1923_in_Canada
1923 in Canada
Canada-related events during the year of 1923
Events from the year 1923 in Canada.
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Crown
Federal government
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 (until February 28) then William Frederick Todd
- 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 (until October 31) then Louis-Philippe Brodeur
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – Herbert Greenfield
- Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick – Walter Foster (until February 28) then Peter Veniot
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray (until January 24) then Ernest Howard Armstrong
- Premier of Ontario – Ernest Drury (until July 16) then George Howard Ferguson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Howatt Bell (until September 5) then James D. Stewart
- Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – Charles Avery Dunning
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- January 1 – The Department of National Defence comes into being
- January 24 – Ernest Armstrong becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing George Henry Murray, who had governed for 27 years
- February 28 – Peter Veniot becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Walter Foster
- April 23 – Marijuana is prohibited soon after the House of Commons passes a bill on this date that includes making marijuana illegal
- March 2 – The Halibut Treaty signed with the United States is Canada's first international treaty not signed under the auspices of the United Kingdom
- June 25 – Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Ernest Charles Drury's United Farmers of Ontario
- July 1 – The Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 comes into effect, banning all Chinese from entering Canada except for businessmen, diplomats, foreign students, and "special circumstances"
- July 16 – Howard Ferguson becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Ernest Charles Drury
- August 18 – The Home Bank of Canada fails
- September 5 – James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing John Howatt Bell
- October 8 – A stevedore's strike begins in Vancouver
- October 10 – Canadian National Railway is formed by merger of Canadian Government Railways, Canadian Northern Railway, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, and Grand Trunk Railway
- October 25 – Frederick Banting and Charles Best win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of insulin
- October 31 – Louis-Philippe Brodeur becomes Quebec's 13th Lieutenant Governor
Full date unknown
- The Duplex, a Canadian 4-cylinder automobile is built in Montreal.[2]
- Fleetwood-Knight, a Canadian automobile is built in Kingston, Ontario.[3]
Music
- April 23 – The Toronto Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert.
New books
- Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery (1921)
- March 14 – World's first complete play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional ice hockey game is done by Pete Parker in Regina.
- March 22 – Foster Hewitt announces his first ice hockey game.
- March 22 & 26 – The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's University of Manitoba win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Kitchener Colts 14 to 6 in a two-game aggregate played Arena Gardens in Toronto
- March 31 – Ottawa Senators win their 10th Stanley Cup by defeating the Western Canada Hockey League's Edmonton Eskimos 2 games to 0. The deciding game was played at Vancouver's Denman Arena
- December 1 – Queen's University win their second Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Rugby Club 54–0 in the 11th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
January to March
- January 1 – Roméo Sabourin, World War II spy (d. 1944)
- January 7 – Hugh Kenner, literary scholar, critic and professor (d. 2003)
- January 21 – Judith Merril, science fiction writer, editor and political activist (d. 1997)
- January 27 – Marcelle Corneille, administrator and educator (d. 2019)
- February 4 – Conrad Bain, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes) (d. 2013)
- March 1 – Uno Helava, inventor
- March 2 – Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, painter (d. 2005)
- March 4 – Stanley Haidasz, politician (d. 2009)
- March 10 – Richard Doyle, journalist, editor and Senator (d. 2003)
- March 15 – Laurent Desjardins, politician (d. 2012)
- March 19 – Henry Morgentaler, physician and pro choice advocate (d. 2013)
- March 23 - James Barber, cookbook author and television chef (d. 2007)
- March 30 – Milton Acorn, poet, writer and playwright (d. 1986)
April to June
- April 7 – Aba Bayefsky, artist and teacher (d. 2001)
- April 25 – Melissa Hayden, ballerina (d. 2006)
- May 5 – John Black Aird, lawyer, politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d. 1995)
- May 9 – Reuben Baetz, politician (d. 1996)
- May 18 – Jean-Louis Roux, entertainer and playwright
- May 20 – Frank Morris, Canadian football player (d. 2009)
- June 3 – Phil Nimmons, jazz musician (d. 2024)
- June 5 – Roger Lebel, actor (d. 1994)
- June 6 – Bruce Campbell, Edmonton alderman (d. 2011)
July to September
- July 21 – Rudolph A. Marcus, chemist and 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
- July 25 – Bill Fitsell, sports journalist and historian (d. 2020)
