Events from the year 1911 in Canada.

1911
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Canada

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Historical documents

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With "unenviable record for deaths," residential school principal blames drafty building and its "sanitary and heating appliances"[3]

Henri Bourassa denounces prejudiced attacks on French Canadian nationalism[4]

Order in Council cancels previous order prohibiting entry for one year of "any immigrant belonging to the Negro race"[5]

Cartoon: anti-reciprocity depiction of Johnny Canuck and Uncle Sam cutting up watermelon (Note: racial stereotypes and blackface)[6]

Saskatchewan premier and farmers disappointed federal election has ruled out reciprocity with U.S.A.[7]

Nellie McClung speaks on importance of social life in rural areas[8]

Fruit co-operative manager says co-ops would do better if farmers valued business methods more and self-reliance less[9]

British woman fired from first au pair job on her undercover investigation of domestic work in Manitoba[10]

U.S. reporter explains how church-going, law-abiding Canadians had no Wild West[11]

U.S. reporter calls Quebec City economic backwater with fine sightseeing[12]

Ancient farms and conservative rural ways on St. Lawrence River near Quebec City[13]

Terrible fire does not discourage exploitation of immense mineral wealth in Timmins area of northern Ontario[14]

Great healing powers (and products) found in Manitou Lake, near Watrous, Saskatchewan[15]

Mackenzie King falls for his ideal woman[16]

References

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  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ Baldissera, Lisa. "AUTUMN IN FRANCE 1911". aci-iac.ca/.
  3. ^ Letter of Walter McLaren (December 26, 1911), United Church of Canada Central Archives, in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 171. Accessed 10 June 2021
  4. ^ Henri Bourassa, "To the English Speaking Reader" The Reciprocity Agreement and Its Consequences As Viewed from the Nationalist Standpoint (1911), pgs. I-IV. Accessed 21 February 2020
  5. ^ "Negro Immigration cancellation O.C. 1911/08/12 prohibiting - M. Int. 1911/10/04" (October 5, 1911), Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 12 November 2021
  6. ^ Newton McConnell, "Uncle Sam: 'Lemme divide tha mellion foh yo' Johnnie I'se had sperience'" (ca. 1911). Accessed 2 May 2021 https://www.picturingpolitics.com/whose-story/ (scroll down to Racism in Editorial Cartoons)
  7. ^ Walter Scott, "Address to the People of Saskatchewan" (1911). Accessed 21 February 2020
  8. ^ Nellie McClung, "The Importance of Social Life in Country Homes" Report of the First Annual Convention of the Homemakers' Club of Saskatchewan[....] (1911), pgs. 36-9. Accessed 21 February 2020
  9. ^ James E. Johnson, "Co-Operative Fruit Culture; Why Co-Operation Is Not More Successful among Farmers" (February 1, 1911), Report of the [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization[;] 1910-11, pgs. 90-1. Accessed 14 October 2020
  10. ^ Ella Constance Sykes, "My First Post as a Home-Help" A Home-Help in Canada (1912), pgs. 43-52. Accessed 21 February 2020
  11. ^ William E. Curtis, "Western Canada Life Free from Disorder" (September 25, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 139-42. Accessed 21 February 2020
  12. ^ William E. Curtis, "Yankee Visitors' Dollars Help to Support Quebec" (August 22, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 11-16. Accessed 21 February 2020
  13. ^ William E. Curtis, "Farm in Quebec Is Like a Ribbon, Ending at River" (August 28, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 33-7. Accessed 21 February 2020
  14. ^ William E. Curtis, "Mines of Ontario Set a High Mark by Their Output" (September 5, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 77-9. Accessed 21 February 2020
  15. ^ William E. Curtis, "Lake of Healing Aid in Boosting Watrous, Canada" (September 21, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 125-9. Accessed 21 February 2020
  16. ^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1911, pgs. "13-17" (one page is reproduced twice). Accessed 21 February 2020