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Events from the year
1920 in Canada
.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch
–
George V
[
1
]
Federal government
Governor General
–
Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
Prime Minister
–
Robert Borden
(until July 10) then
Arthur Meighen
Chief Justice
–
Louis Henry Davies
(
Prince Edward Island
)
Parliament
–
13th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
–
Robert Brett
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
–
Edward Gawler Prior
(until December 12) then
Walter Cameron Nichol
(from December 24)
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
–
James Albert Manning Aikins
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
–
William Pugsley
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
–
MacCallum Grant
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
–
Lionel Herbert Clarke
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island
–
Murdock MacKinnon
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
–
Charles Fitzpatrick
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
–
Richard Stuart Lake
Premiers
Premier of Alberta
–
Charles Stewart
Premier of British Columbia
–
John Oliver
Premier of Manitoba
–
Tobias Norris
Premier of New Brunswick
–
Walter Foster
Premier of Nova Scotia
–
George Henry Murray
Premier of Ontario
–
Ernest Drury
Premier of Prince Edward Island
–
John Howatt Bell
Premier of Quebec
–
Lomer Gouin
(until July 9) then
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Premier of Saskatchewan
–
William Melville Martin
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Gold Commissioner of Yukon
–
George P. MacKenzie
Commissioner of Northwest Territories
–
William Wallace Cory
Events
The Capitol Cinema in Ottawa opens on November 8
January 10 –
Canada
is a founding member of the
League of Nations
, effectively ending the declaration of war.
February 1 – The
Royal North-West Mounted Police
and the
Dominion Police
are amalgamated and renamed the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
.
[
2
]
February 14 –
Université de Montréal
founded.
February 26 – The
Indian Act
is amended to give Canadian aboriginal peoples the right to vote in band elections.
[
3
]
March 12 – The first
Lions Club
outside the United States is founded in
Windsor, Ontario
.
May 14 –
Canadian Forum
magazine founded.
June – The
Catholic Women's League
is formed in
Montreal
.
June 24 –
Dollard des Ormeaux Monument
unveiled.
July 1 – Under the
Dominion Elections Act
, uniform franchise is established and the right for women to be elected to parliament is made permanent.
[
4
]
July 9 –
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir
Lomer Gouin
.
July 10 –
Arthur Meighen
becomes prime minister, replacing Sir
Robert Borden
.
July 11 –
Charles Stephens
, a barber and daredevil from Bristol, England, dies attempting to go over
Niagara Falls
.
October 17 – The first
airplane
to fly across Canada arrives in
Richmond
from
Halifax
.
[
5
]
December 25 –
Walter Cameron Nichol
becomes the
12th
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
.
Date unknown
Esther Marjorie Hill
(1895–1985) becomes the first female architect in Canada when she graduates from the
University of Toronto
.
Arts and literature
May 7 – The first exhibit of art by the
Group of Seven
opens in
Toronto
.
November 8 – The
Capitol Cinema
opens in
Ottawa
, the capital's only true
movie palace
.
Undated – A group of artists, educators, and art patrons formed the
British Columbia Art League
to lobby the
provincial
and
city
governments for a school.
Sport
January 10 – The
Montreal Canadiens
and
Toronto St. Patricks
combine for 21 goals to set an
NHL
record for most goals in a single game.
[
6
]
March 23–25 – The
Ontario Hockey Association
's
Toronto Canoe Club
win their first
Memorial Cup
by defeating
Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association
's
Selkirk Fishermen
15 to 5 in a 2-game aggregate played at
Arena Gardens
in
Toronto
April 1 – The NHL's
Ottawa Senators
win their ninth
Stanley Cup
by defeating the
Pacific Coast Hockey Association
's
Seattle Metropolitans
3 games to 2. The deciding game was played at
Toronto
's
Arena Gardens
December 4 – The
University of Toronto Varsity Blues
win their fourth and final
Grey Cup
by defeating the
Toronto Argonauts
16 to 3 in the
8th Grey Cup
played at Toronto's
Varsity Stadium
1920 Olympics
April 26 – The
Winnipeg Falcons
representing Canada beat
Sweden
12–1 to win the gold medal for
ice hockey
at the
1920 Olympics in Antwerp
.
August 18 –
Earl Thomson
wins a gold medal in Men's 110
m Hurdles at the
Athletics
August 23 –
Bert Schneider
wins a gold medal for Canada in the
Boxing
Welterweight
at the
1920 Olympics in Antwerp
.
[
7
]
Births
January to March
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January 4 –
James William Baskin
, politician and businessman (d.
1999
)
January 6 –
Henry Corden
, Canadian-born American actor, voice actor and singer (d.
2005
)
January 7 –
Margaret W. Thompson
, geneticist (d.
2014
)
January 12 –
Bill Reid
, artist (d.
1998
)
February 22 –
Ralph Raymond Loffmark
, politician. (d.
2012
)
February 23 –
Paul Gérin-Lajoie
, lawyer, philanthropist, politician and Minister (d.
2018
)
February 25
Merrill Edwin Barrington
, politician, accountant and insurance broker (d.
