1904 in Canada explained
Events from the year 1904 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Events
- April 8 – In the Lansdowne-Cambon Convention France gives up some of its longstanding rights in Newfoundland
- April 19 – 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 Northwest Mounted Police
Full date unknown
Births
January to June
July to December
- July 22 – Donald O. Hebb, psychologist (d.1985)
- August 15 – George Klein, inventor (d. 1992)
- September 7 – Matthew Halton, radio and television journalist (d.1956)
- September 14 – Frank Amyot, sprint canoer and Olympic gold medallist (d.1962)
- September 23 – Geoffrey Waddington, conductor
- September 29 – Robert Legget, civil engineer, historian and non-fiction writer (d.1994)
- October 20 – Tommy Douglas, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1986)
- November 18 – Jean Paul Lemieux, painter (d.1990)
- November 26 – Armand Frappier, physician and microbiologist (d.1991)
- December 18 – Wilf Carter, country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and yodeller (d.1996)
- December 25 – Gerhard Herzberg, physicist and physical chemist (d.1999)
- December 28 – Bobbie Rosenfeld, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1969)
- December 29 – Léo Gauthier, politician (d.1964)
Deaths
- January 9 – Christian Kumpf, mayor of Waterloo, Ontario (b. 1838)
- February 9 – Erastus Wiman, journalist and businessman (b.1834)
- March 9 – Robert Machray, clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada (b.1831)
- April 17 – Joseph Brunet, politician and businessman (b.1834)
- May 11 – David Breakenridge Read, lawyer and 14th Mayor of Toronto (b. 1823)
- August 8 – James Cox Aikins, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1823)
- August 31 – Jean-Baptiste Blanchet, politician (b.1842)
- September 26 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman (b.1848)
Historical documents
Great Toronto Fire and its aftermath, in eyewitness accounts and critical postmortem[2]
Film of Great Toronto Fire[3]
Photo of Toronto fire ruins[4]
Anaconda, B.C. forest fire starts in "dry brush several feet thick" made of fallen trees amid much scrubby pine and fir killed by smelter smoke[5]
Dubious story about people smuggling prompts editorial on journalistic accuracy[6]
Burrowing owl increasing and Passenger pigeon disappearing in Manitoba[7]
Manitoba Free Press special Christmas issue contains goose quill pen[8]
Notes and References
- Book: Tidridge . Nathan . Canada's Constitutional Monarchy . 15 November 2011 . Dundurn . 978-1-55488-980-8 . 235 . en.
- Fergus Kyle, "Incidents at a Great Fire" The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (June 1904), pgs. 136-40.Norman Patterson, "Toronto's Great Fire" The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (June 1904), pgs. 128-35. Accessed 24 January 2020
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gCde6RoD2M "Century Snapshots;(...)The Great Toronto Fire"
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Fire_Ruins,_Front_Street._April_19th,_1904_(HS85-10-14898)_original.tif "Toronto Fire Ruins, Front Street"
- https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/xanaconda/1.0169512 "Forest Fire; Breaks Out in Woods Below Anaconda — Property Burned"
- https://fishercollections.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/cpp%3ACPP190504 "Plea for Accuracy"
- George E. Atkinson, Rare Bird Records of Manitoba (1904), pgs. 6-8 Accessed 24 January 2020
- Manitoba Free Press, "A Quill from a Canada Wild Goose: With the Cree Legend of Nih-Ka, the Wild Goose, Set Forth for the First Time in Print" (1904). Accessed 24 January 2020