Today in Canadian History
Sub-Topics: Alberta - British Columbia - Manitoba - New Brunswick - Newfoundland and Labrador - Northwest Territories - Nova Scotia - Nunavut - Ontario - Prince Edward Island - Quebec - Saskatchewan - Yukon
Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 469
1003-10-09 - Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first European to reach America.
1497-06-24 - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1534-06-29 - Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
1534-07-24 - Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France
1536-07-09 - French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada
1541-08-23 - French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1578-05-31 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
1613-03-27 - The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1620-06-03 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
1621-09-21 - King James of England gives Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling
1634-07-04 - The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian province of Quebec.
1642-05-18 - Montreal Canada founded
1663-02-05 - Earthquake in Canada
1672-05-17 - Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
1713-06-23 - The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
1733-05-29 - The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1760-06-04 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.
1763-02-10 - Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England
1771-05-07 - Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
1773-07-20 - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1775-05-17 - American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
1783-05-18 - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
1789-06-03 - Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)
1792-12-17 - Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
1793-07-22 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
1796-02-01 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1812-07-11 - US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
1812-07-12 - US forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada (War of 1812)
1812-10-13 - Battle of Queenstown Heights, Brit beats US attempt to invade Canada
1813-01-22 - Americans capture Frenchtown, Michigan Territory
1813-05-27 - Americans capture Ft George, Canada
1813-06-06 - US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)
1813-10-05 - Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
1814-07-03 - Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
1814-07-05 - Americans defeat British & Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
1816-06-19 - Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1818-04-16 - Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
1818-10-20 - 49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada
1822-06-18 - Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
1825-02-22 - Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
1826-08-19 - Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
1827-08-10 - Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1832-06-07 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1836-07-21 - 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Quebec
1837-03-24 - Canada gives black citizens the right to vote
1837-05-25 - The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1837-12-05 - Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada
1837-12-29 - Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
1838-02-28 - Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec)
1838-03-03 - Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada
1839-09-11 - 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
1840-07-23 - Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada
1841-06-14 - 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1842-08-09 - US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
1844-09-25 - Canada defeat USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international
1845-05-28 - Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
1848-03-11 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1849-04-25 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1851-04-23 - Canada issues its 1st postage stamps
1852-07-09 - Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada & no one die
1857-06-10 - England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system
1857-12-31 - Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
1858-01-01 - Canada begins using decimal currency system
1858-07-01 - 1st Canadian coins minted (1, 5, 10 and 20 cent)
1858-12-12 - 1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent & 20 cent)
1859-06-15 - Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers.
1861-11-09 - 1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto)
1866-11-10 - Gold coins from the Sydney Mint become legal tender in Canada
1867-03-29 - British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes
1867-07-01 - Dominion of Canada forms (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec)
1867-09-16 - Ottawa Rough Riders & Senators play Canadian Football game
1867-10-23 - 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
1868-04-07 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and only federal politician.
1868-10-10 - 1st written account of a Canadian football game
1869-04-09 - Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada
1869-10-05 - A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1869-11-03 - Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms
1869-12-08 - Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada.
1869-12-18 - Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game
1870-02-12 - Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada
1870-04-15 - Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
1870-05-12 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
1870-07-15 - Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created
1870-07-15 - Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada
1871-04-14 - Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills
1871-07-01 - The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada
1871-07-20 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1872-04-14 - Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
1872-06-14 - Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1873-05-23 - Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms
1873-06-22 - Prince Edward Island joins Canada
1873-07-01 - Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
1874-09-12 - 1874 The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
1876-06-03 - Lacrosse introduced in Britain & Canada
1876-08-10 - 1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada
1876-08-12 - Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
1877-05-05 - Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1878-07-01 - Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879-02-08 - Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879-11-06 - Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 1,814
