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1918 in Canada

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Incumbents
Crown Federal government Provincial governments Lieutenant governors Premiers Territorial governments Commissioners
Events
Full date unknown
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
January to June July to December
Deaths
References

Events from the year 1918 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) (until 21 October) then Louis Henry Davies (Prince Edward Island) (from 23 October)
Parliament – 13th (from 16 March)

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 – William Pugsley
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 (until October 18) then Charles Fitzpatrick (from October 21)
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Richard Stuart Lake

Premiers

Premier of Alberta – Charles Stewart
Premier of British Columbia – Harlan Brewster (until March 1) then John Oliver (from March 6)
Premier of Manitoba – Tobias Norris
Premier of New Brunswick – Walter Foster
Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
Premier of Ontario – William Hearst
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Aubin Arsenault
Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
Premier of Saskatchewan – William Melville Martin

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Commissioner of Yukon – George Norris Williams (acting) (until April 1)
Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie (from April 1)
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White (until September 27) then William Wallace Cory

Events

March 1 – Harlan Brewster, premier of British Columbia, dies in office
March 6 – John Oliver becomes premier of British Columbia
March 28 – April 1 – In the Easter Riots in Quebec City, the Militia suppress anti-conscription protesters. Four civilians are killed.
March 30 – C Squadron of Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) conducts a cavalry charge against the Germans at Moreuil Wood. The squadron suffers atrocious casualties, but the action is one of the keys of halting the German advance in Operation Michael. Lieutenant Gordon Flowerdew will be awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously.
April 21 – Canadian Captain Roy Brown (209 Squadron, RAF) supposedly shoots down the famed Red Baron. More accepted theories credit either Sergeant Cedric Popkin (Australian 24th Machine Gun Company), Gunner Snowy Evans or Gunner Robert Buie (both of 53rd Battery, 14th Field Artillery Brigade, RAA) with the kill.
May 24 – Canadian women (except status Indians) obtain the right to vote in federal elections (even if they did not yet have the right to vote in provincial elections); some limited women's suffrage had been granted the year earlier. Status Indians gained federal suffrage in 1960.^[1]
August 2 – The first general strike in Canada occurred in Vancouver, British Columbia, triggered by the murder of Ginger Goodwin.
August 8 – World War I: At the Battle of Amiens superior Canadian gunners assist a great allied breakthrough (also called Canada's 100 Days)
August 26 – September 3 – Battle of Arras, 1918
September – Canadian forces arrive in northern Russia to assist the White Russians in their battle against the Bolsheviks
September 2–3 – Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line
September 9–12 – Battle of the Hindenburg Line
September 27 – October 2 – Battle of Canal du Nord
October – A second group of Canadian forces is sent to Siberia
October 8–9 – Battle of Cambrai (1918)
November 1–2 – Battle of Valenciennes
November 11 – The First World War ends. Over 600 000 Canadians fought in Europe: 70 000 were killed and 173 000 were wounded

Full date unknown

The Statistics Act is passed, creating the Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada demands and receives – over the initial opposition of Britain, France and the USA – the right to participate in the Versailles Peace Conference and in the League of Nations.

Arts and literature

Sport

March 30 – Toronto Hockey Club won their first and only Stanley Cup by defeating the Vancouver Millionaires 3 game to 2. All games were played at Toronto's Arena Gardens

Births

January to June

February 6 – Louis Dudek, poet, literary critic and publisher (d.2001)
February 13 – Ross Whicher, politician and businessman (d.2002)
February 22 – Sid Abel, ice hockey player and coach (d.2000)
February 27 – Marcel Bourbonnais, politician (d.1996)
April 2 – Marion Bryden, politician (d.2013)
April 23 – Margaret Avison, poet (d.2007)
May 1 – Raymond Mailloux, politician (d. 1995)
May 15 – Saul Laskin, politician and 1st Mayor of Thunder Bay (d.2008)
May 15 – Joseph Wiseman, actor (d. 2009)
May 28 – Johnny Wayne, comedian and comedy writer (d.1990)
June 10 – Barry Morse, actor (d.2008)

July to December

July 15 – Bertram Brockhouse, physicist, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994 (d.2003)
July 18 – Nelson Mandela, one of only two honorary Canadian citizens
August 5 – Betty Oliphant, ballet mistress, co-founder of the National Ballet School of Canada (d.2004)
October 25 – Bobby Gimby, orchestra leader, trumpeter and singer-songwriter (d.1998)
November 13 – George Grant, philosopher, teacher and political commentator (d.1988)
November 17 – Prosper Boulanger, politician and businessman (d.2002)
November 19 – Lloyd Crouse, businessman, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d.2007)
December 20 – Jean Marchand, trade unionist and politician (d.1988)
December 30 – Al Purdy, poet (d.2000)

Deaths

January 1 – Anson Dodge, lumber dealer and politician (b.1834)

January 28 – John McCrae, poet, physician, author, artist and soldier (b.1872)
March 1 – Harlan Carey Brewster, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1870)
March 21 – Henry Joseph Walker, politician and merchant (b.1849)
April 9 – Charles Fleetford Sise, businessman (b.1834)
August 18 – Henry Norwest, sniper in World War I (b.1884)
October 11 – Wallace Lloyd Algie, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1891)
October 18 – Pierre-Évariste Leblanc, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b.1853)
November 11 – George Lawrence Price, last Commonwealth casualty of World War I (b.1898)

References

1. ^Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. http://criaw-icref.ca/millenium {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194633/http://criaw-icref.ca/millenium |date=2014-01-02 }}

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