- July 31 – Victor Goldbloom, pediatrician, lecturer and politician (d. 2016)
- August 3 – Robert Campeau, financier and real estate developer
- August 6 – Paul Hellyer, politician and commentator
- September 1 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, businessman and art collector (d. 2006)
- September 2 – David Lam, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (d. 2010)
- September 7 – Byron Seaman, businessman and part owner of the Calgary Flames (d. 2021)
- September 18 – Bertha Wilson, jurist and first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 2007)
- September 21 – Robert Uffen, research geophysicist, professor, and university administrator (d. 2009)
October to December
- October 7 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
- October 10 - Kildare Dobbs, short story and travel writer (d. 2013)
- October 22 – Rodrigue Bourdages, politician (d. 1997)
- October 22 – Norman Levine, short-story writer, novelist and poet (d. 2005)
- October 23 – Réjane L. Colas, jurist
- November 1 – Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author (d. 2001)
- November 2 – Harold Horwood, novelist and non-fiction writer (d. 2006)
- November 11 – Donald Tolmie, politician (d. 2009)
- November 22 – Arthur Hiller, film director
- December 27 – Bruno Bobak, artist (d. 2012)
January to June
- February 20 – Thomas George Roddick, surgeon, medical administrator and politician (b. 1846)
- March 2 – Joseph Martin, lawyer, politician and 13th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1852)
- April 25 – Louis-Olivier Taillon, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
- June 7 – John Best, politician (b. 1861)
July to December
- July 17 – John Strathearn Hendrie, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1857)
- October 2 – John Wilson Bengough, political cartoonist (b. 1851)
- December 5 – William Mackenzie, railway contractor and entrepreneur (b. 1849)
- December 9 – John Herbert Turner, Premier of British Columbia (b. 1834)
"Surely our nation is not to be wiped out" - Cree storyteller Chief Thunderchild (Piyesiw-Awasis) seeks way on "a long and difficult journey"[4]
Senate resolves to join House in accepting France's gift of 250 acres on Vimy Ridge for monument to "exploits of Canadian soldiers in the Great War"[5]
Former cabinet minister on Canada's interest in and best approach to problems in Europe[6]
PM King defends Chinese Immigration Act provisions to abolish head tax and admit merchants and students (Note: anti-Asian comments)[7]
Fuel advisor says reduce homeowners' need for U.S. coal by promoting other fuels (peat, coke, lignite) and furnace efficiency[8]
Saskatchewan premier wants solution to grain marketing issue that's free of politics and divisiveness[9]
Saskatchewan employers seek cuts in pink collar workers' wages[10]
Minister of Health's Narcotic Drugs Act amendment makes "a new drug" (cannabis) illegal[11]
Local Simcoe, Ont. manufacturer donates land for future county hospital[12]
Map: Vancouver and suburbs electric railway network[13]
"The people of (B.C.) have not, as a whole, concerned themselves much with its past" - British Columbia Historical Association to change that[14]
Profile of Beautiful Joe author Margaret Marshall Saunders' menagerie[15]
Photo: Two people in automobile head earthward after leaving ramp as few dozen people watch[16]
- "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- Georgano, Nick (2000). The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. London: Stationery Office. p. 1792. ISBN 0117023191.
- Durnford, Hugh (1973). Cars of Canada. Canada: McClelland and Stewart. p. 384. ISBN 0771029578.
- "Thunderchild's Conclusion" Voices of the Plains Cree (1973, 1995), pg. 50. Accessed 23 June 2021
- George E. Foster, "The European Situation" The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 45-66. Accessed 28 April 2020
- House of Commons Debates, 14th Parliament, 2nd Session: Vol. 3 (April 30, 1923), pgs. 2312-16. Accessed 28 April 2020
- "Minutes of Evidence" (April 11, 1923), House of Commons Select Standing Committee on Mines and Minerals; Canadian Fuel Supply; Proceedings and Evidence, pgs. 23-4. Accessed 19 October 2020
- "Report of Mass Meeting Addressed by Mr. Aaron Sapiro in[...]Saskatoon[,] August 7th, 1923" (truncated to a portion of Premier Dunning's remarks). Accessed 28 April 2020 http://library.usask.ca/90th/1920/1924.doc (click on image to read it)
- "Employers Ask Cut In Wage Of Women Workers; Representation Are Made To Minimum Wage Board" Regina Morning Leader (January 12, 1923), pg. 9. Accessed 28 April 2020
- "Narcotic Drugs Act Amendment Bill" House of Commons Debates, 14th Parliament, 2nd Session: Vol. 3 (April 23, 1923), pg. 2124. Accessed 28 April 2020
- Letter of William L. Innes (Christmas Eve, 1923), published in Simcoe Reformer (January 17, 1924), pg. 1. Accessed 28 April 2020 http://www.nornet.on.ca/~jcardiff/history/index.doc (scroll down to Innes' Christmas gift)
- (Toronto Globe), "Dumb Folks' Friend Is Gifted Creator of 'Beautiful Joe'" The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (September 5, 1923). Accessed 28 April 2020
- "World's Record Jump 73ft.2"[...]Edmonton, Alta, May 24th, 1923," "World's record jump" Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 28 May 2023