Events from the year 1888 in Canada.
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January to June
- January 18 – Charles Gavan Power, politician, Minister and Senator (d.1968)
- January 20 – Ethel Wilson, novelist and short story writer (d.1980)
- February 28 – George Pearkes, politician, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (d.1984)
- March 24 – Samuel Rosborough Balcom, politician (d.1981)
- April 6 – Leonard Brockington, lawyer, civil servant and first head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (d.1966)
- April 8 – Dora Mavor Moore, actor, teacher and director (d.1979)
- April 23
- April 28 – Harry Crerar, General (d.1965)
- May 3 – Johan Helders, photographer
July to December
- July 11 – John Keiller MacKay, soldier, jurist and 19th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1970)
- August 3 – Margaret Murray, journalist
- September 2 – Dorothy Stevens, artist
- September 7 – William Bryce, politician
- September 15 – Filip Konowal, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient in 1917 (d.1959)
- September 18
- October 23 – Onésime Gagnon, politician and the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d.1961)
- November 3 – Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger, politician and lawyer (d.1958)
- November 11 – S. E. Rogers, politician (d.1965)
- November 25 – Joseph W. Noseworthy, politician (d.1956)
- December 2 – Major James Coldwell, politician (d.1974)
- January 17 – Big Bear, Cree leader (b. c1825)
- February 4 – Sévère Rivard, lawyer, politician and 17th Mayor of Montreal (b.1834)
- March 2 – William Elliott, farmer, merchant and politician (b.1834)
- April 21 – Thomas White, journalist and politician (b.1830)
- May 3 – William Alexander Henry, politician (b.1816)
- May 12 – Élie Saint-Hilaire, educator, farmer and politician (b.1839)
- May 30 – James Ferrier, merchant, politician and 4th Mayor of Montreal (b.1800)
- August 4 – Charles-Joseph Coursol, lawyer, politician and 13th Mayor of Montreal (b.1819)
- August 24 – John Rose, politician (b.1820)
- October 1 – James Gibb Ross, merchant and politician (b.1819)
House of Commons committee hears of cartels conspiring to control products ranging from groceries to coal to stoves and coffins[2]
Sandford Fleming's ideas on telegraph line to Australia[3]
Indenture form between "Guardian" and caretaker/employer who agrees to pay immigrant boy and give him "good clothing and schooling" etc. for work[4]
U.S. Supreme Court rules on Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent in light of previous invention claimed by "a poor mechanic"[5]
Brief visit to Chinatown temple in Victoria, B.C.[6]
In report on northern lands, Senate committee points out unwanted wildlife loss from "greater ease in their capture" and use of poison[7]
Lecturer describes dogs of Hudson Strait Inuit[8]
Youth indenture form (Pursuant to March 9, 1888 Order in Council), Immigration Program: Headquarters central registry files: C-4709, Image 379 Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 26 May 2024
James Carmichael, A Holiday Trip; Montreal to Victoria and Return via the Canadian Pacific Railway[...] (1888), pgs. 28-9 Accessed 10 October 2019
Senate Committees, 6th Parliament, 2nd Session: Select Committee on Resources of the Great Mackenzie Basin, Vol. 1, pg. 13 Accessed 1 October 2020
Wm. A. Ashe, "The Eskimos of Hudson Straits," Lectures Given at the Quebec Garrison Club, 1888-9 (1889), pgs. 25-6, 43-5. Accessed 10 October 2019