1606-11-12 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)
1608-05-15 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)
1645-09-21 - Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
1665-06-04 - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
1678-03-03 - Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747)
1685-11-17 - Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
1698-11-22 - Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
1701-07-15 - Pierre Joubert, became oldest known Canadian (113 y 124 d at death)
1701-10-15 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771)
1714-12-21 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774)
1721-11-22 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
British Army Officer that Defeated the French in Canada James Wolfe (1727-01-02)
1727-01-02 - James Wolfe, Westerham, Kent, England, British Army officer, defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec
1744-10-06 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
1746-11-15 - Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809)
1752-02-25 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
1770-04-30 - David Thompson, English/Canadian explorer (Columbia River)
1775-09-13 - Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868)
1783-05-09 - Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader
1786-10-07 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
1786-10-30 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
1787-05-07 - Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
1795-10-05 - Alexander Keith, Scottish-born Canadian brewer (d. 1873)
1796-03-24 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
1796-10-04 - John Richardson, Canadian writer (Wacousta, or the prophecy)
1796-11-06 - George Back, English sea officer/explorer (North Canada)
1796-12-17 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
1799-01-22 - Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
1802-10-25 - Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)
1804-02-19 - David Wark, Canadian politician (d. 1905)
1804-05-12 - Robert Baldwin, (L) help establish government in Canada (or 1904)
1804-12-13 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
1806-12-09 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)
1807-10-04 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada (d. 1864)
1809-06-15 - François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
1810-09-03 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
1811-12-02 - Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)
1814-09-06 - George Cartier, (C) Canadian co-PM (1858-62)
1815-01-11 - John A MacDonald, (C) 1st PM of Canada (1867-73)
1815-06-19 - Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
1817-09-06 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, a Canadian founding father
1818-01-17 - Antoine Dorion, (L) joint premier of Canada (1858, 1863-64)
1818-11-29 - George Brown, Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (L) (1858)
1820-05-30 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
1820-08-12 - Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation
1820-08-16 - Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician (d. 1892)
1820-10-13 - John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899)
1821-03-12 - John Abbott, Quebec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
1821-07-02 - Charles Tupper, (C) 6th Canadian PM (1896)
1822-01-28 - Alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78)
1823-04-06 - Joseph Medill, St John NB Canada, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
1823-06-02 - Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
1824-02-03 - Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
1825-04-13 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
1827-01-07 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
1827-04-16 - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (d. 1879)
1827-08-22 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
1827-12-10 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
1829-12-05 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French Canadian politician (d. 1908)
1831-05-01 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903)
1838-09-16 - James J Hill, Canada, RR entrepreneur (Great Northern Railroad)
1839-05-08 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (O Canada) (d. 1920)
1839-11-16 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)
1840-01-10 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
1840-09-26 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923)
1840-11-09 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
1840-11-30 - Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)
1841-03-03 - John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Depths of the Ocean)
1841-04-15 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)
1841-11-20 - Wilfrid Laurier, (L) 7th Canadian PM (1896-1911)
1843-08-23 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
1844-02-20 - Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
1844-11-10 - John S D Thompson, (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94)
1845-01-14 - Henry C K Petty-Fitzmaurice 5th marquess of Landsdowne/gov-gen Canada
1845-08-09 - André Bessette, Canadian religious figure (d. 1937)
1847-02-25 - John Watson, Canada, philosopher (Objective Idealism)
1847-11-01 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
1847-11-16 - Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
1848-01-19 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
1848-02-24 - C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
1848-08-30 - Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1849-07-12 - William Osler, Canada, physician/author (circulatory system)
1850-02-20 - Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931)
1850-05-01 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (d. 1942)
1853-12-19 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)\
1854-06-08 - Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
1854-06-26 - Robert Laird Borden, (C), 8th Canadian PM (1911-20)
1855-09-12 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician (d. 1920)
1858-06-01 - William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream)
1859-09-17 - Frank D Adams, Canada geologist/educator
1861-04-15 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)
Inventor James Naismith (1861-11-06)
1861-11-06 - James Naismith, Almonte, Canada, inventor (basketball, football helmet), (d.1939)
1863-07-01 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
1863-10-10 - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
1865-04-10 - Jack Miner, Canadian conservationist (d. 1944)
1865-11-17 - John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins)
1868-09-01 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
1868-09-17 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
1869-12-30 - Stephen Leacock, Canada, economist/humorist/professor
1870-07-03 - Richard B Bennett, (C) 11th Canadian PM (1930-35)
1870-08-11 - Walter Bowman, Canadian soccer player (d. ?)
