1916 in Canada
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Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General â Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (until November 11) then Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
- Prime Minister â Robert Borden
- Chief Justice â Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
- Parliament â 12th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta â Robert Brett
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â Francis Stillman Barnard
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba â Douglas Colin Cameron (until August 3) then James Albert Manning Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â Josiah Wood
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â David MacKeen (until November 13) then MacCallum Grant (from November 29)
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â John Strathearn Hendrie
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â Augustine Colin Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â Pierre-Ãvariste Leblanc
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan â Richard Stuart Lake
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta â Arthur Sifton
- Premier of British Columbia â William John Bowser (until November 23) then Harlan Brewster
- Premier of Manitoba â 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 Mathieson
- Premier of Quebec â Lomer Gouin
- Premier of Saskatchewan â Thomas Walter Scott (until October 20) then William Melville Martin
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon â George Black (until October 13) then George Norris Williams (acting)
- Gold Commissioner of Yukon â George P. MacKenzie
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories â Frederick D. White
Events
January to June
- January 28 â Women are given the right to vote in Manitoba, after protests by people such as Nellie McClung
- February 3 â The Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa burns down
- February 10 â An anti-German riot hits Calgary
- March 14 â Saskatchewan women get the vote
- April 19 â Alberta women get the vote
- June â Rodeo's first side-delivery chute is designed and made by the Bascom brothers on their Bar-B-3 Ranch at Welling, Alberta.
- May 7 â The Government of Canada authorizes the creation of an all black battalion that became No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
- June 1â13 â WWI: Canadians fight in the Battle of Mont Sorrel
July to December
- July 1 â Prohibition of alcohol introduced in Alberta
- July 1 â November 18 â 25,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders are casualties at the Battle of the Somme
- July 24 â Earl Bascom enters his first steer riding contest at Welling, Alberta.
- July 29 â The Matheson Fire in the region northwest of North Bay, Ontario, begins. It eventually kills between 200 and 250 people and destroys six towns, including Matheson and Cochrane
- August 11 â The 4th Canadian Division arrives in France
- October 20 â William M. Martin becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Walter Scott
- November 11 â Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, becomes Governor General of Canada replacing Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
- November 23 â Harlan Brewster becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing William John Bowser
- December 1 â An Order in Council authorizes an increase of troops to 500,000 in the First World War
Full date unknown
- The National Research Council of Canada is established.
- The first Doukhobors arrive in Alberta
- Emily Murphy became the first female magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire.[2]
Arts and literature
New works
- Lucy Maud Montgomery â The Watchman & Other Poems
- Max Aitken â Canada in Flanders
- Alfred Laliberté â Les petits Baigneurs
Sport
- March 30 â The National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens beat the Portland Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association 3 games to 2 to win their first Stanley Cup. All Games were played at the Montreal Arena
Births
January to June
- January 22 â Bill Durnan, ice hockey player (d.1972)
- February 4 â Pudlo Pudlat, artist (d.1992)
- February 10 â Claude Bissell, author and educator (d.2000)
- February 18 â Jean Drapeau, lawyer, politician and Mayor of Montreal (d.1999)
- February 23 â Molly Kool, North America's first registered female sea captain (d.2009)
- March 10 â Davie Fulton, politician and judge (d.2000)
- April 18 â Ian Wahn, politician and lawyer (d.1999)
- April 27 â Myfanwy Pavelic, artist (d.2007)
- May 3 â Léopold Simoneau, lyric tenor (d.2006)
- May 4 â Jane Jacobs, urbanist, writer and activist (d.2006)
- May 30 â Jack Dennett, radio and television announcer (d.1975)
- June 20 â Jean-Jacques Bertrand, politician and 21st Premier of Quebec (d.1973)
July to December
- July 16 â John Gallagher, geologist and businessman (d.1998)
- July 21 â Wilfred Cantwell Smith, professor of comparative religion (d.2000)
- August 1 â Anne Hébert, author and poet (d.2000)
- September 5 â Frank Shuster, comedian (d.2002)
- September 18 â Laura Sabia, social activist and feminist (d.1996)
- October 9 â Bill Allum, ice hockey player (d.1992)
- October 30 â Roy Brown Jr., car design engineer (Edsel, Ford Consul, Ford Cortina) (d.2013)
- November 17 â Martin J. Légère, businessman (d.2013)
- November 23 â P. K. Page, poet (d.2010)
- December 5 â Lomer Brisson, politician and lawyer (d.1981)
- December 7 â Margaret Carse, dancer
- December 16 â Harry Gunning, scientist and administrator (d.2002)
- December 20 â Michel Chartrand, activist (d.2010)
- December 23 â Ruth Dawson, artist
Full date unknown
- John Wintermeyer, politician (d.1994)
Deaths
- February 3 â Bowman Brown Law, politician (b.1855)
- May 12 â Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, politician (b.1848)
- May 29 â Louis-Alphonse Boyer, politician (b.1839)
- June 27 â Daniel Webster Marsh, businessman and Mayor of Calgary (b.1838)
- July 28 â Pierre-Amand Landry, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1846)
- August 8 â Edgar Dewdney, politician, Lieutenant Governor of Northwest Territories and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (b.1835)
- December 12 â Albert Lacombe, missionary (b.1827)
Full date unknown
- Grace Annie Lockhart, first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree (b.1855)
