1922 in Canada

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Events from the year 1922 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

Federal government

• Governor general – Julian Byng
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Louis Henry Davies (Prince Edward Island)
• Parliament – 14th (from 8 March)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Cameron Nichol
• 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 – Henry Cockshutt
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Murdock MacKinnon
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Fitzpatrick
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Herbert Greenfield
• Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
• Premier of Manitoba – Tobias Norris (until August 8) then John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Walter Foster
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – Ernest Drury
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Howatt Bell
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – William Melville Martin (until April 5) then Charles Avery Dunning

Territorial governments

Commissioners

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

Events

• January 1 – British Columbia changes from driving on the left to the right
• January 11 – The world's first insulin treatment is made at the Toronto General Hospital. The successful technique would later win a Nobel Prize for its creators, Frederick Banting and Charles Best.
• April 5 – Charles Dunning becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing William Martin
• May 3 – The women of Prince Edward Island win the right to vote
• July – Rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle is designed and made by rodeo cowboy and saddle maker Earl Bascom at the Bascom Ranch, Lethbridge, Alberta
• August 8 – John Bracken becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Tobias Norris
• September 15 – Prime Minister Mackenzie King refuses to support the British in the Chanak Affair, asserting foreign policy independence for the first time
• October 9 – Prairie Bible College opens with eight students in Three Hills, Alberta
• October 22 – Dante Monument (Montreal) unveiled
• December 1 – New Brunswick changes from driving on the left to the right
• December 5 – The land around Vimy Ridge is given to Canada by France in gratitude for the Canadian sacrifices during World War I

Full date unknown

• Montreal Clock Tower completed
• The first licences for private commercial radio stations are issued[1]

Sport

• March 20–22 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Fort William War Veterans win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 8 to 7 in a two-game aggregate played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
• March 28 – The NHL's Toronto St. Pats win their first Stanley Cup by defeating the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2. The deciding game was played at Toronto's Arena Gardens
• December 2 – Queen's University win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Elks 13 to 1 in the 10th Grey Cup played at Kingston's Richardson Memorial Stadium

Arts and literature

• Nanook of the North is released, the first film to be called a documentary

Births

January to June

• January 21 – Lincoln Alexander, politician and 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.2012)
• February 25 – Molly Lamb Bobak, teacher, writer, printmaker and painter
• April 24 – Philip Givens, politician, judge and Mayor of Toronto (d.1995)
• April 26 – Jeanne Sauvé, politician and first female Governor General of Canada (d.1993)
• April 28 – Daryl Seaman, businessman (d.2009)
• May 2 – A. M. Rosenthal, columnist and newspaper editor (d.2006)
• June 9 – Fernand Seguin, biochemist, professor and television host (d.1988)
• June 11 – Erving Goffman, sociologist and writer (d.1982)
• June 22 – Richard Vollenweider, limnologist (d.2007)

July to September

• July 16 – Augustin Brassard, politician
• July 30 – Jack McClelland, publisher (d.2004)
• August 7 – Helmut Kallmann, historian
• August 11 – Mavis Gallant, writer
• August 24 – René Lévesque, politician, Minister and 23rd Premier of Quebec (d.1987)
• September 1 – Yvonne De Carlo, actress, dancer and singer (d.2007)
• September 3 – Salli Terri, singer, arranger, recording artist and songwriter (d.1996)
• September 16 – Alex Barris, actor and writer (d.2004)

October to December

• October 9 – Léon Dion, political scientist (d.1997)
• October 17 – Pierre Juneau, politician and film and broadcast executive
• November 12 – Charlotte MacLeod, writer (d.2005)
• December 11 – Pauline Jewett, politician and educator (d.1992)
• December 22 – Percy Smith, barrister, lawyer and politician (d.2009)

Full date unknown

• Milt Harradence, lawyer, pilot, politician and judge (d.2008)
• Hilda Watson, leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (d.1997)

Deaths

• January 26 – Robert Beith, politician (b.1843)
• April 12 – Robert Boston, politician (b.1836)
• May 23 – Robert Franklin Sutherland, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b.1859)
• July 22 – Sara Jeannette Duncan, author and journalist (b.1861)
• August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone (b.1847)
• December 3 – William Proudfoot, politician and barrister (b.1859)

See also

• List of Canadian films

Historical Documents

Letter criticizes failure to assist homeless veterans in Montreal [2]

Observations of artist Mary Riter Hamilton, returned from painting tour of First World War battlefields [3]

Clifford Sifton speaks on Canada's conflicted status as both sovereign country and British dominion [4]

Tight money causes U.S. farmers to consider Canada [5]

First human insulin trial on young diabetes patient is encouraging [6]

Article about Jews who made Quebec "the cradle of Jewish political emancipation in the British Empire" [7]

At its founding convention, Canadian Trotskyite tells Workers Party of Canada it will unify labour for international revolution [8]

Call for women to fight capitalism, "the home-wrecker" [9]

Premier details origins and successes of prohibition in Ontario [10]

Article reports activities of arsonist ghost in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia [11]

Mysterious wreck in upper St. Lawrence River may be British warship [12]

References

1. "CBC/Radio-Canada – Our History – 1920–1939". CBC.ca.
2. Leslie M. Roberts, "Poppy Day 'Poppy Cock,'" The Axe; A Journal of Action against Reaction, No. 4 (February 3, 1922), pg. 3. Accessed 17 April 2020 http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3588051?doc
3. "Mary Riter Hamilton: Traces of War," Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 17 April 2020 https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/mary-riter-hamilton/Pages/introduction.aspx (click on each of the Thematic Galleries)
4. Clifford Sifton, "The Political Status of Canada; Address before the Canadian Club of Ottawa; April 8, 1922. Accessed 21 April 2020 http://www.archive.org/details/politicalstatuso00siftuoft (note: pgs. 2-3 missing)
5. "Canada Lands Attractive to U.S. Farmers," The (Edmonton) Morning Bulletin (January 27, 1922), pg. 1. Accessed 21 April 2020 https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll18/id/62287
6. "Work on Diabetes Shows Progress against Disease," (Toronto) Star Weekly (January 14, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020 https://insulin.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/insulin%3AC10024
7. "When Quebec Led the World," Montreal Daily Star (December 16, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020 https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44365
8. Maurice Spector address taken from The Worker (March 15, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020 http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/Leninist/Spector-WPC-22.htm
9. Florence Custance, "Women and The New Age," The Worker (May 1, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020 http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/Leninist/Women_22.htm
10. E.C. Drury, "Prohibition in the Province of Ontario," International Convention; The World League Against Alcoholism; Toronto, Canada; November 24th-29th, 1922. Accessed 21 April 2020 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?seq=224&view=image&size=100&id=mdp.39015030523537&u=1&num=213
11. Harold B. Whidden, "My Experiences at the MacDonald Homestead" (1922). Accessed 22 April 2020 http://www.parl.ns.ca/maryellenspook/article.html
12. "Sunken Craft Still Visible," Daily (Kingston, Ont.) British Whig (November 20, 1922). Accessed 22 April 2020 http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/details.asp?ID=2611