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Canada-related events during the year of 1896
Events from the year 1896 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Events
Full date unknown
Sport
Births
January to June
- March 8 –
Charlotte Whitton, feminist, politician and mayor of
Ottawa (d.
1975)
- March 16 –
Harry Banks, soldier
- March 21 –
Errick Willis, politician (d.
1967)
- April 11 –
Léo-Paul Desrosiers, journalist, writer (d.
1967)
- April 20 –
Wilfrid R. "Wop" May,
World War I flying ace and pioneering bush pilot (d.
1952)
- May 2 –
Elmore Philpott, journalist and politician (d.
1964)
- May 18 –
Brock Chisholm, doctor and first Director-General of the
World Health Organization (d.
1971)
- June 22 –
Leonard W. Murray, naval officer (d.
1971)
July to December
- July 2 –
Prudence Heward, painter (d.
1947)
- July 4 –
Frederick Cronyn Betts, politician (d.
1938)
- July 10 –
Thérèse Casgrain, feminist, reformer, politician and Senator (d.
1981)
- July 13 –
John Henry Cates, businessman and political figure (d.
1986)
- July 27 –
Anne Savage, painter and art teacher (d.
1971)
- August 12 –
Mitchell Hepburn, politician and 11th
Premier of Ontario (d.
1953)
- August 18 –
Jack Pickford, actor (d.
1933)
- August 30 –
Raymond Massey, actor (d.
1983)
- August 31 –
Alice Strike, Canada's last surviving female
World War I veteran (d.
2004)
- November 3 –
Madeleine Fritz, paleontologist (d.
1990)
- November 7 –
Henry Botterell,
World War I fighter pilot (d.
2003)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 14 –
Christopher William Bunting, politician, merchant, newspaper owner and newspaper publisher (b.
1837)
- February 20 –
Hart Massey, businessman and philanthropist (b.
1823)
- April 13 –
John Christian Schultz, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of
Manitoba (b.
1840)
- May 4 –
Timothy Anglin, politician and
Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b.
1822)
- June 7 –
Wyatt Eaton, painter (b.
1849)
- June 10 –
Donald Alexander Macdonald, politician (b.
1817)
- June 19 –
John Beverley Robinson, politician (b.
1821)
- June 25 –
Samuel Leonard Tilley, Premier of New Brunswick (b.
1818)
- November 24 –
John James Fraser, lawyer, judge, politician and 4th
Premier of New Brunswick (b.
1829)
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Anne Hill, dancer and actor (b.
1804)
Historical documents
References
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