1919 in Canada
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Events from the year 1919 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Francis S. Barnard (until December 9) then Edward Gawler Prior
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Albert Manning Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Pugsley
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – MacCallum Grant
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Strathearn Hendrie (until November 20) then Lionel Herbert Clarke
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Augustine Colin Macdonald (until July 16) then Murdock MacKinnon (from September 2)
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Fitzpatrick
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Richard Stuart Lake
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – Charles Stewart
- Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
- Premier of Manitoba – Tobias Norris
- Premier of New Brunswick – Walter Foster
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – William Hearst (until November 14) then Ernest Drury
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Aubin Arsenault (until September 9) then John Howatt Bell
- Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
- Premier of Saskatchewan – William Melville Martin
Events
January to June
- January 19 – Canadian troops take part in the Battle of Shenkursk, part of the Russian Civil War.
- February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and former prime minister of Canada, dies in office.
- April 17 – New Brunswick women are permitted to vote.
- April 10 – The Quebec referendum on the prohibition of alcohol.
- May 3 – Yukon women are permitted to vote.
- May 15 – June 25 – Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
- May 22 – The House of Commons passes the Nickle Resolution.
- June – Rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bronc chute is designed and made by rodeo cowboy Earl W. Bascom at the Bascom Ranch in Lethbridge, Alberta
- June 6 – The government-owned Canadian National Railway is formed out of a number of financially troubled private railways.
- June 28 – Canada signs the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the First World War
July to December
- September 1 – Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, opens the third session of the 13th Canadian Parliament
- September 6 – George-Étienne Cartier Monument unveiled
- September 9 – John Howatt Bell becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Aubin Arsenault.
- October 20 – Ontario election: Ernest C. Drury's United Farmers of Ontario win a majority, defeating Sir William Hearst's Conservatives.
- November 14 – Ernest Drury becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Sir William Hearst.
Full date unknown
- Influenza epidemic in Alberta.
- Monument aux braves de N.D.G. unveiled
Sport
- December 22 – Toronto Arenas become the Toronto St. Patricks
- March 19–22 – Ontario Hockey Association's University of Toronto Schools win the first Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association's Regina Pats 29–8 in a two-game aggregate at the Arena Gardens in Toronto
Births
January to June
Daphne Odjig
- January 13 – Igor Gouzenko, Russian defector (d. 1982)
- February 17 – J. M. S. Careless, historian (d. 2009)[1]
- February 20
- Thomas Ide, educator and the founding Chairman of TVOntario (d. 1996)
- Joe Krol, Canadian football player (d. 2008)
- March 21 – Victor Copps, politician and Mayor of Hamilton (d. 1988)
- March 26 – Vernon Singer, politician (d. 2003)
- April 16 – Louis Harrington Lewry, politician and reporter (d. 1992)
- April 21 – William Perehudoff, painter (d. 2013)
- May 27 – Francess Halpenny, editor and professor (d. 2017)
- May 29 – Jacques Genest, physician and academic (d. 2018)
- June 19
- Gérard Dionne, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2020)
- Simon Reisman, civil servant and chief negotiator of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (d. 2008)
- June 21 – Gérard Pelletier, journalist, editor, politician and Minister (d. 1997)
July to December
- July 5 – Gordon Towers, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta (d. 1999)
- August 1 – Jack Butterfield, President of the American Hockey League (1969–1994) (d. 2010)
- August 9 – Edmund Hockridge, singer and actor (d. 2009)
- August 19 – Margaret Marquis, Canadian-American actress (d. 1993)
- August 21 – Marcel Lambert, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2000)
- September 1 – Gladys Davis, professional baseball player
- September 11 – Daphne Odjig, artist (d. 2016)
Pierre Trudeau in 1980
- October 12 – Gilles Beaudoin, politician and mayor of Trois-Rivières (d. 2007)
- October 17 – Violet Milstead, World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014)
- October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, politician and 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
- November 1 – Russell Bannock, aviator and test pilot (d. 2020)
- November 14 – Albert Ludwig, politician (d. 2019)
- December 10 – Vincent Brassard, politician (d. 1974)
- December 25 – Paul David, cardiologist and founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999)
Deaths
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Wilfrid Laurier
- January 30 – Sam Steele, soldier and member of the North-West Mounted Police (b. 1849)
- February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, politician and 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
- July 29 – Frederick Peters, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1851)
- August 18 – Joseph E. Seagram, distillery founder, politician, philanthropist and racehorse owner (b. 1841)
- October 14 – Simon Hugh Holmes, publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1831)
- November 10 – Charles Mickle, politician (b. 1849)
- November 11 – George Haddow, politician and merchant (b. 1833)
- December 10 – Arthur Boyle, politician (b. 1842)
- December 29 – William Osler, physician (b. 1849)
Funéraille de Wilfrid Laurier
See also
Historical Documents
Canada and other dominions demand full status in League of Nations[2]
J.W. Dafoe hears about Canadian researchers whose weapon helped to end First World War[3]
Getting soldiers from France to England to Canada and their dispersal stations for discharge[4]
