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Events from the year 1920 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

Crown[]

  • Monarch – George V

Federal government[]

  • Governor General – Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
  • Prime Minister – Robert Borden (until July 10) then Arthur Meighen
  • Chief Justice – Louis Henry Davies (Prince Edward Island)
  • Parliament – 13th

Provincial governments[]

Lieutenant governors[]

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 North-West Mounted Police and the Dominion Police are amalgamated and renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police[1]
  • February 14 – Université de Montréal founded
  • February 26 – The Indian Act is amended to give Canadian aboriginal peoples the right to vote in band elections.[2]
  • 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.[3]
  • 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.[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 21 goals to set an NHL record for most goals in a single game.[5]
  • March 23–25 – The Ontario Hockey Association's win their first Memorial Cup by defeating Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association's Selkirk Fishermen 15 to 5 in a 2-game aggregate played at Arena Gardens in Toronto
  • April 1 – The NHL's Ottawa Senators win their ninth Stanley Cup by defeating the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Seattle Metropolitans 3 games to 2. The deciding game was played at Toronto's Arena Gardens
  • December 4 – The University of Toronto Varsity Blues win their fourth and final Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Argonauts 16 to 3 in the 8th Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

1920 Olympics

  • 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 18 – Earl Thomson wins a gold medal in Men's 110 m Hurdles at the Athletics
  • August 23 – Bert Schneider wins a gold medal for Canada in the Boxing Welterweight 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 – , biologist
  • January 6 – Henry Corden, Canadian-born American actor, voice actor and singer (d. 2005)
  • 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 (d. 2018)
  • February 25 – Merrill Edwin Barrington, politician
  • February 25 – Gérard Bessette, author and educator (d. 2005)
  • March 3 – James Doohan, actor (d. 2005)
  • March 9 – Erwin Schild, rabbi and author
  • March 19
    • Cyril Lloyd Francis, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2007)
    • Laurent Noël, Roman Catholic bishop
  • 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 1 – Louis Siminovitch, molecular biologist (d. 2021)[7]
  • May 2 – William Hutt, actor (d. 2007)
  • May 5 – Bill Hunter, ice hockey player, general manager and coach (d. 2002)
  • May 8
    • Barbara Howard, sprinter (d. 2017)
    • Harry Rankin, lawyer and politician (d. 2002)
  • May 9 – Helen Nicol, baseball player (d. 2021)
  • May 25 – Maria Gomori, psychologist
  • May 27 – Peter Dmytruk, World War II military hero (d. 1943)
  • June 4 – Lynda Adams, Canadian diver (d. 1997)
  • June 6 – Jan Rubeš, opera singer and actor (d.2009)
  • June 11 – Qapik Attagutsiak, Canadian inuit elder [8]
  • 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)
  • June 26 – Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 2014)

July to December[]

  • July 12
    • Pierre Berton, author, television personality and journalist (d. 2004)
    • Bob Fillion, ice hockey player (d. 2015)
  • August 2 – Marcel Adams, businessman (d. 2020)
  • August 3 – Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 1998)
  • August 12 – Aidan Maloney, Canadian politician, executive (d. 2018)
  • August 19 – Agnes Benidickson, first female chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario (d.2007)
  • August 24 – Alex Colville, painter
  • September 4 – Catherine Bennett, baseball player
  • September 6 – Helen Hunley, politician (d. 2010)
  • September 9 – Joan Neiman, senator
  • 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 17 – George Dunning, Canadian-born cartoon director, animator (d. 1979)
  • 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)

See also[]

Historical Documents[]

Guide to improving your community by understanding its needs and resources [9]

Funding is "not sufficient to meet our needs in buying food," and Indian residential school lacks enough garden space to make up for it[10]

TB patient must follow sanatorium stay with home treatment and lifestyle change, including "winter living out of doors"[11]

Anti-vaccination group seeks "judicial recognition [that] every freeman owns his own body"[12]

Professor calls for better obstetrics training to lower high rate of injury to mothers[13]

School improvements in Nova Scotia include hot lunches, stove polish and pencil sharpeners[14]

Advocacy magazine says present civil servant compensation amounts to economic slavery[15]

Wood Gundy co-founder insists on Christianity in global business[16]

Nellie McClung wants newspaper articles about "heroism, generosity, neighborly kindness" more than crime stories[17]

Stepmother of murdered child is sentenced to death[18]

Disposition, care and management of general purpose Canadian horse breed known for its endurance[19]

Witness before Senate committee on Hudson Bay envisions 50 million domestic reindeer on northern pasture, and muskox ranching too[20]

Lawrence Lambe finds Hadrosaur fossil "Edmontosaurus" in good condition near Red Deer River, Alberta[21]

References[]

  1. ^ "Historically Relevant Dates to the RCMP". Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Archived from the original on 2014-06-14. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  2. ^ Indian Act
  3. ^ Dominion Elections Act Statues of Canada C 46 S 38.
  4. ^ "The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1920 Chronology".
  5. ^ 1920
  6. ^ http://www.sportshall.ca/accessible/hm_profile.php?i=318[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Dr Lou Siminovitch". Prix Siminovitch. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
  8. ^ "Hometown Hero - Qapik Attagutsiak, Arctic Bay, Nunavut". Parks Canada. 27 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  9. ^ The Citizens' Research Institute of Canada, Community Engineering (1920). Accessed 10 April 2020
  10. ^ Letter of John T. Ross (July 21, 1920), National Archives of Canada, in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 160. Accessed 10 June 2021
  11. ^ "Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence" (April 22, 1920), Pensions, Insurance and Re-Establishment; Proceedings of the [House] Special Committee[....], pgs. 141-2. Accessed 15 October 2020
  12. ^ Correspondence relating to An Appeal to the Imperial Authorities by The People's Anti-Vaccination and Medical Freedom League of B.C. Accessed 6 June 2021
  13. ^ Ferguson, Robert (October 1920). "A Plea for better Obstetrics". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 10 (10): 901–904. PMC 1523944. PMID 20312355.
  14. ^ "School Improvement". Journal of Education. 6 (5): 41. January 20, 1920.
  15. ^ "Economic Slavery" The Civilian, Vol. XIII, No. 12 (November 1920), pg. 1. Accessed 10 April 2020
  16. ^ "The Forward Movement" The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 20-35. Accessed 9 April 2020
  17. ^ Nellie L. McClung, "The Newspaper of the Future" The Western Home Monthly (December 1920), pg. 3. Accessed 10 April 2020
  18. ^ "La justice humaine venge l'enfant martyre" (translated), La Presse (April 22, 1920), pg. 1. Accessed 6 April 2020
  19. ^ Gus. Langelier, The French-Canadian Horse Department of Agriculture Dominion Experimental Farms, Bulletin No. 95, Regular Series (1920). Accessed 10 April 2020
  20. ^ "Extract from the Evidence of Mr. V. Stefansson, Arctic Explorer" Report of the Special Committee[...]on the Navigability and Fishery Resources of Hudson Bay and Strait (June 4, 1920), pgs. 33-4. Accessed 5 October 2020
  21. ^ Lawrence M. Lambe, "The Hadrosaur Edmontosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta" Department of Mines - Canada, Geological Survey, No. 102, Geological Series (1920). Accessed 10 April 2020
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