1898 In Canada

Events

• March 1 - 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority
• June 13 - Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories
• July 29 - White Pass and Yukon Railway opens
• August - Donald Farquharson becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing A. B. Warburton
• August 8 - John Herbert Turner is dismissed as premier of British Columbia
• August 15 - Charles Semlin becomes premier of British Columbia
• September 11 - New Westminster, British Columbia destroyed by fire
• Kit Coleman covers the Spanish-American War as Canada's first female war correspondent

Births

• May 20 - Paul Gouin, Quebec politician
• May 27 - William Arthur Irwin, journalist
• July 7 - Hugh Keenleyside, diplomat
• August 23 - Brooke Claxton, politician
• August 27 - Gaspard Fauteux, politician
• November 8 - Marie Prevost, actor
• December 1 - Stuart Garson, Premier of Manitoba
• George Lawrence Price, last soldier killed in WWI
• Maurice Spector, communist

Deaths

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