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*June 22 - [[Leonard W. Murray]], naval officer (d.[[1971 in Canada|1971]]) |
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Events from the year 1896 in Canada.
Events
- April 27 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell resigns as Prime Minister due to cabinet infighting. He is replaced by Sir Charles Tupper.
- May 1 - Sir Charles Tupper becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Mackenzie Bowell
- May 11 - Edmund Flynn becomes Premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon
- May 26 - A bridge collapse in Victoria, British Columbia kills 55 people
- June 23 - Federal election: Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals win a majority, defeating Sir Charles Tupper's Conservatives. One of the key issues in the campaign has been the Manitoba Schools Question
- July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Charles Tupper
- July 20 - George H. Murray becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing William Fielding
- July 25 - Arthur S. Hardy becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Sir Oliver Mowat
- July - James Mitchell becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Andrew Blair
- August 17 - Gold is discovered in the Yukon, prompting the Klondike gold rush
Full date unknown
- A plan to populate the western prairies with immigration from eastern Europe is unveiled
- The first Canadian blast furnace opens in Hamilton, Ontario
Births
January to June
- March 8 - Charlotte Whitton, feminist, politician and mayor of Ottawa (d.1975)
- March 16 - Harry Banks, soldier
- March 21 - Errick Willis, politician (d.1967)
- April 20 - Wilfrid R. "Wop" May, World War I flying ace and pioneering bush pilot (d.1952)
- May 2 - Elmore Philpott, journalist and politician (d.1964)
- May 18 - Brock Chisholm, doctor and first Director-General of the World Health Organization (d.1971)
- June 19 - John Beverley Robinson, politician (b.1821)
- June 22 - Leonard W. Murray, naval officer (d.1971)
July to December
- July 2 - Prudence Heward, painter (d.1947)
- July 4 - Frederick Cronyn Betts, politician (d.1938)
- July 10 - Thérèse Casgrain, feminist, reformer, politician and Senator (d.1981)
- July 27 - Anne Savage, painter and art teacher (d.1971)
- August 12 - Mitchell Hepburn, politician and 11th Premier of Ontario (d.1953)
- August 18 - Jack Pickford, actor (d.1933)
- August 30 - Raymond Massey, actor (d.1983)
- August 31 - Alice Strike, Canada's last surviving female World War I veteran (d.2004)
- November 3 - Madeleine Fritz, paleontologist
- November 7 - Henry Botterell, World War I fighter pilot (d.2003)
Deaths
- January 14 - Christopher William Bunting, politician, merchant, newspaper owner and newspaper publisher (b.1837)
- February 20 - Hart Massey, businessman and philanthropist (b.1823)
- April 13 - John Christian Schultz, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1840)
- May 4 - Timothy Anglin, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b.1822)
- June 7 - Wyatt Eaton, painter (b.1849)
- June 10 - Donald Alexander Macdonald, politician (b.1817)
- June 25 - Samuel Leonard Tilley, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1818)
- November 24 - John James Fraser, lawyer, judge, politician and 4th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1829)
