1906 in Canada

Events from the year 1906 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Edward VII

Federal government

 * Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
 * Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
 * Chief Justice – Henri Elzéar Taschereau (Quebec) (until 2 May) then Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec) (from 2 June)
 * Parliament – 10th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri Joly de Lotbinière (until May 11) then James Dunsmuir
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones (until March 15) then Duncan Cameron Fraser
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
 * Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
 * Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
 * Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
 * Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – William Wallace Burns McInnes (until December 31) then John T. Lithgow (acting)
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

 * January 1 – Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal
 * January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
 * March 27 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
 * April 30 – The Ottawa Public Library opens
 * May 7 – Ontario Hydro created
 * May 23 – Regina decreed capital of Saskatchewan
 * June 24 – Octave Crémazie Monument unveiled
 * August 26 – Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Saskatchewan
 * The Revillon Frères trading post opens at Fort Saint John, British Columbia, as competition against the Hudson's Bay Company
 * August 28 – Treaty 10 is signed.

Sport

 * February 23 – Tommy Burns becomes the First Canadian to be Boxing's Heavyweight champion by defeating Marvin Hart

Births

 * January 15 – Edna Staebler, author (d. 2006)
 * January 27 – Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (d.1987)
 * January 29 – Joe Primeau, ice hockey player (d.1989)
 * February 14 – Roland Beaudry, politician, journalist, publicist and publisher (d.1964)
 * March 10 – Lionel Bertrand, politician, journalist and newspaper editor (d.1979)
 * May 15 – Robert Methven Petrie, astronomer (d.1966)
 * May 16 – Alfred Pellan, painter (d.1988)
 * June 22 – Stanley Fox, politician (d.1984)
 * June 26 – Marian Scott, painter
 * July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic and politician (d. 1992)
 * September 24 – Leonard Marsh, social scientist and professor (d.1983)
 * November 20 – John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (d.1996)
 * December 16 – Barbara Kent, Canadian actress

Deaths

 * February 2 – Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (b.1823)
 * March 31 – James McIntyre, poet (b.1828)
 * April 12 – Robert Thorburn, merchant, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1836)
 * May 3 – Peter White, politician (b.1838)
 * May 19 – Gabriel Dumont, Metis leader (b.1837)
 * June 9 – William Carpenter Bompas, Church of England clergyman, bishop and missionary (b.1834)
 * June 11 – Hector-Louis Langevin, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1826)
 * October 7 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (b.1848)

Historical documents

 * Reconciling Dominion Lands Act rules on homesteading and traditional Doukhobor communal practice is complicated by poverty, religious freedom and squatting.


 * Rugby School lecture gives somewhat fantastic and imperial picture of life in Canada for immigrant Englishman


 * Hardships and success of Barr Colony settlers at Lloydminster, Saskatchewan


 * British printers complain of being tricked into breaking Winnipeg strike


 * Save Manitoba elk and moose from "the white man's lust for killing"