1920 in Canada

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Events from the year 1920 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

Federal government

• Governor general – Victor Cavendish
• Prime minister – Robert Borden (until July 10) then Arthur Meighen
• 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 – Edward Gawler Prior (until December 12) then Walter Cameron Nichol (from December 24)
• 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 – Lionel Herbert Clarke
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Murdock MacKinnon
• 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 – Ernest Drury
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Howatt Bell
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin (until July 9) then Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – William Melville Martin

Territorial governments

Commissioners

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

Events

The Capitol Cinema in Ottawa opens on November 8

• January 10 – Canada is a founding member of the League of Nations, effectively ending the declaration of war.
• February 1 – The Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the Dominion Police are amalgamated and renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police[1]
• February 14 – Université de Montréal founded
• February 26 – The Indian Act is amended to give Canadian aboriginal peoples the right to vote in band elections.[2]
• March 12 – The first Lions Club outside the United States is founded in Windsor, Ontario.
• May 14 – Canadian Forum magazine founded
• June – The Catholic Women's League is formed in Montreal
• June 24 – Dollard des Ormeaux Monument unveiled
• July 1 – Under the Dominion Elections Act, uniform franchise is established and the right for women to be elected to parliament is made permanent.[3]
• July 9 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Lomer Gouin
• July 10 – Arthur Meighen becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Robert Borden
• July 11 – Charles Stephens, a barber and daredevil from Bristol, England, dies attempting to go over Niagara Falls.
• October 17 – The first airplane to fly across Canada arrives in Richmond from Halifax.[4]
• December 25 – Walter Cameron Nichol becomes the 12th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

Date unknown

Esther Marjorie Hill (1895–1985) becomes the first female architect in Canada when she graduates from the University of Toronto.

Arts and literature

• May 7 – The first exhibit of art by the Group of Seven opens in Toronto.
• November 8 – The Capitol Cinema opens in Ottawa, the capital's only true movie palace.
• Undated – A group of artists, educators, and art patrons formed the British Columbia Art League to lobby the provincial and city governments for a school.

Sport

• January 10 – The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto St. Patricks combine for twenty one goals to set an NHL record for most goals in a single game.[5]
• March 23–25 – Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Canoe Club won their First Memorial Cup by defeating Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association's Selkirk Fishermen 15 to 5 in a 2-game aggregate played at Arena Gardens in Toronto
• April 1 – The NHL's Ottawa Senators win their Ninth Stanley Cup by defeating the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Seattle Metropolitans 3 games to 2. The deciding game was played at Toronto's Arena Gardens
• December 4 – The University of Toronto Varsity Blues won their Fourth and final Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Argonauts 16 to 3 in the 8th Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

1920 Olympics

• April 26 – The Winnipeg Falcons representing Canada beat Sweden 12-1 to win the gold medal for Ice Hockey at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
• August 18 – Earl Thomson win a Gold medal in Men's 110 m Hurdles at the Athletics
• August 23 – Bert Schneider wins a Gold medal for Canada in the BoxingWelterweight at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.[6]

Births

January to March

James Doohan, 1997

• January 4 – James William Baskin, politician and businessman (d.1999)
• January 4 – Douglas Pimlott, biologist
• January 7 – Margaret Thompson, scientist
• January 12 – Bill Reid, artist (d.1998)
• February 22 – Ralph Raymond Loffmark, politician. (d.2012)
• February 23 – Paul Gérin-Lajoie, lawyer, philanthropist, politician and Minister (d. 2018)
• February 25 – Merrill Edwin Barrington, politician
• February 25 – Gérard Bessette, author and educator (d.2005)
• March 3 – James Doohan, actor (d.2005)
• March 19 – Cyril Lloyd Francis, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d.2007)
• March 24 – Bill Irwin, Olympic skier (d.2013)

April to June

• April 2 – Gerald Bouey, 4th Governor of the Bank of Canada (d.2004)
• May 2 – William Hutt, actor (d.2007)
• May 5 – Bill Hunter, ice hockey player, general manager and coach (d.2002)
• May 8 – Harry Rankin, lawyer and politician (d.2002)
• May 27 – Peter Dmytruk, World War II military hero (d.1943)
• June 6 – Jan Rubeš, opera singer and actor (d.2009)
• June 14 – Stanley Waters, Senator (d.1991)
• June 15 – Sam Sniderman, founder of the Sam the Record Man chain (d.2012)
• June 24 – Joe Greene, politician (d.1978)

