Events from the year 1892 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch – Victoria
Federal government
Governor General – Frederick Stanley
Prime Minister – John Abbott (until November 24) then John Thompson (from December 5) Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) (until 25 September) then Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario) (from 13 December) Parliament – 7th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson (until November 1) then Edgar Dewdney Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell (until May 24) then George Airey Kirkpatrick (from May 30) Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers (until December 5) then Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Premiers
Premier of British Columbia – John Robson (until June 29) then Theodore Davie (from July 2) Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat Premier of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Peters Premier of Quebec – Charles Boucher de Boucherville (until December 16)then Louis-Olivier Taillon
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal
Premiers
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain
Events
June 29 – John Robson, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office
July 2 – Theodore Davie becomes Premier of British Columbia
July 8 – The Great Fire of 1892 destroys two-thirds of St. John's, Newfoundland
July 9 – Parliament passes the Criminal Code, 1892, the first unified criminal law for all of Canada, under the direction of the Minister of Justice, John Thompson November 24 – Sir John Abbott resigns as Prime Minister December 5 – Sir John Thompson becomes Prime Minister December 16 – Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville
Full date unknown
The Toronto Star founded
Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
Humberside Collegiate Institute opened
Worthington, Ontario, is incorporated as a mining community. The first Canadian National Rugby-Football Championship game is played (Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal 45–5).
Sport
First documented women's ice hockey game takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on an outdoor ice surface.
Births
January to June
March 4 – J.-Eugène Bissonnette, politician and physician
April 8 – Mary Pickford, actress and studio co-founder (d.1979) May 3 – Jacob Viner, economist (d.1970) May 18 – John Croak, VC June 2 – Edward LeRoy Bowerman, politician (d.1977)
July to December
July 8 – Sir Victor Tait, Canadian-born British airman and businessman (d.1988) July 14 – John Sissons, barrister, author, judge and politician (d.1969) August 2 – Jack L. Warner, studio mogul (d.1978) August 18 – Hal Foster, cartoonist (d.1982) September 21 – Donald Elmer Black, politician September 24 – Adélard Godbout, politician and 15th Premier of Quebec (d.1956) October 25 – Nell Shipman, actress, screenwriter, producer and animal trainer (d.1970) December 27 – Alfred Edwin McKay, World War I flying ace (d. 1917 in Belgium)
Deaths
January 1 – John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (b.1817) January 20 – Samuel Barton Burdett, politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.1843) March 7 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1820) April 6 – John Ostell, architect, surveyor and manufacturer (b.1813) April 17 – Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1822) May 24 – Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1822) June 9 – William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer (b.1863) June 29 – John Robson, journalist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1824) July 15 – William Donahue, merchant and politician (b.1834) August 30 – Frederick Newton Gisborne, Laid first under-sea cable in North America September 12 – Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (b.1822) December 14 – Adams George Archibald, politician (b.1814)