1902 in Canada
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Incumbents

  • Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Canada
    The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...

    : Wilfrid Laurier
    Wilfrid Laurier
    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, GCMG, PC, KC, baptized Henri-Charles-Wilfrid Laurier was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from 11 July 1896 to 6 October 1911....

  • Governor General
    Governor General of Canada
    The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...

    : Earl of Minto

  • Premier of British Columbia
    Premier of British Columbia
    The Premier of British Columbia is the first minister, head of government, and de facto chief executive for the Canadian province of British Columbia. Until the early 1970s the title Prime Minister of British Columbia was often used...

    : James Dunsmuir then Edward Prior
  • Premier of Manitoba
    Premier of Manitoba
    The Premier of Manitoba is the first minister for the Canadian province of Manitoba. He or she is the province's head of government and de facto chief executive. Until the early 1970s, the title "Prime Minister of Manitoba" was used frequently. Afterwards, the word Premier, derived from the French...

    : R.P. Roblin
  • Premier of New Brunswick
    Premier of New Brunswick
    The Premier of New Brunswick is the first minister for the Canadian province of New Brunswick. They are the province's head of government and de facto chief executive....

    : Lemuel J. Tweedie
  • Premier of the North-West Territories: Frederick Haultain
  • Premier of Nova Scotia
    Premier of Nova Scotia
    The Premier of Nova Scotia is the first minister for the Canadian province of Nova Scotia who presides over the Executive Council of Nova Scotia. Following the Westminster system, the premier is normally the leader of the political party which has the most seats in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly...

    : George H. Murray
  • Premier of Ontario
    Premier of Ontario
    The Premier of Ontario is the first Minister of the Crown for the Canadian province of Ontario. The Premier is appointed as the province's head of government by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and presides over the Executive council, or Cabinet. The Executive Council Act The Premier of Ontario...

    : George William Ross
    George William Ross
    Sir George William Ross was an educator and politician in Ontario, Canada. He was the fifth Premier of Ontario from 1899 to 1905....

  • Premier of Prince Edward Island
    Premier of Prince Edward Island
    The Premier of Prince Edward Island is the first minister for the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. They are the province's head of government and de facto chief executive.The current Premier of Prince Edward Island is Robert Ghiz.-See also:...

    : A. Peters
  • Premier of Quebec
    Premier of Quebec
    The Premier of Quebec is the first minister of the Canadian province of Quebec. The Premier is the province's head of government and his title is Premier and President of the Executive Council....

    : Napoléon Parent

Events

  • February - The town of Crofton, British Columbia
    Crofton, British Columbia
    Crofton, British Columbia, Canada, is a small coastal town that is part of the District of North Cowichan on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The population is estimated at 2,500 people...

     is founded on Vancouver Island
    Vancouver Island
    Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several North American locations named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Northwest coast of North America between 1791 and 1794...

  • May 21 - 1902 Northwest Territories general election
    Northwest Territories general election, 1902
    The Northwest Territories general election of 1902, occurred on 21 May 1902 and was the fifth general election in the history of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. This was the last election held until 1951,...

  • May 24 - The first Victoria Day
    Victoria Day
    Victoria Day is a federal Canadian public holiday celebrated on the last Monday before May 25, in honour of Queen Victoria's birthday. The date is also, simultaneously, that on which the current reigning Canadian sovereign's official birthday is recognized...

     is celebrated
  • May 29 - 1902 Ontario general election
    Ontario general election, 1902
    The Ontario general election, 1902 was the tenth general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on May 29, 1902, to elect the 98 Members of the 10th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ....

    : G. W. Ross's Liberals
    Ontario Liberal Party
    The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...

     win a second consecutive majority
    Majority
    A majority is a subset of a group consisting of more than half of its members. This can be compared to a plurality, which is a subset larger than any other subset; i.e. a plurality is not necessarily a majority as the largest subset may consist of less than half the group's population...

  • May 31 - The Second Boer War
    Second Boer War
    The Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...

     ends, and Canadian troops return home to great acclaim
  • July 1 - Ray Knight stages the first Raymond Stampede
    Raymond Stampede
    The Raymond Stampede is an annual rodeo that is held in the town of Raymond, Alberta, Canada every 1 July. It is notable for being Alberta's oldest and Canada's second oldest rodeo event, having been instituted a full decade before the world-famous Calgary Stampede.The Stampede was first held in...

     in Raymond, Alberta, and in so doing coined the rodeo word "stampede", thus launching his rodeo career as the world's first rodeo producer and stock contractor, as well as being the world's richest rodeo promoter with some one million acres (4000 km2) of ranchland with 18,000 head of cattle and 3,000 head of horses. The Raymond Stampede is now Canada's oldest rodeo
  • August 9 - Edward VII
    Edward VII of the United Kingdom
    Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

     is crowned King of the United Kingdom and of Canada.
  • October 10 - Altona schoolhouse shooting
  • November 21 - Edward Prior becomes Premier of British Columbia
    Premier of British Columbia
    The Premier of British Columbia is the first minister, head of government, and de facto chief executive for the Canadian province of British Columbia. Until the early 1970s the title Prime Minister of British Columbia was often used...

