1900 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria

  Federal government

• Governor general – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
• Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier
• Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong
• Parliament – 8th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Robert McInnes then Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson then Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly then Alfred Gilpin Jones
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter Adolphus McIntyre
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté

  Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Charles Augustus Semlin then Joseph Martin then Edward Gawler Prior
• Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway then Hugh John Macdonald then Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Henry Emmerson then Lemuel John Tweedie
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson
• Premier of Quebec – Félix-Gabriel Marchand then Simon-Napoléon Parent

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie

  Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson then Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

  Premiers

• Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

  Events

January to June

• January 8 – Hugh John Macdonald becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Thomas Greenway.
• February 18 – February 27 – Boer War: The Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry plays a decisive role in the Battle of Paardeberg.
• February 27 – Charles Semlin is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.
• February 28 – Joseph Martin becomes premier of British Columbia.
• March 16 – Boer War: Strathcona's Horse leave for South Africa.
• April 26 – Two-thirds of Hull, Quebec, is destroyed in a fire.
• June 15 – James Dunsmuir becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Joseph Martin.

  July to December

• August 31 – Lemuel John Tweedie becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Henry Emmerson.
• September 25 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Premier of Quebec, dies in office.
• October 8 – Simon-Napoléon Parent becomes premier of Quebec.
• October 29 – Sir Rodmond Roblin becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Hugh John Macdonald.
• November 7
• * Federal election: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.
• * Boer War: The Battle of Leliefontein begins. Three Canadians receive the Victoria Cross for their valour in the engagement.
• December 6 – Alphonse Desjardins founds Mouvement Desjardins, the first credit union in North America.

  Full date unknown

• -The federal government doubles the head tax on Chinese immigrants
• -The Canadian Tuberculosis Association meets for the first time

  Births

January to June

• January 1 – Sam Berger, lawyer, businessman and football player
• January 8 – Solon Earl Low, politician
• February 20 – Graham Spry, broadcasting pioneer, business executive, diplomat and socialist
• March 12 – David Croll, politician
• April 19 – Roland Michener, lawyer, politician, diplomat and Governor-General of Canada
• April 30 – David Manners, actor
• May 25 – Alain Grandbois, poet
• May 25 – Malcolm Norris, Métis leader
• May 29 – Antonio Talbot, politician
• June 3 – Gordon Sinclair, journalist, writer and commentator
• June 21 – Edward S. Rogers, Sr., inventor and radio pioneer
• July 23 – John Babcock, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran

  July to December

• August 13 – Gordon Sparling, filmmaker
• September 6 – W. A. C. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
• November 20 – Athole Shearer, actress

  Full date unknown

• Harry Cassidy, academic, social reformer and civil servant

  Deaths

• February 25 – Benjamin Pâquet, Roman Catholic priest and educationist
• March 1 – Frederick Carter, Premier of Newfoundland
• March 20 – George Hope Bertram, politician
• August 4 – Marc-Aurèle Plamondon, lawyer, journalist, publisher, and judge
• August 11 – Georges-Isidore Barthe, lawyer, publisher, journalist and politician
• September 25 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author, notary, politician and 11th Premier of Quebec
• December 21 – Désiré Olivier Bourbeau, politician and merchant

  Historical Documents