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- Births January to June July to December Full date unknown
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{{Refimprove|date=December 2009}}{{Year in Canada|1909}}{{History of Canada}}The following lists events that happened during 1909 in the Dominion of Canada. Incumbents Crown - Head of state (monarch) – Edward VII
Federal government - Governor general – Albert Grey
- Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier
- Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
- Parliament – 11th (from 20 January)
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 governmentsCommissioners- 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 in the AEA Silver Dart, flying {{convert|2640|ft|m|0}} from the ice of Bras d'Or Lake at Baddeck on Cape Breton Island.
- 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 Canadian Pacific Railway's Spiral Tunnels are opened in British Columbia'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]
Full date unknown- University of Toronto Schools opens as an all-boys school.
- Leon's furniture store opens.
- The Criminal Code is 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]
Arts and literature{{Empty section|date=July 2010}} Sport - December 4 – University of Toronto defeats the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26-6 to win the 1st Grey Cup at Rosedale Field. Montreal Canadiens are established on the same day.
BirthsJanuary 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)
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