    , replacing James Dunsmuir
  • December 15 - The first transatlantic radio press report is filed from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
    Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
    Glace Bay is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It forms part of the general area referred to as Industrial Cape Breton....

    .
  • The first ascent
    First ascent
    In climbing, a first ascent is the first successful, documented attainment of the top of a mountain, or the first to follow a particular climbing route...

     of Mount Forbes
    Mount Forbes
    Mount Forbes, the eighth tallest mountain in the Canadian Rockies, is located southwest of the Saskatchewan River Crossing in Banff National Park. The mountain was named by James Hector in 1859 after Edward Forbes, Hector's natural history professor at the University of Edinburgh during the...

     by James Outram
    James Outram (mountaineer)
    Sir James Outram was a British clergyman, who made many first ascents in the Canadian Rockies in the early 1900s....

     and party

Arts and literature

  • The first symphony orchestra in Canada begins in Quebec City
    Quebec City
    Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

    .
  • The first movie theatre in Canada opens in Vancouver
    Vancouver
    Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...


January to June

  • January 22 - Jean-Paul Beaulieu
    Jean-Paul Beaulieu
    Jean-Paul Beaulieu was a Canadian and Québécois politician and chartered accountant.-Background:He was born on January 22, 1902 in Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix, Montérégie. He studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University. He obtained a license degree in commercial sciences from McGill...

    , politician and chartered accountant (d.1976
    1976 in Canada
    -Incumbents:*Monarch: Elizabeth II*Governor General: Jules Léger*Prime Minister: Pierre Trudeau*Premier of Alberta: Peter Lougheed*Premier of British Columbia: W.R...

    )
  • February 17 - Howard O'Hagan, writer
  • April 20 - Elizabeth Goudie
    Elizabeth Goudie
    Elizabeth Goudie née Blake was a writer. Her sole work, Woman of Labrador was published in 1973.-Life:...

    , writer (d.1982
    1982 in Canada
    -Incumbents:* Monarch: Elizabeth II* Governor General: Edward Schreyer* Prime Minister: Pierre Trudeau* Premier of Alberta: Peter Lougheed* Premier of British Columbia: Bill Bennett* Premier of Manitoba: Howard Pawley...

    )
  • May 24 - Sylvia Daoust
    Sylvia Daoust
    Sylvia Daoust, CM, CQ , born in Montreal, was one of the first female sculptors in Quebec. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal , but also studied in Europe...

    , sculptor (d.2004
    2004 in Canada
    Events from the year 2004 in Canada.-January:* January 1 - Montreal Dorval Airport is renamed, after some controversy, Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport....

    )
  • June 17 - Anna Hilliard, doctor
  • June 19 - Guy Lombardo
    Guy Lombardo
    Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo was a Canadian-American bandleader and violinist.Forming "The Royal Canadians" in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert, and Victor and other musicians from his hometown, Lombardo led the group to international success, billing themselves as creating "The Sweetest...

    , bandleader and violinist (d.1977
    1977 in Canada
    -Incumbents:*Monarch: Elizabeth II*Governor General: Jules Léger*Prime Minister: Pierre Trudeau*Premier of Alberta: Peter Lougheed*Premier of British Columbia: W.R...

    )
  • June 21 - Howie Morenz
    Howie Morenz
    Howard William Morenz was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played centre for three National Hockey League teams: the Montreal Canadiens , the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers...

    , ice hockey player (d.1937
    1937 in Canada
    -Events:*April 10 - Trans-Canada Airlines, the predecessor of Air Canada, was created as a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway*July 5 - Midale, Saskatchewan and Yellow Grass record the highest temperature ever in Canada, with a record high of 45 °C ....

    )

July to December

  • July 15 - Donald Creighton
    Donald Creighton
    Donald Grant Creighton, was a noted Canadian historian.-Background:Born in Toronto, the son of Methodist minister, Creighton attended Victoria College, in the University of Toronto, where he received his BA in 1925...

    , historian (d.1979
    1979 in Canada
    -January to June:*January 17 - Edward Richard Schreyer replaces Jules Léger as Governor General*February 1 - The first Winterlude is held in Ottawa*February 24 - An explosion rips through Number 26 Colliery located in Glace Bay, Cape Breton killing 12 men....

