1920 in Canada
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Events

  • January 10 - Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     is a founding member of the League of Nations
    League of Nations
    The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...

  • February 1 - The Royal Northwest Mounted Police renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
    Royal Canadian Mounted Police
    The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...

  • February 14 - Université de Montréal
    Université de Montréal
    The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

     founded
  • February 26 - The Indian Act
    Indian Act
    The Indian Act , R.S., 1951, c. I-5, is a Canadian statute that concerns registered Indians, their bands, and the system of Indian reserves...

     was amended to give Canadian aboriginal peoples the right to vote.
  • March 12 - The first Lions Club outside the United States is founded in Windsor, Ontario
    Windsor, Ontario
    Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and is located in Southwestern Ontario at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. It is within Essex County, Ontario, although administratively separated from the county government. Separated by the Detroit River, Windsor...

    .
  • May 14 - Canadian Forum
    Canadian Forum
    The Canadian Forum was a left-wing literary, cultural and political publication and Canada's longest running continually published political magazine.It was founded in 1920 at the University of Toronto as a forum for political and cultural ideas...

     magazine founded
  • June - The Catholic Women's League
    Catholic Women's League
    The Catholic Women's League is a Roman Catholic lay organisation aimed at women in England and Wales. Through emigration in the past, the CWL may be found in some Commonwealth countries. It is especially flourishing in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. -References:* Olivier Rota,...

     is formed in Montreal
    Montreal
    Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

  • June 24 - Dollard des Ormeaux Monument unveiled
  • July 1 - The Dominion Elections Act, uniform franchise is established and the right for women to be elected to parliament is made permanent.
  • July 9 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
    Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
    Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was a the 14th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1920 to 1936. He was elected four times, the first in 1900, in the riding of Montmorency. He was also a member of the Parti libéral du Québec...

     becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Lomer Gouin
    Lomer Gouin
    Sir Jean Lomer Gouin, PC, KCMG was a Canadian politician.-Biography:He was born in Grondines, Quebec and served as 13th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, as a Cabinet minister in the federal government of Canada, and as the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.On May 24, 1888, he married...

  • July 10 - Arthur Meighen
    Arthur Meighen
    Arthur Meighen, PC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served two terms as the ninth Prime Minister of Canada: from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921; and from June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and the only one to represent a riding...

     becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Robert Borden
    Robert Borden
    Sir Robert Laird Borden, PC, GCMG, KC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911 to July 10, 1920, and was the third Nova Scotian to hold this office...

  • October 17 - The first airplane to fly across Canada arrives in Richmond
    Richmond, British Columbia
    Richmond is a coastal city, incorporated in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Part of Metro Vancouver, its neighbouring communities are Vancouver and Burnaby to the north, New Westminster to the east, and Delta to the south, while the Strait of Georgia forms its western border...

     from Halifax
    City of Halifax
    Halifax is a city in Canada, which was the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire town of Halifax County. It was the largest city in Atlantic Canada until it was amalgamated into Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996...

    .
  • December 25 - Walter Cameron Nichol
    Walter Cameron Nichol
    Walter Cameron Nichol was a Canadian journalist, newspaper editor and publisher, and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.-References:...

     becomes the 12th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
    Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
    The Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia is the viceregal representative in British Columbia of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared with equally the ten other jurisdictions of Canada and resides predominantly in her oldest...


Date Unknown

Esther Marjorie Hill (1895–1985) becomes the first female architect in Canada when she graduates from the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

.

Arts and literature

  • May 7 - The first exhibit of art by the Group of Seven
    Group of Seven (artists)
    The Group of Seven, sometimes known as the Algonquin school, were a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920-1933, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael , Lawren Harris , A. Y. Jackson , Franz Johnston , Arthur Lismer , J. E. H. MacDonald , and Frederick Varley...

     opens in Toronto
    Toronto
    Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

    .
  • November 8 - The Capitol Cinema
    Capitol Cinema (Ottawa)
    The Capitol Cinema was the largest movie theatre ever built in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and was the city's only true movie palace. Opened in 1920, the 2530-seat cinema was regarded as one of the best cinemas designed by famed theatre-architect Thomas W...

     opens in Ottawa
    Ottawa
    Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

    , the capital's only true movie palace
    Movie palace
    A movie palace is a term used to refer to the large, elaborately decorated movie theaters built between the 1910s and the 1940s. The late 1920s saw the peak of the movie palace, with hundreds opened every year between 1925 and 1930.There are three building types in particular which can be subsumed...

