1909 in Canada

Crown

• Monarch – Edward VII^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
• Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
• Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
• Parliament – 11th (from 20 January)

Provincial governments

Territorial governments

Full date unknown

• University of Toronto Schools opens as an all-boys school.
• Leon's furniture store opens.
• The Criminal Code is amended to criminalize the abduction of women. Before this, the abduction of any woman over 16 was legal, except if she was an heiress.^[3]

January to June

• February 4 – Jack Shadbolt, painter (d.1998)
• February 14 – A. M. Klein, poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer (d.1972)
• March 2 – Art Alexandre, ice hockey player (d.1976)
• March 19 – John Fauquier, war hero
• March 20 – Jack Bush, painter (d.1977)
• March 22 – Gabrielle Roy, author (d.1983)
• April 6 – George Isaac Smith, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1982)
• May 8 – Samuel Boulanger, politician (d.1989)
• May 29 – Red Horner, ice hockey player (d.2005)
• May 31 – Aurore Gagnon, murder victim (d.1920)
• June 23 – David Lewis, lawyer and politician (d.1981)

July to December

• August 12 – Albert Bruce Matthews, commander of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division during the Second World War (d.1991)
• August 15 – Maurice Breton, politician and lawyer (d.2001)
• August 18 – Gérard Filion, businessman and journalist (d.2005)
• September 12 – Donald MacDonald, labour leader
• October 12 – Dorothy Livesay, poet (d.1996)
• October 19 – Robert Beatty, actor (d.1992)
• October 24 – Sheila Watson, novelist, critic and teacher (d.1998)
• November 3 – Russell Paulley, politician (d.1984)

Full date unknown

• Ronald Martland, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1997)