1897 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 |
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Events from the year 1897 in Canada.
Contents
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
Federal government
- Governor general – John Hamilton-Gordon (viceregal consort – Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair)
- Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney (until November 18) then Thomas Robert McInnes
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Casimir Gzowski (acting) (until November 18) then Oliver Mowat
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George William Howlan
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – John Herbert Turner
- Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
- Premier of New Brunswick – James Mitchell (until October 29) then Henry Emmerson
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – Arthur Sturgis Hardy
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Peters (until October 1) then Alexander Warburton
- Premier of Quebec – Edmund James Flynn (until May 24) then Félix-Gabriel Marchand
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon - James Morrow Walsh (from August 17)
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Charles Herbert Mackintosh
Premiers
- Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories then Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain (from October 7)
Events
- January 29 - The Victorian Order of Nurses is founded in Ottawa
- February 2 - Clara Brett Martin becomes the first woman to practise law in Ontario
- February 19 - World's first Women's Institute founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario
- May 24 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Edmund Flynn
- May 24 - Lion of Belfort (Montreal) unveiled
- September 6 - The federal government gives the CPR a grant to allow it to reduce freight rates through Crowsnest Pass
- October - A.B. Warburton becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island
- October 7 - Responsible government is introduced in the North-West Territories: Frederick Haultain becomes the first premier
- October 29 - Henry Emmerson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing James Mitchell
Full date unknown
- Klondike Gold Rush rages in the Yukon
- Lord Grey proposes that Canada create a navy to protect its west coast; Prime Minister Laurier does not act on the recommendation
- 1897–1912 - 961,000 people enter Canada from the British Isles, 594,000 from Europe and 784,000 from the United States.
- The first Canadian movie, Ten Years in Manitoba
Births
File:Lester B. Pearson with a pencil.jpg
Lester Bowles Pearson in 1944
- January 23 - William Stephenson, soldier, airman, businessperson, inventor and spymaster (d.1989)
- January 27 - Charles Stephen Booth, politician and barrister
- March 9 - Sidney Earle Smith, academic and 7th President of the University of Toronto (d.1959)
- April 23 - Lester B. Pearson, politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, diplomat and 1957 Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d.1972)
- September 23 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (d.1984)
- September 29 - Graham Towers, first Governor of the Bank of Canada (d.1975)
- November 30 - William Murdoch Buchanan, politician (d.1966)
- December 7 - Gordon Graydon, politician (d.1953)
Deaths
- January 2 - Thomas McGreevy, politician and contractor (b.1825)
- February 27 - James Austin, businessman (b.1813)
- July 4 - Amor De Cosmos, journalist, politician and 2nd Premier of British Columbia (b.1825)
- September 19 - Frederick Cope, 3rd Mayor of Vancouver (b.1860)
- October 21 - Philip Francis Little, 1st Premier of Newfoundland of the colonial (b.1824)
- December 14 - Robert Simpson, businessman and founder of Simpsons (b.1834)
- December 15 - James Mitchell, politician and 7th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1843)
- December 31 - David Oppenheimer, entrepreneur and 2nd Mayor of Vancouver (b.1832)
