1904 in Canada
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Events from the year 1904 in Canada.
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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 Northwest 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.
Full date unknown
- Henry Ford opens an automobile manufacturing plant in Windsor, Ontario
- Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg opens
Births
January to June
- January 4 - Pegi Nicol MacLeod, artist (d.1949)
- January 14 - Walter Harris, politician and lawyer (d.1999)
- February 29 - Lloyd Stinson, politician (d.1976)
- March 6 - Farquhar Oliver, politician (d.1989)
- March 26 - Gustave Biéler, Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (d.1944)
- April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress (d.1983)
- April 26 - Paul-Émile Léger, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d.1991)
- May 1 - Wally Downer, politician (d.1994)
- May 13 - Earle Birney, poet (d.1995)
- May 29 - Eugene Forsey, politician and constitutional expert (d.1991)
- June 26 - Frank Scott Hogg, astrophysicist (d.1951)
July to December
- July 22 - Donald O. Hebb, psychologist (d.1985)
- August 15 - George Klein, inventor (d. 1992)
- September 7 - Matthew Halton, radio and television journalist (d.1956)
- September 14 - Frank Amyot, sprint canoer and Olympic gold medalist (d.1962)
- September 23 - Geoffrey Waddington, conductor
- September 29 - Robert Legget, civil engineer, historian and non-fiction writer (d.1994)
- October 20 - Tommy Douglas, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1986)
- November 18 - Jean Paul Lemieux, painter (d.1990)
- November 26 - Armand Frappier, physician and microbiologist (d.1991)
- December 18 - Wilf Carter, country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and yodeller (d.1996)
- December 25 - Gerhard Herzberg, physicist and physical chemist (d.1999)
- December 28 - Bobbie Rosenfeld, athlete and Olympic gold medalist (d.1969)
- December 29 - Léoda Gauthier, politician (d.1964)
Deaths
- February 9 - Erastus Wiman, journalist and businessman (b.1834)
- March 9 - Robert Machray, clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada (b.1831)
- April 17 - Joseph Brunet, politician and businessman (b.1834)
- August 8 - James Cox Aikins, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1823)
- August 31 - Jean Baptiste Blanchet, politician (b.1842)
- September 26 - John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman (b.1848)
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