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Events from the year1891 in Canada.

• Monarch –Victoria^[1]

• Governor General –Frederick Stanley
• Prime Minister –John A. Macdonald (until June 6) thenJohn Abbott (from June 16)
• Chief Justice –William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
• Parliament –6th (until 3 February) then7th (from 29 April)

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia –Hugh Nelson
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba –John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick –Samuel Leonard Tilley
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia –Malachy Bowes Daly
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario –Alexander Campbell
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island –Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec –Auguste-Réal Angers

• Premier of British Columbia –John Robson
• Premier of Manitoba –Thomas Greenway
• Premier of New Brunswick –Andrew George Blair
• Premier of Nova Scotia –William Stevens Fielding
• Premier of Ontario –Oliver Mowat
• Premier of Prince Edward Island –Neil McLeod (until April 27) thenFrederick Peters
• Premier of Quebec –Honoré Mercier (until December 21) thenCharles Boucher de Boucherville

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin –John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories –Joseph Royal

• Chairman of the Lieutenant-Governor's Advisory Council of the North-West Territories then Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories –Robert Brett (until November 7) thenFrederick Haultain

• February 21 – The firstSpringhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 125.
• March 5 –Federal election: SirJohn A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority
• April 27 –Frederick Peters becomes premier ofPrince Edward Island, replacingNeil McLeod
• June 6 –Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald dies in office
• June 8 – Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald lies in state in theSenate Chamber
• June 16 – SirJohn Abbott becomes prime minister following the death of SirJohn A. Macdonald
• September 29 –Thomas McGreevy is expelled from theHouse of Commons due to corruption.
• November 7 – The election of the2nd North-West Legislative Assembly
• December 10 – TheCalgary and Edmonton Railway opens, connecting Edmonton to the national railway network for the first time.
• December 21 – SirCharles-Eugène de Boucherville becomes premier ofQuebec for the second time, replacingHonoré Mercier
• TheLegislative Council of New Brunswick is abolished

• The Canadian Rugby Football Union is renamed theCanadian Rugby Union

• January 6 –Tim Buck, politician and long-time leader of theCommunist Party of Canada (d.1973)
• January 26 –Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon (d.1976)
• April 1 –Harry Nixon, politician and 13thPremier of Ontario (d.1961)
• May 3 –Thomas John Bentley, politician (d.1983)
• June 13 –Hervé-Edgar Brunelle, politician and lawyer (d.1950)

• July 12 –Adhémar Raynault, politician andMayor of Montreal (d.1984)
• August 30 –Elmer Jamieson, educator
• September 16 –Julie Winnefred Bertrand, supercentenarian, oldest living Canadian and oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death (d.2007)
• October 30 –Ada Mackenzie, golfer
• November 14 –Frederick Banting, medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate (d.1941)
• December 10 –Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, military commander andGovernor General of Canada (d.1969)
• December 25 –William Ross Macdonald, politician,Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and 21st Lieutenant Governor ofOntario (d.1976)

• January 4 –Antoine Labelle, priest and settler (b.1833)
• January 21 –Calixa Lavallée, musician and composer (b.1842)
• May 31 –Antoine-Aimé Dorion, politician and jurist (b.1818)
• June 6 –John A. Macdonald, politician and 1stPrime Minister of Canada (b.1815)

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