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1919 in Canada

Events from the year 1919 in Canada.

Incumbents
Crown MonarchGeorge V Federal government Governor GeneralVictor Cavendish, 9th Duke of DevonshirePrime MinisterRobert BordenChief JusticeLouis Henry Davies (Prince Edward Island) • Parliament13th Provincial governments Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of AlbertaRobert BrettLieutenant Governor of British ColumbiaFrancis S. Barnard (until December 9) then Edward Gawler PriorLieutenant Governor of ManitobaJames Albert Manning AikinsLieutenant Governor of New BrunswickWilliam PugsleyLieutenant Governor of Nova ScotiaMacCallum GrantLieutenant Governor of OntarioJohn Strathearn Hendrie (until November 20) then Lionel Herbert ClarkeLieutenant Governor of Prince Edward IslandAugustine Colin Macdonald (until July 16) then Murdock MacKinnon (from September 2) • Lieutenant Governor of QuebecCharles FitzpatrickLieutenant Governor of SaskatchewanRichard Stuart Lake Premiers Premier of AlbertaCharles StewartPremier of British ColumbiaJohn OliverPremier of ManitobaTobias NorrisPremier of New BrunswickWalter FosterPremier of Nova ScotiaGeorge Henry MurrayPremier of OntarioWilliam Hearst (until November 14) then Ernest DruryPremier of Prince Edward IslandAubin Arsenault (until September 9) then John Howatt BellPremier of QuebecLomer GouinPremier of SaskatchewanWilliam Melville Martin Territorial governments Commissioners Gold Commissioner of YukonGeorge P. MacKenzieCommissioner of Northwest TerritoriesWilliam Wallace Cory ==Events==
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 unknownInfluenza epidemic in Alberta. • Monument aux braves de N.D.G. unveiled ==Arts and literature==
Arts and literature
February 27Robert Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1848) == Sport ==
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==
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==
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==
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