1920 in Canada
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Events from the year 1920 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Victoria Agnes)
Federal government
- Governor general – Victor Cavendish (viceregal consort – Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire)
- Prime minister – Robert Borden (until July 10) then Arthur Meighen
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edward Gawler Prior (until December 12) then Walter Cameron Nichol (from December 24)
- 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 – Lionel Herbert Clarke
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Murdock MacKinnon
- 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 – Ernest Drury
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Howatt Bell
- Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin (until July 9) then Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – William Melville Martin
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory
Events
The Capitol Cinema in Ottawa opens on November 8
- January 10 – Canada is a founding member of the League of Nations, effectively ending the declaration of war.
- February 1 – The Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the Dominion Police are amalgamated and renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- February 14 – Université de Montréal founded
- February 26 – The Indian Act was amended to give Canadian aboriginal peoples the right to vote.[1]
- March 12 – The first Lions Club outside the United States is founded in Windsor, Ontario.
- May 14 – Canadian Forum magazine founded
- June – The Catholic Women's League is formed in Montreal
- June 24 – Dollard des Ormeaux Monument unveiled
- July 1 – Under the Dominion Elections Act, uniform franchise is established and the right for women to be elected to parliament is made permanent.[2]
- July 9 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Lomer Gouin
- July 10 – Arthur Meighen becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Robert Borden
- July 11 - Charles Stephens, a barber and daredevil from Bristol, England, dies attempting to go over Niagara Falls.
- October 17 – The first airplane to fly across Canada arrives in Richmond from Halifax.[3]
- December 1 - The Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the Dominion Police are amalgamated and renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police[4]
- December 25 – Walter Cameron Nichol becomes the 12th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
Date unknown
Esther Marjorie Hill (1895–1985) becomes the first female architect in Canada when she graduates from the University of Toronto.
Arts and literature
- May 7 - The first exhibit of art by the Group of Seven opens in Toronto.
- November 8 - The Capitol Cinema opens in Ottawa, the capital's only true movie palace.
- Undated - A group of artists, educators, and art patrons formed the British Columbia Art League to lobby the provincial and city governments for a school.
Sport
- January 10 - The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto St. Patricks combine for twenty one goals to set an NHL record for most goals in a single game.[5]
- April 1 - The Ottawa Senators win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Seattle Metropolitans.
- April 26 - The Winnipeg Falcons representing Canada beat Sweden 12-1 to win the gold medal for Ice Hockey at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
- August 23 - Bert Schneider wins a gold medal for Canada in boxing at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.[6]
Births
January to March
James Doohan, 1997
- January 4 - James William Baskin, politician and businessman (d.1999)
- January 4 - Douglas Pimlott, biologist
- January 7 - Margaret Thompson, scientist
- January 12 - Bill Reid, artist (d.1998)
- February 22 - Ralph Raymond Loffmark, politician. (d.2012)
- February 23 - Paul Gérin-Lajoie, lawyer, philanthropist, politician and Minister
- February 25 - Merrill Edwin Barrington, politician
- February 25 - Gérard Bessette, author and educator (d.2005)
- March 3 - James Doohan, actor (d.2005)
- March 19 - Cyril Lloyd Francis, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.2007)
- March 24 - Bill Irwin, Olympic skier (d.2013)
April to June
- April 2 - Gerald Bouey, 4th Governor of the Bank of Canada (d.2004)
- May 2 - William Hutt, actor (d.2007)
- May 5 - Bill Hunter, ice hockey player, general manager and coach (d.2002)
- May 8 - Harry Rankin, lawyer and politician (d.2002)
- May 27 - Peter Dmytruk, World War II military hero (d.1943)
- June 6 - Jan Rubes, opera singer and actor (d.2009)
- June 14 - Stanley Waters, Senator (d.1991)
- June 15 - Sam Sniderman, founder of the Sam the Record Man chain (d.2012)
- June 24 - Joe Greene, politician (d.1978)
July to December
- July 12 - Pierre Berton, author, television personality and journalist (d.2004)
- August 3 - Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.1998)
- August 19 - Agnes Benidickson, first female Chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario (d.2007)
- August 24 - Alex Colville, painter
- September 6 - Helen Hunley, politician (d. 2010)
- September 11 - Dalton Camp, journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator (d.2002)
- September 26 - Edmund Tobin Asselin, politician (d.1999)
- October 1 - Charles Daudelin, sculptor and painter (d.2001)
- October 13 - Evelyn Dick, murderer
- October 29 – Bill Juzda, ice hockey player (d.2008)
- November 11 - John Ferguson Browne, politician
- November 18 - George Johnson, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.1995)
Deaths
January to June
- February 12 - Aurore Gagnon, murder victim (b.1909)
- February 16 - Augustus F. Goodridge, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1839)
- April 25 - Alexander Grant MacKay, teacher, lawyer and politician (b.1860)
- June 6 - James Dunsmuir, industrialist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1851)
- June 18 - John Macoun, naturalist (b.1831)
- June 27 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge, author and lyricist (b.1839)
July to December
- September 5 - Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe, second wife of John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b.1836)
- September 7 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1855)
- September 18 - Robert Beaven, businessman, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (b.1836)
- September 30 - William Wilfred Sullivan, journalist, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1843)
- November 19 - Byron Moffatt Britton, politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.1833)
- December 12 - Edward Gawler Prior, mining engineer, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1854)
References
- ↑ http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCETimelineBrowse&Params=A3PER1INW1SRT26
- ↑ Dominion Elections Act Statues of Canada C 46 S 38.
- ↑ http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1920.htm
- ↑ "Historically Relevant Dates to the RCMP". Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ↑ http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCETimelineBrowse&Params=A3PER1INW1SRT26
- ↑ http://www.sportshall.ca/accessible/hm_profile.php?i=318
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