1889 in Canada

Events from the year 1889 in Canada.

Incumbents

August 1 – Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
August 2 – John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
August 12 – The Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 of the British Parliament expands Ontario's boundaries west to the Lake of the Woods and north to the Albany River.
September 19 – A rockslide 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

The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote

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

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