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Events from the year1925 in Canada.

• Monarch –George V^[1]

• Governor General –Julian Byng
• Prime Minister –William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice –Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
• Parliament –14th (until 5 September)

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta –Robert Brett (until October 29) thenWilliam Egbert
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia –Walter Cameron Nichol
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba –James Albert Manning Aikins
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick –William Frederick Todd
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia –MacCallum Grant (until January 12) thenJames Robson Douglas (January 12 to September 14) thenJames Cranswick Tory
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario –Henry Cockshutt
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island –Frank Richard Heartz
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec –Narcisse Pérodeau
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan –Henry William Newlands

• Premier of Alberta –Herbert Greenfield (until November 23) thenJohn Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia –John Oliver
• Premier of Manitoba –John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick –Peter Veniot (until September 14) thenJohn Baxter
• Premier of Nova Scotia –Ernest Howard Armstrong (until July 16) thenEdgar Nelson Rhodes
• Premier of Ontario –George Howard Ferguson
• Premier of Prince Edward Island –James D. Stewart
• Premier of Quebec –Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan –Charles Avery Dunning

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon –George P. MacKenzie (until April 1) thenPercy Reid
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories –William Wallace Cory

• February 5 – Post Office workers are brought under civil service regulations.
• February 24 – TheLake of the Woods Treaty works out joint Canadian-American control of theLake of the Woods.
• April 13 – Women win the right to vote inNewfoundland.
• May 28 –Roddick Gates unveiled in Montreal.
• June 2 –1925 Saskatchewan general election:Charles Dunning's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority
• June 10 – TheUnited Church of Canada opens for services.
• June 11 – Coal minerWilliam Davis was killed bypolice in the culmination of a longCape Breton Island strike.
• June 23 –First ascent ofMount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada.
• June 26 – A strike of miners inDrumheller, Alberta ends in violent confrontations.
• July 16 –Edgar Rhodes becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Ernest Armstrong.
• September 14 –John Baxter becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Peter Veniot
• October 29 –Federal election:Arthur Meighen's Conservatives win a plurality (116 seats), defeatingMackenzie King's Liberals (99 seats). However, King does not resign as prime minister; he will try to govern with a minority government with the support of smaller parties and independent MPs (30 seats)
• November 23 –John Brownlee becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Charles Stewart
• The Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League, later theRoyal Canadian Legion, is formed by the amalgamation of several veterans' organizations, such as the Great War Veterans Association.
• The federal divorce law was changed to allow a woman to divorce her husband on the same grounds that a man could divorce his wife – simple adultery. Before this, a woman had to prove adultery in conjunction with other acts such as "sodomy" or bestiality in order to initiate a divorce.^[2]

• October 1 – TheVancouver School of Applied and Decorative Arts opened its doors.

• March 23 and 25 – TheSouth Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League'sRegina Pats win their firstMemorial Cup by defeating theOntario Hockey Association'sToronto Aura Lee 7 to 3 in a 2-game aggregate played inArena Gardens inToronto
• March 30 – TheWestern Canada Hockey League'sVictoria Cougars win their onlyStanley Cup by defeating theNational Hockey League'sMontreal Canadiens 3 games to 1. The deciding game was played atVancouver'sDenman Arena. The Cougars are the last non-NHL team to win the Stanley Cup, as they would soon become theDetroit Red Wings
• December 5 – TheOttawa Senators win their firstGrey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Tammany Tigers 24 to 1 in the13th Grey Cup played atOttawa'sLansdowne Park

• January 26 –Claude Ryan, politician (d.2004)
• February 1 –Hugh Horner, politician, physician and surgeon (d.1997)
• February 7 –Hans Schmidt, professional wrestler (d.2012)
• March 2 –Bernard Jean, lawyer and politician, member (1960–1970) andSpeaker (1963–1966) of theLegislative Assembly of New Brunswick (d.2012)
• March 23 –Wilson Duff, anthropologist (d.1976)
• March 25 –Daniel Yanofsky, chess player, Canada's first chess grandmaster (d.2000)
• March 26 –Ben Mondor, baseball executive (Pawtucket Red Sox) (d.2010)
• April 1 –Tobie Steinhouse, artist
• April 4 –Claude Wagner, judge and politician (d.1979)
• April 11 –Pierre Péladeau, businessman (d.1997)
• May 18 –Robin Blaser, author and poet (d.2009)

• July 21 –Johnny Peirson, ice hockey player (d.2021)
• July 25 –Charmion King, actress (d.2007)

• July 29 –Ted Lindsay, ice hockey player (d.2019)
• August 2 –William Andres, politician (d.2010)
• August 11 –Floyd Curry, ice hockey player (d.2006)
• August 15 –Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist and composer (d.2007)
• August 22 –Terry Donahue, female professional baseball player (d.2019)
• September 4 –Calvin Ruck, anti-racism activist and Senator (d.2004)
• September 11 –Harry Somers, composer (d.1999)
• September 24 –Dan Heap, politician (d.2014)

• October 2 –Wren Blair, hockey coach and manager (Minnesota North Stars,Pittsburgh Penguins) (d.2013)
• October 6 –Bud Olson, politician, Minister and Senator (d.2002)
• October 12 –Denis Lazure, politician (d.2008)
• October 21 –Peter Dickinson, architect (d.1961)
• October 21 –Louis Robichaud, lawyer, politician and 25thPremier of New Brunswick (d.2005)
• November 8 –Allan Lawrence, politician and Minister (d.2008)
• November 10 –Doris Anderson, author, journalist and women's rights activist (d.2007)
• November 12 –Agnes Nanogak, illustrator (d.2001)
• December 5 –Dave Broadfoot, comedian (d.2016)
• December 25 –Robert Layton, politician (d.2002)
• December 29 –Colleen Thibaudeau, poet and short-story writer (d.2012)

• January 25 –Charles-Eusèbe Dionne, naturalist and taxidermist (b.1845)
• March 3 –William Pugsley, lawyer, politician and 10thPremier of New Brunswick (b.1850)
• March 16 –Richard Butler, editor, publisher, journalist and U.S. vice-consul (b.1834)
• May 4 –James Cunningham, merchant and politician (b.1834)
• May 25 –Margaret Mick, prison guard, first female Canadian peace officer to be killed in the line of duty (b.1860)
• June 18 –William Brymner, art teacher and painter (b.1855)

• August 15 –Adam Beck, politician and hydro-electricity advocate (b.1857)
• September 6 –George Henry Bradbury, politician (b.1859)
• November 2 –James Alexander Lougheed, businessman and politician (b.1854)

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