July to December

• July 12 – Pierre Berton, author, television personality and journalist (d.2004)
• August 3 – Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d.1998)
• August 19 – Agnes Benidickson, first female chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario (d.2007)
• August 24 – Alex Colville, painter
• September 6 – Helen Hunley, politician (d. 2010)
• September 11 – Dalton Camp, journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator (d.2002)
• September 26 – Edmund Tobin Asselin, politician (d.1999)
• October 1 – Charles Daudelin, sculptor and painter (d.2001)
• October 13 – Evelyn Dick, murderer
• October 29 – Bill Juzda, ice hockey player (d.2008)
• November 11 – John Ferguson Browne, politician
• November 18 – George Johnson, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.1995)

Deaths

January to June

• February 12 – Aurore Gagnon, murder victim (b.1909)
• February 16 – Augustus F. Goodridge, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1839)
• April 25 – Alexander Grant MacKay, teacher, lawyer and politician (b.1860)
• June 6 – James Dunsmuir, industrialist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1851)
• June 18 – John Macoun, naturalist (b.1831)
• June 27 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge, author and lyricist (b.1839)

July to December

• September 5 – Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe, second wife of John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b.1836)
• September 7 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1855)
• September 18 – Robert Beaven, businessman, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (b.1836)
• September 30 – William Wilfred Sullivan, journalist, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1843)
• November 19 – Byron Moffatt Britton, politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.1833)
• December 12 – Edward Gawler Prior, mining engineer, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1854)

See also

• List of Canadian films

Historical Documents

Guide to improving your community by understanding its needs and resources [7]

Professor calls for better obstetrics training to lower high rate of injury to mothers[8]

School improvements in Nova Scotia include hot lunches, stove polish and pencil sharpeners[9]

Advocacy magazine says present civil servant compensation amounts to economic slavery [10]

Wood Gundy co-founder insists on Christianity in global business [11]

Nellie McClung wants newspaper articles about "heroism, generosity, neighborly kindness" more than crime stories [12]

Stepmother of murdered child is sentenced to death [13]

Disposition, care and management of general purpose Canadian horse breed known for its endurance [14]

Lawrence Lambe finds Hadrosaur fossil "Edmontosaurus" in good condition near Red Deer River, Alberta [15]

References

1. "Historically Relevant Dates to the RCMP". Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
2. Indian Act
3. Dominion Elections Act Statues of Canada C 46 S 38.
4. "The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1920 Chronology".
5. 1920
6. http://www.sportshall.ca/accessible/hm_profile.php?i=318%5B%5D
7. The Citizens' Research Institute of Canada, Community Engineering (1920). Accessed 10 April 2020 https://fishercollections.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/broadsides%3ACAP01064
8. Ferguson, Robert (October 1920). "A Plea for better Obstetrics". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 10 (10): 901–904. PMC 1523944. PMID 20312355.
9. "School Improvement". Journal of Education. 6 (5): 41. January 20, 1920.
10. "Economic Slavery," The Civilian, Vol. XIII, No. 12 (November 1920), pg. 1. Accessed 10 April 2020 http://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06848_296/4?r=0&s=2
11. "The Forward Movement," The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 20-35. Accessed 9 April 2020 http://speeches.empireclub.org/62162/data?n=75
12. Nellie L. McClung, "The Newspaper of the Future," The Western Home Monthly (December 1920), pg. 3. Accessed 10 April 2020 http://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06912_252/6?r=0&s=4
13. "La justice humaine venge l'enfant martyre" (translated), La Presse (April 22, 1920), pg. 1. Accessed 6 April 2020 https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/gagnon/archives/newspaperormagazinearticle/157en.html
14. Gus. Langelier, The French-Canadian Horse, Department of Agriculture Dominion Experimental Farms, Bulletin No. 95, Regular Series (1920). Accessed 10 April 2020 https://archive.org/details/cihm_85547/page/n4/mode/1up
15. Lawrence M. Lambe, "The Hadrosaur Edmontosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta," Department of Mines - Canada, Geological Survey, No. 102, Geological Series (1920). Accessed 10 April 2020 http://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.82418/3?r=0&s=1