1898 in Canada
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See also: 1897 in Canada, other events of 1898, 1899 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
[edit] Events
- The Parliament of Canada passed the Quebec Boundary Extension Act that expanded the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal Cree.
- March 1: 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority
- June 13: Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories
- July 29: White Pass and Yukon Railway opens
- August: Donald Farquharson becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing A. B. Warburton
- August 8: John Herbert Turner is dismissed as premier of British Columbia
- August 15: Charles Semlin becomes premier of British Columbia
- September 11: New Westminster, British Columbia destroyed by fire
- Kit Coleman covers the Spanish-American War as Canada's first female war correspondent
[edit] Births
- May 20: Paul Gouin, Quebec politician
- May 27: William Arthur Irwin, journalist
- July 7: Hugh Keenleyside, diplomat
- August 23: Brooke Claxton, politician
- August 27: Gaspard Fauteux, politician
- August 30: Gleason Belzile, politician
- November 8: Marie Prevost, actor
- December 1: Stuart Garson, Premier of Manitoba
- George Lawrence Price, last soldier killed in WWI
- Maurice Spector, communist
