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((Short description|Canada-related events during the year of 1904))
((More citations needed|date=January 2020))

((Year in Canada|1904))
((History of Canada))

Events from the year '''1904 in Canada'''.

==Incumbents==

=== Crown ===
* [[List of Canadian monarchs|Monarch]] – [[Edward VII]]<ref>((cite book |last1=Tidridge |first1=Nathan |title=Canada's Constitutional Monarchy |date=15 November 2011 |publisher=Dundurn |isbn=978-1-55488-980-8 |page=235 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KAvtMxqSDncC&pg=PA235 |language=en))</ref>

=== Federal government ===
* [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]] – [[Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto]] (until December 10) then [[Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey]] 
* [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] – [[Wilfrid Laurier]]
* [[Chief Justice of Canada|Chief Justice]] – [[Henri Elzéar Taschereau]] ([[Quebec]])
* [[Parliament of Canada|Parliament]] – [[9th Canadian Parliament|9th]] (until 29 September)

=== Provincial governments ===

==== Lieutenant governors ====
*[[Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia]] – [[Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière]]  
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba]] – [[Daniel Hunter McMillan]]
*[[Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick]] – [[Jabez Bunting Snowball]] 
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia]] – [[Alfred Gilpin Jones]]    
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Ontario]] – [[William Mortimer Clark]] 
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island]] – [[Peter Adolphus McIntyre|Peter A. McIntyre]] (until October 3) then [[Donald Alexander MacKinnon]] 
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Quebec]] – [[Louis-Amable Jetté]]

==== Premiers ====
*[[Premier of British Columbia]] – [[Richard McBride]]  
*[[Premier of Manitoba]] – [[Rodmond Roblin]]  
*[[Premier of New Brunswick]] – [[Lemuel John Tweedie]]
*[[Premier of Nova Scotia]] – [[George Henry Murray]] 
*[[Premier of Ontario]] – [[George William Ross]]    
*[[Premier of Prince Edward Island]] – [[Arthur Peters (Canadian politician)|Arthur Peters]] 
*[[Premier of Quebec]] – [[Simon-Napoléon Parent]]

=== Territorial governments ===

==== Commissioners ====
* [[Commissioner of Yukon]] – [[Frederick Tennyson Congdon]] (until October 29) then [[Zachary Taylor Wood]] (acting)

==== Lieutenant governors ====
* [[Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin]] – [[Daniel Hunter McMillan]]
* [[Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories]] – [[Amédée E. Forget]]

==== Premiers ====
* [[Premier of North-West Territories]] – [[Frederick W. A. G. Haultain|Frederick Haultain]]

==Events==
*April 8 – In the [[Lansdowne-Cambon Convention]] France gives up some of its longstanding rights in [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]]
* April 19 – The [[Great Fire of Toronto (1904)|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
* September 10 – [[United States|American]] criminal [[Bill Miner]] stages Canada's first-ever [[train robbery]] 
* October 8 – [[Edmonton]] is incorporated as a [[city]] of the [[North-West Territories]].

===Full date unknown===
* [[Henry Ford]] opens an [[automobile]] [[manufacturing]] plant in [[Windsor, Ontario]]
* [[Assiniboine Park]] in Winnipeg opens

==Births==

===January to June===
*January 4 – [[Pegi Nicol MacLeod]], artist (d.[[1949 in Canada|1949]])
*January 14 – [[Walter Edward Harris|Walter Harris]], politician and lawyer (d.[[1999 in Canada|1999]])
*February 29 – [[Lloyd Stinson]], politician (d.[[1976 in Canada|1976]])
*March 6 – [[Farquhar Oliver]], politician (d.[[1989 in Canada|1989]])
*March 26 – [[Gustave Biéler]], [[Special Operations Executive]] agent during [[World War II]] (d.[[1944 in Canada|1944]])
*April 16 – [[Fifi D'Orsay]], actress (d.[[1983 in Canada|1983]])
*April 26 – [[Paul-Émile Léger]], [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] (d.[[1991 in Canada|1991]])
*May 1 – [[Wally Downer]], politician (d.[[1994 in Canada|1994]])
*May 13 – [[Earle Birney]], poet (d.[[1995 in Canada|1995]])
[[File:Eugene Alfred Forsey.jpg|thumb|150px|Eugene Forsey]]
*May 29 – [[Eugene Forsey]], politician and constitutional expert (d.[[1991 in Canada|1991]])
*June 26 – [[Frank Scott Hogg]], astrophysicist (d.[[1951 in Canada|1951]])

