1892 in Canada

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See also: 1891 in Canada, other events of 1892, 1893 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

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[edit] Events

• June 29: John Robson, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office
• July 2: Theodore Davie becomes Premier of British Columbia
• July 8: Two-thirds of St. Johns, Newfoundland, destroyed in a fire
• November 24: Sir John Abbott resigns as Prime Minister
• December 5: Sir John Sparrow David Thompson becomes PM. One of his first acts is to establish the Criminal Code of Canada.
• December 16: Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville
• First documented women's hockey game in takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on an outdoor ice surface
• The Toronto Star founded
• Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened

[edit] Births

• March 4: J.-Eugène Bissonnette, politician
• April 8: Mary Pickford, actor
• May 3: Jacob Viner, economist
• May 18: John Croke, VC
• June 13: Kenneth McKenzie, neurosurgeon
• July 14: Jack Sissons, jurist
• August 16: Harold Foster, artist
• September 21: Donald Elmer Black, politician
• September 24: Adélard Godbout, politician
• November 20: Bert Collip, biochemist
• December 20: Percy Corbett, legal scholar

[edit] Deaths

• January 1: John Chipman Wade, politician
• June 9: William Grant Stairs, explorer and soldier