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1891 in Canada

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1891
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Canada

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Events from the year 1891 in Canada.

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Territorial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Events

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Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald lying in state in the Senate Chamber

Sport

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January to June

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July to December

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John A. Macdonald

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Historical documents

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Residential school principal says teaching Gospel and how to live better compensates for robbing and half-starving Indigenous people[2]

Poster: Conservatives campaign against reciprocity with United States as destructive of industry nurtured by Canada's National Policy[3]

Prime Minister John A. Macdonald dies[4]

Death of Prime Minister Macdonald, Conservative Party's "tyrannical master," leaves power vacuum[5]

Imprisonment of ejected MP Thomas McGreevy strikes at pernicious level of corruption in public contracts[6][7]

Heroism of rescuers at Springhill, Nova Scotia mining disaster [8]

Bilingual English and Chinook periodical is published to improve Indigenous people's literacy[9]

Federal bill aligns Canada with international time system based on global time zones and Greenwich, England time[10]

Calm messenger pigeons by replacing trap-door entrance (which scares birds) and long roosting rail (on which they fight) in their loft[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ Miss Walker, "Work Among the Indians of Portage la Prairie," Monthly Letter Leaflet, Vol. 8, No. 8 (December 1891), in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 89. Accessed 10 June 2021
  3. ^ "Election Poster - Conservative Campaign against reciprocity" (ca. 1891). Accessed 2 May 2021 https://www.picturingpolitics.com/friends-or-foe/ (scroll down to "What do sand")
  4. ^ "He Is Gone; Death of Rt. Hon. Sir John Alexander Macdonald;...Canada Mourns the Loss of Her Greatest Statesman...." The (Victoria) Daily Colonist (June 7, 1891), pg. 1. Accessed 20 December 2019
  5. ^ "The Tory Position," The (Toronto) Globe (June 16, 1891), pg. 4. Accessed 7 December 2019 via ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail (on-line through many Canadian public and academic libraries)
  6. ^ Editorial The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. VI, No. XII (December 1893), pg. 122. Accessed 23 December 2019
  7. ^ "Charges against the Honourable Thomas McGreevy" Reports of the Select Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections Relative to[...]Tenders and Contracts[;] Also Relative to the Resignation of Honourable Thomas McGreevy, pgs. ivb-ivy. Accessed 9 October 2020
  8. ^ R.A.H. Morrow, "Chapter IV; Searching for the Dead and Injured" Story of the Springhill Disaster (1891) Accessed 3 December 2019
  9. ^ J.M.R. LeJeune, "This paper is named Kamloops Wawa" Kamloops (B.C.) Wawa, No. 1 (May 2, 1891). Accessed 25 July 2020
  10. ^ "An Act respecting the Reckoning of Time" (1891), Senate and House of Commons Bills, 7th Parliament, 1st Session: A-U, 2-175, images 1189-92. Accessed 30 May 2021
  11. ^ "Report of Major General D.R. Cameron on Messenger Pigeons of the Department, at Halifax" (September 2, 1891), Appendix No. 36, Sessional Papers; Volume 8; Second Session of the Seventh Parliament of the Dominion of Canada; Session 1892, pg. 246. Accessed 22 August 2021