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Events from the year 1916 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – George V

Federal government

  • Governor General – Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (until November 11) then Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
  • Prime Minister – Robert Borden
  • Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
  • Parliament – 12th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Francis Stillman Barnard
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Douglas Colin Cameron (until August 3) then James Albert Manning Aikins
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Josiah Wood
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – David MacKeen (until November 13) then MacCallum Grant (from November 29)
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Strathearn Hendrie
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Augustine Colin Macdonald
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Pierre-Évariste Leblanc
  • Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Richard Stuart Lake

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta – Arthur Sifton
  • Premier of British Columbia – William John Bowser (until November 23) then Harlan Brewster
  • Premier of Manitoba – Tobias Norris
  • Premier of New Brunswick – George Johnson Clarke
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
  • Premier of Ontario – William Hearst
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Mathieson
  • Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott (until October 20) then William Melville Martin

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Commissioner of Yukon – George Black (until October 13) then George Norris Williams (acting)
  • Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
  • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

January to June

  • January 28 – Women are given the right to vote in Manitoba, after protests by people such as Nellie McClung
  • February 3 – The Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa burns down
  • February 10 – An anti-German riot hits Calgary
  • March 14 – Saskatchewan women get the vote
  • April 19 – Alberta women get the vote
  • June – Rodeo's first side-delivery chute is designed and made by the Bascom brothers on their Bar-B-3 Ranch at Welling, Alberta.
  • May 7 – The Government of Canada authorizes the creation of an all black battalion that became No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
  • June 1–13 – WWI: Canadians fight in the Battle of Mont Sorrel

July to December

  • July 1 – Prohibition of alcohol introduced in Alberta
  • July 1 – November 18 – 25,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders are casualties at the Battle of the Somme
  • July 24 – Earl Bascom enters his first steer riding contest at Welling, Alberta.
  • July 29 – The Matheson Fire in the region northwest of North Bay, Ontario, begins. It eventually kills between 200 and 250 people and destroys six towns, including Matheson and Cochrane
  • August 11 – The 4th Canadian Division arrives in France
  • October 20 – William M. Martin becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Walter Scott
  • November 11 – Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, becomes Governor General of Canada replacing Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
  • November 23 – Harlan Brewster becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing William John Bowser
  • December 1 – An Order in Council authorizes an increase of troops to 500,000 in the First World War

Full date unknown

  • The National Research Council of Canada is established.
  • The first Doukhobors arrive in Alberta
  • Emily Murphy became the first female magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire.

Arts and literature

New works

  • Lucy Maud Montgomery – The Watchman & Other Poems
  • Max Aitken – Canada in Flanders
  • Alfred Laliberté – Les petits Baigneurs

Sport

  • March 30 – The National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens beat the Portland Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association 3 games to 2 to win their first Stanley Cup. All Games were played at the Montreal Arena

Births

January to June

  • January 22 – Bill Durnan, ice hockey player (d.1972)
  • February 4 – Pudlo Pudlat, artist (d.1992)

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  • February 10 – Claude Bissell, author and educator (d.2000)
  • February 18 – Jean Drapeau, lawyer, politician and Mayor of Montreal (d.1999)
  • February 23 – Molly Kool, North America's first registered female sea captain (d.2009)
  • March 10 – Davie Fulton, politician and judge (d.2000)
  • April 18 – Ian Wahn, politician and lawyer (d.1999)
  • April 27 – Myfanwy Pavelic, artist (d.2007)
  • May 3 – Léopold Simoneau, lyric tenor (d.2006)
  • May 4 – Jane Jacobs, urbanist, writer and activist (d.2006)
  • May 30 – Jack Dennett, radio and television announcer (d.1975)
  • June 20 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand, politician and 21st Premier of Quebec (d.1973)

July to December

  • July 16 – John Gallagher, geologist and businessman (d.1998)

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  • July 21 – Wilfred Cantwell Smith, professor of comparative religion (d.2000)
  • August 1 – Anne Hébert, author and poet (d.2000)
  • September 5 – Frank Shuster, comedian (d.2002)
  • September 18 – Laura Sabia, social activist and feminist (d.1996)
  • October 9 – Bill Allum, ice hockey player (d.1992)
  • October 30 – Roy Brown Jr., car design engineer (Edsel, Ford Consul, Ford Cortina) (d.2013)
  • November 17 – , businessman (d.2013)
  • November 23 – P. K. Page, poet (d.2010)
  • December 5 – Lomer Brisson, politician and lawyer (d.1981)
  • December 7 – Margaret Carse, dancer
  • December 16 – Harry Gunning, scientist and administrator (d.2002)
  • December 20 – Michel Chartrand, activist (d.2010)
  • December 23 – Ruth Dawson, artist

Full date unknown

  • John Wintermeyer, politician (d.1994)

Deaths

  • February 3 – Bowman Brown Law, politician (b.1855)
  • May 12 – Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, politician (b.1848)
  • May 29 – Louis-Alphonse Boyer, politician (b.1839)
  • June 27 – Daniel Webster Marsh, businessman and Mayor of Calgary (b.1838)
  • July 28 – Pierre-Amand Landry, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1846)
  • August 8 – Edgar Dewdney, politician, Lieutenant Governor of Northwest Territories and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (b.1835)
  • December 12 – Albert Lacombe, missionary (b.1827)

Full date unknown

  • Grace Annie Lockhart, first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree (b.1855)

See also

  • List of Canadian films

References