# 1919 in Canada

Events from the year 1919 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – George V

### 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

* Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

## 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)
* February 17 – J. M. S. Careless, historian (d. 2009)
* 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)
* 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)