Events from the year 1901 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch – Victoria (until January 22) then Edward VII
Federal government
Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario) Parliament – 9th (from 6 February)
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 (until December 29) then Arthur Peters Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie (until March 11) 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
September 16 – The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) arrive in Quebec City. They visit all provinces (except Prince Edward Island) and the districts of Assiniboia and Alberta in the North-West Territories. They also visit Newfoundland before leaving North America. December 12 — Guglielmo Marconi receives a transatlantic 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 The 1901 Canadian census took place, having a large focus on the labour force, income, and wage class.
Arts and literature
Births
January to June
January 12 — Jack Humphrey, painter (d.1967) January 14 — Dana Porter, politician and jurist (d.1967) January 29 — E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder (d.1989)
March 4 — Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (d.1986) March 25 — Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944 (d.1985) April 15 — Thomas Ricketts, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient in 1918 (d.1967) 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 (d.1980) September 14 — George Carlyle Marler, politician, notary and philatelist (d.1981) September 15 — Gweneth Lloyd, choreographer September 22 — Charles Brenton Huggins, physician, physiologist, cancer researcher and Nobel prize laureate (d.1997) October 14 — John Oates Bower, politician, businessman and executive (d.1981)
Full date unknown
Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1989)
Deaths
January 22 — Victoria, Queen of Canada, since 1867 (b.1819) March 2 — George Mercer Dawson, scientist and surveyor (b.1849) May 4 — John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1831) May 7 — George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick (b.1839) June 13 — Arthur Sturgis Hardy, lawyer, politician and 4th Premier of Ontario (b.1837)
July 24 — George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (b.1822) October 25 — Colin MacDougall, politician and lawyer (b.1834)
Historical Documents
N.W.T. premier says territories are ready for and financially need provincial powers
Influential Liberal MP Frank Oliver objects to immigration of Slavs
Matron and helper at Indian residential school so overworked that spiritual training and teaching children "how to work" is ignored