1892 in Canada
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Events from the year 1892 in Canada.
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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
[edit] Full date unknown
- The Toronto Star founded
- Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
- Humberside Collegiate Institute opened
[edit] Sport
- First documented women's ice hockey game takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on an outdoor ice surface.
[edit] Births
[edit] January to June
- March 4 - J.-Eugène Bissonnette, politician and physician
- April 8 - Mary Pickford, actress and studio co-founder (d.1979)
- May 3 - Jacob Viner, economist (d.1970)
- May 18 - John Croke, VC
- June 2 - Edward LeRoy Bowerman, politician (d.1977)
[edit] July to December
- July 14 - John Sissons, barrister, author, judge and politician (d.1969)
- August 2 - Jack Warner, studio mogul (d.1978)
- August 18 - Hal Foster, cartoonist (d.1982)
- September 21 - Donald Elmer Black, politician
- September 24 - Adélard Godbout, politician and 15th Premier of Quebec (d.1956)
- October 25 - Nell Shipman, actress, screenwriter, producer and animal trainer (d.1970)
- November 20 - Bert Collip, biochemist
- December 20 - Percy Corbett, legal scholar
[edit] Deaths
- January 1 - John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (b.1817)
- January 20 - Samuel Barton Burdett, politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.1843)
- April 6 - John Ostell, architect, surveyor and manufacturer (b.1813)
- April 17 - Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1822)
- June 9 - William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer (b.1863)
- July 15 - William Donahue, merchant and politician (b.1834)
