1904 in Canada
Events from the year 1904 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto then Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
- Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
- Chief Justice – 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 – Jabez Bunting Snowball
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter A. McIntyre then Donald Alexander MacKinnon
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
- 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
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget
Premiers
Events
- April 8 – In the Lansdowne-Cambon Convention France gives up some of its longstanding rights in Newfoundland
- April 19 – The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but kills no one.
- June 24 – The North-West Mounted Police become the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
- September 10 – American criminal Bill Miner stages Canada's first-ever train robbery
- October 8 – Edmonton is incorporated as a city of the North-West Territories.
Full date unknown
- Henry Ford opens an automobile manufacturing plant in Windsor, Ontario
- Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg opens
- Creation of Marionville, Ontario, the only village that shares the 3 Canadian municipalities.
Births
January to June
- January 4 – Pegi Nicol MacLeod, artist
- January 14 – Walter Harris, politician and lawyer
- February 29 – Lloyd Stinson, politician
- March 6 – Farquhar Oliver, politician
- March 26 – Gustave Biéler, Special Operations Executive agent during World War II
- April 16 – Fifi D'Orsay, actress
- April 26 – Paul-Émile Léger, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- May 1 – Wally Downer, politician
- May 13 – Earle Birney, poet
- May 29 – Eugene Forsey, politician and constitutional expert
- June 26 – Frank Scott Hogg, astrophysicist
July to December
- July 22 – Donald O. Hebb, psychologist
- August 15 – George Klein, inventor
- September 7 – Matthew Halton, radio and television journalist
- September 14 – Frank Amyot, sprint canoer and Olympic gold medallist
- September 23 – Geoffrey Waddington, conductor
- September 29 – Robert Legget, civil engineer, historian and non-fiction writer
- October 20 – Tommy Douglas, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan
- November 18 – Jean Paul Lemieux, painter
- November 26 – Armand Frappier, physician and microbiologist
- December 18 – Wilf Carter, country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and yodeller
- December 25 – Gerhard Herzberg, physicist and physical chemist
- December 28 – Bobbie Rosenfeld, athlete and Olympic gold medallist
- December 29 – Léo Gauthier, politician
Deaths
- January 9 – Christian Kumpf, mayor of Waterloo, Ontario
- February 9 – Erastus Wiman, journalist and businessman
- March 9 – Robert Machray, clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada
- April 17 – Joseph Brunet, politician and businessman
- May 11 – David Breakenridge Read, lawyer and 14th Mayor of Toronto
- August 8 – James Cox Aikins, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
- August 31 – Jean-Baptiste Blanchet, politician
- September 26 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman