Messenger Pigeons of the Department, at Halifax" (September 2, 1891), Appendix No. 36, Sessional Papers; Volume 8; Second Session of the Seventh Parliament of the Dominion of Canada; Session 1892, pg. 246. Accessed 22 August 2021
1891 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories