1893 in Canada
Events from the year 1893 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General – Frederick Stanley then John Hamilton-Gordon
- Prime Minister – John Thompson
- Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong
- Parliament – 7th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley then John Boyd then John James Fraser
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – George Airey Kirkpatrick
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – 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 – Louis-Olivier Taillon
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal then Charles Herbert Mackintosh
Premiers
Events
- May 27 – Algonquin Provincial Park is established as a wildlife sanctuary in Ontario.
- September 16 – Calgary is incorporated as a city.
- October 27 – The National Council of Women of Canada meets for the first time.
- December 18 – Robert Machray is elected first Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Full date unknown
- The Redpath Library is bestowed upon McGill University.Canada Evidence Act created.
- Jacques Cartier Monument (Montreal) unveiled.
Sport
- March 22 – The Montreal Hockey Club wins the First Stanley Cup by defeating the Ottawa Hockey Club 3 to 1 at Montreal's Victoria Rink
Births
January to June
- January 8 – Jean Désy, diplomat
- February 7 – Joseph Algernon Pearce, astrophysicist
- April 16 – Germaine Guèvremont, French-Canadian writer
- May 5 – J. Dewey Soper, Arctic explorer, zoologist, ornithologist and author
- May 7 – Frank J. Selke, ice hockey manager
- May 28 – Donald MacLaren, World War I flying ace, businessman
- June 5 – George Croil, first Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force
- June 16 – Ernest Lloyd Janney, Provisional Commander of the Canadian Aviation Corps
- June 20 – Austin Claude Taylor, politician
- June 23 – Merrill Denison, playwright
July to December
- July 7 – James White, World War I flying ace
- August 18 – Ernest MacMillan, conductor and composer
- August 21 – Wilfred Curtis, Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force
- October 12 – George Hodgson, swimmer and double Olympic gold medallist
- November 12 – Roy Kellock, jurist and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- November 22 – Raymond Collishaw, World War I flying ace
- December 8 – J. Arthur Ross, politician
- December 23 – John Patrick Barry, politician and lawyer
- December 23 – Roy Brown, World War I flying ace
Full date unknown
- Parr, artist
Deaths
January to June
- January 26 – James Armstrong, politician
- February 18 – George-Édouard Desbarats, printer and inventor
- March 18 – David H. Armstrong, United States Senator from Missouri from 1877 till 1879.
- March 30 – Jane Mackenzie, second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
- April 2 – Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land
July to December
- July 22 – John Rae, doctor and explorer
- September 19 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, politician and a Father of Confederation
- October 30 – John Abbott, politician and 3rd Prime Minister of Canada
- November 9 – Henri Bernier, politician, businessman and manufacturer
- December 9 – Charles Sangster, poet