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Events from the year1915 in Canada.

• Monarch –George V^[1]

• Governor General –Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
• Prime Minister –Robert Borden
• Chief Justice –Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
• Parliament –12th

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta –George H. V. Bulyea (until October 20) thenRobert Brett
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia –Francis Stillman Barnard
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba –Douglas Colin Cameron
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick –Josiah Wood
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia –James Drummond McGregor (until October 19) thenDavid MacKeen
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario –John Strathearn Hendrie
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island –Benjamin Rogers (until June 3) thenAugustine Colin Macdonald
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec –François Langelier (until February 8) thenPierre-Évariste Leblanc
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan –George W. Brown (until October 6) thenRichard Stuart Lake

• Premier of Alberta –Arthur Sifton
• Premier of British Columbia –Richard McBride (until December 15) thenWilliam John Bowser
• Premier of Manitoba –Rodmond Roblin (until May 12) thenTobias Norris
• Premier of New Brunswick –George Johnson Clarke
• Premier of Nova Scotia –George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario –William Hearst
• Premier of Prince Edward Island –John Alexander Mathieson
• Premier of Quebec –Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan –Thomas Walter Scott

• Commissioner of Yukon –George Black
• Gold Commissioner of Yukon –George P. MacKenzie
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories –Frederick D. White

• January 4 – WWI:Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry becomes the first Canadian troops sent to the front lines
• January 15 – TheCanadian Northern Railway line toVancouver, British Columbia, is completed
• February 2 – WW1:Attempt to bomb the Vanceboro international bridge between the Canadian-US border by a German spy
• February 4 – WW1: After a training accident, LieutenantW. F. Sharpe becomes the first Canadian military airman killed
• February 14 – WW1: The1st Canadian Division arrives in France
• February 21 –Nellie McClung presents a petition to theAlberta Legislature demandingwomen's suffrage
• February 28 – WWI: Canadian troops launch the firsttrench raid of the war; by the end of the conflict Canadian troops will be regarded as the experts at this manoeuvre
• April 22 – WWI: In theSecond Battle of Ypres Canadian forces bear the brunt of the first large-scalechemical weapons attack on theWestern Front. They devise makeshift gas masks of urine-soaked rags and hold their ground
• May 3 – "In Flanders Fields" is written by Canadian poetJohn McCrae.
• May 12 –Tobias Norris becomes premier ofManitoba, replacing SirRodmond Roblin
• July 5 – TheHotel Macdonald inEdmonton opens
• August 6 –Manitoba General Election
• September 13 – WWI: with the arrival of the 2nd Canadian Division a separateCanadian Corps is created
• October 9 – WWI: The3rd Canadian Division arrives in France
• December 15 –William John Bowser becomes premier of British Columbia, replacingRichard McBride
• December 19 – WW1: Captain M.M. Bell-Irving, No.1 Squadron,Royal Flying Corps, achieves the first aerial victory by a Canadian when he shot down a German aircraft

• Fermière Monument (Montreal) unveiled
• World War I – Many Canadian soldiers grow upset at the inferior quality of theirRoss Rifles

• "In Flanders Fields":John McCrae
• The Golden Road:Lucy Maud Montgomery

• March 26 – ThePacific Coast Hockey Association'sVancouver Millionaires win their first and onlyStanley Cup by defeating theNational Hockey Association'sOttawa Senators 3 games to 0. All games played atVancouver'sDenman Arena
• November 20 – TheHamilton Tigers win their 2ndGrey Cup by defeating the Toronto Rugby and Athletic Association 13 to 7 in the7th Grey Cup played atToronto'sVarsity Stadium

• January 12 –Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Roman Catholic prelate,Archbishop of Ottawa (1967–1989) (d.2013)
• January 18 –Syl Apps, pole vaulter and ice hockey player (d.1998)
• February 12 –Lorne Greene, actor (d.1987)
• March 10 –Maurice Camyré, Olympic boxer (d.2013)
• March 18 –Harold Crowchild, Tsuu T'ina elder and soldier, lastTreaty 7 World War II veteran (d.2013)
• April 9 –Daniel Johnson, Sr., politician and 20thPremier of Quebec (d.1968)
• April 11 –Eddie Sargent, politician (d.1998)
• April 28 –Robina Higgins, track and field athlete (d.1990)
• May 3 –Stu Hart, wrestler, promoter and trainer (d.2003)
• May 28
  • Conrad Bourcier, ice hockey player (d.1987)
  • Frank Pickersgill, World War II hero (d.1944)
• June 22 –Arthur Gelber, philanthropist (d.1998)

• July 4 –Harold E. Johns, medical physicist (d.1998)
• July 6 –Leonard Birchall, World War II hero (d.2004)
• August 3 –Frank Arthur Calder, politician, firstStatus Indian to be elected to any legislature in Canada (d.2006)
• August 20 –H. Gordon Barrett, politician (d.1993)
• August 22
  • James Hillier, scientist and inventor, jointly designed and built first electron microscope (d.2007)
  • Jacques Flynn, politician and Senator (d.2000)
• August 25 –John W. H. Bassett, publisher and media baron (d.1998)
• October 7
  • Harry J. Boyle, broadcaster and writer (d.2005)
  • Charles Templeton, cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author (d.2001)
• October 25 –Tommy Prince, one of Canada's most decoratedFirst Nations soldiers (d.1977)
• November 27 –Yves Thériault, author (d.1983)
• December 4 –Johnny Lombardi,CHIN-TV television personality (d.2002)
• December 13 –Ross Macdonald, novelist (d.1983)

• Arthur Julian Andrew, diplomat and author (d.1994)
• Earl Cameron, broadcaster and news anchor (d.2005)
• Percy Saltzman, meteorologist and television personality, first weatherman in English-Canadian television history (d.2007)^[2]

• January 18 –Thomas Bain, politician andSpeaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1834)

• May 16 –Kit Coleman, journalist (b. 1864)
• June 14 –Antoine Audet, politician (b. 1846)
• July 21 –Jean Prévost, politician (b. 1870)
• July 22 –Sandford Fleming, engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
• August 10 –William Mortimer Clark, lawyer, politician and Lieutenant Governor ofOntario (b. 1836)
• September 10 –Charles Boucher de Boucherville, politician and 3rdPremier of Quebec (b. 1822)
• September 11 –William Cornelius Van Horne, pioneering railway executive (b. 1843)
• September 15 –Ernest Gagnon, folklorist (b. 1834)
• October 19 –Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier ofPrince Edward Island (b. 1842)
• October 30 –Charles Tupper, politician,Premier of Nova Scotia and 6thPrime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
• December 25 –Graham Fraser (industrialist) (b. 1845)

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