Events from the year 1886 in Canada.
Incumbents Crown Monarch – Victoria
Federal government Governor General – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) Parliament – 5th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Rodrigue Masson
Premiers Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan Premier of Quebec – John Jones Ross
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney
Events March 25 – Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario April 6 – Vancouver incorporated as a city April 26 – 1886 New Brunswick general election June 7 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinal June 8 to 15 – 1886 Nova Scotia general election: William Stevens Fielding's Liberals win a third consecutive majority. June 13 – Great Vancouver Fire June 30 – 1886 Prince Edward Island general election: William Wilfred Sullivan Conservatives win a fifth consecutive majority. July 20 – 1886 British Columbia general election October 14 – 1886 Quebec general election: Honoré Mercier's Liberals win a majority December 9 – 1886 Manitoba general election December 14 – Yoho National Park established December 28 – 1886 Ontario general election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.
Full date unknown Mohawk men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River, beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois. Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel
Births January 15 – C. D. Howe, politician and Minister (d.1960) January 21 – George Kingston, meteorologist (b.1816) May 13 – William John Patterson, politician and 6th Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1976) August 4 – Pierre-François Casgrain, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d.1950) August 30 – Ray Lawson, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1980) September 20 – John Murray Anderson, Canadian-born American actor, dancer, theatre director (d. 1954 in the United States) October 16 – Joseph-Arthur Bradette, politician (d.1961)
Deaths
March 30 – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, politician and 6th Premier of Quebec (b.1837) March 31 – Amos Wright, farmer and politician (b.1809) June 25 Auguste Achintre, journalist and essayist (b.1834) Jean-Louis Beaudry, entrepreneur, politician and 11th Mayor of Montreal (b.1809) July 4 – Poundmaker, Cree chief (b. c1842) November 23 – William Jack, astronomer (b.1817)
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