1902 in Canada - Events

Events

  • 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
  • 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, and in so doing coined the rodeo word stampede, thus launching his rodeo career as the world's first rodeo producer and stock contractor, as well as being the world's richest rodeo promoter with some 1 million acres (4,000 km2) of ranchland with 18,000 head of cattle and 3,000 head of horses. 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

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