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Events from the year 1907 in Canada.
IncumbentsEdit
CrownEdit
- Monarch – Edward VII<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Federal governmentEdit
- Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
- Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
- Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
- Parliament – 10th
Provincial governmentsEdit
Lieutenant governorsEdit
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – James Dunsmuir
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball (until February 24) then Lemuel John Tweedie (from March 6)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Duncan Cameron Fraser
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget
PremiersEdit
- Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
- Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
- Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
- Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie (until March 6) then William Pugsley (March 6 to May 31) then Clifford William Robinson
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
- Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
- Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott
Territorial governmentsEdit
CommissionersEdit
- Commissioner of Yukon – John T. Lithgow (acting) (until June 17) then Alexander Henderson
- Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin (from June 17)
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White
EventsEdit
- March 6 – William Pugsley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Lemuel John Tweedie
- May 24 – Boer War Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
- May 30 – King Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Alberta
- May 31 – Clifford Robinson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing William Pugsley
- August 24 – Part of the under-construction Quebec Bridge collapses in Quebec City killing 75 construction workers and injuring 11.
- September 7
- An anti-Asian riot in Vancouver attacks Chinatown
- Alexander Grant MacKay is elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
- September 14 – Jasper Forest ParkTemplate:Snd later named Jasper National ParkTemplate:Snd is established.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Full date unknownEdit
- The National Council for Women demands "equal pay for equal work"
- The world's first rotary telephone came into use at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
- The first Sobeys opens in Stellarton, Nova Scotia
BirthsEdit
January to JuneEdit
- January 14 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, politician (d.1985)
- January 26 – Hans Selye, endocrinologist (d.1982)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- February 9 – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, geometer (d.2003)
- March 20 – Hugh MacLennan, author and professor of English (d.1990)
- March 24 – Paul Sauvé, lawyer, soldier, politician and 17th Premier of Quebec (d.1960)
- April 16 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor, businessman and founder of Bombardier Inc. (d.1964)
- April 17 – Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger, politician (d.1989)
July to DecemberEdit
- July 6 – George Stanley, historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant and designer of the current Canadian flag (d.2002)
- August 5 – Herman Linder, rodeoist
- August 24 – Alfred Belzile, politician and farmer
- September 3 – Andrew Brewin, lawyer and politician (d.1983)
- September 15 – Fay Wray, actress (d.2004)
- October 20 – Carl Goldenberg, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator (d.1996)
- November 19 – Frederick Thomas Armstrong, politician (d.1990)
- November 21 – Christie Harris, children's author (d.2002)
- December 12 – Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé, pianist, soprano and teacher (d.2007)<ref name=CEntry>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
UnknownEdit
- Edythe Shuttleworth, mezzo-soprano (d.1983)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
DeathsEdit
January to JuneEdit
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- January 1 – William Pearce Howland, politician (b.1811)
- January 25 – Andrew George Blair, politician and 6th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1844)
- January 31 – Timothy Eaton, businessman and founder of Eaton's (b.1834)
- March 3 – Oronhyatekha, Mohawk physician and scholar (b.1841)
- March 8 – Edward Cochrane, politician (b.1834)
- March 20 – Louis Adolphe Billy, politician and lawyer (b.1834)
- April 6 – William Henry Drummond, poet (b.1854)
- May 24 – Frederick William Lewis, politician.
- June 12 – John Waldie, politician (b.1833)
July to DecemberEdit
- August 10 – James Brien, politician and physician (b.1848)
- September 26 – Alexander Gunn, politician (b.1828)
- October 10 – Cassie Chadwick, fraudster (b.1857)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- October 13 – Harvey William Burk, politician and farmer (b.1822)
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>
ReferencesEdit
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