1890 in Canada

See also: 1889 in Canada, other events of 1890, 1891 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Events

• March 31 – Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec.
• June 5 – Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority.

Arts and Literature

Births

• April 20 – Maurice Duplessis, Premier of Quebec
• March 21 – Norman Hipel, politician
• March 24 – Agnes Macphail, politician
• March 27 – John Horne Blackmore, politician
• March 30 – Norman Bethune, surgeon
• May 4 – Franklin Carmichael, painter
• May 17 – Lionel FitzGerald, artist
• May 30 – John Stuart Foster, phycisist
• July 27 – Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician
• August 10 – Angus L. Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia
• September 20 – Kathleen Parlow, violinist
• October 9 – Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist
• October 28 – Louis Orville Breithaupt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• December 10 – Byron Ingemar Johnson, Premier of British Columbia

Deaths

• April 25 – Crowfoot, Cree leader
• December 15 – Sitting Bull, Sioux leader