1924 in Canada

Canadian Red Ensign (1921–1957)

• January 3 – First session of the British Columbia Older Boys' Parliament (now the British Columbia Youth Parliament) held in Victoria, British Columbia.
• January 10 – Narcisse Pérodeau becomes Quebec's 14th Lieutenant Governor.
• January 26 – An Order in Council mandates the use of the Canadian Red Ensign on Canadian government buildings outside Canada. It the first officially allowed use of the flag on land, although it has been used unofficially for many years.
• April 1 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• May 1 – Prince Edward Island changes from driving on the left to the right.
• May 24 – Prohibition ends in Alberta.
• June – Rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging is designed and made by rodeo cowboy and saddle maker Earl Bascom at the Bascom Ranch in Stirling, Alberta
• July 3 – The Chateau Lake Louise burns down
• October 24 – Former provincial treasurer Peter Smith and financier Aemilius Jarvis are found guilty in connection with the Ontario Bond Scandal.
• October 29 – An explosion kills Doukhobor leader Peter Verigin and eight other passengers on a CPR train from Brilliant to Grand Forks, British Columbia. Ten others are injured. Although never proven, it is alleged that Verigin was assassinated using a time bomb.

• August – Mars is closer to Earth than it has been for many years and mysterious wireless signals are picked up at a Vancouver wireless station. It is thought by some to be evidence of martian contact.[1]
• October 21 – CFYC carried a speech made by Prime Minister Mackenzie King from the Denman Arena, considered to be Canada's first federal political broadcast.

• January 23 – James Wilson Morrice, painter (b.1865)
• May 1 – Louis Henry Davies, lawyer, businessman, politician and 3rd Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1845)
• June 6 – Laure Conan, novelist (b.1845)[3]
• August 13 – Joseph Bolduc, politician, Speaker of the Senate (b. 1847)
• September 21 – Edouard Deville, cartographer and Surveyor General of Canada (b.1850)
• October 29 – Peter Vasilevich Verigin, philosopher, activist and leader and preacher of the Doukhobors (b.1859)
• December 9 – Judson Burpee Black, physician and politician (b.1842)

• List of Canadian films

House banking committee decides government should have audited Home Bank before it failed, and clients have moral claim for redress[4]

Immigration pamphlet calls Canadian climate "particularly suited to the white race" in "a British country, with British customs and ideals" [5]

Kiuga hereditary chief describes inequalities since 1924 imposition of elective council system on First Nations [6]

Metis man's memories of buffalo hunts and 1885 resistance [7]

Alberta Presbyterians object to undemocratic process for union with Methodist and Congregational churches [8]

Lethal smallpox epidemic in Windsor, Ont. stopped by vaccination [9]

"Swoile" (seal), "insides" (underwear), "tizzie" (dry cough), "skipper" (youngest son), "wellaway" (rich) and other Labrador lingo [10]

Professor of English speaks on feeling sorry for ourselves [11]

Photo: Arctic traveller's snapshot of Inuit dancing in "Victoria Land" (Victoria Island), Northwest Territories [12]