1901 in Canada

January 22 – Death of Queen Victoria and accession of King Edward VII .
September 16 – The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) arrive in Quebec City. They visit all provinces (except Prince Edward Island) and the districts of Assiniboia and Alberta in the North-West Territories. They also visit Newfoundland before leaving North America.
December 12 — Guglielmo Marconi receives a transatlantic radio message at St. John's, Newfoundland.
December 18 — The Territorial Grain Growers' Association is founded.
December 29 — Arthur Peters becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Donald Farquharson.
First ascent of Mount Assiniboine by James Outram's party.
The 1901 Canadian census took place, having a large focus on the labour force, income, and wage class.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Arts and literatureEdit

March 22 — Gabrielle Roy, a prominent French Canadian author, was born. She would go on to become one of Canada’s most celebrated writers.
October 24 — Sheila Watson, a Canadian novelist and critic, was born. She is best known for her novel "The Double Hook".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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BirthsEdit

January to JuneEdit

January 12 — Jack Humphrey, painter (d.1967)
January 14 — Dana Porter, politician and jurist (d.1967)
January 29 — E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder (d.1989)

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Dr. W.R. Franks

February 6 — Pat Harrington Sr., actor (d. 1965)
March 4 — Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (d.1986)
March 25 — Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944 (d.1985)
April 15 — Thomas Ricketts, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient in 1918 (d.1967)
May 5 — Donald Buchanan Blue, politician

July to DecemberEdit

July 15 — James Litterick, politician
September 8 — Harold Connolly, journalist, newspaper editor, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1980)
September 12 — Ben Blue, Canadian-born comedian, actor (d. 1975)<ref name=obit>Template:Cite news</ref>
September 14 — George Carlyle Marler, politician, notary and philatelist (d.1981)
September 15 — Gweneth Lloyd, choreographer
September 22 — Charles Brenton Huggins, physician, physiologist, cancer researcher and Nobel prize laureate (d.1997)
October 14 — John Oates Bower, politician, businessman and executive (d.1981)

Full date unknownEdit

Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1989)

DeathsEdit

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George M. Dawson in May 1885.

January 22 — Victoria, Queen of Canada, since 1867 (b.1819)
March 2 — George Mercer Dawson, scientist and surveyor (b.1849)
May 4 — John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1831)
May 7 — George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick (b.1839)
June 13 — Arthur Sturgis Hardy, lawyer, politician and 4th Premier of Ontario (b.1837)

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Arthur Sturgis Hardy

July 24 — George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (b.1822)
October 25 — Colin MacDougall, politician and lawyer (b.1834)

Historical DocumentsEdit

N.W.T. premier says territories are ready for and financially need provincial powers<ref>"Haultain Roblin All Night Debate At Indian Head On Annexation To Manitoba" Regina Leader (December 26, 1901), pg. 4. Accessed 22 January 2020</ref>

Influential Liberal MP Frank Oliver objects to immigration of Slavs<ref>House of Commons debate, 9th Parliament, 1st Session (April 12, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020</ref>

Matron and helper at Indian residential school so overworked that spiritual training and teaching children "how to work" is ignored<ref>Letter of Josephine Petch (December 18, 1901), United Church of Canada Central Archives, in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 165. Accessed 9 June 2021</ref>

Manufacturing process described in huge chair factory in Owen Sound, Ontario<ref>Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902) pgs. 11-13. Accessed 22 January 2020</ref>

Mining and miners in Nanaimo, BC's booming coal industry<ref>Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 214-21. Accessed 22 January 2020</ref>

Trail, B.C. and its gold, silver and copper smelting operations described<ref>Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 251-6. Accessed 22 January 2020</ref>

Architect gives examples of good design to counter people's ill-informed criticism<ref>C.H.C. Wright, "Design in Modern Architecture," The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. XIV, No. 158 (February 1901), pgs. 40-1. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p40.gif http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p41.gif</ref>

Visitor laments various classes of loafer in British Columbia (Note: racial stereotypes)<ref>Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 155-8. Accessed 22 January 2020</ref>

Humorous character study of people in dining and smoking cars on train crossing Prairies<ref>Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 89-96. Accessed 22 January 2020</ref>

Chicken Okra à la Portugaise and other items on Chateau Frontenac menu<ref>"Chateau Frontenac; Quebec; Luncheon" (July 22, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020</ref>

ReferencesEdit

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