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1898 in Canada
See also: 1897 in Canada, other events of 1898, 1899 in Canada and the list of 'years 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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