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Canadian Events of the 1890s
March 3, 1890 | Birth of Norman Bethune, physician. |
March 24, 1890 | Birth of Agnes Macphail, first woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons. |
May 4, 1890 | Birth of Franklin Carmichael, painter and member of the Group of Seven artists. |
October 9, 1890 | Birth of Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist |
January 26, 1891 | Birth of Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon. |
June 6, 1891 | Death of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald |
September 16, 1891 | Birth of Julie Winnefred Bertrand, verified, oldest living Canadian at the time of her death in 2007. |
November 14, 1891 | Birth of Frederick Banting. He became a medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate. Co-discoverer of insulin. |
December 10, 1891 | Opening of the Calgary and Edmonton Railway line. |
April 8, 1892 | Birth of Mary Pickford, actress. She also co-founded United Artists studio. |
1892 | James Naismith, of Almonte, Ontario, invented the game of Basketball. |
May 18, 1892 | Birth of John Croak. John died in France in WWI. Received the Victoria Cross for his valour. |
June 9, 1892 | Death of William Grant Stairs, explorer and soldier. |
August 2, 1892 | Birth of Jack L. Warner, in London, Ontario. He was founder of Warner Brothers Studio in Hollywood, California. |
August 18, 1892 | Birth of Hal Foster, cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant, which premiered in newspapers in 1937. |
August 30, 1892 | Death of Frederick Newton Gisborne. He laid the first under-sea cable in North America. |
1893 | Lord Stanley, the Governor General, donates the Stanley Cup. Winning it becomes the annual goal, for young and old, players or watchers. The first team to win the Stanley Cup was the Montreal AAA team of 1893. |
May 7, 1893 | Birth of Frank J. Selke. He became an ice hockey manager. |
May 27, 1893 | Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, established as a wildlife sanctuary. |
June 23, 1893 | Birth of Merrill Denison, playwright. Some of his plays performed at Tweed Playhouse, Tweed, Ontario. |
July 7, 1893 | Birth of WWI flying ace, James White, at Manitoulin Island, Ontario. |
August 21, 1893 | Birth of Wilfred Curtis at Havelock, Ontario. He became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force. |
September 19, 1893 | Death of Alexander Tilloch Galt, politician and a Father of Confederation. |
October 12, 1893 | Birth of George Hodgson, a swimmer who won two Olympic Gold Medals. |
October 27, 1893 | National Council of Women meets for first time. |
October 30, 1893 | Death of John Abbott, politician and third Prime Minister of Canada. |
February 8, 1894 | Birth of Billy Bishop, WWI flying ace. |
March 19, 1894 | Death of John Langton, businessman and political figure. Settled near Peterborough, Upper Canada, in 1833. |
March 22, 1894 | Montreal Hockey Club wins first Stanley Cup challenge, defeating Ottawa. |
June 5, 1894 | Birth of Roy Thomson, a newspaper owner and media entrepreneur. |
June 14, 1894 | Massey Hall opens in Toronto, Ontario. |
September 4, 1894 | First celebration in Canada of Labour Day. |
1894 | Founding of Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. |
February 1, 1895 | Birth of Conn Smythe, ice hockey manager and owner. |
February 15, 1895 | Birth of Earl Thomson, athlete and Olympic gold medalist for the high hurdles. |
1895 | The Yukon becomes a Provisional District separate from the Northwest Territories. |
September 7, 1895 | Birth of Peter Parker, a radio announcer who made the first play by play radio broadcast of an ice hockey game. |
1895 | First generation of electrical power at Niagara Falls. |
February 20, 1896 | Death of Hart Massey, a businessman and philanthropist. He was born in Haldimand Township, Northumberland County, Ontario. |
March 8, 1896 | Birth of Charlotte Whitton, feminist and mayor of Ottawa, Ontario. |
April 20, 1896 | Birth of Wilfrid May, a WWI flying ace and later a pioneer bush pilot. |
May 18, 1896 | Birth of Brock Chisholm, doctor. He became the first Directory-General of the World Health Organization. |
June 19, 1896 | Death of John Beverley Robinson, politician. He was a nephew of Peter Robinson, for whom Peterborough, Ontario, is named. |
July 2, 1896 | Birth of Eta Prudence Heward. In 1929 her painting, Girl on a Hill, won top prize in the Governor General Willingdon competition. |
July 27, 1896 | Birth of Anne Savage, in Montreal. She became a painter and art teacher. |
August 17, 1896 | Gold is discovered in the Klondike. Within a year 100,000 hopeful people have gone north to seek a fortune. |
August 30, 1896 | Birth of Raymond Massey, actor. |
August 31, 1896 | Birth of Alice Strike. She would become Canada’s last surviving female WWI veteran. |
January 29, 1897 | Founding in Ottawa, Ontario, of the Victorian Order of Nurses. |
February 2, 1897 | Clara Brett Martin, born in 1874, becomes first woman to practise law in Ontario |
February 19, 1897 | Founding of the first Woman’s Institute at Stoney Creek, Ontario. |
April 23, 1897 | Birth of Lester Bowles Pearson at Newtonbrook, York Township, now part of Toronto, Ontario. |
1897 | Long-distance power transmission from Niagara becomes available. |
December 14, 1897 | Death of Robert Simpson, founder of Simpsons store. |
1898 | The Klondike Gold Rush progresses, spreading like a fever over the land. |
June 13, 1898 | The Yukon becomes a Territory. |
July 17, 1898 | Birth of Osmond Borradaile, cameraman and cinematographer. Also veteran of WWII. |
July 29, 1898 | The White Pass and Yukon Route, Skagway to Whitehorse, opens. |
August 24, 1898 | Death of Casimir Gzowski, engineer known for his work on Canadian railways and the Welland Canal. Also served as acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, 1896-1897. |
September 29, 1898 | Canada holds a referendum on the prohibition of alcohol. |
November 8, 1898 | Birth of Marie Prevost, actress, who had a twenty year career during which she made 121 silent and talking pictures. |
November 29, 1898 | Birth of Emmett Matthew Hall. Considered, along with Tommy Douglas, as one of the fathers of Canadian Medicare. |
February 10, 1899 | Death of Archibald Lampman, Canadian poet. Born near Chatham, Ontario and grew up at Gore’s Landing, north of Cobourg, Ontario. |
February 27, 1899 | Birth of Charles Best, medical scientist and co-discoverer of insulin. |
March 14, 1899 | Birth of K. C. Irving, considered one of Canada’s foremost entrepreneurs and a world leading industrialist. |
July 24, 1899 | Birth of Chief Dan George, actor and author. |
September 18, 1899 | New City Hall opens in Toronto, Ontario. |
August 29, 1899 | Death of Catharine Parr Traill, writer. |
October 4, 1899 | First Canadian troops sent overseas to serve during Boer War. |
October 25, 1899 | Death of Peter Mitchell, politician and a member of the Father’s of Confederation. |
November 10, 1899 | Birth of Billy Boucher, a professional ice hockey player with the NHL. |
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