1921 in Canada

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Events from the year 1921 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Commissioners

Events

Full date unknown

Arts and literature

  • February 15 – The Capitol Theatre opened in Winnipeg.
  • March 12 – The Capitol Theatre, a lush 2,500 seat movie palace, opened on Vancouver's Granville Street.

Sports

Births

January to March

April to June

July to December

Deanna Durbin on the cover of
Yank Magazine, January 1945

Full date unknown

Deaths

Arthur Sifton

See also

Historical Documents

Frederick Banting speaks on his research into separating life-saving insulin from pancreas's insulin-destroying secretion[5]

Former Indian agent says Kainai (Blood Indians) cheated out of their land by "predatory leases" [6]

Witness testifies before House committee on proportional representation so that MPs "may represent the opinions of people rather than acres" [7]

Prime Minister Meighen rebuffs Opposition Leader Mackenzie King's attempt to advise on upcoming Imperial Conference [8]

Prime Minister Meighen on unity in diversity in Commonwealth of Nations [9]

Nellie McClung says movies are moral menace [10]

Police reject pleas to bust exposed knees [11]

Christmas celebration at rural Prairie school [12]

Franklin D. Roosevelt's family cottage on Campobello Island, N.B., preserved to last year he stayed there [13]

References

  1. "Agnes Macphail: The first woman elected to Canada's House of Commons." Elections Canada. http://www.elections.ca/res/eim/article_search/article.asp?id=108&lang=e&frmPageSize=
  2. "Some Significant Moments in Chinese-Canadian History". Archived from the original on 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  3. "Saskatchewan History". Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  4. http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1921.htm
  5. F.G. Banting, "Early Work on Insulin," Science, Vol. 85, No. 2217 (June 25, 1937), pgs. 594-6. Accessed 16 June 2020 https://insulin.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/search/%2A%3A%2A?f%5B0%5D=mods_titleInfo_title_ms%3A%22Early%20work%20on%20insulin%22
  6. R.N. Wilson, Our Betrayed Wards; A story of "Chicanery, Infidelity and the Prostitution of Trust" (1921). Accessed 15 April 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/4725.html
  7. "Minutes of Evidence," Proceedings of the Special [House of Commons] Committee Appointed to Consider the Subject of Proportional Representation and the Subject of the Single Transferable or Preferential Vote (April 14, 1921 and after), pg. 7 and following. Accessed 10 April 2020 http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1305_3_1/8?r=0&s=1
  8. Arthur Meighen, Speech to House of Commons (April 27, 1921). Accessed 15 April 2020 https://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/leaders/Arthur_Meighen/Imperial_Conference.html
  9. Arthur Meighen, "Unity in Diversity," Overseas Addresses; June-July 1921, pgs. 51-8. Accessed 16 April 2020 https://archive.org/stream/overseaaddresses00meiguoft#page/50/mode/2up
  10. "Control and Censorship of Moving Pictures under Department of Education," The Edmonton Journal, Vol. 17, No. 161 (January 24, 1921), pg. 14. Accessed 15 April 2020 https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll19/id/204137
  11. "Women May Wear 'Em Short As They Like" (Ottawa, Jan. 22), The Edmonton Journal, Vol. 17, No. 160 (January 22, 1921), pg. 1. Accessed 15 April 2020 https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll19/id/204087
  12. J.T.M. Anderson, "Christmas in 'Glory Hole,'" The School; A Magazine Devoted to Elementary and Secondary Education, Volume X (Sept. 1921 - June 1922), pgs. 233-4. Accessed 16 April 2020 http://www.archive.org/stream/schoolmagazinede10ontauoft#page/232/mode/2up
  13. "The Road to Campobello," Roadside Adventures, Mountain Lake PBS, Plattsburgh, N.Y. Accessed 14 December 2019 https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_113-719kdhk9 (click on Transcript Show; note: transcript not consistent with audio recording)
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