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Events from the year 1907 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Edward VII

Federal government

  • Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
  • Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
  • Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
  • Parliament – 10th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – James Dunsmuir
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball (until February 24) then Lemuel John Tweedie (from March 6)
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Duncan Cameron Fraser
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
  • Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
  • Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
  • Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie (until March 6) then William Pugsley (March 6 to May 31) then Clifford William Robinson
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
  • Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
  • Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Commissioner of Yukon – John T. Lithgow (acting) (until June 17) then Alexander Henderson
  • Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin (from June 17)
  • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

  • March 6 – William Pugsley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Lemuel John Tweedie
  • May 24 – Boer War Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
  • May 30 – King Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Alberta
  • May 31 – Clifford Robinson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing William Pugsley
  • August 24 – Part of the under-construction Quebec Bridge collapses in Quebec City killing 75 construction workers and injuring 11.
  • September 7
  • An anti-Asian riot in Vancouver attacks Chinatown
  • Alexander Grant MacKay is elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
  • September 14 – Jasper Forest Park later named Jasper National Park is established.

Full date unknown

  • The National Council for Women demands "equal pay for equal work"
  • The world's first rotary telephone came into use at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
  • The first Sobeys opens in Stellarton, Nova Scotia

Births

January to June

  • January 14 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, politician (d.1985)
  • January 26 – Hans Selye, endocrinologist (d.1982)
  • February 9 – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, geometer (d.2003)
  • March 20 – Hugh MacLennan, author and professor of English (d.1990)

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  • March 24 – Paul Sauvé, lawyer, soldier, politician and 17th Premier of Quebec (d.1960)
  • April 16 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor, businessman and founder of Bombardier Inc. (d.1964)
  • April 17 – Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger, politician (d.1989)
  • June 19 – Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general (d.1985)

July to December

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  • July 6 – George Stanley, historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant and designer of the current Canadian flag (d. 2002)
  • August 5 – Herman Linder, rodeoist
  • August 24 – Alfred Belzile, politician and farmer
  • September 3 – Andrew Brewin, lawyer and politician (d. 1983)
  • September 11 – Cécile Chabot, poet and illustrator (d. 1990)
  • September 15 – Fay Wray, actress (d.2004)
  • October 20 – Carl Goldenberg, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator (d. 1996)
  • November 19 – Frederick Thomas Armstrong, politician (d. 1990)
  • November 21 – Christie Harris, children's author (d. 2002)
  • December 12 – Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé, pianist, soprano and teacher (d. 2007)

Unknown

  • Edythe Shuttleworth, mezzo-soprano (d.1983)

Deaths

January to June

  • January 1 – William Pearce Howland, politician (b.1811)
  • January 25 – Andrew George Blair, politician and 6th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1844)
  • January 31 – Timothy Eaton, businessman and founder of Eaton's (b.1834)
  • March 3 – Oronhyatekha, Mohawk physician and scholar (b.1841)
  • March 8 – Edward Cochrane, politician (b.1834)
  • March 20 – Louis Adolphe Billy, politician and lawyer (b.1834)
  • April 6 – William Henry Drummond, poet (b.1854)
  • May 24 – Frederick William Lewis, politician.
  • June 12 – John Waldie, politician (b.1833)

July to December

  • August 10 – James Brien, politician and physician (b.1848)
  • September 26 – Alexander Gunn, politician (b.1828)
  • October 10 – Cassie Chadwick, fraudster (b.1857)
  • October 13 – Harvey William Burk, politician and farmer (b.1822)

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