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1909 in Canada

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1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

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Other events of 1909 Timeline of Canadian history

The following lists events that happened during 1909 in the Dominion of Canada.

Contents

Crown

  • Head of state (monarch) – Edward VII (consort – Queen Alexandra)

    • Federal government

  • Governor general – Albert Grey (viceregal consort – Alice Holford)
  • Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier

    • Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – James Dunsmuir (until December 3) then Thomas Wilson Paterson
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Duncan Cameron Fraser
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Morison Gibson
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier
  • Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

    • Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
  • Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
  • Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
  • Premier of New Brunswick – John Douglas Hazen
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
  • Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Francis Haszard
  • Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

    • Commissioners

  • Commissioner of Yukon - Alexander Henderson
  • Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin
  • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

    • Events

  • January 11 - The Boundary Waters Treaty signed.
  • February 23 - The first powered flight in Canada is made by John McCurdy aboard the Silver Dart.
  • March 22 - 1909 Alberta election: Alexander Rutherford's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.
  • April 6 - Robert Peary claims to have reached the North Pole.
  • July 13 – Gold is discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.
  • August - the CPR's Spiral Tunnels are opened in B.C.'s Kicking Horse Pass.
  • September 2 - Jeanne Mance Monument unveiled in Montreal.
  • September 6 - Field Day Sports athletic competition Toronto.
  • October 13 - The Ontario Provincial Police is established.
  • December 4 - The University of Toronto wins the first Grey Cup.

    • Full date unknown

  • University of Toronto Schools opens as an all-boys school.
  • Leon's furniture store opens.
  • The Criminal Code was amended to criminalize the abduction of women. Before this, the abduction of any woman over 16 was legal, except if she was an heiress.

    • January to June

  • February 4 - Jack Shadbolt, painter (d.1998)
  • February 14 - A. M. Klein, poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer (d.1972)
  • March 2 - Art Alexandre, ice hockey player (d.1976)
  • March 19 - John Fauquier, war hero
  • March 20 - Jack Bush, painter (d.1977)
  • March 22 - Gabrielle Roy, author (d.1983)
  • April 6 - George Isaac Smith, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1982)
  • May 8 - Samuel Boulanger, politician (d.1989)
  • May 29 - Red Horner, ice hockey player (d.2005)
  • May 31 - Aurore Gagnon, murder victim (d.1920)
  • June 23 - David Lewis, lawyer and politician (d.1981)

    • July to December

  • August 12 - Albert Bruce Matthews, commander of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division during the Second World War (d.1991)
  • August 15 - Maurice Breton, politician and lawyer (d.2001)
  • August 18 - Gérard Filion, businessman and journalist (d.2005)
  • September 12 - Donald MacDonald, labour leader
  • October 12 - Dorothy Livesay, poet (d.1996)
  • October 19 - Robert Beatty, actor (d.1992)
  • October 24 - Sheila Watson, novelist, critic and teacher (d.1998)
  • November 3 - Russell Paulley, politician (d.1984)

    • Full date unknown

  • Ronald Martland, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1997)

    • Deaths

  • May 5 - Daniel Lionel Hanington, politician and 5th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1835)
  • May 7 - William Hallett Ray, politician (b. 1825)
  • May 12 - Michel Auger, politician (b.1830)
  • October 7 - William Thomas Pipes, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1850)
  • October 27 - James William Bain, politician (b.1838)
  • November 14 - Joshua Slocum, seaman, adventurer, writer, and first man to sail single-handedly around the world (b.1844)
  • December 17 - George Cox, mayor of Ottawa (b.1834)

    • References

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