# 1925 in Canada

Events from the year 1925 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – George V

### Federal government

* Governor General – Julian Byng
* Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
* Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
* Parliament – 14th (until 5 September)

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett (until October 29) then William Egbert
* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Cameron Nichol
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Albert Manning Aikins
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Frederick Todd
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – MacCallum Grant (until January 12) then James Robson Douglas (January 12 to September 14) then James Cranswick Tory
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry Cockshutt
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse Pérodeau
* Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

#### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta – Herbert Greenfield (until November 23) then John Edward Brownlee
* Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
* Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
* Premier of New Brunswick – Peter Veniot (until September 14) then John Baxter
* Premier of Nova Scotia – Ernest Howard Armstrong (until July 16) then Edgar Nelson Rhodes
* Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson
* Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart
* Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
* Premier of Saskatchewan – Charles Avery Dunning

### Territorial governments
#### Commissioners

* Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie (until April 1) then Percy Reid
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

## Events

* February 5 – Post Office workers are brought under civil service regulations.
* February 24 – The Lake of the Woods Treaty works out joint Canadian-American control of the Lake of the Woods.
* April 13 – Women win the right to vote in Newfoundland.
* May 28 – Roddick Gates unveiled in Montreal.
* June 2 – 1925 Saskatchewan general election: Charles Dunning's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority
* June 10 – The United Church of Canada opens for services.
* June 11 – Coal miner William Davis was killed by police in the culmination of a long Cape Breton Island strike.
* June 23 – First ascent of Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada.
* June 26 – A strike of miners in Drumheller, Alberta ends in violent confrontations.
* July 16 – Edgar Rhodes becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Ernest Armstrong.
* September 14 – John Baxter becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Peter Veniot
* October 29 – Federal election: Arthur Meighen's Conservatives win a plurality (116 seats), defeating Mackenzie King's Liberals (99 seats). However, King does not resign as prime minister; he will try to govern with a minority government with the support of smaller parties and independent MPs (30 seats)
* November 23 – John Brownlee becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Charles Stewart
* The Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League, later the Royal Canadian Legion, is formed by the amalgamation of several veterans' organizations, such as the Great War Veterans Association.
* The federal divorce law was changed to allow a woman to divorce her husband on the same grounds that a man could divorce his wife – simple adultery. Before this, a woman had to prove adultery in conjunction with other acts such as "sodomy" or bestiality in order to initiate a divorce.

## Arts and literature

* October 1 – The Vancouver School of Applied and Decorative Arts opened its doors.

## Sport

* March 23 and 25 – South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Aura Lee 7 to 3 in a 2-game aggregate played in Arena Gardens in Toronto
* March 30 – Western Canada Hockey League's Victoria Cougars win their only Stanley Cup by defeating the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens 3 games to 1. The deciding game was played at Vancouver's Denman Arena. The Cougars are the last non-NHL team to win the Stanley Cup, as they would soon become the Detroit Red Wings
* December 5 – The Ottawa Senators win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Tammany Tigers 24 to 1 in the 13th Grey Cup played at Ottawa's Lansdowne Park

## Births
### January to June

* January 26 – Claude Ryan, politician (d. 2004)
* February 1 – Hugh Horner, politician, physician and surgeon (d. 1997)
* February 7 – Hans Schmidt, professional wrestler (d. 2012)
* March 2 – Bernard Jean, lawyer and politician, member (1960–1970) and Speaker (1963–1966) of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (d. 2012)
* March 23 – Wilson Duff, anthropologist (d. 1976)
* March 25 – Daniel Yanofsky, chess player, Canada's first chess grandmaster (d. 2000)
* March 26 – Ben Mondor, baseball executive (Pawtucket Red Sox) (d. 2010)
* April 1 – Tobie Steinhouse, artist
* April 4 – Claude Wagner, judge and politician (d. 1979)
* April 11 – Pierre Péladeau, businessman (d. 1997)
* May 18 – Robin Blaser, author and poet (d. 2009)

### July to September

* July 21 – Johnny Peirson, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
* July 25 – Charmion King, actress (d. 2007)
* July 29 – Ted Lindsay, ice hockey player (d. 2019)
* August 2 – William Andres, politician (d. 2010)
* August 11 – Floyd Curry, ice hockey player (d. 2006)
* August 15 – Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist and composer (d. 2007)
* August 22 – Terry Donahue, female professional baseball player (d. 2019)
* September 4 – Calvin Ruck, anti-racism activist and Senator (d. 2004)
* September 11 – Harry Somers, composer (d. 1999)
* September 24 – Dan Heap, politician (d. 2014)

### October to December

* October 2 – Wren Blair, hockey coach and manager (Minnesota North Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins) (d. 2013)
* October 6 – Bud Olson, politician, Minister and Senator (d. 2002)
* October 12 – Denis Lazure, politician (d. 2008)
* October 21 – Peter Dickinson, architect (d. 1961)
* October 21 – Louis Robichaud, lawyer, politician and 25th Premier of New Brunswick (d. 2005)
* November 8 – Allan Lawrence, politician and Minister (d. 2008)
* November 10 – Doris Anderson, author, journalist and women's rights activist (d. 2007)
* November 12 – Agnes Nanogak, illustrator (d. 2001)
* December 5 – Dave Broadfoot, comedian (d. 2016)
* December 25 – Robert Layton, politician (d. 2002)
* December 29 – Colleen Thibaudeau, poet and short-story writer (d. 2012)

## Deaths
### January to June

* January 25 – Charles-Eusèbe Dionne, naturalist and taxidermist (b. 1845)
* March 3 – William Pugsley, lawyer, politician and 10th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1850)
* March 16 – Richard Butler, editor, publisher, journalist and U.S. vice-consul (b. 1834)
* May 4 – James Cunningham, merchant and politician (b. 1834)
* May 25 – Margaret Mick, prison guard, first female Canadian peace officer to be killed in the line of duty (b. 1860)
* June 18 – William Brymner, art teacher and painter (b. 1855)

### July to December

* August 15 – Adam Beck, politician and hydro-electricity advocate (b. 1857)
* September 6 – George Henry Bradbury, politician (b. 1859)
* November 2 – James Alexander Lougheed, businessman and politician (b. 1854)