Returning veteran longs for home, especially to escape English hostility and disdain[5]
Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment vocational officer reports 30% of trainees not prepared enough to get jobs, and 60% won't keep jobs[6]
Film of highlights of tour by Edward, Prince of Wales to Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Ontario[7]
Prince of Wales makes very successful postwar visit to Regina (Note: racial stereotypes)[8]
Chronic illness resulting from influenza epidemic includes "Great White Plague" of tuberculosis[9]
Debate on creation of federal health ministry brings up infant mortality, tuberculosis and venereal disease as well as influenza[10]
Newspaper published "in the interest of the Citizens" opposes Winnipeg General Strike[11]
Solicitor-General says legislation against sedition targets "insidious agencies of crime and revolt," not Winnipeg General Strike[12]
Editorial insists Winnipeg General Strike leaders rightly charged with sedition, and trial will decide their guilt or innocence[13]
Indictment for seditious libel against J.S. Woodsworth quotes his newspaper's coverage of police attack on Winnipeg General Strikers[14]
Royal commission reports on causes and events of Winnipeg General Strike[15]
Alberta labour leader reports on convention discussing discrimination at home and internationalism abroad[16]
Communist Party of Canada program calls for rejection of reform in favour of revolution[17]
Professor says chemistry graduates will keep leaving Canada until domestic chemical industry is induced to exploit their research talent[18]
Stern warnings and instruction from Saskatoon Fire Department to combat "national disgrace of fire waste"[19]
Boy Scouts provide courier service after Maritimes storm breaks telegraph connection between Western and Eastern Hemispheres[20]
Opinion and possible legislation supports Canadian content in film-making[21]
References
- CBC article "Canadian Historian J. M.S. Careless dies"
- The Associated Press, "Dominions Will Make Big Claims; Will Ask to Be Admitted to League as Individual Nations; Want Same Status as Other Powers," The Calgary Daily Herald, No. 4938 (January 21, 1919), pg. 1. Accessed 20 March 2020 https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll2/id/178108
- John W. Dafoe, Paris Peace Conference Diary Transcriptions, pgs. 87-8. http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/dafoe/Website/Box%201/Diaries_folders%201a-c/page91.shtml http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/dafoe/Website/Box%201/Diaries_folders%201a-c/page92.shtml Accessed 20 March 2020
- The Repatriation Committee, "War to Peace; Demobilizing Canada's Army," The (Edmonton) Morning Bulletin, Vol. IX, No. 228 (January 18, 1919), pg. 2. Accessed 20 March 2020 https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll2/id/78718
- Letter of Harold Henry Simpson (April 13, 1919). Accessed 20 March 2020 https://www.canadianletters.ca/content/document-8599
- Testimony of Roderick S. Kennedy (October 3, 1919), Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment; Proceedings of the Special Committee[...]of the House of Commons[....], pg. 564. Accessed 12 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1303_1_1/578?r=0&s=3
- British Pathé, "Prince of Wales in Canada." Accessed 10 May 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD84LqpSm0I
- "Greatest Crowd Ever Seen In Saskatchewan Welcomes The Prince," Regina Morning Leader (October 6, 1919), pgs. 9 & 10. Accessed 23 March 2020 http://library.usask.ca/sni/stories/pol18.html
- "Results of Influenza," The (Weston, Ont.) Times & Guide (January 1, 1919), pg. 1. Accessed 30 March 2020. http://vitacollections.ca/westonnews/3554374/page/2?&docid=OOI.3554374
- Senate Debates, 13th Parliament, 2nd Session: Vol. 1 (May 1, 1919), pgs. 287-9. Accessed 30 March 2020. http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_SOC1302_01/299?r=0&s=1
- The Winnipeg Citizen, Vol. 1, No. 21 (June 11, 1919). Accessed 23 March 2020 https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2758776
- "Says Sedition Act Not Result of Strike Here," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XXX, No. 130 (June 11, 1919), pg. 11. Accessed 23 March 2020 https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm:1692760
- "Most Serious Charges," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XXX, No. 136 (June 18, 1919), pg. 4. Accessed 23 March 2020 https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A1693032
- Indictment for: Publishing Seditious Libels; 6 Counts, The King vs J.S. Woodsworth, Court of King's Bench. Accessed 23 March 2020 http://www.collectionscanada.ca/canadian-west/052930/05293044_e.html
- "Royal Commission to Enquire into[...]the General Strike Which Recently Existed in the City of Winnipeg[...]; Report of H.A. Robson, K.C., Commissioner" (November 6, 1919). Accessed 23 March 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/4525/3.html
- Alex. Ross, MLA, "The Alberta Labor Convention," The Alberta Non Partisan, Vol. 3, No. 3 (January 30, 1919), pg. 4. Accessed 24 March 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/newspapers/ANP/1919/01/30/4/
- Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada, "Programme of the Communist Party of Canada" Accessed 24 March 2020 http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/Underground/MayDay-CPC.htm
- Testimony of William Lash Miller (June 4, 1919), Proceedings of the [House] Special Committee [on] the Development in Canada of Scientific Research, pgs. 92-5. Accessed 15 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1302_5_1/96?r=0&s=1
- Saskatoon Fire Department, "Saskatoon Fire Prevention Bulletin," Souvenir; Saskatoon Fire Department; Fire Prevention and First Aid (1919), pg. 29 and after. Accessed 25 March 2020 https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll8/id/213636
- "Canadian Scouts Save Wire Service," Scouting, Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2, 1919), pg. 8. Accessed 12 February 2020 https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth283006/m1/8/
- "Canadian Legislation May Cut U.S. Film Importations," Variety, Vol. LIII, No. 10 (January 31, 1919), pg. 57. Accessed 24 March 2020 http://archive.org/stream/Var53-1919-01#page/n264/mode/1up
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