Events from the year 1922 in Canada.

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• 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 unveiled in Montreal
• 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

• 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

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

• January 26 – Robert Beith, politician (b. 1843)
• February 4 – Joe Fortes, lifeguard (b. 1863)
• 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)

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With words like "hypocrisy" and "criminal disregard," Peter Bryce outlines his efforts to end government inaction on Indigenous health^[4]

Letter criticizes failure to assist homeless veterans in Montreal^[5]

Dominion Veterans' Alliance calls for no fishing licences to "Orientals" (unless veterans of France) and exclusion of "alien Asiatics"^[6]

Observations of artist Mary Riter Hamilton, returned from painting tour of First World War battlefields^[7]

"A stalwart peasant in a sheep-skin coat, born on the soil,[...]is good quality" - Clifford Sifton's idea of good choices for agricultural immigration^[8]

Sifton speaks on Canada's conflicted status as both sovereign country and British dominion^[9]

Tight money causes U.S. farmers to consider Canada^[10]

Call for return of Wheat Board to help near-bankrupt western farmers forced to sell wheat below world price^[11]

B.C. MP claims canneries favour Japanese Canadians to exclusion of whites, but cannery president says whites are just lazy^[12]

First human insulin trial on young diabetes patient is encouraging^[13]

Article about Jews who made Quebec "the cradle of Jewish political emancipation in the British Empire"^[14]

Sen. Raoul Dandurand advises colleagues to keep Senate non-partisan, without "victors and vanquished"^[15]

At its founding convention, Canadian Trotskyite tells Workers Party of Canada it will unify labour for international revolution^[16]

Call for women to fight capitalism, "the home-wrecker"^[17]

Premier details origins and successes of prohibition in Ontario^[18]

Article reports activities of arsonist ghost in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia^[19]

Mysterious wreck in upper St. Lawrence River may be British warship^[20]