    .
  • Undated - A group of artists, educators, and art patrons formed the British Columbia Art League to lobby the provincial
    Executive Council of British Columbia
    The Executive Council of British Columbia is the cabinet of that Canadian province....

     and city
    Vancouver City Council
    Vancouver City Council is the governing body of the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.The city is governed by the Vancouver Charter, not the Community Charter and the Local Government Act which are used for other municipal governments...

     governments for a school.

Sport

  • January 10 - The Montreal Canadiens
    Montreal Canadiens
    The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...

     and Toronto St. Patricks
    Toronto St. Patricks
    The Toronto St. Patricks professional men's ice hockey team started as an amateur ice hockey organization. In 1919, the club purchased the Toronto National Hockey League franchise from the NHL. The club renamed the franchise the Toronto St. Patricks club and operated the franchise until 1927, when...

     combine for twenty one goals to set an NHL record for most goals in a single game.
  • April 1 - The Ottawa Senators
    Ottawa Senators (original)
    The Ottawa Senators were an amateur, and later, professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a founding member of the National Hockey League and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934...

     win the Stanley Cup
    Stanley Cup
    The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoffs champion after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley's Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously as Lord Stanley's Mug...

    , defeating the Seattle Metropolitans
    Seattle Metropolitans
    The Seattle Metropolitans were a professional ice hockey team based in Seattle, Washington which played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. They won the Stanley Cup in 1917, becoming the first American team to do so...

    .
  • April 26 - The Winnipeg Falcons
    Winnipeg Falcons
    The Winnipeg Falcons were a senior men's amateur ice hockey team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the 1919-1920 season, the Winnipeg Falcons won the Allan Cup. That team went on to represent Canada in the 1920 Olympic games held in Antwerp, Belgium...

     representing Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     beat Sweden
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     12-1 to win the gold medal for Ice Hockey
    Ice hockey
    Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

     at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp
    Ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics
    Ice hockey was introduced to the Olympic Games at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. The matches were played between April 23 and April 29, 1920. All matches took place in the Palais de Glace d'Anvers . The rink measured 56 to 18 meters . All games were played with seven players on each side,...

    .
  • August 23 - Bert Schneider wins a gold medal for Canada in boxing at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp
    Boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics
    These are the results of the boxing competition at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. Medals were awarded in 8 weight classes. The competitions were held from August 21, 1920 to August 24, 1920.-Medal summary:-Medal table:-References:*...

    .

January to March

  • January 4 - James William Baskin
    James William Baskin
    James William Baskin was a Canadian politician, businessman and lumberman. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party to represent the riding of Renfrew South in the 1957 federal election...

    , politician and businessman (d.1999
    1999 in Canada
    Events from the year 1999 in Canada.-January to June:*January 1 - An avalanche destroys a school gymnasium during New Year's celebrations in Kangguspoo in far northern Quebec, killing 9.*February 9 - Brian Tobin's Liberals are re-elected in Newfoundland...

    )
  • January 4 - Douglas Pimlott, biologist
  • January 7 - Margaret Thompson, scientist
  • January 12 - Bill Reid
    Bill Reid
    William Ronald Reid, OBC was a Canadian artist whose works included jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and painting. His work is featured on the Canadian $20 banknote.-Biography:...

    , artist (d.1998
    1998 in Canada
    Events from the year 1998 in Canada.-January to March:*January 1 - Toronto and six other communities are merged to form a new megacity. The next day Mel Lastman is sworn in as its first mayor...

    )
  • February 23 - Paul Gérin-Lajoie
    Paul Gérin-Lajoie
    Paul Gérin-Lajoie, is a Canadian lawyer, philanthropist, and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Cabinet Minister....

    , lawyer, philanthropist, politician and Minister
  • February 25 - Merrill Edwin Barrington
    Merrill Edwin Barrington
    Merrill Edwin Barrington is a former Canadian politician, accountant and insurance broker. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1958 as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party for the riding of Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie. He was defeated in the elections of 1953, 1957...

