- 1898 in Canada
"See also:"
1897 in Canada ,
other events of 1898,1899 in Canada and thelist of 'years in Canada' .----
Events
* The
Parliament of Canada passed the Quebec Boundary Extension Act that expanded the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginalCree .
*March 1 : 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority
*June 13 :Yukon becomes a distinct territory from theNorth-West Territories
*July 29 :White Pass and Yukon Railway opens
* August: Donald Farquharson becomesPremier of Prince Edward Island , replacingA. B. Warburton
*August 8 :John Herbert Turner is dismissed as premier of British Columbia
*August 15 :Charles Semlin becomes premier of British Columbia
*September 11 :New Westminster, British Columbia destroyed by fire
*Kit Coleman covers theSpanish-American War as Canada's first femalewar correspondent Births
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May 20 :Paul Gouin , Quebec politician
*May 27 :William Arthur Irwin , journalist
*July 7 :Hugh Keenleyside , diplomat
*August 23 :Brooke Claxton , politician
*August 27 :Gaspard Fauteux , politician
*August 30 :Gleason Belzile , politician
*November 8 :Marie Prevost , actor
*December 1 :Stuart Garson , Premier of Manitoba
*George Lawrence Price , last soldier killed in WWI
*Maurice Spector , communistDeaths
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