1900 in Canada

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Events from the year 1900 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)

Federal government

• Governor general – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (viceregal consort – Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess of Minto)
• Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Robert McInnes (until June 21) then Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson (until October 10) then Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly (until July 26) 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 (until February 28) then Joseph Martin (February 28 to June 15) then Edward Gawler Prior
• Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway (until January 10) then Hugh John Macdonald (January 10 to October 29) then Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Henry Emmerson (until August 31) 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 (until October 8) then Simon-Napoléon Parent

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson (until October 10) 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.

Hull fire on April 26, 1900.

• 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

Arts and literature

January to June

• January 1 - Sam Berger, lawyer, businessman and football player (d.1992)
• January 8 - Solon Earl Low, politician (d.1962)
• February 20 - Graham Spry, broadcasting pioneer, business executive, diplomat and socialist (d.1983)
• March 12 - David Croll, politician (d.1991)
• April 19 - Roland Michener, lawyer, politician, diplomat and Governor-General of Canada (d.1991)
• April 30 - David Manners, actor (d.1998)
• May 25 - Alain Grandbois, poet (d.1975)

John Babcock in 1920

• May 25 - Malcolm Norris, Métis leader (d.1967)
• May 29 - Antonio Talbot, politician (d.1980)
• June 3 - Gordon Sinclair, journalist, writer and commentator (d.1984)
• June 21 - Edward S. Rogers, Sr., inventor and radio pioneer (d.1939)
• July 23 - John Babcock, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran (d.2010)

July to December

• August 13 - Gordon Sparling, filmmaker (d.1994)
• September 6 - W. A. C. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia (d.1979)
• November 20 - Athole Shearer, actress (d.1985)

Full date unknown

• Harry Cassidy, academic, social reformer and civil servant (d.1951)

Deaths

• February 25 - Benjamin Pâquet, Roman Catholic priest and educationist (b.1832)
• March 1 - Frederick Carter, Premier of Newfoundland (b.1819)
• August 4 - Marc-Aurèle Plamondon, lawyer, journalist, publisher, and judge (b.1823)
• August 11 - Georges-Isidore Barthe, lawyer, publisher, journalist and politician (b.1834)
• September 25 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author, notary, politician and 11th Premier of Quebec (b.1832)
• December 21 - Désiré Olivier Bourbeau, politician and merchant (b.1834)

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