    , politician
  • February 25 - Gérard Bessette
    Gérard Bessette
    Gérard Bessette was a French Canadian writer and educator.Bessette grew up in Montreal and attended the Collège Saint-Ignace...

    , author and educator (d.2005
    2005 in Canada
    Events from the year 2005 in Canada. This year was recognized, by Veterans Affairs Canada, as the Year of the Veteran.-January:*January 7 - Minister of Health Ujjal Dosanjh arrives in Sri Lanka to survey the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami damage....

    )
  • March 3 - James Doohan
    James Doohan
    James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek...

    , actor (d.2005
    2005 in Canada
    Events from the year 2005 in Canada. This year was recognized, by Veterans Affairs Canada, as the Year of the Veteran.-January:*January 7 - Minister of Health Ujjal Dosanjh arrives in Sri Lanka to survey the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami damage....

    )
  • March 19 - Cyril Lloyd Francis
    Cyril Lloyd Francis
    Cyril Lloyd Francis, PC was a Canadian politician and one time Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons...

    , politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
    Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
    The Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada is the presiding officer of the lower house of the Parliament of Canada and is elected at the beginning of each new parliament by fellow Members of Parliament...

     (d.2007
    2007 in Canada
    Events from the year 2007 in Canada.-January to March:*January 5 - The domed roof of BC Place Stadium in Vancouver collapses.*January 11 - A major blizzard rips through Central Saskatchewan....

    )

April to June

  • April 2 - Gerald Bouey
    Gerald Bouey
    Gerald Keith Bouey, was the fourth Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1973 to 1987, succeeding Louis Rasminsky. He was succeeded by John Crow....

    , 4th Governor of the Bank of Canada
    Bank of Canada
    The Bank of Canada is Canada's central bank and "lender of last resort". The Bank was created by an Act of Parliament on July 3, 1934 as a privately owned corporation. In 1938, the Bank became a Crown corporation belonging to the Government of Canada...

     (d.2004
    2004 in Canada
    Events from the year 2004 in Canada.-January:* January 1 - Montreal Dorval Airport is renamed, after some controversy, Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport....

    )
  • May 2 - William Hutt
    William Hutt (actor)
    William Ian DeWitt Hutt, was a Canadian actor of stage, television and film. Hutt's distinguished career spanned more than fifty years and won him many accolades and awards...

    , actor (d.2007
    2007 in Canada
    Events from the year 2007 in Canada.-January to March:*January 5 - The domed roof of BC Place Stadium in Vancouver collapses.*January 11 - A major blizzard rips through Central Saskatchewan....

    )
  • May 5 - Bill Hunter, ice hockey player, general manager and coach (d.2002
    2002 in Canada
    Events from the year 2002 in Canada.-Incumbents:Estimated Canadian population: 31,413,990-January to March:*January 11 - Ford Motor Co...

    )
  • May 8 - Harry Rankin
    Harry Rankin
    Harry Rankin was a Vancouver lawyer and socialist alderman on city council.- Early Years:Rankin was born Harry Riffkin in Vancouver to a secular Jewish family which had immigrated from the Ukraine...

    , lawyer and politician (d.2002
    2002 in Canada
    Events from the year 2002 in Canada.-Incumbents:Estimated Canadian population: 31,413,990-January to March:*January 11 - Ford Motor Co...

    )
  • May 27 - Peter Dmytruk
    Peter Dmytruk
    Peter Dmytruk is a military hero of World War II....

    , World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

     military hero (d.1943
    1943 in Canada
    -Events:*January 8 - Stuart Garson becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing John Bracken, who had governed for 21 years*May 11 - J. Walter Jones becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Thane Campbell...

    )
  • June 6 - Jan Rubes
    Jan Rubes
    Jan Ladislav Rubeš CM was a Czech-Canadian bass opera singer and actor.-Life and career:Rubeš was born in Volyně, Czechoslovakia, the son of Ružena and Jan Rubeš. Not too long after World War II, he graduated from the Prague Conservatoire and joined the Prague Opera House as a bass singer...

    , opera singer and actor d.2009
  • June 14 - Stanley Waters
    Stanley Waters
    Lieutenant General Stanley Charles "Stan" Waters, CD was Canada's first Senator to be appointed to his Senate seat following a non-binding provincial Senate election.-Early life:...

