1920 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

  Federal government

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

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edward Gawler Prior then Walter Cameron Nichol
• 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 – Lionel Herbert Clarke
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – 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 – Ernest Drury
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Howatt Bell
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin then Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• 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 10 – Canada is a founding member of the League of Nations, effectively ending the declaration of war.
• February 1 – The Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the Dominion Police are amalgamated and renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• February 14 – Université de Montréal founded
• February 26 – The Indian Act is amended to give Canadian aboriginal peoples the right to vote in band elections.
• March 12 – The first Lions Club outside the United States is founded in Windsor, Ontario.
• May 14 – Canadian Forum magazine founded
• June – The Catholic Women's League is formed in Montreal
• June 24 – Dollard des Ormeaux Monument unveiled
• July 1 – Under the Dominion Elections Act, uniform franchise is established and the right for women to be elected to parliament is made permanent.
• July 9 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Lomer Gouin
• July 10 – Arthur Meighen becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Robert Borden
• July 11 – Charles Stephens, a barber and daredevil from Bristol, England, dies attempting to go over Niagara Falls.
• October 17 – The first airplane to fly across Canada arrives in Richmond from Halifax.
• December 25 – Walter Cameron Nichol becomes the 12th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

  Date unknown

Arts and literature

• May 7 – The first exhibit of art by the Group of Seven opens in Toronto.
• November 8 – The Capitol Cinema opens in Ottawa, the capital's only true movie palace.
• Undated – A group of artists, educators, and art patrons formed the British Columbia Art League to lobby the provincial and city governments for a school.

  Sport

• January 10 – The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto St. Patricks combine for twenty one goals to set an NHL record for most goals in a single game.
• March 23–25 – Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Canoe Club won their First Memorial Cup by defeating Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association's Selkirk Fishermen 15 to 5 in a 2-game aggregate played at Arena Gardens in Toronto
• April 1 – The NHL's Ottawa Senators win their Ninth Stanley Cup by defeating the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Seattle Metropolitans 3 games to 2. The deciding game was played at Toronto's Arena Gardens
• December 4 – The University of Toronto Varsity Blues won their Fourth and final Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Argonauts 16 to 3 in the 8th Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

• April 26 – The Winnipeg Falcons representing Canada beat Sweden 12-1 to win the gold medal for Ice Hockey at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
• August 18 – Earl Thomson win a Gold medal in Men's 110 m Hurdles at the Athletics
• August 23 – Bert Schneider wins a Gold medal for Canada in the BoxingWelterweight at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.

  Births

January to March

• January 4 – James William Baskin, politician and businessman
• January 4 – Douglas Pimlott, biologist
• January 7 – Margaret Thompson, scientist
• January 12 – Bill Reid, artist
• February 22 – Ralph Raymond Loffmark, politician.
• February 23 – Paul Gérin-Lajoie, lawyer, philanthropist, politician and Minister
• February 25 – Merrill Edwin Barrington, politician
• February 25 – Gérard Bessette, author and educator
• March 3 – James Doohan, actor
• March 19 – Cyril Lloyd Francis, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
• March 24 – Bill Irwin, Olympic skier

  April to June

• April 2 – Gerald Bouey, 4th Governor of the Bank of Canada
• May 2 – William Hutt, actor
• May 5 – Bill Hunter, ice hockey player, general manager and coach
• May 8 – Harry Rankin, lawyer and politician
• May 27 – Peter Dmytruk, World War II military hero
• June 6 – Jan Rubeš, opera singer and actor
• June 14 – Stanley Waters, Senator
• June 15 – Sam Sniderman, founder of the Sam the Record Man chain
• June 24 – Joe Greene, politician

  July to December

• July 12 – Pierre Berton, author, television personality and journalist
• August 3 – Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
• August 19 – Agnes Benidickson, first female chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario
• August 24 – Alex Colville, painter
• September 6 – Helen Hunley, politician
• September 11 – Dalton Camp, journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator
• September 26 – Edmund Tobin Asselin, politician
• October 1 – Charles Daudelin, sculptor and painter
• October 13 – Evelyn Dick, murderer
• October 29 – Bill Juzda, ice hockey player
• November 11 – John Ferguson Browne, politician
• November 18 – George Johnson, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba

  Deaths

January to June

• February 12 – Aurore Gagnon, murder victim
• February 16 – Augustus F. Goodridge, politician and Premier of Newfoundland
• April 25 – Alexander Grant MacKay, teacher, lawyer and politician
• June 6 – James Dunsmuir, industrialist, politician and Premier of British Columbia
• June 18 – John Macoun, naturalist
• June 27 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge, author and lyricist

  July to December

• September 5 – Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe, second wife of John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada
• September 7 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician and Premier of Quebec
• September 18 – Robert Beaven, businessman, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia
• September 30 – William Wilfred Sullivan, journalist, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• November 19 – Byron Moffatt Britton, politician, lawyer and lecturer
• December 12 – Edward Gawler Prior, mining engineer, politician and Premier of British Columbia

  Historical Documents