1890 in Canada

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Events from the year 1890 in Canada.

Incumbents

March 31 — Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec.
June 5 — Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority.
July 20 — British Columbia election.
August 10 — Prince Edward Island election.

Maurice Duplessis campaigning in the 1952 election

April 20 — Maurice Duplessis, politician and 16th Premier of Quebec (d.1959)
March 3 — Norman Bethune, physician and medical innovator (d.1939)
March 21 — Norman Hipel, politician and Minister (d.1953)
March 24 — Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada (d.1954)
March 27 — John Horne Blackmore, politician (d.1971)
May 4 — Franklin Carmichael, painter and Group of Seven member (d.1945)
May 17 — Lionel FitzGerald, artist
May 30 — John Stuart Foster, physicist (d.1944)

July 9 – Joseph-Alphida Crête, politician (d. 1964)
July 27 — Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician and Minister (d.1949)
August 10 — Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1954)
September 20 — Kathleen Parlow, violinist (d.1963)
October 9 — Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (d.1944)
October 28 — Louis Orville Breithaupt, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1960)
December 10 — Byron Ingemar Johnson, politician and 24th Premier of British Columbia (d.1964)
December 12 – Charles Basil Price, soldier and politician (d. 1975)

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau in 1863

January 1 — Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician (b.1829)
January 17 — François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel, politician (b.1838)
January 25 – William Kennedy, explorer involved in the search for Sir John Franklin (b.1814)
February 13 — Éphrem-A. Brisebois, police officer (b. 1850)
April 4 — Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Premier of Quebec (b.1820)
April 25 — Crowfoot, a chief of the Siksika First Nation (b. c1830)
September 26 — Henri Faraud, bishop of the Roman Catholic Church (b.1823)
December — Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner (b.1842)

Editorial tries to convince eastern Canadians to go west instead of south^[2]

British Methodist Episcopal bishop steals hearts of Canadian Methodist conference participants (Note: racial stereotypes)^[3]

Australians advised to avoid Canada's example of "disunion" as they consider federation^[4]

British socialist newspaper decries "that venerable fraud and child kidnapper, Doctor Barnardo" shipping boys to Canada^[5]

Victoria, B.C. Free Public Library has popular novels of Scott, Dickens, Trollope and Thackeray, and also Bulwer, Yonge, Braddon and Ouida^[6]

Montreal impresaria brings Metropolitan Opera orchestra (featuring Victor Herbert) to play symphonic favourites^[7]

Long neglected, foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is coming back into favour in gardens^[8]

^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
^ Edmonton Bulletin excerpt in The Regina Leader (January 28, 1890), pg. 4. Accessed 2 December 2019
^ S.J. Celestine Edwards, From Slavery to a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins(....) (1891), pgs. 156-8. Accessed 2 December 2019
^ Debates of the Federation Conference, 1890; Held in the Parliament House, Melbourne (February 11, 1890), pgs. 139-41. Accessed 2 December 2019
^ "Notes on News" The Commonweal; The Official Journal of the Socialist League, Vol. 6, No. 241 (August 23, 1890), pg. 267. Accessed 17 January 2021
^ "Catalogue of Books in the Free Public Library of Victoria City" pgs. 65-97. Accessed 11 July 2021
^ "Herr Anton Seidl and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera House, New York[....]" Accessed 28 May 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_KzqIHf8ly5R0swbmV5ZnphOU0/view (scroll down to pg. 181)
^ Wilbur F. Lake, "The Foxglove as a Border Plant" The Canadian Horticulturist, Vol. XXXI, No. 1 (January 1890), pgs. 18-20. Accessed 20 March 2020