    , Senator (d.1991
    1991 in Canada
    Events from the year 1991 in Canada.-Incumbents:*Monarch: Elizabeth II*Governor General: Ray Hnatyshyn*Prime Minister: Brian Mulroney*Premier of Alberta: Don Getty*Premier of British Columbia: Bill Vander Zalm then Rita Johnston then Michael Harcourt...

    )
  • June 24 - Joe Greene, politician (d.1978
    1978 in Canada
    -Incumbents:*Monarch: Elizabeth II*Governor General: Jules Léger*Prime Minister: Pierre Trudeau*Premier of Alberta: Peter Lougheed*Premier of British Columbia: W.R...

    )

July to December

  • July 12 - Pierre Berton
    Pierre Berton
    Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist....

    , author, television personality and journalist (d.2004
    2004 in Canada
    Events from the year 2004 in Canada.-January:* January 1 - Montreal Dorval Airport is renamed, after some controversy, Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport....

    )
  • August 3 - Lucien Lamoureux
    Lucien Lamoureux
    Lucien Lamoureux, PC, OC was a Canadian politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons from 1966 to 1974...

    , politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
    Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
    The Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada is the presiding officer of the lower house of the Parliament of Canada and is elected at the beginning of each new parliament by fellow Members of Parliament...

     (d.1998
    1998 in Canada
    Events from the year 1998 in Canada.-January to March:*January 1 - Toronto and six other communities are merged to form a new megacity. The next day Mel Lastman is sworn in as its first mayor...

    )
  • August 19 - Agnes Benidickson
    Agnes Benidickson
    Agnes McCausland Benidickson, was the first female Chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, from 1980 to 1996....

    , first female Chancellor of Queen's University
    Queen's University
    Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...

     at Kingston, Ontario
    Kingston, Ontario
    Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

     (d.2007
    2007 in Canada
    Events from the year 2007 in Canada.-January to March:*January 5 - The domed roof of BC Place Stadium in Vancouver collapses.*January 11 - A major blizzard rips through Central Saskatchewan....

    )
  • August 24 - Alex Colville
    Alex Colville
    David Alexander Colville, is a Canadian painter.Colville's family moved from Toronto to Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938-1942, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Colville married Rhoda Wright that year and enlisted in the Canadian Army under the...

    , painter
  • September 6 - Helen Hunley
    Helen Hunley
    The Honourable Wilma Helen Hunley, OC, AOE was a former Canadian politician and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, the first woman to serve in that post.-Early life:...

    , politician (d. 2010
    2010 in Canada
    Events from the year 2010 in Canada.-January:*January 1 - The Ontario government files a lawsuit in an American court to stop the dumping of Asian carp into the Great Lakes, a fish that could damage the fishing industry....

    )
  • September 11 - Dalton Camp
    Dalton Camp
    Dalton Kingsley Camp, PC, OC was a Canadian journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator and supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Despite having never been elected to a seat in the House of Commons, he was a prominent and influential politician and a popular...

    , journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator (d.2002
    2002 in Canada
    Events from the year 2002 in Canada.-Incumbents:Estimated Canadian population: 31,413,990-January to March:*January 11 - Ford Motor Co...

    )
  • September 26 - Edmund Tobin Asselin
    Edmund Tobin Asselin
    Edmund Tobin Asselin was a Canadian politician, administrator and businessman. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 election as a Member of the Liberal Party representing the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. He was re-elected in 1963.- External links :*...

    , politician (d.1999
    1999 in Canada
    Events from the year 1999 in Canada.-January to June:*January 1 - An avalanche destroys a school gymnasium during New Year's celebrations in Kangguspoo in far northern Quebec, killing 9.*February 9 - Brian Tobin's Liberals are re-elected in Newfoundland...

    )
  • October 1 - Charles Daudelin
    Charles Daudelin
    Charles Daudelin, was a Canadian sculptor and painter, a major Quebec artist.Born in Granby, Quebec, he became a pioneer in integrating art into public space...

    , sculptor and painter (d.2001
    2001 in Canada
    Events from the year 2001 in Canada.- Incumbents :Estimated Canadian population: 31,110,565-January to March:*January 1 - The Ontario cities of Ottawa, Hamilton and Sudbury officially merge with their suburban municipalities to create new "megacities". Events from the year 2001 in Canada.-...

