1909 in Canada

The following lists events that happened during 1909 in the Dominion of Canada.

1909
in
Canada

Decades:
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
See also:

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Commissioners

Events

Full date unknown

  • University of Toronto Schools opens as an all-boys school.
  • Leon's furniture store opens.
  • The Criminal Code is amended to criminalize the abduction of women. Before this, the abduction of any woman over 16 was legal, except if she was an heiress.[2]

Sport

Births

January to June

July to December

Full date unknown

Deaths

Historical Documents

Government report on huge tar sand deposit in northern Alberta [3]

Origins of Canadian Red Cross Society outlined in Senate bill incorporating it [4]

Union leaders object after Archbishop of St. John's disapproves of Fishermen's Protective Union as secret society [5]

Report of Toronto lecture where British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst explains rationale for extreme measures [6]

Scottish editorial asks whether Scotsmen should take up farming in Canada [7]

House of Commons agriculture committee learns about types, history and marketing of Lake Erie apples (District No. 1)[8]

Pilot John McCurdy's testimony on flights and development of Silver Dart airplane [9]

Political cartoon about Canadian wheat milled in Minnesota [10]

References

  1. "The OPP Museum > Historical Highlights of the Ontario Provincial Police". Ontario Provincial Police. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  2. Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. http://criaw-icref.ca/millenium Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Canada Department of the Interior, New Northwest Exploration: Report of Exploration, by Frank J.P. Crean, C.E., in Saskatchewan and Alberta[....] (1910), pgs. 58-60. Accessed 18 February 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3285/60.html
  4. The Senate of Canada, "Preamble," Bill HH; An Act to incorporate The Canadian Red Cross Society (April 23, 1909), Senate Bills, 11th Parliament, 1st Session: A-GGG. Accessed 7 March 2020 http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.bills_SOC_1101_1/209?r=0&s=1
  5. "Letter to Archbishop M.F. Howley from Peter Trimlett and Others, Salmonier, March 23, 1909." Accessed 18 February 2020 http://www.mun.ca/mha/fpu/documents_full_view.php?img=documents/106_19_2e&galleryID=doc1
  6. "Mrs. Pankhurst in Toronto" (source of newspaper clipping not recorded; "ca. November 24, 1909"). Accessed 18 February 2020 https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbcmil.scrp6014701/?st=text
  7. "The Granary of the Empire," North British Agriculturalist (February 4, 1909), reprinted in Canada, As It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists[....] (1909), pgs. 12-14. Accessed 18 February 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3299/13.html
  8. "Fruit Districts of Ontario" (April 15, 1909), The Apple Trade of Canada, pgs. 148-50. Accessed 12 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1101_1_1/170?r=0&s=1
  9. "Deposition by J.A.D. McCurdy, April 9, 1920". Accessed 18 February 2020 https://www.loc.gov/resource/magbell.14410301/?st=gallery
  10. Charles Lewis Bartholomew (Bart), "It Is Up to Congress to Say Which," Minneapolis Journal (May 6, 1909). Accessed 18 February 2020 http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/gust/id/555
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