1965
)
Gérard Bessette
, author and educator (d.
2005
)
March 3 –
James Doohan
, actor (d.
2005
)
March 9 –
Erwin Schild
, rabbi and author (d.
2024
)
March 19
Cyril Lloyd Francis
, politician and
Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
(d.
2007
)
Laurent Noël
, Roman Catholic bishop (d.
2022
)
March 24 –
Bill Irwin
, Olympic skier (d.
2013
)
April to June
April 2 –
Gerald Bouey
, 4th Governor of the
Bank of Canada
(d.
2004
)
May 1 –
Louis Siminovitch
, molecular biologist (d.
2021
)
[
8
]
May 2 –
William Hutt
, actor (d.
2007
)
May 5 –
Bill Hunter
, ice hockey player, general manager and coach (d.
2002
)
May 8
Barbara Howard
, sprinter (d.
2017
)
Harry Rankin
, lawyer and politician (d.
2002
)
May 9 –
Helen Nicol
, baseball player (d.
2021
)
May 25 –
Maria Gomori
, Hungarian-born psychologist (d.
2021
)
May 27 –
Peter Dmytruk
,
World War II
military hero (d.
1943
)
June 4 –
Lynda Adams
, diver (d.
1997
)
June 6 –
Jan Rubeš
, opera singer and actor (d.
2009
)
June 11 –
Qapik Attagutsiak
, Inuit elder
[
9
]
(d.
2023
)
June 14 –
Stanley Waters
, Senator (d.
1991
)
June 15 –
Sam Sniderman
, founder of the
Sam the Record Man
chain (d.
2012
)
June 24 –
Joe Greene
, politician (d.
1978
)
June 26 –
Jean-Pierre Roy
, Major League Baseball pitcher (d.
2014
)
July to December
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July 12
Pierre Berton
, author, television personality and journalist (d.
2004
)
Bob Fillion
, ice hockey player (d.
2015
)
August 2 –
Marcel Adams
, businessman (d.
2020
)
August 3 –
Lucien Lamoureux
, politician and
Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
(d.
1998
)
August 12 –
Aidan Maloney
, politician and executive (d.
2018
)
August 19 –
Agnes Benidickson
, first female chancellor of
Queen's University
at
Kingston, Ontario
(d.
2007
)
August 24 –
Alex Colville
, painter (d.
2013
)
September 4 –
Catherine Bennett
, baseball player
September 6 –
Helen Hunley
, politician (d.
2010
)
September 9 –
Joan Neiman
, senator (d.
2022
)
September 11 –
Dalton Camp
, journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator (d.
2002
)
September 26 –
Edmund Tobin Asselin
, politician (d.
1999
)
October 1 –
Charles Daudelin
, sculptor and painter (d.
2001
)
October 13 –
Evelyn Dick
, murderer
October 29 –
Bill Juzda
, ice hockey player (d.
2008
)
November 11 –
John Ferguson Browne
, politician (d.
2014
)
November 17 –
George Dunning
, Canadian-born cartoon director, animator (d.
1979
)
November 18 –
George Johnson
, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of
Manitoba
(d.
1995
)
Deaths
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January to June
February 12 –
Aurore Gagnon
, murder victim (b.
1909
)
February 16 –
Augustus F. Goodridge
, politician and Premier of
Newfoundland
(b.
1839
)
April 25 –
Alexander Grant MacKay
, teacher, lawyer and politician (b.
1860
)
June 6 –
James Dunsmuir
, industrialist, politician and Premier of
British Columbia
(b.
1851
)
June 18 –
John Macoun
, naturalist (b.
1831
)
June 27 –
Adolphe-Basile Routhier
, judge, author and lyricist (b.
1839
)
July to December
September 5 –
Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe
, second wife of
John A. Macdonald
, first
Prime Minister of Canada
(b.
1836
)
September 7 –
Simon-Napoléon Parent
, politician and Premier of
Quebec
(b.
1855
)
September 18 –
Robert Beaven
, businessman, politician and 6th
Premier of British Columbia
(b.
1836
)
September 30 –
William Wilfred Sullivan
, journalist, jurist, politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island
(b.
1843
)
November 19 –
Byron Moffatt Britton
, politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.
1833
)
December 12 –
Edward Gawler Prior
, mining engineer, politician and Premier of
British Columbia
(b.
1854
)
See also
List of Canadian films
References
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"King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia"
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www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
. Retrieved
4 December
2022
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↑
"Historically Relevant Dates to the RCMP"
. Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Archived from
the original
on 2014-06-14
. Retrieved
2018-02-12
.
↑
Indian Act
↑
Dominion Elections Act Statues of Canada C 46 S 38.
↑
"The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1920 Chronology"
.
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↑
"Dr Lou Siminovitch"
.
Prix Siminovitch
. Retrieved
August 8,
2021
.
↑
"Hometown Hero - Qapik Attagutsiak, Arctic Bay, Nunavut"
. Parks Canada. 27 January 2020
. Retrieved
29 January
2020
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