1897 in Canada

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Events from the year 1897 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

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

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney (until November 18) then Thomas Robert McInnes
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Casimir Gzowski (acting) (until November 18) then Oliver Mowat
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George William Howlan
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Premiers

Premier of British Columbia – John Herbert Turner
Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
Premier of New Brunswick – James Mitchell (until October 29) then Henry Emmerson
Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
Premier of Ontario – Arthur Sturgis Hardy
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Peters (until October 1) then Alexander Warburton
Premier of Quebec – Edmund James Flynn (until May 24) then Félix-Gabriel Marchand

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Commissioner of Yukon - James Morrow Walsh (from August 17)

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories then Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain (from October 7)

Events

January 29 - The Victorian Order of Nurses is founded in Ottawa
February 2 - Clara Brett Martin becomes the first woman to practise law in Ontario
February 19 - World's first Women's Institute founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario
May 24 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Edmund Flynn
May 24 - Lion of Belfort (Montreal) unveiled
September 6 - The federal government gives the CPR a grant to allow it to reduce freight rates through Crowsnest Pass
October - A.B. Warburton becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island
October 7 - Responsible government is introduced in the North-West Territories: Frederick Haultain becomes the first premier
October 29 - Henry Emmerson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing James Mitchell

Full date unknown

Klondike Gold Rush rages in the Yukon
Lord Grey proposes that Canada create a navy to protect its west coast; Prime Minister Laurier does not act on the recommendation
1897–1912 - 961,000 people enter Canada from the British Isles, 594,000 from Europe and 784,000 from the United States.
The first Canadian movie, Ten Years in Manitoba

Births

Lester Bowles Pearson in 1944

January 23 - William Stephenson, soldier, airman, businessperson, inventor and spymaster (d.1989)
January 27 - Charles Stephen Booth, politician and barrister
March 9 - Sidney Earle Smith, academic and 7th President of the University of Toronto (d.1959)
April 23 - Lester B. Pearson, politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, diplomat and 1957 Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d.1972)
September 23 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (d.1984)
September 29 - Graham Towers, first Governor of the Bank of Canada (d.1975)
November 30 - William Murdoch Buchanan, politician (d.1966)
December 7 - Gordon Graydon, politician (d.1953)

Deaths

January 2 - Thomas McGreevy, politician and contractor (b.1825)
February 27 - James Austin, businessman (b.1813)
July 4 - Amor De Cosmos, journalist, politician and 2nd Premier of British Columbia (b.1825)
September 19 - Frederick Cope, 3rd Mayor of Vancouver (b.1860)
October 21 - Philip Francis Little, 1st Premier of Newfoundland of the colonial (b.1824)
December 14 - Robert Simpson, businessman and founder of Simpsons (b.1834)
December 15 - James Mitchell, politician and 7th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1843)
December 31 - David Oppenheimer, entrepreneur and 2nd Mayor of Vancouver (b.1832)

List of years in Canada

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