1889 in Canada

Rockslide in Quebec City, September 19, 1889

• August 1 – Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
• August 2 – John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
• September 19 – A rock slide in Quebec City kills 45
• November – Neil McLeod becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir William Wilfred Sullivan.
• November 6 – Newfoundland election: William Whiteway's Liberals win a majority, defeating Robert Thorburn's Reforms

• February 27 – Samuel Bronfman, businessman (d.1971)
• May 16 – Morris Gray, politician (d.1966)
• August 13 – Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (d.1958)
• October 13 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor (d.1974)
• November 20 – John B. McNair, lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (d.1968)
• December 4 – Leslie Gordon Bell, politician and lawyer (d.1963)

• April 9 – Andrew Charles Elliott, jurist, politician and 4th Premier of British Columbia (b. c1828)
• May 4 – A. B. Rogers, surveyor (b.1829)
• June 5 – John Hamilton Gray, Premier of New Brunswick (b.1814)
• July 5 – John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
• August 1 – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (b.1847)
• September 5 – Louis-Victor Sicotte, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1812)
• September 13 – Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (b.1833)
• October 28 – Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1826)

Archbishop Taché cites education report from England to support Manitoba separate schools [2]

Report on repatriating French Canadians living in New England [3]

Canada should be equal to Britain in Empire, and under "Queen of Canada" [4]

John A. Macdonald on missed opportunity to create Kingdom of Canada with "gradation of classes" [5]

Methodist minister's brief description of Stoneys concentrates on their problems [6]

Nova Scotia orphanage holds housewarming [7]

Rockslide from cliff below Citadel destroys several Quebec City houses [8]

• 1. "A Historical Perspective on the North". Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry. Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  2. "Archbishop Tache Thinks his Ideas with Regard to Religious Instruction in Schools fully Corroborated in England," Two Letters of Archbishop Taché on the School Question (1889). Accessed 20 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1822/3.html
  3. Rev. C.A. Beaudry, "No. 35; Report on French Canadian Repatriation," Sessional Papers (No. 6) (1890), pg. 165. Accessed 11 October 2019 http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/021017/f1/nlc011403-v6.jpg
  4. Globe editorial excerpt in Oscar Douglas Skelton, Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Volume I (1921), pg. 366 footnote. Accessed 19 October 2019 https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofsir01skeluoft/page/n8
  5. "From Sir John Macdonald to the (1st) Baron Knutsford," Correspondence of Sir John Macdonald[...] (1921), pgs. 450-1. Accessed 11 October 2019 http://www.archive.org/stream/correspondenceof00macduoft#page/450/mode/2up
  6. "Letter from Rev. John Nelson, dated, Woodville Mission, March 7th, 1889," The Missionary Outlook, Vol. IX, No. 5, pg. 79. Accessed 11 October 2019 http://scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/solr?query=ID%3A24619&mode=view&pos=0&page=4
  7. Emma M. Stirling, Our Children in Old Scotland and Nova Scotia (1892), pgs. 106-10. Accessed 11 October 2019 http://archive.org/stream/cihm_28004#page/n113/mode/2up
  8. "A Dreadful Catastrophe!; Fall of Rock[...]," The Quebec Daily Mercury (September 20, 1889), pg. 1. Accessed 11 October 2019 http://www.collectionscanada.ca/sos/002028-119.01-e.php?&disaster_id_nbr=145%5B%5D