Events from the year 1906 in Canada.
Incumbents
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
Provincial governments
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
Territorial governments
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
Sport
February 23 – Tommy Burns becomes the First Canadian to be Boxing's Heavyweight champion by defeating Marvin Hart
Arts and literature
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"