===July to December===
*July 22 – [[Donald O. Hebb]], psychologist (d.[[1985 in Canada|1985]])
*August 15 – [[George Klein (inventor)|George Klein]], inventor (d. [[1992 in Canada|1992]])
*September 7 – [[Matthew Halton]], radio and television journalist (d.[[1956 in Canada|1956]])
*September 14 – [[Frank Amyot]], sprint canoer and Olympic gold medallist (d.[[1962 in Canada|1962]])
*September 23 – [[Geoffrey Waddington]], conductor
*September 29 – [[Robert Legget]], civil engineer, historian and non-fiction writer (d.[[1994 in Canada|1994]])
*October 20 – [[Tommy Douglas]], politician and [[Premier of Saskatchewan]] (d.[[1986 in Canada|1986]])
*November 18 – [[Jean Paul Lemieux]], painter (d.[[1990 in Canada|1990]])
*November 26 – [[Armand Frappier]], physician and microbiologist (d.[[1991 in Canada|1991]])
*December 18 – [[Wilf Carter (musician)|Wilf Carter]], country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and yodeller (d.[[1996 in Canada|1996]])
*December 25 – [[Gerhard Herzberg]], physicist and physical chemist (d.[[1999 in Canada|1999]])
*December 28 – [[Bobbie Rosenfeld]], athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.[[1969 in Canada|1969]])
*December 29 – [[Léo Gauthier]], politician (d.[[1964 in Canada|1964]])

==Deaths==
*January 9 – [[Christian Kumpf]], mayor of [[Waterloo, Ontario]] (b. [[1838 in Canada|1838]])
*February 9 – [[Erastus Wiman]], journalist and businessman (b.[[1834 in Canada|1834]])
*March 9 – [[Robert Machray]], clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the [[Church of England in Canada]] (b.[[1831 in Canada|1831]])
*April 17 – [[Joseph Brunet]], politician and businessman (b.[[1834 in Canada|1834]])
*May 11 – [[David Breakenridge Read]], lawyer and 14th Mayor of Toronto (b. [[1823 in Canada|1823]])
*August 8 – [[James Cox Aikins]], politician, Minister and [[Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba]] (b.[[1823 in Canada|1823]])
*August 31 – [[Jean-Baptiste Blanchet]], politician (b.[[1842 in Canada|1842]])
*September 26 – [[John Fitzwilliam Stairs]], entrepreneur and statesman (b.[[1848 in Canada|1848]])

==Historical documents==
[[Great Fire of Toronto (1904)|Great Toronto Fire]] and its aftermath, in eyewitness accounts and critical postmortem<ref>Fergus Kyle, [http://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06251_136/70?r=0&s=1 "Incidents at a Great Fire"] The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (June 1904), pgs. 136-40.
Norman Patterson, [http://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06251_136/62?r=0&s=1 "Toronto's Great Fire"] The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (June 1904), pgs. 128-35. Accessed 24 January 2020</ref>

Film of [[Great Fire of Toronto (1904)|Great Toronto Fire]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gCde6RoD2M "Century Snapshots;(...)The Great Toronto Fire"] Accessed 24 January 2020</ref>

Photo of Toronto fire ruins<ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Fire_Ruins,_Front_Street._April_19th,_1904_(HS85-10-14898)_original.tif "Toronto Fire Ruins, Front Street"] (April 19, 1904), British Library. Accessed 23 December 2021</ref>

[[Anaconda, British Columbia|Anaconda, B.C.]] [[Wildfire#Spread|forest fire]] starts in "dry brush several feet thick" made of fallen trees amid much scrubby pine and fir killed by [[Smelting#Environmental impacts|smelter smoke]]<ref>[https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/xanaconda/1.0169512 "Forest Fire; Breaks Out in Woods Below Anaconda — Property Burned"] The Anaconda News, Vol. 4, No. 25 (June 1, 1904), pgs. 1, 6. Accessed 1 August 2021</ref>

Dubious story about people smuggling prompts [[editorial]] on [[Journalism#Ethics and standards|journalistic accuracy]]<ref>[https://fishercollections.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/cpp%3ACPP190504 "Plea for Accuracy"] The Canadian Printer and Publisher, Vol. XIV, No. 4 (April 1905), pg. 10. Accessed 24 January 2020</ref>

[[Burrowing owl]] increasing and [[Passenger pigeon]] disappearing in Manitoba<ref>George E. Atkinson, Rare Bird Records of Manitoba (1904), [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2734/7.html pgs. 6-8] Accessed 24 January 2020</ref>

[[Winnipeg Free Press|Manitoba Free Press]] special Christmas issue contains [[Pen#Historic|goose quill pen]]<ref>Manitoba Free Press, [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2778/6.html "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</ref>

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