1890 in Canada - Definition and Overview

See also: 1889 in Canada, other events of 1890, 1891 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

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.

Arts and Literature

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, phycisist
• July 27 - Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician
• August 10 - Angus L. Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia
• September 18 - Archibald Belaney (Grey Owl), conservationist
• 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

Deaths

• April 25 - Crowfoot, Cree leader
• December 15 - Sitting Bull, Sioux leader