1902 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Edward VII

Federal government

• Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
• Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
• Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong then Henri Elzéar Taschereau
• Parliament – 9th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Abner Reid McClelan then Jabez Bunting Snowball
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – 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 – James Dunsmuir then Edward Prior
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – James Hamilton Ross then Henry W. Newlands then Zachary Taylor Wood

Lieutenant governors

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

Premiers

• Premier of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

• February – The town of Crofton, British Columbia, is founded on Vancouver Island
• May 21 – 1902 Northwest Territories general election
• May 24 – The first Victoria Day is celebrated
• May 29 – 1902 Ontario general election: G. W. Ross's Liberals win a second consecutive majority. Margaret Haile runs as a candidate of the Canadian Socialist League in Toronto North, becoming the first woman ever to stand in a provincial election.
• May 31 – The Second Boer War ends
• July 1 – Ray Knight stages the first Raymond Stampede in Raymond, Alberta. This was the first use of the word stampede in the name of a rodeo. The Raymond Stampede is now Canada's oldest rodeo
• August 9 – Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom and of Canada.
• October 10 – Altona schoolhouse shooting
• October 20 – The first train enters Edmonton, by way of the Canadian Northern's Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway across the Low Level Bridge
• November 21 – Edward Prior becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing James Dunsmuir
• December 15 – The first transatlantic radio press report is filed from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
• The first ascent of Mount Forbes by James Outram and party

Arts and literature

• The first symphony orchestra in Canada begins in Quebec City.
• The first movie theatre in Canada opens in Vancouver

Births

January to June

• January 22 – Jean-Paul Beaulieu, politician and chartered accountant
• February 17 – Howard O'Hagan, writer
• April 14 – Olive Diefenbaker, wife of John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada
• April 20 – Elizabeth Goudie, writer
• May 24 – Sylvia Daoust, sculptor
• June 17 – Anna Hilliard, doctor
• June 19 – Guy Lombardo, bandleader and violinist
• June 21 – Howie Morenz, ice hockey player

July to December

• July 15 – Donald Creighton, historian
• July 30 – Dorise Nielsen, politician
• August 10 – Norma Shearer, Academy Award-winning actress
• September 2 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author
• November 8 – A. J. M. Smith, poet
• November 21 – Foster Hewitt, radio pioneer
• December 29 – Nels Stewart, ice hockey player

Deaths

• February 12 – Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Governor General of Canada
• February 19 – Richard Maurice Bucke, psychiatrist
• August 5 – Thomas Christie, physician, professor and politician
• August 10 – James McMillan, United States Senator from Michigan from 1889 until 1902.
• October 31 – John A. Dawson, politician