# 1920 in Canada

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

* 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

* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* March 23–25 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Canoe Club 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.

## Births
### January to March

* January 4 – James William Baskin, politician and businessman (d. 1999)
* January 6 – Henry Corden, Canadian-born American actor, voice actor and singer (d. 2005)
* January 7 – Margaret W. Thompson, geneticist (d. 2014)
* 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, accountant and insurance broker (d. 1965)
** Gérard Bessette, author and educator (d. 2005)
* March 3 – James Doohan, actor (d. 2005)
* March 9 – Erwin Schild, rabbi and author (d. 2024)
* March 19
** Cyril Lloyd Francis, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2007)
** Laurent Noël, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2022)
* 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)
* 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, Hungarian-born psychologist (d. 2021)
* May 27 – Peter Dmytruk, World War II military hero (d. 1943)
* June 4 – Lynda Adams, diver (d. 1997)
* June 6 – Jan Rubeš, opera singer and actor (d. 2009)
* June 11 – Qapik Attagutsiak, Inuit elder (d. 2023)
* 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, 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, politician and executive (d. 2018)
* August 19 – Agnes Benidickson, first female chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario (d.2007)
* August 24 – Alex Colville, painter (d. 2013)
* September 4 – Catherine Bennett, baseball player
* September 6 – Helen Hunley, politician (d. 2010)
* September 9 – Joan Neiman, senator (d. 2022)
* 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 (d. 2014)
* 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)