1919 in Canada

Crown

• Monarch – George V^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
• Prime Minister – Robert Borden
• Chief Justice – Louis Henry Davies (Prince Edward Island)
• Parliament – 13th

Provincial governments

Territorial governments

January to June

• January 19 – Canadian troops take part in the Battle of Shenkursk, part of the Russian Civil War.
• February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and former prime minister of Canada, dies in office.
• April 17 – New Brunswick women are permitted to vote.
• April 10 – The Quebec referendum on the prohibition of alcohol.
• May 3 – Yukon women are permitted to vote.
• May 15 – June 25 – Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.^[2]
• May 22 – The House of Commons passes the Nickle Resolution.
• June – Rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bronc chute is designed and made by rodeo cowboy Earl W. Bascom at the Bascom Ranch in Lethbridge, Alberta
• June 6 – The government-owned Canadian National Railway is formed out of a number of financially troubled private railways.
• June 28 – Canada signs the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the First World War

July to December

• September 1 – Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, opens the third session of the 13th Canadian Parliament
• September 6 – George-Étienne Cartier Monument unveiled
• September 9 – John Howatt Bell becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Aubin Arsenault.
• October 20 – Ontario election: Ernest C. Drury's United Farmers of Ontario win a majority, defeating Sir William Hearst's Conservatives.
• November 14 – Ernest Drury becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Sir William Hearst.

Full date unknown

• Influenza epidemic in Alberta.
• Monument aux braves de N.D.G. unveiled

January to June

• January 13 – Igor Gouzenko, Russian defector (d. 1982)
• January 23 – Frances Bay, actress (d. 2011)^[3]
• February 17 – J. M. S. Careless, historian (d. 2009)^[4]
• February 20
  • Thomas Ide, educator and the founding Chairman of TVOntario (d. 1996)
  • Joe Krol, Canadian football player (d. 2008)
• March 21 – Victor Copps, politician and Mayor of Hamilton (d. 1988)
• March 26 – Vernon Singer, politician (d. 2003)
• April 16 – Louis Harrington Lewry, politician and reporter (d. 1992)
• April 21 – William Perehudoff, painter (d. 2013)
• May 27 – Francess Halpenny, editor and professor (d. 2017)
• May 29 – Jacques Genest, physician and academic (d. 2018)
• June 18 – Gordon A. Smith, artist and teacher (d. 2020)^[5]
• June 19
  • Gérard Dionne, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2020)
  • Simon Reisman, civil servant and chief negotiator of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (d. 2008)
• June 21 – Gérard Pelletier, journalist, editor, politician and Minister (d. 1997)

July to December

• July 5 – Gordon Towers, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta (d. 1999)
• August 1 – Jack Butterfield, President of the American Hockey League (1969–1994) (d. 2010)
• August 9 – Edmund Hockridge, singer and actor (d. 2009)
• August 19 – Margaret Marquis, Canadian-American actress (d. 1993)
• August 21 – Marcel Lambert, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2000)
• September 1 – Gladys Davis, professional baseball player (d. 1991)
• September 11 – Daphne Odjig, artist (d. 2016)

• October 12 – Gilles Beaudoin, politician and mayor of Trois-Rivières (d. 2007)
• October 17 – Violet Milstead, World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014)
• October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, politician and 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
• November 1 – Russell Bannock, aviator and test pilot (d. 2020)
• November 14 – Albert Ludwig, politician (d. 2019)
• November 21 – Eleanor Collins, jazz singer (d. 2024)
• December 10 – Vincent Brassard, politician (d. 1974)
• December 25 – Paul David, cardiologist and founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999)