1915 in Canada

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 – 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 (19671989) (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 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)
See also
List of Canadian films
Historical documents
"Canada First" - Henri Bourassa warns against involvement in war beyond what is good for Canada's finances, agriculture, industry, trade, military etc.
Tests for tradesmen in Royal Flying Corps include coppersmiths making T pieces out of plate, tinsmiths making square funnels and painters signwriting
Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" is published in Punch magazine
Nursing sister Capt. Sophie Hoerner notes her hard work and praises her patients
Canadian prisoners of war tell German captors why they're fighting against Germany
Future minister of national defence George Pearkes describes trench duty conditions
Canadian soldier feels homicidal after friend's brother found dead on battlefield and their family perhaps lost in Lusitania sinking
Brant County, Ont. leaders thank Six Nations following death of Lt. Cameron Brant
Officer describes huge training camp at Valcartier, Quebec
Soldier's letter about visiting friends and touring palaces in England, then getting arrested for returning late to camp
Canada's hundreds of growing towns should deter growth of slums found in its big cities
Saskatchewan government revokes liquor licences
Indian residential school principal criticized for allowing children to go home too often
Postcard: "Salmon Fishing on the Fraser River" shows cannery interior with piles of hundreds of cans
References
Years of the 20th century in Canada
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