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 17 of 17
1911-07-05 - "Anne of Green Gables" author Lucy Maud Montgomery (36) weds Ewen MacDonald in Prince Edward Island, Canada
1956-08-12 - Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Rand
1973-10-20 - Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty
1978-08-02 - Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young (32) weds Pegi Morton
1994-12-17 - Queen of Pop Celine Dion (26) weds her manager Rene Angelil (52) at Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Canada
1999-06-10 - Model-actress Esther Canadas (22) weds model Mark Vanderloo (31) at the 900-year-old Vallombrosa Abbey in Tuscany
2002-08-10 - "Baywatch" actress Angelica Bridges (28) weds Canadian hockey player Sheldon Souray (26) at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada
2005-06-01 - "The Amazing Race 7" executive assistant Alex Ali and Lynn Warren in Ottawa, Canada
2005-09-17 - Country music singer Terri Clark (37) weds her tour manager Greg Kaczor at a resort on Lake Louise in Calgary, Canada
2005-12-31 - Olympic gold medal skater Jamie Sale (28) weds her pair figure skater David Pelletier (31) at Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Canada
2006-12-30 - Canadian pair figure skaters David Pelletier (31) weds partner Jamie Sale (28) at the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel in Alberta, Canada
Singer Celine Dion (1994-12-17)
2007-04-14 - Supermodel Esther Canadas (30) weds MotoGP rider Sete Gibernau (34) in Spain
2010-08-14 - Actress and singer Hilary Duff (24) weds retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre Mike Comrie (31) at La Quinta Estate in Montecito, California
2011-03-31 - Italian Canadian singer Michael Buble (35) weds actress and model Luisana Lopilato (23) in Buenos Aires
2011-06-18 - British peer and brother of Princess Diana Charles Spencer (47) weds Canadian social entrepreneur and former model Karen Gordon (39) at Althorp House in Northamptonshire
2011-10-02 - Canadian stand-up comedian and actor Seth Rogen (30) weds screenwriter Lauren Miller at Kunde Family Estate in Sonoma, California
2012-08-11 - "The Hangover" actor-comedian Zach Galifianakis (42) weds co-founder of the Growing Voices charity Quinn Lundberg at the UBC Farm in Vancouver, Canada
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 605
1557-01-01 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65
1642-09-29 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
1648-07-04 - Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
1649-03-17 - Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1610)
1673-06-18 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)
1696-01-11 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
1706-07-09 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French Canadian sailor and explorer (b. 1661)
1771-12-23 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)
1774-09-25 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1806-10-26 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1809-07-03 - Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
1813-12-19 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)
1836-01-11 - John Molson, Canadian brewer (b. 1763)
1838-12-14 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806)
1852-05-12 - John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies
1857-02-10 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
1857-09-03 - John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
1858-12-09 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1862-04-19 - Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer, dies
1864-02-26 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807)
1864-10-04 - Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802)
1865-04-28 - Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787)
1866-02-03 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)
1866-10-26 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1868-04-07 - D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (b. 1825)
1868-10-17 - Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)
1870-09-27 - Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
1871-01-29 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)
1872-11-29 - Cornelius Kreighoff, Canadian, dies
1873-05-20 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
1873-06-01 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1878-04-01 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (b. 1796)
1879-01-16 - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)
1885-07-17 - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
1886-03-30 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, French Canadian politician (b. 1838)
1891-06-06 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1892-04-17 - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
1892-06-09 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
1893-09-19 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817)
1893-10-30 - John Abbott, PM of Canada (C) (1891-92), dies at 72
1894-06-22 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)
1894-12-12 - Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
1896-10-30 - Charles Tupper, PM of Canada (C) (1896), dies
1898-06-13 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
1899-10-28 - C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies
1901-05-04 - John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (b. 1831)
1901-06-02 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
1903-04-30 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1831)
1904-07-03 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1904-08-25 - William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
1904-09-26 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
1905-10-29 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1906-02-10 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
1906-10-07 - Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1907-01-31 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
1908-05-31 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (b. 1839)
1908-06-14 - Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor general of Canada (b. 1841)
1908-11-16 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-born Canadian politician (b. 1829)
1908-12-30 - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)
1911-04-14 - Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
1911-08-21 - W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies
1912-11-10 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1913-03-07 - Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet
1913-10-01 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1827)
1915-07-22 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
1915-10-30 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1917-07-08 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
1917-12-10 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
1917-12-28 - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892)
1918-01-28 - John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies
1918-02-17 - Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian PM (1896-1911), dies
1918-11-11 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892)
1919-01-01 - William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60
1919-08-18 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841)
1919-10-29 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1921-03-24 - Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
1921-11-27 - Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician]] (b. 1854)
1928-04-16 - Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
1930-03-12 - William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (b. 1894)
1930-04-03 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847)
1930-04-19 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
1930-06-12 - Dyce Willcocks, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of Canadian cricket), dies
1931-05-31 - Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (b. 1866)
1932-02-27 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
1932-06-14 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer
1932-07-22 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
1933-01-03 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1933-11-30 - Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
1934-07-29 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
1935-03-16 - John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58
1937-01-06 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
1937-01-21 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
1937-03-08 - Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1937-06-10 - Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
1938-04-13 - Archibald Belaney, Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
1939-08-25 - Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
1939-09-20 - Paul Bruchési, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1855)
1939-11-12 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
1940-02-11 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Gov-Gen of Canada (1935-40), dies
1940-08-31 - Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871)
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