1888 in Canada

Events from the year 1888 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 19 – Thomas Greenway becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing David H. Harrison.
June 20 – The North-West Territories holds its first general election; 22 members of the Legislative Assembly are elected. All are independents; there are no party politics in the territories.
July 11 – The Manitoba general election is held.

January 18 – Charles Gavan Power, politician, Minister and Senator
January 20 – Ethel Wilson, novelist and short story writer
February 28 – George Pearkes, politician, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
March 24 – Samuel Rosborough Balcom, politician
April 6 – Leonard Brockington, lawyer, civil servant and first head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
April 8 – Dora Mavor Moore, actor, teacher and director
April 23
* Joseph Georges Bouchard, politician
* Georges Vanier, soldier, diplomat and Governor General of Canada
April 28 – Harry Crerar, General
May 3 – Johan Helders, photographer

July 11 – John Keiller MacKay, soldier, jurist and 19th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
August 3 – Margaret Murray, journalist
September 2 – Dorothy Stevens, artist
September 7 – William Bryce, politician
September 15 – Filip Konowal, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient in 1917
September 18
* Grey Owl, writer and conservationist
* William Duncan Herridge, politician and diplomat
October 23 – Onésime Gagnon, politician and the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
November 3 – Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger, politician and lawyer
November 11 – S. E. Rogers, politician
November 25 – Joseph W. Noseworthy, politician
December 2 – Major James Coldwell, politician

January 17 – Big Bear, Cree leader
February 4 – Sévère Rivard, lawyer, politician and 17th Mayor of Montreal
March 2 – William Elliott, farmer, merchant and politician
April 21 – Thomas White, journalist and politician
May 3 – William Alexander Henry, politician
May 12 – Élie Saint-Hilaire, educator, farmer and politician
May 30 – James Ferrier, merchant, politician and 4th Mayor of Montreal
August 4 – Charles-Joseph Coursol, lawyer, politician and 13th Mayor of Montreal
August 24 – John Rose, politician
October 1 – James Gibb Ross, merchant and politician

House of Commons committee hears of cartels conspiring to control products ranging from groceries to coal to stoves and coffins
Sandford Fleming's ideas on telegraph line to Australia
Indenture form between "Guardian" and caretaker/employer who agrees to pay immigrant boy and give him "good clothing and schooling" etc. for work
U.S. Supreme Court rules on Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent in light of previous invention claimed by "a poor mechanic"
Brief visit to Chinatown temple in Victoria, B.C.
In report on northern lands, Senate committee points out unwanted wildlife loss from "greater ease in their capture" and use of poison
Lecturer describes dogs of Hudson Strait Inuit