1887 in Canada
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Events from the year 1887 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
 
Federal government
- Governor general – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice (viceregal consort – Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne)
 - Prime minister – John A. Macdonald
 
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall (until February 8) then Hugh Nelson
 - Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins
 - Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
 - Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey
 - Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson (until June 1) then Alexander Campbell
 - Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald
 - Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Rodrigue Masson (until October 4) then Auguste-Réal Angers
 
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe (until March 28) then Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (from April 1)
 - Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay (until December 26) then David Howard Harrison
 - Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair
 - Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding
 - Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
 - Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan
 - Premier of Quebec – John Jones Ross (until January 25) then Louis-Olivier Taillon (January 25 to January 27) then Honoré Mercier
 
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins
 - Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney
 
Events
- January 25 - Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec, replacing John Jones Ross.
 - January 27 - Honoré Mercier becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon.
 - February 22 - Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority.
 - March 3 - The United States imposes the Fisheries Retaliation Act putting limits on Canadian fishermen and traders
 - March 28 - William Smithe, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
 - April 1 - Alexander Davie becomes premier of British Columbia.
 - April 23 - McMaster University founded
 - May 3 - 148 coal miners are killed in a mine explosion near Nanaimo, British Columbia
 - June 7 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
 - December 3 - Saturday Night founded
 - December 26 - David H. Harrison becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing John Norquay.
 - The first premiers' conference is held at Quebec City, Quebec
 
Births
January to June
- January 21 - Georges Vézina, ice hockey player (d.1926)
 - February 20 - Vincent Massey, lawyer, diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d.1967)
 - February 25 - Andrew McNaughton, army officer, politician and diplomat (d.1966)
 - April 13 - Gordon S. Fahrni, medical doctor (d.1995)
 - May 21 - James Gladstone, first Status Indian to be appointed to the Canadian Senate (d.1971)
 
July to December
- July 4 - Tom Longboat, long-distance runner (d.1949)
 - July 5 - Joseph Charles-Émile Trudeau, entrepreneur and father of Pierre Trudeau, who would later become Prime Minister of Canada (d.1935)
 - September 17 - Georges Poulin, hockey player (d. 1971)
 - October 8 - Huntley Gordon, actor (d.1956)
 - October 14 - Frances Loring, sculptor (d.1968)
 - December 20 - Walter Russell Shaw, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1981)
 
Deaths
- February 25 - Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, missionary (b.1797)
 - March 28 - William Smithe, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (b.1842)
 - May 4 - William Murdoch, poet (b.1823)
 - May 8 - Sir William Young, Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1799)
 - June 25 - Matthew Crooks Cameron, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1822)
 - August 18 - John Palliser, explorer and geographer (b.1817)
 - October 11 - Louis-Adélard Senécal, businessman and politician (b.1829)
 - October 12 - William Annand, 2nd Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1808)
 
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