1916 in Canada

Events from the year 1916 in Canada.

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See also:	History of Canada Timeline of Canadian history List of years in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

Federal government

• Governor General – Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (until November 11) then Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
• Prime Minister – Robert Borden
• Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
• Parliament – 12th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Francis Stillman Barnard
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Douglas Colin Cameron (until August 3) then James Albert Manning Aikins
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Josiah Wood
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – David MacKeen (until November 13) then MacCallum Grant (from November 29)
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Strathearn Hendrie
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Augustine Colin Macdonald
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Pierre-Évariste Leblanc
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Richard Stuart Lake

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Arthur Sifton
• Premier of British Columbia – William John Bowser (until November 23) then Harlan Brewster
• Premier of Manitoba – 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 Mathieson
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott (until October 20) then William Melville Martin

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – George Black (until October 13) then George Norris Williams (acting)
• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

January to June

• January 28 – Women are given the right to vote in Manitoba, after protests by people such as Nellie McClung
• February 3 – The Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa burns down
• February 10 – An anti-German riot hits Calgary
• March 14 – Saskatchewan women get the vote
• April 19 – Alberta women get the vote
• June – Rodeo's first side-delivery chute is designed and made by the Bascom brothers on their Bar-B-3 Ranch at Welling, Alberta.
• May 7 – The Government of Canada authorizes the creation of an all black battalion that became No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
• June 1 – June 13 – WWI: Canadians fight in the Battle of Mont Sorrel

July to December

• July 1 – Prohibition of alcohol introduced in Alberta
• July 1 – November 18 25,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders are casualties at the Battle of the Somme
• July 24 – Earl Bascom enters his first steer riding contest at Welling, Alberta.
• July 29 – The Matheson Fire in the region northwest of North Bay, Ontario, begins. It eventually kills between 200 and 250 people and destroys six towns, including Matheson and Cochrane
• August 11 – The 4th Canadian Division arrives in France
• October 20 – William M. Martin becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Walter Scott
• November 23 – Harlan Brewster becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing William John Bowser
• December 1 – An Order in Council authorizes an increase of troops to 500,000 in the First World War

Full date unknown

• Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire becomes Governor General of Canada replacing Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
• The National Research Council of Canada is established.
• The first Doukhobors arrive in Alberta
• Emily Murphy became the first female magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire.

Arts and literature

New works

• Lucy Maud Montgomery – The Watchman & Other Poems
• Max Aitken – Canada in Flanders
• Alfred Laliberté – Les petits Baigneurs

Sport

• March 30 – The National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens beat the Portland Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association 3 games to 2 to win their first Stanley Cup. All Games were played at the Montreal Arena

Births

January to June

• January 22 – Bill Durnan, ice hockey player (d.1972)
• February 4 – Pudlo Pudlat, artist (d.1992)
• February 10 – Claude Bissell, author and educator (d.2000)
• February 18 – Jean Drapeau, lawyer, politician and Mayor of Montreal (d.1999)
• February 23 – Molly Kool, North America's first registered female sea captain (d.2009)
• March 10 – Davie Fulton, politician and judge (d.2000)
• April 18 – Ian Wahn, politician and lawyer (d.1999)
• April 27 – Myfanwy Pavelic, artist (d.2007)
• May 3 – Léopold Simoneau, lyric tenor (d.2006)
• May 4 – Jane Jacobs, urbanist, writer and activist (d.2006)
• May 30 – Jack Dennett, radio and television announcer (d.1975)
• June 20 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand, politician and 21st Premier of Quebec (d.1973)

July to December

• July 16 – John Gallagher, geologist and businessman (d.1998)

Michel Chartrand in 2003

• July 21 – Wilfred Cantwell Smith, professor of comparative religion (d.2000)
• August 1 – Anne Hébert, author and poet (d.2000)
• September 5 – Frank Shuster, comedian (d.2002)
• September 18 – Laura Sabia, social activist and feminist (d.1996)
• October 9 – Bill Allum, ice hockey player (d.1992)
• October 30 – Roy Brown Jr., car design engineer (Edsel, Ford Consul, Ford Cortina) (d.2013)
• November 17 – Martin J. Légère, businessman (d.2013)
• November 23 – P. K. Page, poet (d.2010)
• December 5 – Lomer Brisson, politician and lawyer (d.1981)
• December 7 – Margaret Carse, dancer
• December 16 – Harry Gunning, scientist and administrator (d.2002)
• December 20 – Michel Chartrand, activist (d.2010)
• December 23 – Ruth Dawson, artist

Full date unknown

• John Wintermeyer, politician (d.1994)

Deaths

• February 3 – Bowman Brown Law, politician (b.1855)
• May 12 – Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, politician (b.1848)
• May 29 – Louis-Alphonse Boyer, politician (b.1839)
• June 27 – Daniel Webster Marsh, businessman and Mayor of Calgary (b.1838)
• July 28 – Pierre-Amand Landry, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1846)
• August 8 – Edgar Dewdney, politician, Lieutenant Governor of Northwest Territories and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (b.1835)
• December 12 – Albert Lacombe, missionary (b.1827)

Full date unknown

• Grace Annie Lockhart, first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree (b.1855)

See also

• List of Canadian films

Historical documents

• "There is a big fire" - Parliamentary officer warns MPs sitting in session to get out as fatal fire begins to destroy Centre Block of Parliament buildings
• Prime Minister Borden appeals to Canadians for service abroad and at home.
• Prime Minister Borden fires militia minister Lt. Gen. Sam Hughes for insubordination.
• Warning to Imperial Munitions Board head about Ross rifle's dangerous failings.
• Charles K. Clarke calls for small hospitals to treat veterans with "intense nervous troubles" that are rapidly curable.
• Arthur Pearson's letter praising soldier for his rapid progress adjusting to his blindness.
• 120th City of Hamilton Battalion recruiting advertisement.
• Cartoonist imagines soldier's vision of Christmas at home.
• Orderly in Canadian hospital brags about its superiority over British facilities, and his bandaging technique.
• Canadian nurse in Petrograd's Anglo-Russian Hospital enjoys much local culture.
• Canadian nurse serving in French army hospital gives poignant description of soldier's funeral.
• Renaming Berlin (Kitchener), Ont.: anti-change ad, and list of suggested new names.
• Senator objects to Ontario policy restricting education in French.
• Testimony regarding sale of Squamish land in Vancouver area.
• Scores killed as huge forest fire destroys northern Ontario towns.
• U.S.A. and U.K. sign agreement to conserve North American migratory birds.
• Political cartoon warns Western Canadian drinkers that prohibition is coming in 1916.

External links

• Media related to 1916 in Canada at Wikimedia Commons