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Acts of Parliament, 1895

← 1894 1893 1892 1895 in Canada → 1896 1897 1898
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See also:	History of Canada Timeline of Canadian history List of years in Canada

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Events from the year1895 in Canada.

• Monarch –Victoria^[1]

• Governor General –John Hamilton-Gordon
• Prime Minister –Mackenzie Bowell
• Chief Justice of Canada –Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
• Parliament –7th

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia –Edgar Dewdney
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba –John Christian Schultz (until September 2) thenJames Colebrooke Patterson
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick –John James Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia –Malachy Bowes Daly
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario –George Airey Kirkpatrick
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island –George William Howlan
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec –Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

• Premier of British Columbia –Theodore Davie (until March 4) thenJohn Herbert Turner
• 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 –Frederick Peters
• Premier of Quebec –Louis-Olivier Taillon

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin –John Christian Schultz (until September 2) thenJames Colebrooke Patterson
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories –Charles Herbert Mackintosh

• Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories –Frederick Haultain

• March –Maria Grant is the first woman in Canada to be elected to any office. She served six years on the Victoria School Board and was presented to the futureGeorge V as the only woman elected as a school trustee in Canada.
• March 2 –Theodore Davie resigns aspremier of British Columbia
• March 4 –John Herbert Turner becomes premier of British Columbia
• April 16 – The town ofSturgeon Falls, Ontario, is incorporated.
• April 24 –Jean-Olivier Chénier Monument unveiled
• July 1 –Maisonneuve Monument unveiled
• October 2 – Additional provisionaldistricts of the North-West Territories are established: the districts ofUngava,Mackenzie,Yukon, andFranklin. The districts ofKeewatin andAthabaska are enlarged so that all points of Canada are either within a province or a district.
• TheChinese Board of Trade is formed inVancouver
• First ascent ofMount Hector inBanff National Park.^[2]

• March 9 – TheMontreal Hockey Club wins their secondStanley Cup by defeatingQueen's University 5 goals to 1 atMontreal'sVictoria Rink

• February 1 –Conn Smythe, ice hockey manager and owner (d.1980)
• February 15 –Earl Thomson, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1971)
• March 23 –John Robert Cartwright, jurist andChief Justice of Canada (d.1979)
• April 30 –Philippe Panneton, physician, academic, diplomat and writer (d.1960)
• May 12 –William Giauque, chemist and Nobel laureate (d.1982)
• May 27 –Douglas Lloyd Campbell, politician and 13thPremier of Manitoba (d.1995)

• July 5 –Frederic McGrand, physician and politician (d.1988)
• July 7 –Thane Campbell, jurist, politician andPremier of Prince Edward Island (d.1978)
• July 29 –Albert A. Brown, politician and lawyer (d.1971)
• September 7 –Pete Parker, radio announcer (d.1991)
• September 18 –John Diefenbaker, politician and 13thPrime Minister of Canada (d.1979)
• September 20 –Leslie Frost, politician and 16thPremier of Ontario (d.1973)
• November 5 –Howard Charles Green, politician and Minister (d.1989)
• December 1 –Edwin Hansford, politician (d.1959)

• January 17 –Joseph Tassé, politician (b.1848)
• January 28 –Camille Lefebvre (b.1831)
• April 4 –Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1stMayor of Vancouver (b.1842)
• August 4 –Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, seigneur, journalist and politician (b.1818)
• September 4 –Antoine Plamondon, artist (b.1804)
• September 11 –Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (b.1822)
• September 15 –Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (b.1842)

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