1915 in Canada

Crown • Monarch – George V Federal government • Governor General – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn • Prime Minister – Robert Borden • Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec) • Parliament – 12th Provincial governments Lieutenant governors • Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George H. V. Bulyea (until October 20) then Robert Brett • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Francis Stillman Barnard • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Douglas Colin Cameron • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Josiah Wood • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Drummond McGregor (until October 19) then David MacKeen • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Strathearn Hendrie • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Benjamin Rogers (until June 3) then Augustine Colin Macdonald • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – François Langelier (until February 8) then Pierre-Évariste Leblanc • Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – George W. Brown (until October 6) then Richard Stuart Lake Premiers • Premier of Alberta – Arthur Sifton • Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride (until December 15) then William John Bowser • Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin (until May 12) then Tobias Norris • Premier of New Brunswick – George Johnson Clarke • Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray • Premier of Ontario – William Hearst • Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Alexander Mathieson • Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin • Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott Territorial governments Commissioners • Commissioner of Yukon – George Black • Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White ==Events==

• January 4 – WWI: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry becomes the first Canadian troops sent to the front lines • January 15 – The Canadian Northern Railway line to Vancouver, British Columbia, is completed • February 2 – WW1: Attempt to bomb the Vanceboro international bridge between the Canadian-US border by a German spy • February 4 – WW1: After a training accident, Lieutenant W. F. Sharpe becomes the first Canadian military airman killed • February 14 – WW1: The 1st Canadian Division arrives in France • February 21 – Nellie McClung presents a petition to the Alberta Legislature demanding women's suffrage • February 28 – WWI: Canadian troops launch the first trench raid of the war; by the end of the conflict Canadian troops will be regarded as the experts at this manoeuvre • April 22 – WWI: In the Second Battle of Ypres Canadian forces bear the brunt of the first large-scale chemical weapons attack on the Western Front. They devise makeshift gas masks of urine-soaked rags and hold their ground • May 3 – "In Flanders Fields" is written by Canadian poet John McCrae. • May 12 – Tobias Norris becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Sir Rodmond Roblin • July 5 – The Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton opens • August 6 – Manitoba General Election • September 13 – WWI: with the arrival of the 2nd Canadian Division a separate Canadian Corps is created • October 9 – WWI: The 3rd Canadian Division arrives in France • December 15 – William John Bowser becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Richard McBride • December 19 – WW1: Captain M.M. Bell-Irving, No.1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, achieves the first aerial victory by a Canadian when he shot down a German aircraft Full date unknown • Fermière Monument (Montreal) unveiled • World War I – Many Canadian soldiers grow upset at the inferior quality of their Ross Rifles ==Arts and literature==

New works • "In Flanders Fields": John McCrae • The Golden Road: Lucy Maud Montgomery ==Sport==

• March 26 – The Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Vancouver Millionaires win their first and only Stanley Cup by defeating the National Hockey Association's Ottawa Senators 3 games to 0. All games played at Vancouver's Denman Arena • November 20 – The Hamilton Tigers win their 2nd Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Rugby and Athletic Association 13 to 7 in the 7th Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium ==Births==

January to June • January 12 – Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ottawa (19671989) (d.2013) • January 18 – Syl Apps, pole vaulter and ice hockey player (d.1998) • February 12 – Lorne Greene, actor (d.1987) • March 10 – Maurice Camyré, Olympic boxer (d.2013) • March 18 – Harold Crowchild, Tsuu T'ina elder and soldier, last Treaty 7 World War II veteran (d.2013) • April 9 – Daniel Johnson, Sr., politician and 20th Premier of Quebec (d.1968) • April 11 – Eddie Sargent, politician (d.1998) • April 28 – Robina Higgins, track and field athlete (d.1990) • May 3 – Stu Hart, wrestler, promoter and trainer (d.2003) • May 28 • Conrad Bourcier, ice hockey player (d.1987) • Frank Pickersgill, World War II hero (d.1944) • June 22 – Arthur Gelber, philanthropist (d.1998) July to December • July 4 – Harold E. Johns, medical physicist (d.1998) • July 6 – Leonard Birchall, World War II hero (d.2004) • August 3 – Frank Arthur Calder, politician, first Status Indian to be elected to any legislature in Canada (d.2006) • August 20 – H. Gordon Barrett, politician (d.1993) • August 22 • James Hillier, scientist and inventor, jointly designed and built first electron microscope (d.2007) • Jacques Flynn, politician and Senator (d.2000) • August 25 – John W. H. Bassett, publisher and media baron (d.1998) • October 7 • Harry J. Boyle, broadcaster and writer (d.2005) • Charles Templeton, cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author (d.2001) • October 25 – Tommy Prince, one of Canada's most decorated First Nations soldiers (d.1977) • November 27 – Yves Thériault, author (d.1983) • December 4 – Johnny Lombardi, CHIN-TV television personality (d.2002) • December 13 – Ross Macdonald, novelist (d.1983) Full date unknown • Arthur Julian Andrew, diplomat and author (d.1994) • Earl Cameron, broadcaster and news anchor (d.2005) • Percy Saltzman, meteorologist and television personality, first weatherman in English-Canadian television history (d.2007) ==Deaths==

• • January 18 – Thomas Bain, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1834) • May 16 – Kit Coleman, journalist (b. 1864) • June 14 – Antoine Audet, politician (b. 1846) • July 21 – Jean Prévost, politician (b. 1870) • July 22 – Sandford Fleming, engineer and inventor (b. 1827) • August 10 – William Mortimer Clark, lawyer, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1836) • September 10 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, politician and 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822) • September 11 – William Cornelius Van Horne, pioneering railway executive (b. 1843) • September 15 – Ernest Gagnon, folklorist (b. 1834) • October 19 – Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1842) • October 30 – Charles Tupper, politician, Premier of Nova Scotia and 6th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821) • December 25 – Graham Fraser (industrialist) (b. 1845) ==See also==