1901 in Canada

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Events from the year 1901 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – Victoria (until January 22)^[1] then Edward VII^[2]

Federal government

Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
Parliament – 9th (from 6 February)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Premier of British Columbia – Edward Gawler Prior
Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson (until December 29) then Arthur Peters
Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie (until March 11) then James Hamilton Ross

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

January 22 – Death of Queen Victoria and accession of King Edward VII .
September 16 – The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) arrive in Quebec City. They visit all provinces (except Prince Edward Island) and the districts of Assiniboia and Alberta in the North-West Territories. They also visit Newfoundland before leaving North America.
December 12 — Guglielmo Marconi receives a transatlantic radio message at St. John's, Newfoundland.
December 18 — The Territorial Grain Growers' Association is founded.
December 29 — Arthur Peters becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Donald Farquharson.
First ascent of Mount Assiniboine by James Outram's party.
The 1901 Canadian census took place, having a large focus on the labour force, income, and wage class.^[3]

Arts and literature

March 22 — Gabrielle Roy, a prominent French Canadian author, was born. She would go on to become one of Canada’s most celebrated writers.
October 24 — Sheila Watson, a Canadian novelist and critic, was born. She is best known for her novel "The Double Hook".^[4]

Births

January to June

January 12 — Jack Humphrey, painter (d.1967)
January 14 — Dana Porter, politician and jurist (d.1967)
January 29 — E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder (d.1989)

Dr. W.R. Franks

March 4 — Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (d.1986)
March 25 — Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944 (d.1985)
April 15 — Thomas Ricketts, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient in 1918 (d.1967)
May 5 — Donald Buchanan Blue, politician

July to December

July 15 — James Litterick, politician
September 8 — Harold Connolly, journalist, newspaper editor, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1980)
September 12 — Ben Blue, Canadian-born comedian, actor (d. 1975)^[5]
September 14 — George Carlyle Marler, politician, notary and philatelist (d.1981)
September 15 — Gweneth Lloyd, choreographer
September 22 — Charles Brenton Huggins, physician, physiologist, cancer researcher and Nobel prize laureate (d.1997)
October 14 — John Oates Bower, politician, businessman and executive (d.1981)

Full date unknown

Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1989)

Deaths

George M. Dawson in May 1885.

January 22 — Victoria, Queen of Canada, since 1867 (b.1819)
March 2 — George Mercer Dawson, scientist and surveyor (b.1849)
May 4 — John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1831)
May 7 — George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick (b.1839)
June 13 — Arthur Sturgis Hardy, lawyer, politician and 4th Premier of Ontario (b.1837)

Arthur Sturgis Hardy

July 24 — George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (b.1822)
October 25 — Colin MacDougall, politician and lawyer (b.1834)

Historical Documents

N.W.T. premier says territories are ready for and financially need provincial powers^[6]

Influential Liberal MP Frank Oliver objects to immigration of Slavs^[7]

Matron and helper at Indian residential school so overworked that spiritual training and teaching children "how to work" is ignored^[8]

Manufacturing process described in huge chair factory in Owen Sound, Ontario^[9]

Mining and miners in Nanaimo, BC's booming coal industry^[10]

Trail, B.C. and its gold, silver and copper smelting operations described^[11]

Architect gives examples of good design to counter people's ill-informed criticism^[12]

Visitor laments various classes of loafer in British Columbia (Note: racial stereotypes)^[13]

Humorous character study of people in dining and smoking cars on train crossing Prairies^[14]

Chicken Okra à la Portugaise and other items on Chateau Frontenac menu^[15]

References

^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy. Dundurn. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8.
^ Eric W. Sager (March 1998). "THE NATIONAL SAMPLE OF THE 1901 CENSUS OF CANADA: A NEW SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE WORKING CLASS" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2023.
^ "Arts | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
^ "Ben Blue, Sad-Faced Comedian, A Performer Five Decades, Dies". The New York Times. UPI. 9 March 1975.
^ "Haultain Roblin All Night Debate At Indian Head On Annexation To Manitoba" Regina Leader (December 26, 1901), pg. 4. Accessed 22 January 2020
^ House of Commons debate, 9th Parliament, 1st Session (April 12, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020
^ Letter of Josephine Petch (December 18, 1901), United Church of Canada Central Archives, in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 165. Accessed 9 June 2021
^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902) pgs. 11-13. Accessed 22 January 2020
^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 214-21. Accessed 22 January 2020
^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 251-6. Accessed 22 January 2020
^ C.H.C. Wright, "Design in Modern Architecture," The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. XIV, No. 158 (February 1901), pgs. 40-1. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p40.gif http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p41.gif
^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 155-8. Accessed 22 January 2020
^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 89-96. Accessed 22 January 2020
^ "Chateau Frontenac; Quebec; Luncheon" (July 22, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020

[1] "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.

[2] Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy. Dundurn. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8.

[3] Eric W. Sager (March 1998). "THE NATIONAL SAMPLE OF THE 1901 CENSUS OF CANADA: A NEW SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE WORKING CLASS" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2023.

[4] "Arts | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2024-09-06.

[obit-5] "Ben Blue, Sad-Faced Comedian, A Performer Five Decades, Dies". The New York Times. UPI. 9 March 1975.

[6] "Haultain Roblin All Night Debate At Indian Head On Annexation To Manitoba" Regina Leader (December 26, 1901), pg. 4. Accessed 22 January 2020

[7] House of Commons debate, 9th Parliament, 1st Session (April 12, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020

[8] Letter of Josephine Petch (December 18, 1901), United Church of Canada Central Archives, in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 165. Accessed 9 June 2021

[9] Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902) pgs. 11-13. Accessed 22 January 2020

[10] Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 214-21. Accessed 22 January 2020

[11] Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 251-6. Accessed 22 January 2020

[12] C.H.C. Wright, "Design in Modern Architecture," The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. XIV, No. 158 (February 1901), pgs. 40-1. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p40.gif http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p41.gif

[13] Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 155-8. Accessed 22 January 2020

[14] Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 89-96. Accessed 22 January 2020

[15] "Chateau Frontenac; Quebec; Luncheon" (July 22, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020

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