    )
  • October 13 - Evelyn Dick
    Evelyn Dick
    The murder trials of Evelyn Dick remain the most sensationalized events in Canadian crime history.Dick was born in Beamsville, Ontario. She was arrested for murder after local children in Hamilton, Ontario found the torso of her missing estranged husband, John Dick...

    , murderer
  • October 29 – Bill Juzda
    Bill Juzda
    William Juzda was a Canadian professional ice hockey defencemen from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He played with the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers of the National Hockey League and won two Stanley Cups with the Leafs in 1949 and 1951. Although not a prolific goal scorer Juzda built a reputation...

    , ice hockey player (d.2008
    2008 in Canada
    Events from the year 2008 in Canada.-January to March:* January 3 - In Montreal, a false bomb threat forces the closing of Victoria Bridge for four and a half hours....

    )
  • November 11 - John Ferguson Browne
    John Ferguson Browne
    John Ferguson Browne is a former Canadian politician, manager and traffic manager.Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1958 election to represent the riding of Vancouver Kingsway...

    , politician
  • November 18 - George Johnson
    George Johnson (Manitoba politician)
    George Johnson, OC was a medical doctor and is seen by historians as one of the leading political reformers of the twentieth century in Manitoba. He served as a Cabinet Minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir and as the province's 20th Lieutenant Governor from 1986 to...

    , politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
    Manitoba
    Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

     (d.1995
    1995 in Canada
    Events from the year 1995 in Canada.-Incumbents:*Monarch - Elizabeth II*Governor General - Ray Hnatyshyn then Roméo LeBlanc*Prime Minister - Jean Chrétien*Premier of Alberta - Ralph Klein*Premier of British Columbia - Mike Harcourt...

    )

January to June

  • February 12 - Aurore Gagnon
    Aurore Gagnon
    Aurore Gagnon , was a victim of child abuse. She died of exhaustion and blood poisoning from some 52 wounds inflicted by her stepmother, Marie-Anne Houde, and her father, Télesphore Gagnon...

    , murder victim (b.1909
    1909 in Canada
    -Events:* January 11 - The Boundary Waters Treaty signed.* February 23 - The first powered flight in Canada is made by John McCurdy aboard the Silver Dart.* March 22 - 1909 Alberta election: Alexander Rutherford's Liberals win a second consecutive majority....

    )
  • February 16 - Augustus F. Goodridge
    Augustus F. Goodridge
    Augustus Frederick Goodridge was a Newfoundland merchant and politician. Born in Devon, Goodridge arrived in Newfoundland when he was 13 and worked in his father's business and later became a fish merchant in St. John's. A Conservative, he was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1880...

    , politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1839
    1839 in Canada
    See also:1838 in Canada,other events of 1839,1840 in Canada.----Events from the year 1839 in Canada.-Events:*February 15 - Chevalier DeLorimier and others who joined in the Rebellion are executed....

    )
  • April 25 - Alexander Grant MacKay, teacher, lawyer and politician (b.1860
    1860 in Canada
    See also:1859 in Canada,other events of 1860,1861 in Canada.----Events from the year 1860 in Canada.-Events:*February 20 - 205 killed when the SS Hungarian is wrecked at Cape Sable, Nova Scotia...

    )
  • June 6 - James Dunsmuir
    James Dunsmuir
    James Dunsmuir was a British Columbian industrialist and politician. Son of Robert Dunsmuir, he was heir to his family's coal fortune. The Dunsmuir family dominated the province's economy in the late nineteenth century and were a leading force in opposing organized labour...

    , industrialist, politician and Premier of British Columbia
    British Columbia
    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

     (b.1851
    1851 in Canada
    See also:1850 in Canada,other events of 1851,1852 in Canada.----Events from the year 1851 in Canada.-Events:*April 7 - The first Canadian postage stamps are printed*April 25 - Prince Edward Island wins responsible government...

    )
  • June 18 - John Macoun
    John Macoun
    John Macoun was an Irish-born Canadian naturalist.- Early life :Macoun was born in Magheralin, County Down, Ireland in 1831, the third child of James Macoun and Anne Jane Nevin. In 1850 the worsening economic situation in Ireland led his family to emigrate to Canada, where he settled in Seymour...

