1900 in Canada

Events

January 8: Hugh John Macdonald becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Thomas Greenway
February 18–February 27: Boer War: The Royal Canadian Regiment plays a decisive role in the Battle of Paardeberg
February 27: Charles Semlin is dismissed as premier of British Columbia
February 28: Joseph Martin becomes premier of British Columbia
March 16: Boer War: Lord Strathcona's Horse leave for South Africa

Hull fire on April 26, 1900.

April 26: Two-thirds of Hull, Quebec, is destroyed in a fire.
June 15: James Dunsmuir becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Joseph Martin
August 31: Lemuel John Tweedie becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Henry Emmerson
October 8: Simon-Napoléon Parent becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Félix-Gabriel Marchand
October 29: Sir Rodmond Roblin becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Hugh John Macdonald
November 7: Federal election: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
November 7: Boer War: The Battle of Leliefontein begins. Three Canadians receive the Victoria Cross for their valour in the engagement.
December 6: Alphonse Desjardins founds Mouvement Desjardins, the first credit union in North America.
The federal government doubles the head tax on Chinese immigrants
The Canadian Tuberculosis Association meets for the first time

Births

January 8: Solon Earl Low, politician
February 20: Graham Spry, journalist
March 12: David Croll, politician
April 19: Roland Michener, Governor-General of Canada
May 25: Alain Grandbois, poet
May 25: Malcolm Norris, Métis leader
May 29: Antonio Talbot, Quebec politician
June 3: Gordon Sinclair, journalist
June 21: Edward (Ted) Rogers, inventor and radio pioneer
August 13: Gordon Sparling, filmmaker
September 6: W. A. C. Bennett, Premier of BC
November 20: Athole Shearer, actor
Harry Cassidy, academic

Deaths

Lucius Richard O'Brien, painter and first president of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art
December 21 - Désiré Olivier Bourbeau, politician

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