1890 in Canada
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See also: 1889 in Canada, other events of 1890, 1891 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.
[edit] Events
- March 31—Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec.
- June 5—Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority.
[edit] Births
- April 20—Maurice Duplessis, Premier of Quebec
- March 21—Norman Hipel, politician
- March 24—Agnes Macphail, politician
- March 27—John Horne Blackmore, politician
- March 30—Norman Bethune, surgeon
- May 4—Franklin Carmichael, painter
- May 17—Lionel FitzGerald, artist
- May 30—John Stuart Foster, physicist
- July 27—Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician
- August 10—Angus L. Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia
- September 20—Kathleen Parlow, violinist
- October 9—Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist
- October 28—Louis Orville Breithaupt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- December 10—Byron Ingemar Johnson, Premier of British Columbia
[edit] Deaths
- January 1—Edwin Randolph Oakes, House of Commons and Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia politician
- April 25—Crowfoot, Blackfoot leader
- December 15—Sitting Bull, Sioux leader
