Events from the year1919 in Canada .
Provincial governments [ edit ] Lieutenant governors [ edit ] Territorial governments [ edit ] Arts and literature [ edit ] Daphne Odjig January 13 –Igor Gouzenko , Russian defector (d.1982 ) January 23 –Frances Bay , actress (d.2011 )[ 2] February 17 –J. M. S. Careless , historian (d.2009 )[ 3] February 20 March 21 –Victor Copps , politician and Mayor ofHamilton (d.1988 ) March 26 –Vernon Singer , politician (d.2003 ) April 16 –Louis Harrington Lewry , politician and reporter (d.1992 ) April 21 –William Perehudoff , painter (d.2013 ) May 27 –Francess Halpenny , editor and professor (d.2017 ) May 29 –Jacques Genest , physician and academic (d.2018 ) June 18 –Gordon A. Smith , artist and teacher (d.2020 )[ 4] June 19 June 21 –Gérard Pelletier , journalist, editor, politician and Minister (d.1997 ) Pierre Trudeau in 1980 Wilfrid Laurier January 30 –Sam Steele , soldier and member of theNorth-West Mounted Police (b.1849 ) February 17 –Wilfrid Laurier , politician and 7thPrime Minister of Canada (b.1841 ) July 29 –Frederick Peters , lawyer, politician and Premier ofPrince Edward Island (b.1851 ) August 18 –Joseph E. Seagram , distillery founder, politician, philanthropist and racehorse owner (b.1841 ) October 14 –Simon Hugh Holmes , publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier ofNova Scotia (b.1831 ) November 10 –Charles Mickle , politician (b.1849 ) November 11 –George Haddow , politician and merchant (b.1833 ) December 10 –Arthur Boyle , politician (b.1842 ) December 29 –William Osler , physician (b.1849 ) Funéraille de Wilfrid Laurier Historical documents [ edit ] Canada and otherdominions demand full status inLeague of Nations [ 5]
J.W. Dafoe hears aboutCanadian researchers whoseweapon helped to end First World War[ 6]
Getting soldiers from France to England to Canada and their dispersal stations fordischarge [ 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 byEdward, 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 frominfluenza epidemic includes "Great White Plague" oftuberculosis [ 14]
Debate on creation offederal health ministry brings upinfant mortality , tuberculosis andvenereal disease as well as influenza[ 15]
Newspaper published "in the interest of the Citizens"opposes Winnipeg General Strike [ 16]
Solicitor-General says legislation againstsedition 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 forseditious libel againstJ.S. Woodsworth quotes his newspaper's coverage ofpolice attack on Winnipeg General Strikers [ 19]
Royal commission reports on causes and events of Winnipeg General Strike[ 20]
Alberta labour leader reports onconvention 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 domesticchemical industry is induced to exploit their research talent[ 23]
Stern warnings andinstruction fromSaskatoon Fire Department to combat "national disgrace of fire waste"[ 24]
Boy Scouts provide courier service after Maritimes storm breakstelegraph connection between Western and Eastern Hemispheres[ 25]
Opinion and possible legislation supportsCanadian content in film-making[ 26]
^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia" .www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved4 December 2022 .^ Maslin Nir, Sarah (September 18, 2011)."Frances Bay, Actress Known for ‘Old Lady’ Roles, Dies at 92" .The New York Times ^ CBC article "Canadian Historian J. M.S. Careless dies" ^ "The most loved artist in B.C., Gordon Smith, turns 100 | Vancouver Sun" . 2019-06-17.Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved2019-12-23 .^ 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 ^ John W. Dafoe, Paris Peace Conference Diary Transcriptions, pgs.87 to88 . Accessed 20 March 2020 ^ 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 ^ Letter of Harold Henry Simpson (April 13, 1919). Accessed 20 March 2020^ 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)^ "Why Not Use a Tractor?" (1919), Ontario Motion Picture Bureau, Pathéscope of Canada Limited, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 7 July 2024 ^ 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 ^ British Pathé,"Prince of Wales in Canada." Accessed 10 May 2020 ^ "Greatest Crowd Ever Seen In Saskatchewan Welcomes The Prince" Regina Morning Leader (October 6, 1919), pgs. 9 & 10. Accessed 23 March 2020^ "Results of Influenza" The (Weston, Ont.) Times & Guide (January 1, 1919), pg. 1. Accessed 30 March 2020.^ Senate Debates, 13th Parliament, 2nd Session: Vol. 1 (May 1, 1919), pgs.287 -289. Accessed 30 March 2020. ^ The Winnipeg Citizen, Vol. 1, No. 21 (June 11, 1919). Accessed 23 March 2020^ "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^ "Most Serious Charges" The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XXX, No. 136 (June 18, 1919), pg. 4. Accessed 23 March 2020^ Indictment for: Publishing Seditious Libels; 6 Counts, The King vs J.S. Woodsworth, Court of King's Bench. Accessed 23 March 2020^ "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^ Alex. Ross, MLA,"The Alberta Labor Convention" The Alberta Non Partisan, Vol. 3, No. 3 (January 30, 1919), pg. 4. Accessed 24 March 2020 ^ Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada,"Programme of the Communist Party of Canada" Accessed 24 March 2020 ^ 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^ 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 ^ "Canadian Scouts Save Wire Service" Scouting, Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2, 1919), pg. 8. Accessed 12 February 2020^ "Canadian Legislation May Cut U.S. Film Importations" Variety, Vol. LIII, No. 10 (January 31, 1919), pg. 57. Accessed 24 March 2020
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