    )
  • July 30 - Dorise Nielson, politician (d.1980
    1980 in Canada
    -Incumbents:* Monarch - Elizabeth II* Governor General - Edward Schreyer* Prime Minister - Joe Clark then Pierre Trudeau* Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed* Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett* Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon...

    )
  • August 10 - Norma Shearer
    Norma Shearer
    Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s...

    , Academy Award–winning
    Academy Awards
    An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

     actress (d.1983
    1983 in Canada
    -Incumbents:*Monarch - Elizabeth II*Governor General - Edward Schreyer*Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau*Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed*Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett*Premier of Manitoba - Howard Pawley*Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield...

    )
  • November 8 - A. J. M. Smith
    A. J. M. Smith
    Arthur James Marshall Smith was a Canadian poet and anthologist. He "was a prominent member of a group of Montreal poets" -- the Montreal Group, which included Leon Edel, Leo Kennedy, A.M. Klein, and F.R...

    , poet (d.1980
    1980 in Canada
    -Incumbents:* Monarch - Elizabeth II* Governor General - Edward Schreyer* Prime Minister - Joe Clark then Pierre Trudeau* Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed* Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett* Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon...

    )
  • November 21 - Foster Hewitt
    Foster Hewitt
    Foster William Hewitt, OC was a Canadian radio broadcaster most famous for his play-by-play calls for Hockey Night in Canada. He was the son of W. A. Hewitt, and the father of Bill Hewitt.-Early life and career:...

    , radio pioneer (d.1985
    1985 in Canada
    -Incumbents:* Monarch: Elizabeth II* Governor General: Jeanne Sauvé* Prime Minister: Brian Mulroney* Premier of Alberta: Peter Lougheed then Don Getty* Premier of British Columbia: Bill Bennett* Premier of Manitoba: Howard Pawley...

    )
  • December 29 - Nels Stewart
    Nels Stewart
    Robert Nelson "Old Poison" Stewart was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Maroons, New York Americans and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League...

    , ice hockey player (d.1957
    1957 in Canada
    -Incumbents:*Monarch – Elizabeth II*Governor General – Vincent Massey*Prime Minister – Louis Saint Laurent then John Diefenbaker*Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning*Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C...

    )

Full date unknown

  • Olive Diefenbaker
    Olive Diefenbaker
    Olive Evangeline Freeman Palmer Diefenbaker was the second wife of John George Diefenbaker, the 13th Prime Minister of Canada....

    , wife of John Diefenbaker
    John Diefenbaker
    John George Diefenbaker, PC, CH, QC was the 13th Prime Minister of Canada, serving from June 21, 1957, to April 22, 1963...

    , 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1976
    1976 in Canada
    -Incumbents:*Monarch: Elizabeth II*Governor General: Jules Léger*Prime Minister: Pierre Trudeau*Premier of Alberta: Peter Lougheed*Premier of British Columbia: W.R...

    )

Deaths

  • February 12 - Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
    Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
    Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society...

    , Governor General of Canada
    Governor General of Canada
    The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...

     (b.1826
    1826 in Canada
    See also:1825 in Canada,other events of 1826,1827 in Canada.----Events from the year 1826 in Canada.-Events:*June 8 - A mob of the ruling party, the Family Compact, destroy the Colonial Advocate's press at York...

    )
  • February 19 - Richard Maurice Bucke, psychiatrist (b.1837
    1837 in Canada
    See also:1836 in Canada,other events of 1837,1838 in Canada.----Events from the year 1837 in Canada.-Events:*British attempts to unite the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada lead to revolt...

    )
  • August 5 - Thomas Christie
    Thomas Christie (Canadian politician)
    Thomas Christie was a Scottish-born physician, professor and political figure in Quebec. He represented Argenteuil in the Canadian House of Commons from 1875 to 1880 and from 1891 to 1902 as a Liberal member....

    , physician, professor and politician (b.1834
    1834 in Canada
    See also:1833 in Canada,other events of 1834,1835 in Canada.----Events from the year 1834 in Canada.-January to June:*January - King William IV appoints an arbitrator to settle questions regarding customs dues between the Canadas....

    )
  • October 31 - John A. Dawson
    John A. Dawson (Canadian politician)
    John A. Dawson was a Canadian politician, merchant and taxidermist.Dawson was educated in Pictou. He was concurrently elected to the Canadian House of Commons with James William Carmichael in 1874 as a Member of the Liberal Party to represent the riding of Pictou. He lost in the elections of 1878...

    , politician
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