← → Events from the year 1891 in Canada.

Residential school principal says teaching Gospel and how to live better compensates for robbing and half-starving Indigenous people[2] Poster: Conservatives campaign against reciprocity with United States as destructive of industry nurtured by Canada's National Policy[3] Prime Minister John A. Macdonald dies[4] Death of Prime Minister Macdonald, Conservative Party's "tyrannical master," leaves power vacuum[5] Imprisonment of ejected MP Thomas McGreevy strikes at pernicious level of corruption in public contracts[6][7] Heroism of rescuers at Springhill, Nova Scotia mining disaster [8] Bilingual English and Chinook periodical is published to improve Indigenous people's literacy[9] Federal bill aligns Canada with international time system based on global time zones and Greenwich, England time[10] Calm messenger pigeons by replacing trap-door entrance (which scares birds) and long roosting rail (on which they fight) in their loft[11]