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Events from the year 1897 in Canada.
Incumbents
[edit]Crown
[edit]Federal government
[edit]- Governor General – John Hamilton-Gordon
- Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
- Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
- Parliament – 8th
Provincial governments
[edit]Lieutenant governors
[edit]- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney (until November 18) then Thomas Robert McInnes
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Casimir Gzowski (acting) (until November 18) then Oliver Mowat
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George William Howlan
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Premiers
[edit]- Premier of British Columbia – John Herbert Turner
- Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
- Premier of New Brunswick – James Mitchell (until October 29) then Henry Emmerson
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – Arthur Sturgis Hardy
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Peters (until October 1) then Alexander Warburton
- Premier of Quebec – Edmund James Flynn (until May 24) then Félix-Gabriel Marchand
Territorial governments
[edit]Commissioners
[edit]- Commissioner of Yukon – James Morrow Walsh (from August 17)
Lieutenant governors
[edit]- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Charles Herbert Mackintosh
Premiers
[edit]- Chairman of the executive committee of the North-West Territories then Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain (from October 7)
Events
[edit]- January 29 – The Victorian Order of Nurses is founded in Ottawa.
- February 2 – Clara Brett Martin becomes the first woman to practise law in Ontario.
- February 19 – World's first Women's Institute founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario.
- May 24 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Edmund Flynn.
- May 24 – Lion of Belfort (Montreal) unveiled.
- June 20 – Diamond Jubilee of Victoria's accession as Queen.
- September 6 – The federal government gives the CPR a grant to allow it to reduce freight rates through Crowsnest Pass.
- October – A.B. Warburton becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island.
- October 7 – Responsible government is introduced in the North-West Territories: Frederick Haultain becomes the first premier.
- October 29 – Henry Emmerson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing James Mitchell.
Full date unknown
[edit]- Klondike Gold Rush rages in the Yukon.
- Lord Grey proposes that Canada create a navy to protect its west coast; Prime Minister Laurier does not act on the recommendation.
- 1897–1912 – 961,000 people enter Canada from the British Isles, 594,000 from Europe and 784,000 from the United States..
- The first Canadian movie, Ten Years in Manitoba.
Births
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- January 23 – William Stephenson, soldier, airman, businessperson, inventor and spymaster (d.1989)
- January 27 – Charles Stephen Booth, politician and barrister (d.1988)
- March 9 – Sidney Earle Smith, academic and seventh President of the University of Toronto (d.1959)
- April 23 – Lester B. Pearson, politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, diplomat and 1957 Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d.1972)
- June 29 – Fulgence Charpentier, French Canadian journalist, editor and publisher (d. 2001)
- September 23 – Walter Pidgeon, actor (d.1984)
- September 29 – Graham Towers, first Governor of the Bank of Canada (d.1975)
- November 30 – William Murdoch Buchanan, politician (d.1966)
- December 7 – Gordon Graydon, politician (d.1953)
Deaths
[edit]- January 2 – Thomas McGreevy, politician and contractor (b.1825)
- February 27 – James Austin, businessman (b.1813)
- July 4 – Amor De Cosmos, journalist, politician and 2nd Premier of British Columbia (b.1825)
- September 19 – Frederick Cope, 3rd Mayor of Vancouver (b.1860)
- October 21 – Philip Francis Little, 1st Premier of Newfoundland of the colonial (b.1824)
- December 14 – Robert Simpson, businessman and founder of Simpsons (b.1834)
- December 15 – James Mitchell, politician and 7th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1843)
- December 31 – David Oppenheimer, entrepreneur and 2nd Mayor of Vancouver (b.1832)
Historical documents
[edit]Cree leader Almighty Voice pursued and killed by North-West Mounted Police in Saskatchewan[2]
Annual report of Indian agent for Kootenay Agency in British Columbia[3]
Anglican missionary conducts church services on his dogsled trip around northwest Alberta[4]
Kipling's poem "Our Lady of the Snows" acknowledges Canada's solidarity but independence in its relations with Britain (Note: "white man" used)[5]
Editorial praises founding of Victorian Order of Nurses[6]
Illustration of fully outfitted Klondike Gold Rush adventurer, with price of each garment and do/don't lists[7]
"It is impossible to give one an idea of the slowness with which things are moving" - Gold rush travel plagued by horses needing shoes[8]
Photo: Klondikers at Chilkoot Pass, Alaska[9]
Lack of food and other boomtown problems discourage some Dawson City residents[10]
British railway labourers in western Canada treated as slaves before escaping[11]
"A love affair this summer" - Diary writer records declaration of love from another woman visiting Camp Viamede, Stony Lake, Ontario[12]
Newspaper map of bicycling routes in and around Victoria, B.C. includes hotels and hills[13]
Cycling map of Montreal distinguishes roads and "good roads"[14]
Photo: Metropolitan Bicycle Club[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ Mae Harris Anson, "Last Stand of Almighty Voice" Sunday Record-Herald typescript. Accessed 20 December 2019
- ^ Department of Indian Affairs, Dominion of Canada Annual Report(...)for the Year Ended 30th June 1897, pgs. 82-4 Accessed 20 December 2019
- ^ Richard Young, "Circular letter describing a mission journey through the Athabasca Peace River country" Accessed 20 December 2019
- ^ Rudyard Kipling, "Our Lady of the Snows" (1897), The Kipling Society. Accessed 22 July 2021
- ^ "A Nursing Order--Lady Aberdeen's Latest" The (Chatham, N.B.) World (February 20, 1897). Accessed 20 December 2019
- ^ "Do Don't" New York Journal and Advertiser (August 22, 1897), pg. 42. Accessed 5 December 2021
- ^ Tappan Adney, The Klondike stampede. Special correspondent of 'Harper's Weekly' in the Klondike (1900), pg. 98 University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 27 April 2025
- ^ "Preparing to climb 'the golden stair' and Peterson's Trail, Chilkoot Pass, Alaska" (1897?), University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 27 April 2025
- ^ Letters home from James Hamil and Rebecca Schuldenfrei Accessed 20 December 2019
- ^ Letter and newspaper enclosure (typescripts). Accessed 20 December 2019 http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayEcopies&rec_nbr=1432309 (Note: pages are not in proper reading order)
- ^ "July 27 (1897). Tuesday." "XV; May Bragdon; March 1st, 1897," pg. 120, May Bragdon Diaries, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries. Accessed 6 March 2022
- ^ The Province Pub'g Co., "'The Province' Pocket Road Map of Victoria and Surroundings" (1897 ("Date derived from historical information on map")), University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 23 October 2022
- ^ "Bicycle Map of the Island of Montreal and Surrounding District" (1897), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 2 February 2023
- ^ "Metropolitan Bicycle Club" (June 12, 1897), Toronto Public Library. Accessed 15 June 2023
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