1911 in Canada

Crown

• Monarch – George V^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (until October 13) then Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
• Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier (until October 6) then Robert Borden (from October 10)
• Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
• Parliament – 11th (until 29 July) then 12th (from 15 November)

Provincial governments

Territorial governments

Full date unknown

• Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada is founded.
• Dominion Parks Branch is established, the world's first national park service, now called Parks Canada.

Unknown date

• Stuart Trueman, journalist and writer

January to June

• January 3 – Jean Bourcier, ice hockey player
• January 27 – Blanche Meagher, diplomat
• February 3 – Robert Charboneau, writer
• March 12 – Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson, historian, educator and political activist (d.1998)
• April 22 – Alexander Bell Patterson, politician (d.1993)
• April 29 – Andrew Hill Clark, geographer
• May 11
  • William Cecil Ross, politician (d.1998)
  • Mitchell Sharp, politician and Minister (d.2004)
• May 12 – Dorothy Rungeling, aviator (d.2018)
• June 24 – Portia White, singer (d.1968)
• June 28 – Czeslaw Brzozowicz, engineer (d.1997)

July to December

• July 18 – Hume Cronyn, actor (d.2003)
• July 21 – Marshall McLuhan, educator, philosopher, and scholar (d.1980)
• August 5 – Albert Sanschagrin, Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec (d.2009)
• August 28 – Nérée Arsenault, politician (d.1982)
• September 18 – Helen Doan, supercentenarian (d. 2024)
• October 4 – Mary Two-Axe Earley, indigenous women's rights activist (d. 1996)
• October 5 – Pierre Dansereau, ecologist (d.2011)