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Events from the year 1911 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – George V

Federal government

  • Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (until October 13) then Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
  • Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier (until October 6) then Robert Borden (from October 10)
  • Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
  • Parliament – 11th (until 29 July) then 12th (from 15 November)

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 (until August 1) then Douglas Colin Cameron
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Drummond McGregor
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Morison Gibson
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Benjamin Rogers
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier (until May 5) then François Langelier
  • Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – George William Brown

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta – Arthur Sifton
  • Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
  • Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
  • Premier of New Brunswick – John Douglas Hazen (until October 16) then James Kidd Flemming
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
  • Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Francis Haszard (until May 16) then Herbert James Palmer (May 16 to December 2) then John Mathieson
  • Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Commissioner of Yukon – Alexander Henderson (until June 1) then Arthur Wilson (acting)
  • Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin
  • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

  • January 11 – Fort Vermilion records the coldest temperature in North America at , holding the record until 1947.
  • May 16 – James Palmer becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing F. L. Haszard
  • June 14 – Nova Scotia election: George Henry Murray's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
  • September 21 – Federal election: Robert Borden's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals
  • October 4 – John Young Monument unveiled
  • October 10 – Robert Borden becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Wilfrid Laurier
  • October 16 – James Flemming becomes Premier of New Brunswick, replacing Sir John Hazen
  • December 2 – John Mathieson becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James Palmer
  • December 11 – Ontario election: Sir James Whitney's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority

Sport

  • November 25 – University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeated the Toronto Argonauts 14 to 7 in the 3rd Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

Full date unknown

  • Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada is founded.
  • Dominion Parks Branch is established, the world's first national park service, now called Parks Canada.

Arts and literature

Popular artworks

  • Autumn In France by Emily Carr.

Births

Unknown date

  • Stuart Trueman, journalist and writer

January to June

  • January 3 – Jean Bourcier, ice hockey player
  • January 27 – Blanche Meagher, diplomat
  • February 3 – Robert Charboneau, writer
  • March 12 – Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson, historian, educator and political activist (d.1998)
  • April 22 – Alexander Bell Patterson, politician (d.1993)
  • April 29 – Andrew Hill Clark, geographer
  • May 11
  • William Cecil Ross, politician (d.1998)
  • Mitchell Sharp, politician and Minister (d.2004)
  • May 12 – Dorothy Rungeling, aviator (d.2018)
  • June 24 – Portia White, singer (d.1968)
  • June 28 – Czeslaw Brzozowicz, engineer (d.1997)

July to December

  • July 18 – Hume Cronyn, actor (d.2003)
  • July 21 – Marshall McLuhan, educator, philosopher, and scholar (d.1980)
  • August 5 – Albert Sanschagrin, Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec (d.2009)
  • August 28 – Nérée Arsenault, politician (d.1982)
  • September 18 – Helen Doan, supercentenarian (d. 2024)
  • October 4 – Mary Two-Axe Earley, indigenous women's rights activist (d. 1996)
  • October 5 – Pierre Dansereau, ecologist (d.2011)

Deaths

  • March 11 – Théotime Blanchard, farmer, merchant and politician (b.1844)
  • April 14 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, jurist and 4th Chief Justice of Canada (b.1836)
  • April 29 – Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier, lawyer, militia officer, politician, publisher, judge, and the 9th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b.1837)
  • November 6 – John Carling, businessman and politician (b.1828)
  • December 12 – Daniel J. Greene, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b.1850)

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