1892 in Canada
Events from the year 1892 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General – Frederick Stanley
- Prime Minister – John Abbott then John Thompson
- Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie then Samuel Henry Strong
- Parliament – 7th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson then Edgar Dewdney
- 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 then George Airey Kirkpatrick
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers then Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – John Robson then Theodore Davie
- 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 – Frederick Peters
- Premier of Quebec – Charles Boucher de Boucherville then Louis-Olivier Taillon
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal
Premiers
Events
- June 29 – John Robson, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office
- July 2 – Theodore Davie becomes Premier of British Columbia
- July 8 – The Great Fire of 1892 destroys two-thirds of St. John's, Newfoundland
- July 9 – Parliament passes the Criminal Code, 1892, the first unified criminal law for all of Canada, under the direction of the Minister of Justice, John Thompson
- November 24 – Sir John Abbott resigns as Prime Minister
- December 5 – Sir John Thompson becomes Prime Minister
- December 16 – Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville
Full date unknown
The Toronto Star founded- Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
- Humberside Collegiate Institute opened
- Worthington, Ontario, is settled as a mining community.
- The first Canadian National Rugby-Football Championship game is played.
Sport
- First documented women's ice hockey game takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on an outdoor ice surface.
Births
January to June
- March 4 – J.-Eugène Bissonnette, politician and physician
- April 8 – Mary Pickford, actress and studio co-founder
- May 3 – Jacob Viner, economist
- May 18 – John Croak, VC
- June 2 – Edward LeRoy Bowerman, politician
July to December
- July 8 – Sir Victor Tait, Canadian-born British airman and businessman
- July 14 – John Sissons, barrister, author, judge and politician
- August 2 – Jack L. Warner, studio mogul
- August 18 – Hal Foster, cartoonist
- September 21 – Donald Elmer Black, politician
- September 24 – Adélard Godbout, politician and 15th Premier of Quebec
- October 25 – Nell Shipman, actress, screenwriter, producer and animal trainer
- December 27 – Alfred Edwin McKay, World War I flying ace
Deaths
- January 1 – John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer
- January 20 – Samuel Barton Burdett, politician, lawyer and lecturer
- March 7 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Premier of New Brunswick
- April 6 – John Ostell, architect, surveyor and manufacturer
- April 17 – Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
- May 24 – Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- June 9 – William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer
- June 29 – John Robson, journalist, politician and Premier of British Columbia
- July 15 – William Donahue, merchant and politician
- August 30 – Frederick Newton Gisborne, Laid first under-sea cable in North America
- September 12 – Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba
- December 14 – Adams George Archibald, politician
Historical documents
- Newspaper coverage of Great Fire of St. John's, Newfoundland
- U.S. accuses Canadian Pacific Railway of helping Chinese illegally cross border from British Columbia
- Running Wolf and Owl Child's performance of Moon Dance described
- "Completely won the hearts of her audience" - Poet of Kanien'kéhà:ka origin, Pauline Johnson, gives first solo recital in Toronto
- English visitor rides out from Lethbridge, Alberta to watch 2000-head cattle roundup