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• Incumbents
• Crown
• Federal government
• Provincial governments
• Territorial governments
• Events
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• Births
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• Deaths
• See also
• References

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Acts of Parliament, 1898

← 1897 1896 1895 1898 in Canada → 1899 1900 1901
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
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Events from the year 1898 in Canada.

Incumbents

Events

• 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 Route opens (Skagway–Whitehorse).
• 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.
• September 29 – The Canadian referendum on the prohibition of alcohol.
• November 4 – The fourth election of the North-West Legislative Assembly.

Births

• May 17 – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)
• May 20 – Paul Gouin, politician (d.1976)
• May 27 – William Arthur Irwin, journalist
• July 7 – Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, diplomat, civil servant and 5th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (d.1992)
• July 15 – Howard Graham, army officer (d. 1986)
• July 17 – Osmond Borradaile, cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of First and Second World War (d.1999)
• August 23 – Brooke Claxton, politician and Minister (d.1960)
• August 27
  • Gaspard Fauteux, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d.1963)
  • John Hamilton, bank robber (d. 1934)
• August 30 – Gleason Belzile, politician (d.1950)
• November 9 – Emmett Matthew Hall, jurist, civil libertarian and Supreme Court justice (d.1995)
• December 1 – Stuart Garson, politician, Minister and 12th Premier of Manitoba (d.1977)
• December 15 – George Lawrence Price, last Commonwealth casualty of World War I (d.1918)

Deaths

• January 1 – John Arthur Fraser, artist (b.1838)
• February 15 – Wilfrid Prévost, lawyer and politician (b.1832)
• March 7 – Theodore Davie, lawyer, politician and 9th Premier of British Columbia (b.1852)
• May 1 – Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier, lawyer and politician (b. c1860)
• May 13 – François Bourassa, farmer and politician (b.1813)

• April 12 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec (b.1820)
• June 13 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, lawyer, politician and 5th Premier of Quebec (b.1840)
• July 14 – Louis-François Richer Laflèche, diocese of Trois-Rivières (b.1818)
• August 24 – Casimir Gzowski, engineer (b.1813)

See also

• List of Canadian films

References