1890 in Canada
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See also: 1889 in Canada, other events of 1890, 1891 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.
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[edit] Events
- March 31 - Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec.
- June 5 - Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority.
[edit] Arts and Literature
Pages were torn and authors felt scorn.
[edit] Births
- April 20 - Maurice Duplessis, Premier of Quebec
- March 21 - Norman Hipel, politician
- March 24 - Agnes Macphail, politician
- March 27 - John Horne Blackmore, politician
- March 30 - Norman Bethune, surgeon
- May 4 - Franklin Carmichael, painter
- May 17 - Lionel FitzGerald, artist
- May 30 - John Stuart Foster, physicist
- July 27 - Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician
- August 10 - Angus L. Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia
- September 20 - Kathleen Parlow, violinist
- October 9 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist
- October 28 - Louis Orville Breithaupt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- December 10 - Byron Ingemar Johnson, Premier of British Columbia
[edit] Deaths
- April 25 - Crowfoot, Blackfoot leader
- December 15 - Sitting Bull, Sioux leaderfr:1890 au Canada
