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EVENTS

January 8 - Hugh John Macdonald becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Thomas Greenway

plays a decisive role in the Battle Of Paardeburg

February 27 - Charles Semlin is dismissed as premier of British Columbia

February 28 - Joseph Martin becomes premier of British Columbia

leave for South Africa

April 26 - Two thirds of Hull, Quebec is destroyed in a fire.

June 15 - James Dunsmuir becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Joseph Martin

August 31 - Lemuel Tweedie becomes premier of New Brunswick , replacing Henry Emmerson

October 8 - Simon-Napoléon Parent becomes premier of Quebec , replacing Félix-Gabriel Marchand

October 29 - Sir Rodmond Roblin becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Hugh John Macdonald

's Liberals win a second consecutive majority

begins, three Canadians receive the Victoria Cross for their valour in the engagement.

December 6 - Alphonse Desjardins founds Mouvement Desjardins , the first Credit Union in North America.

The federal government doubles head tax on Chinese immigrants

The Canadian Tuberculosis Association meets for the first time

BIRTHS

January 8 - Solon Earl Low , politician

February 20 - Graham Spry , journalist

March 12 - David Croll , politician

April 19 - Roland Michener , Governor-General of Canada

May 25 - Alain Grandbois , poet

May 25 - Malcolm Norris , Métis leader

May 29 - Antonio Talbot , Quebec politician

June 3 - Gordon Sinclair , journalist

June 21 - Edward Rogers , inventor

August 13 - Gordon Sparling , filmmaker

September 6 - W. A. C. Bennett , Premier of BC

November 20 - Athole Shearer , actor

Harry Cassidy , academic

DEATHS

Lucius Richard O'Brien , painter & first president of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art