1901 in Canada

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See also: 1900 in Canada, other events of 1901, 1902 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

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[edit] Events

• March 9 - Japanese Canadians win the vote in British Columbia
• December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a transatlantic radio message at St. John's, Newfoundland
• December 18 - The Territorial Grain Growers' Association is founded
• December 29 - Arthur Peters becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Donald Farquharson
• First ascent of Mount Assiniboine by James Outram's party

[edit] Births

• January 12 - Jack Humphrey, artist
• January 14 - Dana Porter, politician and jurist
• February 10 - Thomas Ricketts, war hero
• March 4 - Wilbur Franks, inventor
• March 25 - Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist
• April 30 - David Manners, actor
• July 15 - James Litterick, Manitoba politician
• September 8 - Harold Connolly, Premier of Nova Scotia
• September 14 - George Carlyle Marler, Quebec politician
• September 15 - Gweneth Lloyd, choreographer
• Maryon Moody, wife of Lester B. Pearson

[edit] Deaths

• January 22 - Queen Victoria, Queen of Canada
• March 2 - George Mercer Dawson, explorer/surveyor of Canadian Rockies and Western Canada