1906 in Canada
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Events from the year 1906 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
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
Arts and literature
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 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)
Historical documents
- Reconciling Dominion Lands Act rules on homesteading and traditional Doukhobor communal practice is complicated by poverty, religious freedom and squatting.[2]
- Rugby School lecture gives somewhat fantastic and imperial picture of life in Canada for immigrant Englishman[3]
- Hardships and success of Barr Colony settlers at Lloydminster, Saskatchewan[4]
References
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- ↑ Department of the Interior, "Memo(...)in regard to homestead entries by Doukhobors" Papers Relating to the Holding of Homestead Entries by Members of the Doukhobor Community[....] (1907), pgs. 6-11. Accessed 3 February 2020
- ↑ "'Canada.' By O.H. Hanson, Esq." The Meteor, No. 473 (April 3, 1906), pgs. 43-4. Accessed 15 March 2022
- ↑ "The Barr Colony after 3 Years" Edmonton Bulletin (July 30, 1906). Accessed 3 February 2020
- ↑ Colonial Office (London), Canada: Correspondence Relating to the Complaint of Certain Printers Who Were Induced to Emigrate to Canada by False Representations (1906). Accessed 3 February 2020
- ↑ John Percival Turner, "The Moose and Wapiti of Manitoba; A Plea for Their Preservation" The Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, Transaction No. 69 (March 8, 1906). Accessed 3 February 2020