    , naturalist (b.1831
    1831 in Canada
    See also:1830 in Canada,other events of 1831,1832 in Canada.----Events from the year 1831 in Canada.-Events:*A charter for a railway, from La Prairie, Quebec to St...

    )
  • June 27 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier
    Adolphe-Basile Routhier
    Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier was a Canadian judge, author, and lyricist. He wrote the lyrics of the original French version of the Canadian national anthem O Canada. He was born in Saint-Placide, Quebec to Charles Routhier and Angélique Lafleur.Routhier studied law at Université Laval and graduated...

    , judge, author and lyricist (b.1839
    1839 in Canada
    See also:1838 in Canada,other events of 1839,1840 in Canada.----Events from the year 1839 in Canada.-Events:*February 15 - Chevalier DeLorimier and others who joined in the Rebellion are executed....

    )

July to December

  • September 5 - Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe, second wife of John A. Macdonald
    John A. Macdonald
    Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, PC , QC was the first Prime Minister of Canada. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, his political career spanned almost half a century...

    , first Prime Minister of Canada
    Prime Minister of Canada
    The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...

     (b.1836
    1836 in Canada
    See also:1835 in Canada,other events of 1836,1837 in Canada.----Events from the year 1836 in Canada.-Events:*Opening of Canada's first railway line, from St. Johns, Quebec, to La Prairie, Quebec....

    )
  • September 7 - Simon-Napoléon Parent
    Simon-Napoléon Parent
    Simon-Napoléon Parent . Born in Quebec City he was the 12th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from October 3, 1900 to March 21, 1905.-Background:...

    , politician and Premier of Quebec
    Quebec
    Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

     (b.1855
    1855 in Canada
    See also:1854 in Canada,other events of 1855,1856 in Canada.----Events from the year 1855 in Canada.-Events:*January 1 - Bytown is renamed Ottawa.*March 8 - A bridge over the Niagara River near Niagara Falls is completed...

    )
  • September 18 - Robert Beaven
    Robert Beaven
    Robert Beaven , son of James Beaven, was a British Columbia politician and businessman. Beaven moved to British Columbia from Toronto, where he had been educated at Upper Canada College, because of the gold rush. He entered business in Victoria, which was then the capital of the Colony of Vancouver...

    , businessman, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia
    Premier of British Columbia
    The Premier of British Columbia is the first minister, head of government, and de facto chief executive for the Canadian province of British Columbia. Until the early 1970s the title Prime Minister of British Columbia was often used...

     (b.1836
    1836 in Canada
    See also:1835 in Canada,other events of 1836,1837 in Canada.----Events from the year 1836 in Canada.-Events:*Opening of Canada's first railway line, from St. Johns, Quebec, to La Prairie, Quebec....

    )
  • September 30 - William Wilfred Sullivan
    William Wilfred Sullivan
    Sir William Wilfred Sullivan was a Prince Edward Island journalist, politician and jurist, the fourth premier of Prince Edward Island....

    , journalist, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
    Prince Edward Island
    Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...

     (b.1843
    1843 in Canada
    See also:1842 in Canada,other events of 1843,1844 in Canada.----Events from the year 1843 in Canada.-Events:*January 19 - Mount Allison University is founded.*September 1 - First Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A...

    )
  • November 19 - Byron Moffatt Britton
    Byron Moffatt Britton
    Byron Moffatt Britton was a politician, lawyer and lecturer. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1896 election to represent the riding of Kingston...

    , politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.1833
    1833 in Canada
    See also:1832 in Canada,other events of 1833,1834 in Canada.----Events from the year 1833 in Canada.-Events:*September - William Lyon Mackenzie returns from the United Kingdom.*September 19 - Military riot at Montreal....

    )
  • December 12 - Edward Gawler Prior
    Edward Gawler Prior
    Edward Gawler Prior, PC was a mining engineer and politician in British Columbia. Prior worked as a mining engineer in England until 1873 when he moved to the province where he settled in Nanaimo and took employment as assistant manager of the Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co., Ltd...

    , mining engineer, politician and Premier of British Columbia
    British Columbia
    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

     (b.1854
    1854 in Canada
    See also:1853 in Canada,other events of 1854,1855 in Canada.----Events from the year 1854 in Canada.-Events:*January 27 - The Great Western Railway opens, linking Toronto, Hamilton and Windsor....

    )
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