1919 in Canada

Crown • Monarch – George V Federal government • Governor General – Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire • Prime Minister – Robert Borden • Chief Justice – Louis Henry Davies (Prince Edward Island) • Parliament – 13th Provincial governments 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 Territorial governments Commissioners • Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory ==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 ==Arts and literature==

• February 27 – Robert Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1848) == 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 • January 13 – Igor Gouzenko, Russian defector (d. 1982) • January 23 – Frances Bay, actress (d. 2011) • February 17 – J. M. S. Careless, historian (d. 2009) • 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 18 – Gordon A. Smith, artist and teacher (d. 2020) • 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 (d. 1991) • September 11 – Daphne Odjig, artist (d. 2016) • 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) • November 21 – Eleanor Collins, jazz singer (d. 2024) • December 10 – Vincent Brassard, politician (d. 1974) • December 25 – Paul David, cardiologist and founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999) ==Deaths==

• 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) ==See also==