# 1907 in Canada

Events from the year 1907 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – Edward VII

### Federal government

* Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
* Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
* Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
* Parliament – 10th

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – James Dunsmuir
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball (until February 24) then Lemuel John Tweedie (from March 6)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Duncan Cameron Fraser
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
* Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

#### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
* Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
* Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
* Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie (until March 6) then William Pugsley (March 6 to May 31) then Clifford William Robinson
* Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
* Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
* Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
* Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
* Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

### Territorial governments
#### Commissioners

* Commissioner of Yukon – John T. Lithgow (acting) (until June 17) then Alexander Henderson
* Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin (from June 17)
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

## Events

* March 6 – William Pugsley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Lemuel John Tweedie
* May 24 – Boer War Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
* May 30 – King Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Alberta
* May 31 – Clifford Robinson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing William Pugsley
* August 24 – Part of the under-construction Quebec Bridge collapses in Quebec City killing 75 construction workers and injuring 11.
* September 7
** An anti-Asian riot in Vancouver attacks Chinatown
** Alexander Grant MacKay is elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
* September 14 – Jasper Forest Park – later named Jasper National Park – is established.

### Full date unknown

* The National Council for Women demands "equal pay for equal work"
* The world's first rotary telephone came into use at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
* The first Sobeys opens in Stellarton, Nova Scotia

## Births
### January to June

* January 14 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, politician (d.1985)
* January 26 – Hans Selye, endocrinologist (d.1982)
* February 9 – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, geometer (d.2003)
* March 20 – Hugh MacLennan, author and professor of English (d.1990)
* March 24 – Paul Sauvé, lawyer, soldier, politician and 17th Premier of Quebec (d.1960)
* April 16 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor, businessman and founder of Bombardier Inc. (d.1964)
* April 17 – Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger, politician (d.1989)

### July to December

* July 6 – George Stanley, historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant and designer of the current Canadian flag (d.2002)
* August 5 – Herman Linder, rodeoist
* August 24 – Alfred Belzile, politician and farmer
* September 3 – Andrew Brewin, lawyer and politician (d.1983)
* September 15 – Fay Wray, actress (d.2004)
* October 20 – Carl Goldenberg, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator (d.1996)
* November 19 – Frederick Thomas Armstrong, politician (d.1990)
* November 21 – Christie Harris, children's author (d.2002)
* December 12 – Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé, pianist, soprano and teacher (d.2007)

### Unknown

* Edythe Shuttleworth, mezzo-soprano (d.1983)

## Deaths
### January to June

* January 1 – William Pearce Howland, politician (b.1811)
* January 25 – Andrew George Blair, politician and 6th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1844)
* January 31 – Timothy Eaton, businessman and founder of Eaton's (b.1834)
* March 3 – Oronhyatekha, Mohawk physician and scholar (b.1841)
* March 8 – Edward Cochrane, politician (b.1834)
* March 20 – Louis Adolphe Billy, politician and lawyer (b.1834)
* April 6 – William Henry Drummond, poet (b.1854)
* May 24 – Frederick William Lewis, politician.
* June 12 – John Waldie, politician (b.1833)

### July to December

* August 10 – James Brien, politician and physician (b.1848)
* September 26 – Alexander Gunn, politician (b.1828)
* October 10 – Cassie Chadwick, fraudster (b.1857)
* October 13 – Harvey William Burk, politician and farmer (b.1822)

## Historical documents

Report that staff "minimize the dangers of infection" in "the defective sanitary condition" of many residential schools in Prairie Provinces
Newspaper covers "not too favorable a report" issued by Dr. Peter Bryce, concluding "vigorous action cannot be long delayed"
Missing residential school boys are forced to run back with arms tied, and church committee advises against that to avoid cruelty complaints
Fallout from September 7 riot against Asian Canadians in Vancouver
Opposition Leader Robert Borden's Vancouver speech on restricting East Asian immigration
Mackenzie King believes workers running cooperative will learn capitalists' risks and responsibilities, thus reducing labour strife
Rudyard Kipling speaks on spirit of development in Winnipeg
Photo and text: Winnipeg Beach, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba
Speech on U.S. influence on Canadian thought, habits, literature and press
Local Saskatchewan debate on women's suffrage results in negative decision
Western boards of trade resolutions call for state-supported hospitals
Mayor of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan advocates transportation route to Hudson Bay
Stinkers, mortal terror, and common enemy: automobile issues in Nova Scotia
McGill University principal on place of classical studies in modern education
Article on inner workings of Marconi wireless telegraph station
Minister and three other rowers survive ice and huge waves in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland