1925 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

  Federal government

• Governor general – Julian Byng
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin
• Parliament – 14th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett then William Egbert
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Cameron Nichol
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Albert Manning Aikins
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Frederick Todd
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – MacCallum Grant then James Robson Douglas then James Cranswick Tory
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry Cockshutt
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse Pérodeau
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

  Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Herbert Greenfield then John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Peter Veniot then John Baxter
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Ernest Howard Armstrong then Edgar Nelson Rhodes
• Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Charles Avery Dunning

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie then Percy Reid
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

  Events

• February 5 – Post Office workers are brought under civil service regulations.
• February 24 – The Lake of the Woods Treaty works out joint Canadian-American control of the Lake of the Woods.
• April 13 – Women win the right to vote in Newfoundland.
• May 28 – Roddick Gates unveiled in Montreal.
• June 2 – 1925 Saskatchewan general election: Charles Dunning's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority
• June 10 – The United Church of Canada opens for services.
• June 11 – Coal miner William Davis was killed by police in the culmination of a long Cape Breton Island strike.
• June 23 – First ascent of Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada.
• June 26 – A strike of miners in Drumheller, Alberta ends in violent confrontations.
• July 16 – Edgar Rhodes becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Ernest Armstrong.
• September 14 – John Baxter becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Peter Veniot
• October 29 – Federal election: Arthur Meighen's Conservatives win a plurality, defeating Mackenzie King's Liberals. However, King does not resign as prime minister; he will try to govern with a minority government with the support of smaller parties and independent MPs
• November 23 – John Brownlee becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Charles Stewart
• The Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League, later the Royal Canadian Legion, is formed by the amalgamation of several veterans' organizations, such as the Great War Veterans Association.
• The federal divorce law was changed to allow a woman to divorce her husband on the same grounds that a man could divorce his wife – simple adultery. Before this, a woman had to prove adultery in conjunction with other acts such as "sodomy" or bestiality in order to initiate a divorce.

  Arts and literature

• October 1 – The Vancouver School of Applied and Decorative Arts opened its doors.

  Sport

• March 23 and 25 – South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Aura Lee 7 to 3 in a 2-game aggregate played in Arena Gardens in Toronto
• March 30 – Western Canada Hockey League's Victoria Cougars win their only Stanley Cup by defeating the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens 3 games to 1. The deciding game was played at Vancouver's Denman Arena. The Cougars are the last non-NHL team to win the Stanley Cup, as they would soon become the Detroit Red Wings
• December 5 – The Ottawa Senators win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Tammany Tigers 24 to 1 in the 13th Grey Cup played at Ottawa's Lansdowne Park

  Births

January to June

• January 26 – Claude Ryan, politician
• February 1 – Hugh Horner, politician, physician and surgeon
• February 7 – Hans Schmidt, professional wrestler
• March 2 – Bernard Jean, lawyer and politician, member and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
• March 23 – Wilson Duff, anthropologist
• March 25 – Daniel Yanofsky, chess player, Canada's first chess grandmaster
• March 26 – Ben Mondor, baseball executive
• April 1 – Tobie Steinhouse, artist
• April 4 – Claude Wagner, judge and politician
• April 11 – Pierre Péladeau, businessman
• May 18 – Robin Blaser, author and poet

  July to September

• July 21 – Johnny Peirson, ice hockey player
• July 25 – Charmion King, actress
• July 29 – Ted Lindsay, ice hockey player
• August 2 – William Andres, politician
• August 11 – Floyd Curry, ice hockey player
• August 15 – Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist and composer
• September 4 – Calvin Ruck, anti-racism activist and Senator
• September 11 – Harry Somers, composer
• September 24 – Dan Heap, politician

  October to December

• October 2 – Wren Blair, hockey coach and manager
• October 6 – Bud Olson, politician, Minister and Senator
• October 12 – Denis Lazure, politician
• October 21 – Peter Dickinson, architect
• October 21 – Louis Robichaud, lawyer, politician and 25th Premier of New Brunswick
• October 25 – Cora Etter, politician
• November 8 – Allan Lawrence, politician and Minister
• November 10 – Doris Anderson, author, journalist and women's rights activist
• November 12 – Agnes Nanogak, illustrator
• December 5 – Dave Broadfoot, comedian
• December 25 – Robert Layton, politician

  Deaths

January to June

• January 25 – Charles-Eusèbe Dionne, naturalist and taxidermist
• March 3 – William Pugsley, lawyer, politician and 10th Premier of New Brunswick
• March 16 – Richard Butler, editor, publisher, journalist and U.S. vice-consul
• May 4 – James Cunningham, merchant and politician
• May 25 – Margaret Mick, prison guard, first female Canadian peace officer to be killed in the line of duty
• June 18 – William Brymner, art teacher and painter

  July to December

• August 15 – Adam Beck, politician and hydro-electricity advocate
• September 6 – George Henry Bradbury, politician
• November 2 – James Alexander Lougheed, businessman and politician

  Historical Documents