1911 in Canada

Events from the year 1911 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Federal government

• Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (until October 13) then Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
• Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier (until October 6) then Robert Borden (from October 10)
• Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
• Parliament – 11th (until 29 July) then 12th (from 15 November)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Wilson Paterson
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan (until August 1) then Douglas Colin Cameron
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Drummond McGregor
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Morison Gibson
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Benjamin Rogers
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier (until May 5) then François Langelier
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – George William Brown

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Arthur Sifton
• Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – John Douglas Hazen (until October 16) then James Kidd Flemming
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Francis Haszard (until May 16) then Herbert James Palmer (May 16 to December 2) then John Mathieson
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – Alexander Henderson (until June 1) then Arthur Wilson (acting)
• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

• January 11 – Fort Vermilion records the coldest temperature in North America at Template:Convert, holding the record until 1947.
• May 16 – James Palmer becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing F. L. Haszard
• June 14 – Nova Scotia election: George Henry Murray's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
• September 21 – Federal election: Robert Borden's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals
• October 4 – John Young Monument unveiled
• October 10 – Robert Borden becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• October 16 – James Flemming becomes Premier of New Brunswick, replacing Sir John Hazen
• December 2 – John Mathieson becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James Palmer
• December 11 – Ontario election: Sir James Whitney's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority

Sport

• November 25 – University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeated the Toronto Argonauts 14 to 7 in the 3rd Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

Full date unknown

• Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada is founded.
• Dominion Parks Branch is established, the world's first national park service, now called Parks Canada.

Arts and literature

Popular artworks

• Autumn In France by Emily Carr.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Births

Unknown date

• Stuart Trueman, journalist and writer

January to June

• January 3 – Jean Bourcier, ice hockey player
• January 27 – Blanche Meagher, diplomat
• February 3 – Robert Charboneau, writer
• March 12 – Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson, historian, educator and political activist (d.1998)
• April 22 – Alexander Bell Patterson, politician (d.1993)
• April 29 – Andrew Hill Clark, geographer
• May 11 – William Cecil Ross, politician (d.1998)
• May 11 – Mitchell Sharp, politician and Minister (d.2004)
• June 24 – Portia White, singer (d.1968)
• June 28 – Czeslaw Brzozowicz, engineer (d.1997)

July to December

• July 18 – Hume Cronyn, actor (d.2003)
• July 21 – Marshall McLuhan, educator, philosopher, and scholar (d.1980)
• August 5 – Albert Sanschagrin, Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec (d.2009)
• August 28 – Nérée Arsenault, politician
• September 18 – Helen Doan, supercentenarian (d. 2024)

Deaths

• March 11 – Théotime Blanchard, farmer, merchant and politician (b.1844)
• April 14 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, jurist and 4th Chief Justice of Canada (b.1836)
• April 29 – Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier, lawyer, militia officer, politician, publisher, judge, and the 9th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b.1837)
• November 6 – John Carling, businessman and politician (b.1828)
• December 12 – Daniel J. Greene, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b.1850)

Historical documents

With "unenviable record for deaths," residential school principal blames drafty building and its "sanitary and heating appliances"<ref>Letter of Walter McLaren (December 26, 1911), 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. 171. Accessed 10 June 2021</ref>

Henri Bourassa denounces prejudiced attacks on French Canadian nationalism<ref>Henri Bourassa, "To the English Speaking Reader" The Reciprocity Agreement and Its Consequences As Viewed from the Nationalist Standpoint (1911), pgs. I-IV. Accessed 21 February 2020</ref>

Order in Council cancels previous order prohibiting entry for one year of "any immigrant belonging to the Negro race"<ref>"Negro Immigration cancellation O.C. 1911/08/12 prohibiting - M. Int. 1911/10/04" (October 5, 1911), Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 12 November 2021</ref>

Cartoon: anti-reciprocity depiction of Johnny Canuck and Uncle Sam cutting up watermelon (Note: racial stereotypes and blackface)<ref>Newton McConnell, "Uncle Sam: 'Lemme divide tha mellion foh yo' Johnnie I'se had sperience'" (ca. 1911). Accessed 2 May 2021 https://www.picturingpolitics.com/whose-story/ (scroll down to Racism in Editorial Cartoons)</ref>

Saskatchewan premier and farmers disappointed federal election has ruled out reciprocity with U.S.A.<ref>Walter Scott, "Address to the People of Saskatchewan" (1911). Accessed 21 February 2020</ref>

Nellie McClung speaks on importance of social life in rural areas<ref>Nellie McClung, "The Importance of Social Life in Country Homes" Report of the First Annual Convention of the Homemakers' Club of Saskatchewan[....] (1911), pgs. 36-9. Accessed 21 February 2020</ref>

Fruit co-operative manager says co-ops would do better if farmers valued business methods more and self-reliance less<ref>James E. Johnson, "Co-Operative Fruit Culture; Why Co-Operation Is Not More Successful among Farmers" (February 1, 1911), Report of the [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization[;] 1910-11, pgs. 90-1. Accessed 14 October 2020</ref>

British woman fired from first au pair job on her undercover investigation of domestic work in Manitoba<ref>Ella Constance Sykes, "My First Post as a Home-Help" A Home-Help in Canada (1912), pgs. 43-52. Accessed 21 February 2020</ref>

U.S. reporter explains how church-going, law-abiding Canadians had no Wild West<ref>William E. Curtis, "Western Canada Life Free from Disorder" (September 25, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 139-42. Accessed 21 February 2020</ref>

U.S. reporter calls Quebec City economic backwater with fine sightseeing<ref>William E. Curtis, "Yankee Visitors' Dollars Help to Support Quebec" (August 22, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 11-16. Accessed 21 February 2020</ref>

Ancient farms and conservative rural ways on St. Lawrence River near Quebec City<ref>William E. Curtis, "Farm in Quebec Is Like a Ribbon, Ending at River" (August 28, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 33-7. Accessed 21 February 2020</ref>

Terrible fire does not discourage exploitation of immense mineral wealth in Timmins area of northern Ontario<ref>William E. Curtis, "Mines of Ontario Set a High Mark by Their Output" (September 5, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 77-9. Accessed 21 February 2020</ref>

Great healing powers (and products) found in Manitou Lake, near Watrous, Saskatchewan<ref>William E. Curtis, "Lake of Healing Aid in Boosting Watrous, Canada" (September 21, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 125-9. Accessed 21 February 2020</ref>

Mackenzie King falls for his ideal woman<ref>Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1911, pgs. "13-17" (one page is reproduced twice). Accessed 21 February 2020</ref>