# 1915 in Canada

Events from the year 1915 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – George V

### Federal government

* Governor General – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
* Prime Minister – Robert Borden
* Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
* Parliament – 12th

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George H. V. Bulyea (until October 20) then Robert Brett
* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Francis Stillman Barnard
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Douglas Colin Cameron
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Josiah Wood
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Drummond McGregor (until October 19) then David MacKeen
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Strathearn Hendrie
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Benjamin Rogers (until June 3) then Augustine Colin Macdonald
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – François Langelier (until February 8) then Pierre-Évariste Leblanc
* Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – George W. Brown (until October 6) then Richard Stuart Lake

#### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta – Arthur Sifton
* Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride (until December 15) then William John Bowser
* Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin (until May 12) then Tobias Norris
* Premier of New Brunswick – George Johnson Clarke
* Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
* Premier of Ontario – William Hearst
* Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Alexander Mathieson
* Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
* Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

### Territorial governments
#### Commissioners

* Commissioner of Yukon – George Black
* Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

## Events

* January 4 – WWI: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry becomes the first Canadian troops sent to the front lines
* January 15 – The Canadian Northern Railway line to Vancouver, British Columbia, is completed
* February 2 – WW1: Attempt to bomb the Vanceboro international bridge between the Canadian-US border by a German spy
* February 4 – WW1: After a training accident, Lieutenant W. F. Sharpe becomes the first Canadian military airman killed
* February 14 – WW1: The 1st Canadian Division arrives in France
* February 21 – Nellie McClung presents a petition to the Alberta Legislature demanding women's suffrage
* February 28 – WWI: Canadian troops launch the first trench raid of the war; by the end of the conflict Canadian troops will be regarded as the experts at this manoeuvre
* April 22 – WWI: In the Second Battle of Ypres Canadian forces bear the brunt of the first large-scale chemical weapons attack on the Western Front. They devise makeshift gas masks of urine-soaked rags and hold their ground
* May 3 – "In Flanders Fields" is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.
* May 12 – Tobias Norris becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Sir Rodmond Roblin
* July 5 – The Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton opens
* August 6 – Manitoba General Election
* September 13 – WWI: with the arrival of the 2nd Canadian Division a separate Canadian Corps is created
* October 9 – WWI: The 3rd Canadian Division arrives in France
* December 15 – William John Bowser becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Richard McBride
* December 19 – WW1: Captain M.M. Bell-Irving, No.1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, achieves the first aerial victory by a Canadian when he shot down a German aircraft

### Full date unknown

* Fermière Monument (Montreal) unveiled
* World War I – Many Canadian soldiers grow upset at the inferior quality of their Ross Rifles

## Arts and literature
### New works

* "In Flanders Fields": John McCrae
* The Golden Road: Lucy Maud Montgomery

## Sport

* March 26 – The Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Vancouver Millionaires win their first and only Stanley Cup by defeating the National Hockey Association's Ottawa Senators 3 games to 0. All games played at Vancouver's Denman Arena
* November 20 – The Hamilton Tigers win their 2nd Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Rugby and Athletic Association 13 to 7 in the 7th Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

## Births
### January to June

* January 12 – Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ottawa (1967–1989) (d.2013)
* January 18 – Syl Apps, pole vaulter and ice hockey player (d.1998)
* February 12 – Lorne Greene, actor (d.1987)
* March 10 – Maurice Camyré, Olympic boxer (d.2013)
* March 18 – Harold Crowchild, Tsuu T'ina elder and soldier, last Treaty 7 World War II veteran (d.2013)
* April 9 – Daniel Johnson, Sr., politician and 20th Premier of Quebec (d.1968)
* April 11 – Eddie Sargent, politician (d.1998)
* April 28 – Robina Higgins, track and field athlete (d.1990)
* May 3 – Stu Hart, wrestler, promoter and trainer (d.2003)
* May 28
** Conrad Bourcier, ice hockey player (d.1987)
** Frank Pickersgill, World War II hero (d.1944)
* June 22 – Arthur Gelber, philanthropist (d.1998)

### July to December

* July 4 – Harold E. Johns, medical physicist (d.1998)
* July 6 – Leonard Birchall, World War II hero (d.2004)
* August 3 – Frank Arthur Calder, politician, first Status Indian to be elected to any legislature in Canada (d.2006)
* August 20 – H. Gordon Barrett, politician (d.1993)
* August 22
** James Hillier, scientist and inventor, jointly designed and built first electron microscope (d.2007)
** Jacques Flynn, politician and Senator (d.2000)
* August 25 – John W. H. Bassett, publisher and media baron (d.1998)
* October 7
** Harry J. Boyle, broadcaster and writer (d.2005)
** Charles Templeton, cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author (d.2001)
* October 25 – Tommy Prince, one of Canada's most decorated First Nations soldiers (d.1977)
* November 27 – Yves Thériault, author (d.1983)
* December 4 – Johnny Lombardi, CHIN-TV television personality (d.2002)
* December 13 – Ross Macdonald, novelist (d.1983)

### Full date unknown

* Arthur Julian Andrew, diplomat and author (d.1994)
* Earl Cameron, broadcaster and news anchor (d.2005)
* Percy Saltzman, meteorologist and television personality, first weatherman in English-Canadian television history (d.2007)

## Deaths

* January 18 – Thomas Bain, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1834)
* May 16 – Kit Coleman, journalist (b. 1864)
* June 14 – Antoine Audet, politician (b. 1846)
* July 21 – Jean Prévost, politician (b. 1870)
* July 22 – Sandford Fleming, engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
* August 10 – William Mortimer Clark, lawyer, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1836)
* September 10 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, politician and 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
* September 11 – William Cornelius Van Horne, pioneering railway executive (b. 1843)
* September 15 – Ernest Gagnon, folklorist (b. 1834)
* October 19 – Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1842)
* October 30 – Charles Tupper, politician, Premier of Nova Scotia and 6th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
* December 25 – Graham Fraser (industrialist) (b. 1845)