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Events from the year 1919 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – George V^[1]

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

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

February 27 – Robert Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1848)

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)
January 23 – Frances Bay, actress (d. 2011)^[2]
February 17 – J. M. S. Careless, historian (d. 2009)^[3]
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 18 – Gordon A. Smith, artist and teacher (d. 2020)^[4]
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 (d. 1991)
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)
November 21 – Eleanor Collins, jazz singer (d. 2024)
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)

Historical documents

Canada and other dominions demand full status in League of Nations^[5]

J.W. Dafoe hears about Canadian researchers whose weapon helped to end First World War^[6]

Getting soldiers from France to England to Canada and their dispersal stations for discharge^[7]

Returning veteran longs for home, especially to escape English hostility and disdain^[8]

Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment vocational officer reports 30% of trainees not prepared enough to get jobs, and 60% won't keep jobs^[9]

Film: tractor use on farm and roadwork^[10]

Film: silver mining in northern Ontario^[11]

Film: highlights of tour by Edward, Prince of Wales to Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Ontario^[12]

Prince of Wales makes very successful postwar visit to Regina (Note: racial stereotypes)^[13]

Chronic illness resulting from influenza epidemic includes "Great White Plague" of tuberculosis^[14]

Debate on creation of federal health ministry brings up infant mortality, tuberculosis and venereal disease as well as influenza^[15]

Newspaper published "in the interest of the Citizens" opposes Winnipeg General Strike^[16]

Solicitor-General says legislation against sedition targets "insidious agencies of crime and revolt," not Winnipeg General Strike^[17]

Editorial insists Winnipeg General Strike leaders rightly charged with sedition, and trial will decide their guilt or innocence^[18]

Indictment for seditious libel against J.S. Woodsworth quotes his newspaper's coverage of police attack on Winnipeg General Strikers^[19]

Royal commission reports on causes and events of Winnipeg General Strike^[20]

Alberta labour leader reports on convention discussing discrimination at home and internationalism abroad^[21]

Communist Party of Canada program calls for rejection of reform in favour of revolution^[22]

Professor says chemistry graduates will keep leaving Canada until domestic chemical industry is induced to exploit their research talent^[23]

Stern warnings and instruction from Saskatoon Fire Department to combat "national disgrace of fire waste"^[24]

Boy Scouts provide courier service after Maritimes storm breaks telegraph connection between Western and Eastern Hemispheres^[25]

Opinion and possible legislation supports Canadian content in film-making^[26]

References

^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^ Maslin Nir, Sarah (September 18, 2011). "Frances Bay, Actress Known for ‘Old Lady’ Roles, Dies at 92". The New York Times.
^ CBC article "Canadian Historian J. M.S. Careless dies"
^ "The most loved artist in B.C., Gordon Smith, turns 100 | Vancouver Sun". 2019-06-17. Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
^ The Associated Press, "Dominions Will Make Big Claims; Will Ask to Be Admitted to League as Individual Nations; Want Same Status as Other Powers" The Calgary Daily Herald, No. 4938 (January 21, 1919), pg. 1. Accessed 20 March 2020
^ John W. Dafoe, Paris Peace Conference Diary Transcriptions, pgs. 87 to 88. Accessed 20 March 2020
^ The Repatriation Committee, "War to Peace; Demobilizing Canada's Army" The (Edmonton) Morning Bulletin, Vol. IX, No. 228 (January 18, 1919), pg. 2. Accessed 20 March 2020
^ Letter of Harold Henry Simpson (April 13, 1919). Accessed 20 March 2020
^ Testimony of Roderick S. Kennedy (October 3, 1919), Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment; Proceedings of the Special Committee[...]of the House of Commons[....], pg. 564. Accessed 12 October 2020 (See also "14. Rehabilitation of Returned Soldiers," Canada's Part in the Great War pgs. 49-58)
^ "Why Not Use a Tractor?" (1919), Ontario Motion Picture Bureau, Pathéscope of Canada Limited, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 7 July 2024
^ Government of Ontario, "Silver Mining in Ontario" (1919), Library and Archives Canada. (See also fictional depiction of "Life in a Mining Camp") Accessed 22 September 2024
^ British Pathé, "Prince of Wales in Canada." Accessed 10 May 2020
^ "Greatest Crowd Ever Seen In Saskatchewan Welcomes The Prince" Regina Morning Leader (October 6, 1919), pgs. 9 & 10. Accessed 23 March 2020
^ "Results of Influenza" The (Weston, Ont.) Times & Guide (January 1, 1919), pg. 1. Accessed 30 March 2020.
^ Senate Debates, 13th Parliament, 2nd Session: Vol. 1 (May 1, 1919), pgs. 287-289. Accessed 30 March 2020.
^ The Winnipeg Citizen, Vol. 1, No. 21 (June 11, 1919). Accessed 23 March 2020
^ "Says Sedition Act Not Result of Strike Here" The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XXX, No. 130 (June 11, 1919), pg. 11. Accessed 23 March 2020
^ "Most Serious Charges" The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XXX, No. 136 (June 18, 1919), pg. 4. Accessed 23 March 2020
^ Indictment for: Publishing Seditious Libels; 6 Counts, The King vs J.S. Woodsworth, Court of King's Bench. Accessed 23 March 2020
^ "Royal Commission to Enquire into(...)the General Strike Which Recently Existed in the City of Winnipeg(...); Report of H.A. Robson, K.C., Commissioner" (November 6, 1919). Accessed 23 March 2020
^ Alex. Ross, MLA, "The Alberta Labor Convention" The Alberta Non Partisan, Vol. 3, No. 3 (January 30, 1919), pg. 4. Accessed 24 March 2020
^ Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada, "Programme of the Communist Party of Canada" Accessed 24 March 2020
^ Testimony of William Lash Miller (June 4, 1919), Proceedings of the [House] Special Committee [on] the Development in Canada of Scientific Research, pgs. 92-5. Accessed 15 October 2020
^ Saskatoon Fire Department, "Saskatoon Fire Prevention Bulletin," Souvenir; Saskatoon Fire Department; Fire Prevention and First Aid (1919), pg. 29 and after. Accessed 25 March 2020
^ "Canadian Scouts Save Wire Service" Scouting, Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2, 1919), pg. 8. Accessed 12 February 2020
^ "Canadian Legislation May Cut U.S. Film Importations" Variety, Vol. LIII, No. 10 (January 31, 1919), pg. 57. Accessed 24 March 2020