1891 in Canada
Events from the year 1891 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General – Frederick Stanley
- Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald then John Abbott
- Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie
- Parliament – 6th then 7th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – John Robson
- Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
- Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair
- Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding
- Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Neil McLeod then Frederick Peters
- Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier then Charles Boucher de Boucherville
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal
Premiers
- Chairman of the Lieutenant-Governor's Advisory Council of the North-West Territories then Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Robert Brett then Frederick Haultain
Events
- February 21 – The first Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 125.
- March 5 – Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority.
- April 27 – Frederick Peters becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Neil McLeod.
- June 6 – Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald dies in office.
- June 8 – Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald lies in state in the Senate Chamber.
- June 16 – Sir John Abbott becomes prime minister.
- September 29 – Thomas McGreevy is expelled from the House of Commons due to corruption.
- November 7 – The election of the 2nd North-West Legislative Assembly.
- December 10 – The Calgary and Edmonton Railway opens, connecting Edmonton to the national railway network for the first time.
- December 21 – Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Honoré Mercier.
- The Legislative Council of New Brunswick is abolished.
Sport
- The Canadian Rugby Football Union is renamed the Canadian Rugby Union
Births
January to June
- January 6 – Tim Buck, politician and long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada
- January 26 – Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon
- April 1 – Harry Nixon, politician and 13th Premier of Ontario
- May 3 – Thomas John Bentley, politician
- June 13 – Hervé-Edgar Brunelle, politician and lawyer
July to December
- July 12 – Adhémar Raynault, politician and Mayor of Montreal
- August 30 – Elmer Jamieson, educator
- September 16 – Julie Winnefred Bertrand, supercentenarian, oldest living Canadian and oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death
- October 30 – Ada Mackenzie, golfer
- November 14 – Frederick Banting, medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate
- December 10 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, military commander and Governor General of Canada
- December 25 – William Ross Macdonald, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and 21st Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Deaths
- January 4 – Antoine Labelle, priest and settler
- January 21 – Calixa Lavallée, musician and composer
- May 31 – Antoine-Aimé Dorion, politician and jurist
- June 6 – John A. Macdonald, politician and 1st Prime Minister of Canada