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1919 in Canada

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1919
in
Canada

Decades:
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Events from the year 1919 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Territorial governments

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Commissioners

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Events

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January to June

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July to December

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Full date unknown

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Arts and literature

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Sport

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Births

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January to June

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Daphne Odjig

July to December

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Pierre Trudeau in 1980

Deaths

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Wilfrid Laurier
Funéraille de Wilfrid Laurier

See also

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Historical documents

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Canada and other dominions demand full status in League of Nations[5]

J.W. Dafoe hears about Canadian researchers whose weapon helped to end First World War[6]

Getting soldiers from France to England to Canada and their dispersal stations for discharge[7]

Returning veteran longs for home, especially to escape English hostility and disdain[8]

Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment vocational officer reports 30% of trainees not prepared enough to get jobs, and 60% won't keep jobs[9]

Film: tractor use on farm and roadwork[10]

Film: silver mining in northern Ontario[11]

Film: highlights of tour by Edward, Prince of Wales to Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Ontario[12]

Prince of Wales makes very successful postwar visit to Regina (Note: racial stereotypes)[13]

Chronic illness resulting from influenza epidemic includes "Great White Plague" of tuberculosis[14]

Debate on creation of federal health ministry brings up infant mortality, tuberculosis and venereal disease as well as influenza[15]

Newspaper published "in the interest of the Citizens" opposes Winnipeg General Strike[16]

Solicitor-General says legislation against sedition targets "insidious agencies of crime and revolt," not Winnipeg General Strike[17]

Editorial insists Winnipeg General Strike leaders rightly charged with sedition, and trial will decide their guilt or innocence[18]

Indictment for seditious libel against J.S. Woodsworth quotes his newspaper's coverage of police attack on Winnipeg General Strikers[19]

Royal commission reports on causes and events of Winnipeg General Strike[20]

Alberta labour leader reports on convention discussing discrimination at home and internationalism abroad[21]

Communist Party of Canada program calls for rejection of reform in favour of revolution[22]

Professor says chemistry graduates will keep leaving Canada until domestic chemical industry is induced to exploit their research talent[23]

Stern warnings and instruction from Saskatoon Fire Department to combat "national disgrace of fire waste"[24]

Boy Scouts provide courier service after Maritimes storm breaks telegraph connection between Western and Eastern Hemispheres[25]

Opinion and possible legislation supports Canadian content in film-making[26]

References

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  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ Maslin Nir, Sarah (September 18, 2011). "Frances Bay, Actress Known for ‘Old Lady’ Roles, Dies at 92". The New York Times.
  3. ^ CBC article "Canadian Historian J. M.S. Careless dies"
  4. ^ "The most loved artist in B.C., Gordon Smith, turns 100 | Vancouver Sun". 2019-06-17. Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  5. ^ The Associated Press, "Dominions Will Make Big Claims; Will Ask to Be Admitted to League as Individual Nations; Want Same Status as Other Powers" The Calgary Daily Herald, No. 4938 (January 21, 1919), pg. 1. Accessed 20 March 2020
  6. ^ John W. Dafoe, Paris Peace Conference Diary Transcriptions, pgs. 87 to 88. Accessed 20 March 2020
  7. ^ The Repatriation Committee, "War to Peace; Demobilizing Canada's Army" The (Edmonton) Morning Bulletin, Vol. IX, No. 228 (January 18, 1919), pg. 2. Accessed 20 March 2020
  8. ^ Letter of Harold Henry Simpson (April 13, 1919). Accessed 20 March 2020
  9. ^ Testimony of Roderick S. Kennedy (October 3, 1919), Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment; Proceedings of the Special Committee[...]of the House of Commons[....], pg. 564. Accessed 12 October 2020 (See also "14. Rehabilitation of Returned Soldiers," Canada's Part in the Great War pgs. 49-58)
  10. ^ "Why Not Use a Tractor?" (1919), Ontario Motion Picture Bureau, Pathéscope of Canada Limited, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 7 July 2024
  11. ^ Government of Ontario, "Silver Mining in Ontario" (1919), Library and Archives Canada. (See also fictional depiction of "Life in a Mining Camp") Accessed 22 September 2024
  12. ^ British Pathé, "Prince of Wales in Canada." Accessed 10 May 2020
  13. ^ "Greatest Crowd Ever Seen In Saskatchewan Welcomes The Prince" Regina Morning Leader (October 6, 1919), pgs. 9 & 10. Accessed 23 March 2020
  14. ^ "Results of Influenza" The (Weston, Ont.) Times & Guide (January 1, 1919), pg. 1. Accessed 30 March 2020.
  15. ^ Senate Debates, 13th Parliament, 2nd Session: Vol. 1 (May 1, 1919), pgs. 287-289. Accessed 30 March 2020.
  16. ^ The Winnipeg Citizen, Vol. 1, No. 21 (June 11, 1919). Accessed 23 March 2020
  17. ^ "Says Sedition Act Not Result of Strike Here" The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XXX, No. 130 (June 11, 1919), pg. 11. Accessed 23 March 2020
  18. ^ "Most Serious Charges" The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XXX, No. 136 (June 18, 1919), pg. 4. Accessed 23 March 2020
  19. ^ Indictment for: Publishing Seditious Libels; 6 Counts, The King vs J.S. Woodsworth, Court of King's Bench. Accessed 23 March 2020
  20. ^ "Royal Commission to Enquire into(...)the General Strike Which Recently Existed in the City of Winnipeg(...); Report of H.A. Robson, K.C., Commissioner" (November 6, 1919). Accessed 23 March 2020
  21. ^ Alex. Ross, MLA, "The Alberta Labor Convention" The Alberta Non Partisan, Vol. 3, No. 3 (January 30, 1919), pg. 4. Accessed 24 March 2020
  22. ^ Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada, "Programme of the Communist Party of Canada" Accessed 24 March 2020
  23. ^ Testimony of William Lash Miller (June 4, 1919), Proceedings of the [House] Special Committee [on] the Development in Canada of Scientific Research, pgs. 92-5. Accessed 15 October 2020
  24. ^ Saskatoon Fire Department, "Saskatoon Fire Prevention Bulletin," Souvenir; Saskatoon Fire Department; Fire Prevention and First Aid (1919), pg. 29 and after. Accessed 25 March 2020
  25. ^ "Canadian Scouts Save Wire Service" Scouting, Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2, 1919), pg. 8. Accessed 12 February 2020
  26. ^ "Canadian Legislation May Cut U.S. Film Importations" Variety, Vol. LIII, No. 10 (January 31, 1919), pg. 57. Accessed 24 March 2020