1893 in Canada

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Events from the year 1893 in Canada.

Incumbents

May 27 – Algonquin Provincial Park is established as a wildlife sanctuary in Ontario
September 16 – Calgary incorporated as a city
October 27 – The National Council of Women of Canada meets for the first time
December 18 – Robert Machray is elected first Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

January 8 – Jean Désy, diplomat (d.1960)
February 7 – Joseph Algernon Pearce, astrophysicist (d.1988)
April 16 – Germaine Guèvremont, French-Canadian writer (d.1968)
May 5 – J. Dewey Soper, Arctic explorer, zoologist, ornithologist and author (d.1982)
May 7 – Frank J. Selke, ice hockey manager (d.1985)
May 28 – Donald MacLaren, World War I flying ace, businessman (d.1988)
June 5 – George Croil, first Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (d.1959)
June 16 – Ernest Lloyd Janney, Provisional Commander of the Canadian Aviation Corps (d.1941)
June 20 – Austin Claude Taylor, politician (d.1965)
June 23 – Merrill Denison, playwright (d.1975)

July 7 – James White, World War I flying ace (d.1972)
August 18 – Ernest MacMillan, conductor and composer (d.1973)
August 21 – Wilfred Curtis, Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (d.1977)
October 12 – George Hodgson, swimmer and double Olympic gold medallist (d.1983)
November 12 – Roy Kellock, jurist and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1975)
November 22 – Raymond Collishaw, World War I flying ace (d.1976)
December 8 – J. Arthur Ross, politician (d.1958)
December 23 – John Patrick Barry, politician and lawyer (d.1946)
December 23 – Roy Brown, World War I flying ace (d.1944)

John Abbott

January 26 – James Armstrong, politician (b.1830)
February 18 – George-Édouard Desbarats, printer and inventor (b.1838)
March 18 – David H. Armstrong, United States Senator from Missouri from 1877 till 1879. (b.1812)
March 30 – Jane Mackenzie, second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1825)
April 2 – Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land (b.1819)

July 22 – John Rae, doctor and explorer (b.1813)
September 19 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1817)
October 30 – John Abbott, politician and 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1821)
November 9 – Henri Bernier, politician, businessman and manufacturer (b.1821)
December 9 – Charles Sangster, poet (b.1822)

Unmarried women petition Minister of Interior for land grants^[4]

Mackenzie King joins in on Halloween mischief at University of Toronto^[6]

^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
^ Department of Indian Affairs, Reports of Superintendents and Agents, pgs. 215-17. Accessed 19 December 2019
^ Frank Russell, "Chapter VI; Winter Travel; The Caribou Hunt," Explorations in the Far North: Being the Report of an Expedition[....] (1898), pgs. 88-91. Accessed 19 December 2019
^ "Spinsters Want Homesteads" Edmonton Bulletin (May 21, 1893). Accessed 19 December 2019
^ E.C. Paget, "Letters to H.S. Moore, Esq.," A Year under the Shadow of St. Paul's[....] (1908), pgs. 167-70. Accessed 19 December 2019
^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, pg. 21 Accessed 19 December 2019