1919 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

  Federal government

• Governor general – Victor Cavendish
• Prime minister – Robert Borden
• Chief Justice – Louis Henry Davies
• Parliament – 13th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Francis S. Barnard 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 then Lionel Herbert Clarke
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Augustine Colin Macdonald then Murdock MacKinnon
• 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 then Ernest Drury
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Aubin Arsenault 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

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
• February 17 – J. M. S. Careless, historian
• February 20
• *Thomas Ide, educator and the founding Chairman of TVOntario
• *Joe Krol, Canadian football player
• March 21 – Victor Copps, politician and Mayor of Hamilton
• March 26 – Vernon Singer, politician
• April 16 – Louis Harrington Lewry, politician and reporter
• April 21 – William Perehudoff, painter
• May 27 – Francess Halpenny, editor and professor
• May 29 – Jacques Genest, physician and academic
• June 19
• *Gérard Dionne, Roman Catholic bishop
• *Simon Reisman, civil servant and chief negotiator of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement
• June 21 – Gérard Pelletier, journalist, editor, politician and Minister

  July to December

• July 5 – Gordon Towers, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta
• August 1 – Jack Butterfield, President of the American Hockey League
• August 9 – Edmund Hockridge, singer and actor
• August 19 – Margaret Marquis, Canadian-American actress
• August 21 – Marcel Lambert, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
• September 1 – Gladys Davis, professional baseball player
• September 11 – Daphne Odjig, artist
• October 12 – Gilles Beaudoin, politician and mayor of Trois-Rivières
• October 17 – Violet Milstead, World War II aviator and bush pilot
• October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, politician and 15th Prime Minister of Canada
• November 1 – Russell Bannock, aviator and test pilot
• November 14 – Albert Ludwig, politician
• December 10 – Vincent Brassard, politician
• December 25 – Paul David, cardiologist and founder of the Montreal Heart Institute

  Deaths

• January 30 – Sam Steele, soldier and member of the North-West Mounted Police
• February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, politician and 7th Prime Minister of Canada
• July 29 – Frederick Peters, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• August 18 – Joseph E. Seagram, distillery founder, politician, philanthropist and racehorse owner
• October 14 – Simon Hugh Holmes, publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
• November 10 – Charles Mickle, politician
• November 11 – George Haddow, politician and merchant
• December 10 – Arthur Boyle, politician
• December 29 – William Osler, physician

Historical Documents