1910 in Canada

1910 in Canada
Events from the year 1910 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch – Edward VII (until May 6) then George V
Federal government
Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
Parliament – 11th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Wilson Paterson
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Duncan Cameron Fraser (until September 27) then James Drummond McGregor
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Morison Gibson
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon (until June 1) then Benjamin Rogers
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget (until October 5) then George William Brown
Premiers
Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford (until May 26) then Arthur Sifton
Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
Premier of New Brunswick – John Douglas Hazen
Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Francis Haszard
Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Commissioner of Yukon – Alexander Henderson
Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White
Events
January 3 – Happiness and contentment are found from one end of Canada to the other – headline in The Times (page 5)
January 10 – The Laurier government introduces the Naval Service Act creating a Canadian navy to great controversy. The bill would end up alienating most of Laurier supporters and lead to his defeat in the 1911 election.
January 10 – Le Devoir first published
January 21 – A Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train derails and crashes into a bridge over the Spanish River near Nairn in Sudbury District, Ontario. Between 43 and 70 people are killed in what was at the time the worst disaster in Canadian Pacific history, and one of the worst railway disasters in Canadian history.
March 5 – 65 railway maintenance workers, over half of them Japanese, are killed in an avalanche at Rogers Pass, British Columbia while trying to clear the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental mainline. It is the worst disaster in Canadian Pacific history.
May 4 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created after the Naval Service Act passes
May 6 – Edward VII dies and is succeeded by George V
May 26 – Arthur Sifton becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Alexander Rutherford
July 31 – British murderer Dr. Crippen is caught in Quebec City
December 9 – a coal mine explosion at Bellevue, Alberta, kills 31
Sport
January 5/7 – Ottawa HC defeats Galt HC 15 goals to 4 to win the first Stanley Cup challenge in Ottawa's Dey's Arena
January 18/20 – Ottawa HC defeats Edmonton HC 21 goals to 11 to win the second Stanley Cup challenge in Ottawa's Dey's Arena
March 12 – Montreal Wanderers defeat Berlin Dutchmen 7 goals to 3 to win the final Stanley Cup challenge in Montreal's Jubilee Rink
September 13 – Regina Rugby Club (Saskatchewan Roughriders) are established
November 26 – The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Hamilton Tigers 16 to 7 to win the 2nd Grey Cup, played at Hamilton's A.A.A. Grounds
Arts and literature
New Books
Anne of Avonlea – Lucy Maud Montgomery
Ednyfed Fychan – William Williams
Practical Political Economy – Stephen Leacock
Births
January to June
January 4 – Arthur Villeneuve, painter (d. 1990)
February 2 – Andrew McKeller, astrophysicist
February 5 – Charles Philippe Leblond, pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research (d. 2007)
February 27 – Robert Bryce, civil servant (d. 1997)
May 4 – Arsène Gagné, Quebec politician (d. 1964)
May 30 – Keir Clark, Prince Edward Island politician (d. 2010)
June 17 – George Hees, politician and minister (d. 1996)
June 26 – Munroe Bourne, swimmer (d. 1992)
July to December
July 2 – Lorne Carr, hockey player (d. 2007)
July 17 – James Coyne, second Governor of the Bank of Canada
July 19 – Jean Wilson, speed-skater
July 29 – Norman Fawcett, politician (d. 1997)
August 13 – Gwendolyn Ringwood, playwright
August 18 – Robert Winters, politician and businessman (d. 1969)
August 26 – Jessie Gray, surgeon (d. 1978)
September 10 – Harry Thode, geochemist, nuclear chemist and academic administrator (d. 1997)
September 21 – Anne Wilkinson, poet (d. 1961)
October 8 – Ray Lewis, track and field athlete, Olympic bronze medallist, first Canadian-born black Olympic medallist (d. 2003)
October 13 – Otto Joachim, German-born composer (d. 2010)
October 21 – Pauline Mills McGibbon, politician and 22nd Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario (d. 2001)
October 27 – Jack Carson, actor (d. 1963)
November 14 – Michael Starr, politician and first Canadian cabinet minister of Ukrainian descent (d. 2000)
Full date unknown
James Cameron, writer
Al Clouston, storyteller, humourist and author (d. 2004)
Leo Landreville, politician and judge implicated in the Northern Ontario Natural Gas scandal (d. 1996)
Deaths
February 2 – George Murdoch, politician and 1st mayor of Calgary (b.1850)
February 9 – George Barnard Baker, lawyer, politician and Senator (b.1834)
February 15 – Joseph-Élisée Beaudet, businessman and politician (b.1834)
February 26 – Adelaide Hoodless, educational reformer who founded the Women's Institute (b.1857)
May 6 – Edward VII, King of Canada (b.1841)
June 7 – Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist (b.1823)
June 9 – Charles Braithwaite, politician and agrarian leader (b.1850)
September 2 – Hector Fabre, lawyer, journalist, diplomat and senator (b.1834)
Historical documents
Prime Minister Laurier says creating navy is necessary for autonomous nation
Poster: Canadian Pacific steamship fleets
At Eucharistic Congress of Montreal, Henri Bourassa defends use of French in Catholic worship
Instructions to Cowichan Indian Agency include discouraging "foolish, wasteful and demoralizing" potlatches
Grain Growers' Guide reports "tricks" and "graft" Prairie farmers encounter at grain elevators
Socialist Party leaflet quotes Alberta MLA championing railway workers
Rudyard Kipling urges people of Medicine Hat not to change city's name
Lucy Maud Montgomery answers questions about Boston, women's suffrage, and Prince Edward Island
Cartoon: Angry women chase Toronto mayor saying "Wonder who told them we didn't encourage the suffragette movement in Toronto?"
References
Years of the 20th century in Canada
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