1898 in Canada

1898 in Canada

"See also:"
1897 in Canada,
other events of 1898,
1899 in Canada and the
list of 'years in Canada'.

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Events

* The Parliament of Canada passed the Quebec Boundary Extension Act that expanded the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal Cree.
* March 1: 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority
* June 13: Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories
* July 29: White Pass and Yukon Railway opens
* August: Donald Farquharson becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing A. 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 the Spanish-American War as Canada's first female war correspondent

Births

* 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, communist

Deaths


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