1904 in Canada

See also: 1903 in Canada, other events of 1904, 1905 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Events

• April 8 – In the Lansdowne-Cambon Convention France gives up some of its longstandin rights in Newfoundland
• April 18 – The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but kills no one.
• June 24 – The North West Mounted Police become the Royal North West Mounted Police
• October 8 – Edmonton is incorporated as a city of the North-West Territories.
• The dominion government purchased Alberta and Saskatchewan from the North-West Territories for $1,636,000 dollars. Alberta and Saskatchewan then were granted $1,030,375 each and $62,500 each for the next five years
• Henry Ford opens an automobile manufacturing plant in Windsor, Ontario

Births

• January 4 – Pegi Nicol MacLeod, artist
• January 14 – Walter Harris, politician
• February 29 – Lloyd Stinson, Manitoba politician
• March 6 – Farquhar Oliver, politician
• April 16 – Fifi D'Orsay, actor
• April 24 – Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger, clergyman
• May 1 – Alfred Wallace Downer, politician
• May 13 – Earle Birney, poet
• May 29 – Eugene Forsey, politician
• July 22 – Donald Hebb, psychologist
• July 26 – Frank Hogg, astrophysicist
• September 7 – Matthew Halton, journalist
• September 14 – Frank Amyot, Olympic gold medalist
• September 23 – Geoffrey Waddington, conductor
• September 29 – Robert Legget, engineer
• October 20 – Tommy Douglas, socialist politician
• November 18 – Jean Paul Lemieux, artist
• November 26 – Armand Frappier, biologist
• December 18 – Wilf Carter, composer and singer
• December 25 – Gerhard Herzberg, scientist
• December 29 – Léoda Gauthier, politician
• Gustave Biéler, war hero