1904 IN CANADA

''See also:''
1903 in Canada,
other events of 1904,
1905 in Canada and the
Timeline of Canadian history.
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Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ April 8 - In the Lansdowne-Cambon Convention France gives up some of its longstanding rights in Newfoundland

★ April 18 - The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but kills no one.

★ June 24 - The North West Mounted Police become the Royal North West Mounted Police

★ September 10 - American criminal Bill Miner stages Canada's first-ever train robbery

★ October 8 - Edmonton is incorporated as a city of the North-West Territories.

★ Henry Ford opens an automobile manufacturing plant in Windsor, Ontario

★ Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg opens

Births

★ January 4 - Pegi Nicol MacLeod, artist

★ January 14 - Walter Harris, politician

★ February 29 - Lloyd Stinson, Manitoba politician

★ March 6 - Farquhar Oliver, politician

★ April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actor

★ April 24 - Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger, clergyman

★ May 1 - Alfred Wallace Downer, politician

★ May 13 - Earle Birney, poet

★ May 29 - Eugene Forsey, politician

★ June 26 - Frank Scott Hogg, astrophysicist

★ July 22 - Donald Hebb, psychologist

★ September 7 - Matthew Halton, journalist

★ September 14 - Frank Amyot, Olympic gold medalist

★ September 23 - Geoffrey Waddington, conductor

★ September 29 - Robert Legget, engineer

★ October 20 - Tommy Douglas, socialist politician

★ November 18 - Jean Paul Lemieux, artist

★ November 26 - Armand Frappier, biologist

★ December 18 - Wilf Carter, composer and singer

★ December 25 - Gerhard Herzberg, scientist

★ December 29 - Léoda Gauthier, politician

★ Gustave Biéler, war hero

Deaths

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