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Events from the year 1919 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

Crown[]

• Monarch – George V

Federal government[]

• Governor General – Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
• Prime Minister – Robert Borden
• Chief Justice – Louis Henry Davies (Prince Edward Island)
• Parliament – 13th

Provincial governments[]

Lieutenant governors[]

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Francis S. Barnard (until December 9) then Edward Gawler Prior
• 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 – John Strathearn Hendrie (until November 20) then Lionel Herbert Clarke
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Augustine Colin Macdonald (until July 16) then Murdock MacKinnon (from September 2)
• 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 – William Hearst (until November 14) then Ernest Drury
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Aubin Arsenault (until September 9) then John Howatt Bell
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan – William Melville Martin

Territorial governments[]

Commissioners[]

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events[]

January to June[]

• January 19 – Canadian troops take part in the Battle of Shenkursk, part of the Russian Civil War.
• February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and former prime minister of Canada, dies in office.
• April 17 – New Brunswick women are permitted to vote.
• April 10 – The Quebec referendum on the prohibition of alcohol.
• May 3 – Yukon women are permitted to vote.
• May 15 – June 25 – Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
• May 22 – The House of Commons passes the Nickle Resolution.
• June – Rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bronc chute is designed and made by rodeo cowboy Earl W. Bascom at the Bascom Ranch in Lethbridge, Alberta
• June 6 – The government-owned Canadian National Railway is formed out of a number of financially troubled private railways.
• June 28 – Canada signs the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the First World War

July to December[]

• September 1 – Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, opens the third session of the 13th Canadian Parliament
• September 6 – George-Étienne Cartier Monument unveiled
• September 9 – John Howatt Bell becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Aubin Arsenault.
• October 20 – Ontario election: Ernest C. Drury's United Farmers of Ontario win a majority, defeating Sir William Hearst's Conservatives.
• November 14 – Ernest Drury becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Sir William Hearst.

Full date unknown[]

• Influenza epidemic in Alberta.
• Monument aux braves de N.D.G. unveiled

Arts and literature[]

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Sport[]

• December 22 – Toronto Arenas become the Toronto St. Patricks
• March 19–22 – Ontario Hockey Association's University of Toronto Schools win the first Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association's Regina Pats 29–8 in a two-game aggregate at the Arena Gardens in Toronto

Births[]

January to June[]

• January 13 – Igor Gouzenko, Russian defector (d. 1982)
• February 17 – J. M. S. Careless, historian (d. 2009)^[1]
• February 20
  • Thomas Ide, educator and the founding Chairman of TVOntario (d. 1996)
  • Joe Krol, Canadian football player (d. 2008)
• March 21 – Victor Copps, politician and Mayor of Hamilton (d. 1988)
• March 26 – Vernon Singer, politician (d. 2003)
• April 16 – Louis Harrington Lewry, politician and reporter (d. 1992)
• April 21 – William Perehudoff, painter (d. 2013)
• May 27 – Francess Halpenny, editor and professor (d. 2017)
• May 29 – Jacques Genest, physician and academic (d. 2018)
• June 19
  • Gérard Dionne, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2020)
  • Simon Reisman, civil servant and chief negotiator of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (d. 2008)
• June 21 – Gérard Pelletier, journalist, editor, politician and Minister (d. 1997)

July to December[]

• July 5 – Gordon Towers, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta (d. 1999)
• August 1 – Jack Butterfield, President of the American Hockey League (1969–1994) (d. 2010)
• August 9 – Edmund Hockridge, singer and actor (d. 2009)
• August 19 – Margaret Marquis, Canadian-American actress (d. 1993)
• August 21 – Marcel Lambert, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2000)
• September 1 – Gladys Davis, professional baseball player
• September 11 – Daphne Odjig, artist (d. 2016)

• October 12 – Gilles Beaudoin, politician and mayor of Trois-Rivières (d. 2007)
• October 17 – Violet Milstead, World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014)
• October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, politician and 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
• November 1 – Russell Bannock, aviator and test pilot (d. 2020)
• November 14 – Albert Ludwig, politician (d. 2019)
• December 10 – Vincent Brassard, politician (d. 1974)
• December 25 – Paul David, cardiologist and founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999)

Deaths[]

• January 30 – Sam Steele, soldier and member of the North-West Mounted Police (b. 1849)
• February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, politician and 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
• July 29 – Frederick Peters, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1851)
• August 18 – Joseph E. Seagram, distillery founder, politician, philanthropist and racehorse owner (b. 1841)
• October 14 – Simon Hugh Holmes, publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1831)
• November 10 – Charles Mickle, politician (b. 1849)
• November 11 – George Haddow, politician and merchant (b. 1833)
• December 10 – Arthur Boyle, politician (b. 1842)
• December 29 – William Osler, physician (b. 1849)

See also[]

• List of Canadian films

Historical Documents[]

Canada and other dominions demand full status in League of Nations^[2]

J.W. Dafoe hears about Canadian researchers whose weapon helped to end First World War^[3]

Getting soldiers from France to England to Canada and their dispersal stations for discharge^[4]

Returning veteran longs for home, especially to escape English hostility and disdain^[5]

Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment vocational officer reports 30% of trainees not prepared enough to get jobs, and 60% won't keep jobs^[6]

Film of highlights of tour by Edward, Prince of Wales to Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Ontario^[7]

Prince of Wales makes very successful postwar visit to Regina (Note: racial stereotypes)^[8]

Chronic illness resulting from influenza epidemic includes "Great White Plague" of tuberculosis^[9]

Debate on creation of federal health ministry brings up infant mortality, tuberculosis and venereal disease as well as influenza^[10]

Newspaper published "in the interest of the Citizens" opposes Winnipeg General Strike^[11]

Solicitor-General says legislation against sedition targets "insidious agencies of crime and revolt," not Winnipeg General Strike^[12]

Editorial insists Winnipeg General Strike leaders rightly charged with sedition, and trial will decide their guilt or innocence^[13]

Indictment for seditious libel against J.S. Woodsworth quotes his newspaper's coverage of police attack on Winnipeg General Strikers^[14]

Royal commission reports on causes and events of Winnipeg General Strike^[15]

Alberta labour leader reports on convention discussing discrimination at home and internationalism abroad^[16]

Communist Party of Canada program calls for rejection of reform in favour of revolution^[17]

Professor says chemistry graduates will keep leaving Canada until domestic chemical industry is induced to exploit their research talent^[18]

Stern warnings and instruction from Saskatoon Fire Department to combat "national disgrace of fire waste"^[19]

Boy Scouts provide courier service after Maritimes storm breaks telegraph connection between Western and Eastern Hemispheres^[20]

Opinion and possible legislation supports Canadian content in film-making^[21]

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