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Events from the year 1919 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – George V

Federal government

  • Governor General – Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
  • Prime Minister – Robert Borden
  • Chief Justice – Louis Henry Davies (Prince Edward Island)
  • Parliament – 13th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Francis S. Barnard (until December 9) then Edward Gawler Prior
  • 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 – John Strathearn Hendrie (until November 20) then Lionel Herbert Clarke
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Augustine Colin Macdonald (until July 16) then Murdock MacKinnon (from September 2)
  • 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 – William Hearst (until November 14) then Ernest Drury
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Aubin Arsenault (until September 9) then John Howatt Bell
  • Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
  • 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 to June

  • January 19 – Canadian troops take part in the Battle of Shenkursk, part of the Russian Civil War.
  • February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and former prime minister of Canada, dies in office.
  • April 17 – New Brunswick women are permitted to vote.
  • April 10 – The Quebec referendum on the prohibition of alcohol.
  • May 3 – Yukon women are permitted to vote.
  • May 15 – June 25 – Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
  • May 22 – The House of Commons passes the Nickle Resolution.
  • June – Rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bronc chute is designed and made by rodeo cowboy Earl W. Bascom at the Bascom Ranch in Lethbridge, Alberta
  • June 6 – The government-owned Canadian National Railway is formed out of a number of financially troubled private railways.
  • June 28 – Canada signs the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the First World War

July to December

  • September 1 – Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, opens the third session of the 13th Canadian Parliament
  • September 6 – George-Étienne Cartier Monument unveiled
  • September 9 – John Howatt Bell becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Aubin Arsenault.
  • October 20 – Ontario election: Ernest C. Drury's United Farmers of Ontario win a majority, defeating Sir William Hearst's Conservatives.
  • November 14 – Ernest Drury becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Sir William Hearst.

Full date unknown

  • Influenza epidemic in Alberta.
  • Monument aux braves de N.D.G. unveiled

Arts and literature

  • February 27 – Robert Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1848)

Sport

  • December 22 – Toronto Arenas become the Toronto St. Patricks
  • March 19–22 – Ontario Hockey Association's University of Toronto Schools win the first Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association's Regina Pats 29–8 in a two-game aggregate at the Arena Gardens in Toronto

Births

January to June

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  • January 13 – Igor Gouzenko, Russian defector (d. 1982)
  • January 23 – Frances Bay, actress (d. 2011)
  • February 17 – J. M. S. Careless, historian (d. 2009)
  • February 20
  • Thomas Ide, educator and the founding Chairman of TVOntario (d. 1996)
  • Joe Krol, Canadian football player (d. 2008)
  • March 21 – Victor Copps, politician and Mayor of Hamilton (d. 1988)
  • March 26 – Vernon Singer, politician (d. 2003)
  • April 16 – Louis Harrington Lewry, politician and reporter (d. 1992)
  • April 21 – William Perehudoff, painter (d. 2013)
  • May 27 – Francess Halpenny, editor and professor (d. 2017)
  • May 29 – Jacques Genest, physician and academic (d. 2018)
  • June 18 – Gordon A. Smith, artist and teacher (d. 2020)
  • June 19
  • Gérard Dionne, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2020)
  • Simon Reisman, civil servant and chief negotiator of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (d. 2008)
  • June 21 – Gérard Pelletier, journalist, editor, politician and Minister (d. 1997)

July to December

  • July 5 – Gordon Towers, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta (d. 1999)
  • August 1 – Jack Butterfield, President of the American Hockey League (1969–1994) (d. 2010)
  • August 9 – Edmund Hockridge, singer and actor (d. 2009)
  • August 19 – Margaret Marquis, Canadian-American actress (d. 1993)
  • August 21 – Marcel Lambert, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2000)
  • September 1 – Gladys Davis, professional baseball player (d. 1991)
  • September 11 – Daphne Odjig, artist (d. 2016)

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  • October 12 – Gilles Beaudoin, politician and mayor of Trois-Rivières (d. 2007)
  • October 17 – Violet Milstead, World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014)
  • October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, politician and 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
  • November 1 – Russell Bannock, aviator and test pilot (d. 2020)
  • November 14 – Albert Ludwig, politician (d. 2019)
  • November 21 – Eleanor Collins, jazz singer (d. 2024)
  • December 10 – Vincent Brassard, politician (d. 1974)
  • December 25 – Paul David, cardiologist and founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999)

Deaths

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  • January 30 – Sam Steele, soldier and member of the North-West Mounted Police (b. 1849)
  • February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, politician and 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
  • July 29 – Frederick Peters, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1851)
  • August 18 – Joseph E. Seagram, distillery founder, politician, philanthropist and racehorse owner (b. 1841)
  • October 14 – Simon Hugh Holmes, publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1831)
  • November 10 – Charles Mickle, politician (b. 1849)
  • November 11 – George Haddow, politician and merchant (b. 1833)
  • December 10 – Arthur Boyle, politician (b. 1842)
  • December 29 – William Osler, physician (b. 1849)

thumb|center|350px|Funéraille de Wilfrid Laurier

See also

  • List of Canadian films

References