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Canada-related events during the year of 1904
Events from the year 1904 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Events
Full date unknown
Births
January to June
Eugene Forsey
July to December
July 22 –
Donald O. Hebb , psychologist (d.
1985 )
August 15 –
George Klein , inventor (d.
1992 )
September 7 –
Matthew Halton , radio and television journalist (d.
1956 )
September 14 –
Frank Amyot , sprint canoer and Olympic gold medallist (d.
1962 )
September 23 –
Geoffrey Waddington , conductor
September 29 –
Robert Legget , civil engineer, historian and non-fiction writer (d.
1994 )
October 20 –
Tommy Douglas , politician and
Premier of Saskatchewan (d.
1986 )
November 18 –
Jean Paul Lemieux , painter (d.
1990 )
November 26 –
Armand Frappier , physician and microbiologist (d.
1991 )
December 18 –
Wilf Carter , country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and yodeller (d.
1996 )
December 25 –
Gerhard Herzberg , physicist and physical chemist (d.
1999 )
December 28 –
Bobbie Rosenfeld , athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.
1969 )
December 29 –
Léo Gauthier , politician (d.
1964 )
Deaths
January 9 –
Christian Kumpf , mayor of
Waterloo, Ontario (b.
1838 )
February 9 –
Erastus Wiman , journalist and businessman (b.
1834 )
March 9 –
Robert Machray , clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the
Church of England in Canada (b.
1831 )
April 17 –
Joseph Brunet , politician and businessman (b.
1834 )
May 11 –
David Breakenridge Read , lawyer and 14th Mayor of Toronto (b.
1823 )
August 8 –
James Cox Aikins , politician, Minister and
Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.
1823 )
August 31 –
Jean-Baptiste Blanchet , politician (b.
1842 )
September 26 –
John Fitzwilliam Stairs , entrepreneur and statesman (b.
1848 )
Historical documents
Great Toronto Fire and its aftermath, in eyewitness accounts and critical postmortem
[2]
Film of
Great Toronto Fire
[3]
Photo of Toronto fire ruins
[4]
Anaconda, B.C.
forest fire starts in "dry brush several feet thick" made of fallen trees amid much scrubby pine and fir killed by
smelter smoke
[5]
Dubious story about people smuggling prompts
editorial on
journalistic accuracy
[6]
Burrowing owl increasing and
Passenger pigeon disappearing in Manitoba
[7]
Manitoba Free Press special Christmas issue contains
goose quill pen
[8]
References
^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011).
Canada's Constitutional Monarchy . Dundurn. p. 235.
ISBN
978-1-55488-980-8 .
^ Fergus Kyle,
"Incidents at a Great Fire" The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (June 1904), pgs. 136-40.
Norman Patterson,
"Toronto's Great Fire" The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (June 1904), pgs. 128-35. Accessed 24 January 2020
^
"Century Snapshots;(...)The Great Toronto Fire" Accessed 24 January 2020
^
"Toronto Fire Ruins, Front Street" (April 19, 1904), British Library. Accessed 23 December 2021
^
"Forest Fire; Breaks Out in Woods Below Anaconda — Property Burned" The Anaconda News, Vol. 4, No. 25 (June 1, 1904), pgs. 1, 6. Accessed 1 August 2021
^
"Plea for Accuracy" The Canadian Printer and Publisher, Vol. XIV, No. 4 (April 1905), pg. 10. Accessed 24 January 2020
^ George E. Atkinson, Rare Bird Records of Manitoba (1904),
pgs. 6-8 Accessed 24 January 2020
^ Manitoba Free Press,
"A Quill from a Canada Wild Goose: With the Cree Legend of Nih-Ka, the Wild Goose, Set Forth for the First Time in Print" (1904). Accessed 24 January 2020
1904 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories