1922 in Canada
| Years in Canada: | 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 |
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| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 |
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Events from the year 1922 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Victoria Agnes)
Federal government
- Governor general – Julian Byng (viceregal consort – Evelyn Byng)
- Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Cameron Nichol
- 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 – Henry Cockshutt
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Murdock MacKinnon
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Fitzpatrick
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – Herbert Greenfield
- Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
- Premier of Manitoba – Tobias Norris (until August 8) then John Bracken
- 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 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – William Melville Martin (until April 5) then Charles Avery Dunning
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory
Events
- January 1 – British Columbia changes from driving on the left to the right
- January 11 – The world's first insulin treatment is made at the Toronto General Hospital. The successful technique would later win a Nobel Prize for its creators, Frederick Banting and Charles Best.
- April 5 – Charles Dunning becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing William Martin
- May 3 – The women of Prince Edward Island win the right to vote
- July – Rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle is designed and made by rodeo cowboy and saddle maker Earl Bascom at the Bascom Ranch, Lethbridge, Alberta
- August 8 – John Bracken becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Tobias Norris
- September 15 – Prime Minister Mackenzie King refuses to support the British in the Chanak Affair, asserting foreign policy independence for the first time
- October 9 – Prairie Bible College opens with eight students in Three Hills, Alberta
- October 22 – Dante Monument (Montreal) unveiled
- December 1 - New Brunswick changes from driving on the left to the right
- December 5 - The land around Vimy Ridge is given to Canada by France in gratitude for the Canadian sacrifices during World War I
Full date unknown
- Montreal Clock Tower completed
- The first licences for private commercial radio stations are issued[1]
Arts and literature
- Nanook of the North is released, the first film to be called a documentary
Births
January to June
- January 21 - Lincoln Alexander, politician and 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.2012)
- February 25 - Molly Lamb Bobak, teacher, writer, printmaker and painter
- April 24 - Philip Givens, politician, judge and Mayor of Toronto (d.1995)
- April 26 - Jeanne Sauvé, politician and first female Governor General of Canada (d.1993)
- April 28 - Daryl Seaman, businessman (d.2009)
- May 2 - A. M. Rosenthal, columnist and newspaper editor (d.2006)
- June 9 - Fernand Seguin, biochemist, professor and television host (d.1988)
- June 11 - Erving Goffman, sociologist and writer (d.1982)
- June 22 - Richard Vollenweider, limnologist (d.2007)
July to September
- July 16 - Augustin Brassard, politician
- July 30 - Jack McClelland, publisher (d.2004)
- August 7 - Helmut Kallmann, historian
- August 11 - Mavis Gallant, writer
- August 24 - René Lévesque, politician, Minister and 23rd Premier of Quebec (d.1987)
- September 1 - Yvonne De Carlo, actress, dancer and singer (d.2007)
- September 3 - Salli Terri, singer, arranger, recording artist and songwriter (d.1996)
- September 16 - Alex Barris, actor and writer (d.2004)
October to December
- October 9 - Léon Dion, political scientist (d.1997)
- October 17 - Pierre Juneau, politician and film and broadcast executive
- November 12 - Charlotte MacLeod, writer (d.2005)
- December 11 - Pauline Jewett, politician and educator (d.1992)
- December 22 - Percy Smith, barrister, lawyer and politician (d.2009)
Full date unknown
- Milt Harradence, lawyer, pilot, politician and judge (d.2008)
- Hilda Watson, leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (d.1997)
Deaths
- January 26 - Robert Beith, politician (b.1843)
- April 12 - Robert Boston, politician (b.1836)
- May 23 - Robert Franklin Sutherland, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b.1859)
- July 22 - Sara Jeannette Duncan, author and journalist (b.1861)
- August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone (b.1847)
- December 3 - William Proudfoot, politician and barrister (b.1859)
References
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