1895 in Canada

March – Maria Grant is the first woman in Canada to be elected to any office. She served six years on the Victoria School Board and was presented to the future George V as the only woman elected as a school trustee in Canada.
March 2 – Theodore Davie resigns as premier of British Columbia
March 4 – John Herbert Turner becomes premier of British Columbia
April 16 – The town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, is incorporated.
April 24 – Jean-Olivier Chénier Monument unveiled
July 1 – Maisonneuve Monument unveiled
October 2 – Additional provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established: the districts of Ungava, Mackenzie, Yukon, and Franklin. The districts of Keewatin and Athabaska are enlarged so that all points of Canada are either within a province or a district.
The Chinese Board of Trade is formed in Vancouver
First ascent of Mount Hector in Banff National Park.^[2]

Sport

February 1 – Conn Smythe, ice hockey manager and owner (d.1980)
February 15 – Earl Thomson, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1971)
March 23 – John Robert Cartwright, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d.1979)
April 30 – Philippe Panneton, physician, academic, diplomat and writer (d.1960)
May 12 – William Giauque, chemist and Nobel laureate (d.1982)
May 27 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, politician and 13th Premier of Manitoba (d.1995)

Leslie Frost

July 5 – Frederic McGrand, physician and politician (d. 1988)
July 7 – Thane Campbell, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1978)
July 29 – Albert A. Brown, politician and lawyer (d.1971)
September 7 – Pete Parker, radio announcer (d.1991)
September 18 – John Diefenbaker, politician and 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1979)
September 20 – Leslie Frost, politician and 16th Premier of Ontario (d.1973)
November 5 – Howard Charles Green, politician and Minister (d.1989)
December 1 – Edwin Hansford, politician (d.1959)

January 17 – Joseph Tassé, politician (b.1848)
January 28 – Camille Lefebvre (b.1831)
April 4 – Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (b.1842)
August 4 – Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, seigneur, journalist and politician (b.1818)
September 4 – Antoine Plamondon, artist (b.1804)
September 11 – Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (b.1822)
September 15 – Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (b.1842)

Liberal Party of Canada pamphlet comments on economic conditions^[3]

Maria Grant, elected to Victoria, B.C. school board, hopes next election will return two more women^[4]

Medical education of women, and how to answer objections to it^[5]

"Most opportune" that Blood Reserve agent came to Elkhorn, Man. residential school with 8 boys, for at that time Pata, from that reserve, died^[6]

Dominion's Indian Head farm sees trees leafed out by May 1 (3 weeks early), but fruit destroyed by 18° Fahrenheit (-7° Celsius) cold snap^[7]

Report on domestication of Barren Grounds caribou^[8]

^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
^ "Mount Hector". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
^ Liberal Party, "Facts for the People" (June 11, 1895). Accessed 20 December 2019
^ "Trustee Mrs. Grant" The Daily Colonist (March 12, 1895), pg. 6. Accessed 26 December 2019
^ Mrs. Ashley Carus-Wilson (Mary L.G. Petrie), "The Medical Education of Women; A Lecture" (1895). Accessed 20 December 2019
^ Letter to Superintendent General of Indian Affairs (July 31, 1895), "Reports of Superintendents and Agents," Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs(....) (1896), pg. 126. Accessed 29 November 2024
^ "Experimental Farm for the North-West Territories; Report of A. Mackay, Superintendent" (November 30, 1895), Sessional Papers; Volume 6; Sixth Session of the Seventh Parliament (1896), pg. 329. Accessed 26 September 2021
^ Department of the Interior, Lt. Gov. Schultz's Report on the Domestication of the Caribou of Northern Keewatin (1895). Accessed 20 December 2019
^ Memorial from the Legislation Committee of the Trade and Labour Council(....) Accessed 20 December 2019