1901 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria then Edward VII

  Federal government

• Governor general – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
• Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier
• Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong
• Parliament – 9th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter Adolphus McIntyre
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté

  Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Edward Gawler Prior
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson then Arthur Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie then James Hamilton Ross

  Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

  Premiers

• Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

  Events

• January 22 – Death of Queen Victoria and ascension of King Edward VII
• March 9 — Japanese Canadians win the vote in British Columbia
• December 12 — Guglielmo Marconi receives a radio message at St. John's, Newfoundland
• December 18 — The Territorial Grain Growers' Association is founded
• December 29 — Arthur Peters becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Donald Farquharson
• First ascent of Mount Assiniboine by James Outram's party

  Arts and literature

Births

January to June

• January 12 — Jack Humphrey, painter
• January 14 — Dana Porter, politician and jurist
• January 29 — E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder
• March 4 — Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor
• March 25 — Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944
• April 15 — Thomas Ricketts, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient in 1918
• May 5 — Donald Buchanan Blue, politician

  July to December

• July 15 — James Litterick, politician
• September 8 — Harold Connolly, journalist, newspaper editor, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
• September 14 — George Carlyle Marler, politician, notary and philatelist
• September 15 — Gweneth Lloyd, choreographer
• September 22 — Charles Brenton Huggins, physician, physiologist, cancer researcher and Nobel prize laureate
• October 14 — John Oates Bower, politician, businessman and executive

  Full date unknown

• Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada

  Deaths

• January 22 — Queen Victoria, Queen of Canada
• March 2 — George Mercer Dawson, scientist and surveyor
• May 4 — John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec
• May 7 — George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick
• June 13 — Arthur Sturgis Hardy, lawyer, politician and 4th Premier of Ontario
• July 24 — George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto
• October 25 — Colin MacDougall, politician and lawyer

  Historical Documents