1902 in Canada

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Events from the year 1902 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Edward VII (consort – Queen Alexandra)

Federal government

• Governor general – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (viceregal consort – Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess of Minto)
• Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier

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 – Abner Reid McClelan (until January 28) then 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 – James Dunsmuir (until November 21) then Edward 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 – Arthur Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – James Hamilton Ross (until February 8) then Henry W. Newlands (acting) (February 8 to August 15) then Zachary Taylor Wood (acting)

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

Premiers

• Premier of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

• February – The town of Crofton, British Columbia, is founded on Vancouver Island
• May 21 – 1902 Northwest Territories general election
• May 24 – The first Victoria Day is celebrated
• May 29 – 1902 Ontario general election: G. W. Ross's Liberals win a second consecutive majority. Margaret Haile runs as a candidate of the Canadian Socialist League in Toronto North for the Ontario provincial election, becoming the first woman ever to stand in a provincial election.
• May 31 – The Second Boer War ends, and Canadian troops return home to great acclaim
• July 1 – Ray Knight stages the first Raymond Stampede in Raymond, Alberta, and in so doing coined the rodeo word stampede, thus launching his rodeo career as the world's first rodeo producer and stock contractor, as well as being the world's richest rodeo promoter with some 1 million acres (4,000 km²) of ranchland with 18,000 head of cattle and 3,000 head of horses. The Raymond Stampede is now Canada's oldest rodeo
• August 9 – Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom and of Canada.
• October 10 – Altona schoolhouse shooting
• October 20 – The first train enters Edmonton, by way of the Canadian Northern's Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway across the Low Level Bridge
• November 21 – Edward Prior becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing James Dunsmuir
• December 15 – The first transatlantic radio press report is filed from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
• The first ascent of Mount Forbes by James Outram and party

Arts and literature

• The first symphony orchestra in Canada begins in Quebec City.
• The first movie theatre in Canada opens in Vancouver

Births

January to June

• January 22 - Jean-Paul Beaulieu, politician and chartered accountant (d.1976)
• February 17 - Howard O'Hagan, writer
• April 14 - Olive Diefenbaker, wife of John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1976)
• April 20 - Elizabeth Goudie, writer (d.1982)
• May 24 - Sylvia Daoust, sculptor (d.2004)
• June 17 - Anna Hilliard, doctor
• June 19 - Guy Lombardo, bandleader and violinist (d.1977)
• June 21 - Howie Morenz, ice hockey player (d.1937)

July to December

• July 15 - Donald Creighton, historian (d.1979)
• July 30 - Dorise Nielson, politician (d.1980)
• August 10 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award–winning actress (d.1983)
• November 8 - A. J. M. Smith, poet (d.1980)
• November 21 - Foster Hewitt, radio pioneer (d.1985)
• December 29 - Nels Stewart, ice hockey player (d.1957)

Deaths

• February 12 - Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Governor General of Canada (b.1826)
• February 19 - Richard Maurice Bucke, psychiatrist (b.1837)
• August 5 - Thomas Christie, physician, professor and politician (b.1834)
• August 10 - James McMillan, United States Senator from Michigan from 1889 till 1902. (b.1838)
• October 31 - John A. Dawson, politician (b.1826)

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