1907 in Canada

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Events from the year 1907 in Canada.

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Fay Wray – Publicity photo, ca. 1930

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Historical documentsEdit

Report that staff "minimize the dangers of infection" in "the defective sanitary condition" of many residential schools in Prairie Provinces<ref>Peter H. Bryce, "The Health of the Pupils of the Industrial and Boarding Schools" Report on the Indian Schools of Manitoba and the North-West Territories (1907), pgs. 17-21 plus tables. Accessed 4 February 2020</ref>

Newspaper covers "not too favorable a report" issued by Dr. Peter Bryce, concluding "vigorous action cannot be long delayed"<ref>"Indian Schools Deal Out Death" The (Victoria, B.C.) Daily Colonist, Vol. XCVII, No. 137 (November 16, 1907), pg. 1. Accessed 29 September 2021</ref>

Missing residential school boys are forced to run back with arms tied, and church committee advises against that to avoid cruelty complaints<ref>"Report of Committee appointed to enquire into the complaints made by the Indian Department against the Crowstand Indian School" (August 8, 1907), in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 243. Accessed 10 June 2021</ref>

Fallout from September 7 riot against Asian Canadians in Vancouver<ref>"Vancouver's Agitation for Exclusion of Asiatics" Victoria Daily Colonist (September 13, 1907). Accessed 4 February 2020</ref>

Opposition Leader Robert Borden's Vancouver speech on restricting East Asian immigration<ref>"Speech (in Part) Delivered by Mr. R.L. Borden at Vancouver, 24th September 1907" The Question of Oriental Immigration; Speeches (in Part) Delivered by R.L. Borden, M.P.; In 1907 and 1908, pgs. 3-9. Accessed 5 February 2020</ref>

Mackenzie King believes workers running cooperative will learn capitalists' risks and responsibilities, thus reducing labour strife<ref>"Minutes of Evidence" (March 12, 1907), Reports of the Special Committee of the House of Commons [on] Industrial and Co-Operative Societies, pgs. 79-80. Accessed 9 October 2020</ref>

Rudyard Kipling speaks on spirit of development in Winnipeg<ref>"Address by Rudyard Kipling to the Canadian Club; Winnipeg; 2nd October, 1907" Accessed 5 February 2020</ref>

Photo and text: Winnipeg Beach, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba<ref>"A Day with a Camera at Winnipeg Beach" and "Situated on Lake Winnipeg" (1907), British Library. Accessed 23 December 2021</ref>

Speech on U.S. influence on Canadian thought, habits, literature and press<ref>J. Castell Hopkins, "Continental Influences in Canadian Development" (February 28, 1907), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 228-43. Accessed 5 February 2020</ref>

Local Saskatchewan debate on women's suffrage results in negative decision<ref>"No Votes For The Women; Such Was The Burden Of Argument In Nutana-Floral Debate" Saskatoon Phoenix (February 11, 1907), pg. 2. Accessed 5 February 2020</ref>

Western boards of trade resolutions call for state-supported hospitals<ref>Associated Boards of Trade of Western Canada, Memorandum of Resolutions to Be Presented at the Fourth Annual Convention[....] (1907), pgs. 26-7, 58-60. Accessed 5 February 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3018/30.html http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3018/62.html</ref>

Mayor of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan advocates transportation route to Hudson Bay<ref>Associated Boards of Trade of Western Canada, Memorandum of Resolutions to Be Presented at the Fourth Annual Convention.... (1907), pg. 7. Accessed 5 February 2020</ref>

Stinkers, mortal terror, and common enemy: automobile issues in Nova Scotia<ref>Excerpts from New Glasgow Eastern Chronicle (various dates, 1907). Accessed 5 February 2020 http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/automobiles.html (scroll down to 1907)</ref>

McGill University principal on place of classical studies in modern education<ref>W. Peterson, "The Claims of Classical Studies in Modern Education" Canadian Essays and Addresses (1915), pgs. 287-303. Accessed 5 February 2020</ref>

Article on inner workings of Marconi wireless telegraph station<ref>"Interior Description of the Operator's Room at Marconi Wireless Station, Morien," Sydney (N.S.) Daily Post (October 16, 1907). Accessed 5 February 2020 {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Minister and three other rowers survive ice and huge waves in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland<ref>Diaries of Reverend Robert Samuel Smith (Part 2). Accessed 5 February 2020 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cannf/nd_diary2.htm (scroll down to "JUNE 6")</ref>

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