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- Incumbents Crown Federal government Provincial governments Lieutenant governors Premiers Territorial governments Commissioners
- Elections
- Events January to June July to December
- Arts and literature
- Sport
- Births January to June July to December Full date unknown
- Deaths January to June July to December
- References
{{More citations needed|date=December 2009}}{{Year box}}{{History of Canada}}Events from the year 1917 in Canada. Incumbents Crown - Head of state (monarch) – George V
Federal government - Governor general – Victor Cavendish
- Prime minister – Robert Borden
- Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
- Parliament – 12th (until 6 October)
Provincial governments Lieutenant governors - Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Francis Stillman Barnard
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Albert Manning Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Josiah Wood (until June 29) then Gilbert Ganong (June 29 to October 31) then William Pugsley (from November 6)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – MacCallum Grant
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Strathearn Hendrie
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Augustine Colin Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Pierre-Évariste Leblanc
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Richard Stuart Lake
Premiers - Premier of Alberta – Arthur Sifton (until October 30) then Charles Stewart
- Premier of British Columbia – Harlan Brewster
- Premier of Manitoba – Tobias Norris
- Premier of New Brunswick – George Johnson Clarke (until February 1) then James A. Murray (February 1 to April 4) then Walter Foster
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – William Hearst
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Mathieson (until June 21) then Aubin Arsenault
- Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
- Premier of Saskatchewan – William Melville Martin
Territorial governments Commissioners - Commissioner of Yukon – George Norris Williams (acting)
- Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White
Elections Provincal- June 7 – Alberta election: Arthur Sifton's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority. Louise McKinney and Roberta MacAdams are elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman on elected in Canadian history.
- June 26 – Saskatchewan election: William Martin's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority.
Federal - December 17: Robert Borden's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority in the Federal election
EventsJanuary to June- February 1 – James Alexander Murray becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing George Johnson Clarke
- April 4 – Walter Foster becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Murray
- April 9 – April 14 – Battle of Vimy Ridge.
- June 21 – Aubin Arsenault becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing John Mathieson
July to December- July 1: Canada celebrates its 50th Dominion Day.
- August: The government introduces conscription triggering the Conscription Crisis of 1917
- September 20: The Income War Tax Act receives royal assent, establishing a "temporary" tax, which remains in force to this day.[1]
- September 20: The Wartime Elections Act gives female relatives of servicemen the vote.
- October 26 – November 10: Second Battle of Passchendaele.
- October 30: Charles Stewart (1868–1946) becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Arthur Sifton
- November 1 to 30: Swanson Bay, British Columbia records {{convert|88.01|in|mm|1}} of precipitation for the month, which remains the highest officially recorded for one calendar month in North America.[2]
- December 6: Halifax Explosion kills 1900 people and injures 9000. The largest ever man-made explosion pre-Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Arts and literature{{Empty section|date=July 2010}}Sport- March 26 – The Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Seattle Metropolitans become the first American team to win the Stanley Cup by defeating the National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens 3 games to 1. The Metropolitans won their only Cup in front of their home crowd at Seattle Ice Arena
- November 26 – The National Hockey League (NHL) is established in Montreal, with 4 teams from the National Hockey Association (Montreal Canadiens,Montreal Wanderers]], Ottawa Senators, and Quebec Bulldogs) The owners would form a new team in Toronto due to a dispute Toronto Blueshirts owner Eddie Livingstone, the Toronto Hockey Club (Toronto Maple Leafs)
- December 19 – Montreal Wanderers defeat the Toronto Arenas in the first NHL game.
BirthsJanuary to June- January 6 – Sydney Banks, broadcaster and producer (d.2006)
- January 11 – John Robarts, lawyer, politician and 17th Premier of Ontario (d.1982)
- April 25 – George R. Gardiner, businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum (d.1997)
- May 12 – Frank Clair, Canadian Football League coach (d.2005)
- May 19 – Robert Gordon Robertson, civil servant and 7th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (d.2013)
- May 21 – Raymond Burr, actor (d.1993)
- May 22 – Lude Check, ice hockey player (d.2009)
- May 24 – Ross Thatcher, politician and 9th Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1971)
- June 17 – Dufferin Roblin, businessman, politician and 14th Premier of Manitoba (d.2010)
- June 18 – Arthur Tremblay, politician and Senator (d.1996)
- June 29 – Archie Green, folklorist and musicologist (d.2009)
July to December- September 12 – Pierre Sévigny, soldier, author, politician and academic (d.2004)
- September 15 – Alf Pike, ice hockey player and coach (d.2009)
- September 26 – Réal Caouette, politician (d.1976)
- November 2 – Ann Rutherford, actress (Gone with the Wind, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty). (d. 2012)
- November 11 – Abram Hoffer, orthomolecular psychiatrist (d.2009)
- November 28 – Jacob Froese, politician (d.2003)
Full date unknown- John Hayes, harness racing driver, trainer and owner (d.1998)
- Jack Singer, businessman and philanthropist (d.2013)
DeathsJanuary to June- January 14 – Alexander Cameron, physician and politician (b.1834)
- February 17 – Ralph Smith, coal miner, labour leader and politician (b.1858)
- February 26 – George Johnson Clarke, lawyer, journalist, politician and 14th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1857)
- June 13 – Louis-Philippe Hébert, sculptor (b.1850)
July to December- July 8 – Tom Thomson, artist (b.1877)
- July 15 – Lemuel John Tweedie, politician and 9th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1849)
- August 6 – Richard McBride, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1870)
- August 29 – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, 9th Governor General of Canada (b.1851)
- October 31 – Gilbert Ganong, businessman, politician and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (b.1851)
- November 10 – Thomas Simpson Sproule, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b.1843)
- December 10 – Mackenzie Bowell, politician and 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1823)
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