1915 in Canada
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Events from the year 1915 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta â George H. V. Bulyea (until October 20) then Robert Brett
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â Francis Stillman Barnard
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba â Douglas Colin Cameron
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â Josiah Wood
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â James Drummond McGregor (until October 19) then David MacKeen
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â John Strathearn Hendrie
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â Benjamin Rogers (until June 3) then Augustine Colin Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â François Langelier (until February 8) then Pierre-Ãvariste Leblanc
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan â George W. Brown (until October 6) then Richard Stuart Lake
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta â Arthur Sifton
- Premier of British Columbia â Richard McBride (until December 15) then William John Bowser
- Premier of Manitoba â Rodmond Roblin (until May 12) then Tobias Norris
- Premier of New Brunswick â George Johnson Clarke
- Premier of Nova Scotia â George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario â William Hearst
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â John Alexander Mathieson
- Premier of Quebec â Lomer Gouin
- Premier of Saskatchewan â Thomas Walter Scott
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
- January 4 â WWI: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry becomes the first Canadian troops sent to the front lines
- January 15 â The Canadian Northern Railway line to Vancouver, British Columbia, is completed
- February 2 â WW1: Attempt to bomb the Vanceboro international bridge between the Canadian-US border by a German spy
- February 4 â WW1: After a training accident, Lieutenant W. F. Sharpe becomes the first Canadian military airman killed
- February 14 â WW1: The 1st Canadian Division arrives in France
- February 21 â Nellie McClung presents a petition to the Alberta Legislature demanding women's suffrage
- February 28 â WWI: Canadian troops launch the first trench raid of the war; by the end of the conflict Canadian troops will be regarded as the experts at this manoeuvre
- April 22 â WWI: In the Second Battle of Ypres Canadian forces bear the brunt of the first large-scale chemical weapons attack on the Western Front. They devise makeshift gas masks of urine-soaked rags and hold their ground
- May 3 â "In Flanders Fields" is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.
- May 12 â Tobias Norris becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Sir Rodmond Roblin
- July 5 â The Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton opens
- August 6 â Manitoba General Election
- September 13 â WWI: with the arrival of the 2nd Canadian Division a separate Canadian Corps is created
- October 9 â WWI: The 3rd Canadian Division arrives in France
- December 15 â William John Bowser becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Richard McBride
- December 19 â WW1: Captain M.M. Bell-Irving, No.1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, achieves the first aerial victory by a Canadian when he shot down a German aircraft
Full date unknown
- Fermière Monument (Montreal) unveiled
- World War I â Many Canadian soldiers grow upset at the inferior quality of their Ross Rifles
Arts and literature
New works
- "In Flanders Fields": John McCrae
- The Golden Road: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Sport
- March 26 â The Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Vancouver Millionaires win their first and only Stanley Cup by defeating the National Hockey Association's Ottawa Senators 3 games to 0. All games played at Vancouver's Denman Arena
- November 20 â The Hamilton Tigers win their 2nd Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Rugby and Athletic Association 13 to 7 in the 7th Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium
Births
January to June
- January 12 â Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ottawa (1967â1989) (d.2013)
- January 18 â Syl Apps, pole vaulter and ice hockey player (d.1998)
- February 12 â Lorne Greene, actor (d.1987)
- March 10 â Maurice Camyré, Olympic boxer (d.2013)
- March 18 â Harold Crowchild, Tsuu T'ina elder and soldier, last Treaty 7 World War II veteran (d.2013)
- April 9 â Daniel Johnson, Sr., politician and 20th Premier of Quebec (d.1968)
- April 11 â Eddie Sargent, politician (d.1998)
- April 28 â Robina Higgins, track and field athlete (d.1990)
- May 3 â Stu Hart, wrestler, promoter and trainer (d.2003)
- May 28
- Conrad Bourcier, ice hockey player (d.1987)
- Frank Pickersgill, World War II hero (d.1944)
- June 22 â Arthur Gelber, philanthropist (d.1998)
July to December
- July 4 â Harold E. Johns, medical physicist (d.1998)
- July 6 â Leonard Birchall, World War II hero (d.2004)
- August 3 â Frank Arthur Calder, politician, first Status Indian to be elected to any legislature in Canada (d.2006)
- August 20 â H. Gordon Barrett, politician (d.1993)
- August 22
- James Hillier, scientist and inventor, jointly designed and built first electron microscope (d.2007)
- Jacques Flynn, politician and Senator (d.2000)
- August 25 â John W. H. Bassett, publisher and media baron (d.1998)
- October 7
- Harry J. Boyle, broadcaster and writer (d.2005)
- Charles Templeton, cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author (d.2001)
- October 25 â Tommy Prince, one of Canada's most decorated First Nations soldiers (d.1977)
- November 27 â Yves Thériault, author (d.1983)
- December 4 â Johnny Lombardi, CHIN-TV television personality (d.2002)
- December 13 â Ross Macdonald, novelist (d.1983)
Full date unknown
- Arthur Julian Andrew, diplomat and author (d.1994)
- Earl Cameron, broadcaster and news anchor (d.2005)
- Percy Saltzman, meteorologist and television personality, first weatherman in English-Canadian television history (d.2007)[2]
Deaths
- January 18 â Thomas Bain, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1834)
- May 16 â Kit Coleman, journalist (b. 1864)
- June 14 â Antoine Audet, politician (b. 1846)
- July 21 â Jean Prévost, politician (b. 1870)
- July 22 â Sandford Fleming, engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
- August 10 â William Mortimer Clark, lawyer, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1836)
- September 10 â Charles Boucher de Boucherville, politician and 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
- September 11 â William Cornelius Van Horne, pioneering railway executive (b. 1843)
- September 15 â Ernest Gagnon, folklorist (b. 1834)
- October 19 â Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1842)
- October 30 â Charles Tupper, politician, Premier of Nova Scotia and 6th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- December 25 â Graham Fraser (industrialist) (b. 1845)