1922 in Canada

Events from the year 1922 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

Federal government

• Governor General – Julian Byng
• Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Louis Henry Davies (Prince Edward Island)
• Parliament – 14th (from 8 March)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Cameron Nichol
• 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 – Henry Cockshutt
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Murdock MacKinnon
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Fitzpatrick
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Herbert Greenfield
• Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
• Premier of Manitoba – Tobias Norris (until August 8) then John Bracken
• 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 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – William Melville Martin (until April 5) then Charles Avery Dunning

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events

• January 1 – British Columbia changes from driving on the left to the right
• January 11 – The world's first insulin treatment is made at the Toronto General Hospital. The successful technique would later win a Nobel Prize for its creators, Frederick Banting and Charles Best.
• April 5 – Charles Dunning becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing William Martin
• May 3 – The women of Prince Edward Island win the right to vote
• July – Rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle is designed and made by rodeo cowboy and saddle maker Earl Bascom at the Bascom Ranch, Lethbridge, Alberta
• August 8 – John Bracken becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Tobias Norris
• September 15 – Prime Minister Mackenzie King refuses to support the British in the Chanak Affair, asserting foreign policy independence for the first time
• October 9 – Prairie Bible College opens with eight students in Three Hills, Alberta
• October 22 – Dante Monument unveiled in Montreal
• December 1 – New Brunswick changes from driving on the left to the right
• December 5 – The land around Vimy Ridge is given to Canada by France in gratitude for the Canadian sacrifices during World War I

Full date unknown

• Montreal Clock Tower completed
• The first licences for private commercial radio stations are issued

Sport

• March 20–22 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Fort William War Veterans win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 8 to 7 in a two-game aggregate played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
• March 28 – The NHL's Toronto St. Pats win their first Stanley Cup by defeating the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2. The deciding game was played at Toronto's Arena Gardens
• December 2 – Queen's University win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Elks 13 to 1 in the 10th Grey Cup played at Kingston's Richardson Memorial Stadium

Arts and literature

• Nanook of the North is released, the first film to be called a documentary

Births

January to June

• January 21
• Lincoln Alexander, politician and 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d. 2012)
• Rhoda Wurtele and Rhona Wurtele (d. 2020), skiers
• February 13 – Fred E. Soucy, politician (d. 1993)
• February 18 – J. Keith Fraser, physical geographer
• February 25
• Molly Bobak, teacher, writer, printmaker and painter (d. 2015)
• Molly Reilly, aviator (d. 1980)
• April 3 – Maurice Riel, senator (d. 2007)
• April 7 – Nancy Mackay, athlete (d. 2016)
• April 24 – Philip Givens, politician, judge and Mayor of Toronto (d. 1995)
• April 26 – Jeanne Sauvé, politician and first female Governor General of Canada (d. 1993)
• April 28 – Daryl Seaman, businessman (d. 2009)
• May 2 – Alastair Gillespie, businessman and politician (d. 2018)
• May 2 – A. M. Rosenthal, columnist and newspaper editor (d. 2006)
• May 3 – Jeanne Landry, composer, pianist and teacher (d. 2011)
• May 26 – Lorraine Monk, photographer (d. 2020)
• June 9 – Fernand Seguin, biochemist, professor and television host (d. 1988)
• June 11 – Erving Goffman, sociologist and writer (d. 1982)
• June 22 – Richard Vollenweider, limnologist (d. 2007)

July to September

• July 1 – Derek Riley, rower (d. 2018)
• July 5 – Doris Margaret Anderson, nutritionist and politician (d. 2022)
• July 13 – Ken Mosdell, ice hockey player (d. 2006)
• July 14
• Bill Millin, piper (d. 2010)
• Gerald Myrden, businessman (d. 2016)
• July 16 – Augustin Brassard, politician (d. 1971)
• July 18 – Harry Kermode, basketball player (d. 2009)
• July 23 – Jenny Pike, WWII servicewoman and photographer (d. 2004)
• July 30 – Jack McClelland, publisher (d. 2004)
• August 7 – Helmut Kallmann, historian (d. 2012)
• August 11 – Mavis Gallant, writer (d. 2014)
• August 24 – René Lévesque, politician, Minister and 23rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
• September 1 – Yvonne De Carlo, actress, dancer and singer (d. 2007)
• September 3 – Salli Terri, singer, arranger, recording artist and songwriter (d. 1996)
• September 16 – Alex Barris, actor and writer (d. 2004)

October to December

• October 9 – Léon Dion, political scientist (d. 1997)
• October 17 – Pierre Juneau, politician and film and broadcast executive (d. 2012)
• November 12 – Charlotte MacLeod, writer (d. 2005)
• December 3 – Muriel Millard, actress, dancer, painter, singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• December 11 – Pauline Jewett, politician and educator (d. 1992)
• December 22 – Percy Smith, barrister, lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
• December 25 – Steve Wochy, ice hockey player

Full date unknown

• Milt Harradence, lawyer, pilot, politician and judge (d. 2008)
• Hilda Watson, leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (d. 1997)

Deaths

• January 26 – Robert Beith, politician (b. 1843)
• February 4 – Joe Fortes, lifeguard (b. 1863)
• April 12 – Robert Boston, politician (b. 1836)
• May 23 – Robert Franklin Sutherland, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1859)
• July 22 – Sara Jeannette Duncan, author and journalist (b. 1861)
• August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone (b. 1847)
• December 3 – William Proudfoot, politician and barrister (b. 1859)

See also

• List of Canadian films

References