1909 in Canada

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The following lists events that happened during 1909 in the Dominion of Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Edward VII (consort – Queen Alexandra)

Federal government

• Governor general – Albert Grey (viceregal consort – Alice Holford)
• Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – James Dunsmuir (until December 3) then Thomas Wilson Paterson
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Duncan Cameron Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Morison Gibson
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
• Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – John Douglas Hazen
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Francis Haszard
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon - Alexander Henderson
• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

• January 11 - The Boundary Waters Treaty signed.
• February 23 - The first powered flight in Canada is made by John McCurdy aboard the Silver Dart.
• March 22 - 1909 Alberta election: Alexander Rutherford's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.
• April 6 - Robert Peary claims to have reached the North Pole.
• July 13 – Gold is discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.
• August - the CPR's Spiral Tunnels are opened in B.C.'s Kicking Horse Pass.
• September 2 - Jeanne Mance Monument unveiled in Montreal.
• September 6 - Field Day Sports athletic competition Toronto.
• October 13 - The Ontario Provincial Police is established.^[1]
• December 4 - The University of Toronto wins the first Grey Cup.

Full date unknown

• University of Toronto Schools opens as an all-boys school.
• Leon's furniture store opens.
• The Criminal Code was amended to criminalize the abduction of women. Before this, the abduction of any woman over 16 was legal, except if she was an heiress.^[2]

Births

January to June

• February 4 - Jack Shadbolt, painter (d.1998)
• February 14 - A. M. Klein, poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer (d.1972)
• March 2 - Art Alexandre, ice hockey player (d.1976)
• March 19 - John Fauquier, war hero
• March 20 - Jack Bush, painter (d.1977)
• March 22 - Gabrielle Roy, author (d.1983)
• April 6 - George Isaac Smith, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1982)
• May 8 - Samuel Boulanger, politician (d.1989)
• May 29 - Red Horner, ice hockey player (d.2005)
• May 31 - Aurore Gagnon, murder victim (d.1920)
• June 23 - David Lewis, lawyer and politician (d.1981)

July to December

• August 12 - Albert Bruce Matthews, commander of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division during the Second World War (d.1991)
• August 15 - Maurice Breton, politician and lawyer (d.2001)
• August 18 - Gérard Filion, businessman and journalist (d.2005)
• September 12 - Donald MacDonald, labour leader
• October 12 - Dorothy Livesay, poet (d.1996)
• October 19 - Robert Beatty, actor (d.1992)
• October 24 - Sheila Watson, novelist, critic and teacher (d.1998)
• November 3 - Russell Paulley, politician (d.1984)

Full date unknown

• Ronald Martland, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1997)

Deaths

• May 5 - Daniel Lionel Hanington, politician and 5th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1835)
• May 7 - William Hallett Ray, politician (b. 1825)
• May 12 - Michel Auger, politician (b.1830)
• October 7 - William Thomas Pipes, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1850)
• October 27 - James William Bain, politician (b.1838)
• November 14 - Joshua Slocum, seaman, adventurer, writer, and first man to sail single-handedly around the world (b.1844)
• December 17 - George Cox, mayor of Ottawa (b.1834)

References

• 1. ↑ "The OPP Museum > Historical Highlights of the Ontario Provincial Police". Ontario Provincial Police. Retrieved 2012-06-19. 
  2. ↑ Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. http://criaw-icref.ca/millenium

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