1892 in Canada

See also: 1891 in Canada, other events of 1892, 1893 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Events

• June 29 – John Robson, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office
• July 2 – Theodore Davie becomes Premier of British Columbia
• July 8 – Two thirds of St. Johns, Newfoundland destroyed in a fire
• November 24 – Sir John Abbott resigns as Prime Minister
• December 5 – Sir John Sparrow David Thompson becomes PM, one of his first acts is to establish the Criminal Code of Canada
• December 16 – Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville
• First documented womens hockey game in takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on a frozen outdoor ice surface
• News media: The Toronto Star founded

Births

• April 8 – Mary Pickford, actor
• May 3 – Jacob Viner, economist
• May 18 – John Croke, VC
• June 13 – Kenneth McKenzie, neurosurgeon
• July 14 – Jack Sissons, jurist
• August 16 – Harold Foster, artist
• September 24 – Adélard Godbout, politician
• November 20 – Bert Collip, biochemist
• December 20 – Percy Corbett, legal scholar

Deaths

• June 9 – William Stairs, explorer and soldier