1902 in Canada

February – The town of Crofton, British Columbia, is founded on Vancouver Island
May 21 – 1902 Northwest Territories general election
May 24 – The first Victoria Day is celebrated
May 29 – 1902 Ontario general election: G. W. Ross's Liberals win a second consecutive majority. Margaret Haile runs as a candidate of the Canadian Socialist League in Toronto North, becoming the first woman ever to stand in a provincial election.
May 31 – The Second Boer War ends, and Canadian troops return home to great acclaim
July 1 – Ray Knight stages the first Raymond Stampede in Raymond, Alberta. This was the first use of the word stampede in the name of a rodeo. The Raymond Stampede is now Canada's oldest rodeo
August 9 – Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom and of Canada.
October 10 – Altona schoolhouse shooting
October 20 – The first train enters Edmonton, by way of the Canadian Northern's Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway across the Low Level Bridge
November 21 – Edward Prior becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing James Dunsmuir
December 15 – The first transatlantic radio press report is filed from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
The first ascent of Mount Forbes by James Outram and party

Arts and literature edit

January 22 – Jean-Paul Beaulieu, politician and chartered accountant (d.1976)
February 17 – Howard O'Hagan, writer
April 14 – Olive Diefenbaker, wife of John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1976)
April 20 – Elizabeth Goudie, writer (d.1982)
May 24 – Sylvia Daoust, sculptor (d.2004)
June 17 – Anna Hilliard, doctor
June 19 – Guy Lombardo, bandleader and violinist (d.1977)
June 21 – Howie Morenz, ice hockey player (d.1937)

February 12 – Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Governor General of Canada (b.1826)
February 19 – Richard Maurice Bucke, psychiatrist (b.1837)
August 5 – Thomas Christie, physician, professor and politician (b.1834)
August 10 – James McMillan, United States Senator from Michigan from 1889 until 1902. (b.1838)
October 31 – John A. Dawson, politician (b.1826)

Laurier cabinet member praised as "Finance Minister of surpluses, high wages and general prosperity"^[2]

North-West Territories official says rapidly developing N.W.T. could become Canada's dominant province^[3]

Copper and nickel miners live in pollution-devastated landscape near Sudbury, Ontario^[4]

Western farmers form grain growers association to oppose corporations and "wheat blockade"^[5]

Immigrants arrive in Saskatchewan and enjoy megabushel first harvest of wheat^[6]

Entomologist on pest control with crude petroleum, potash-and-fish-oil (either in solution) and hydrocyanic acid gas in fumigation tents^[7]

Young mission doctor captains medical ship through storm on Strait of Belle Isle^[8]

Lucy Maud Montgomery gives tips to beginning photographers^[9]

^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy. Dundurn. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8.
^ "The Fielding Banquet; An Account of the Dinner Given by the Liberals of Nova Scotia(....)" Accessed 23 January 2020
^ "Provincial Status;(...)The North-West 'Asks For Nothing Unreasonable'(....)" Regina Leader (January 23, 1902), pg. 5. Accessed 23 January 2020
^ James Lumsden, Through Canada in Harvest Time[....] (1903), pgs. 315-17
^ "A Grain Growers' Association Formed At Indian Head" Regina Leader (January 9, 1902), pg. 5. Accessed 22 January 2020
^ Canadian Pacific Railway, Home Life of Women in Western Canada (1907), pgs. 24-5 Accessed 23 January 2020
^ "Insects, Fungous Diseases–Treatments" (March 20, 1902), Appendix to the Thirty-Seventh Volume of the Journals of the House of Commons, pgs. 55-61. Accessed 15 August 2021
^ Cluny Macpherson, "A Bad Night in the Straits of Belle Isle" Dr. Cluny Macpherson Notebook 2, pgs. 51-8. Accessed 23 January 2020
^ "Cynthia," "Around the Table; Photography as a Hobby" Halifax Daily Echo (May 12, 1902). Accessed 23 January 2020