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Events from the year 1907 in Canada.

Incumbents[edit]

Crown[edit]

  • Monarch – Edward VII

Federal government[edit]

  • Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
  • Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
  • Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
  • Parliament – 10th

Provincial governments[edit]

Lieutenant governors[edit]

  • 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

Premiers[edit]

  • 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 governments[edit]

Commissioners[edit]

  • 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

Events[edit]

  • 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 National Park established.[1]

Full date unknown[edit]

  • 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

Births[edit]

January to June[edit]

  • January 14 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, politician (d.1985)
  • January 26 – Hans Selye, endocrinologist (d.1982)[2]
  • 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 December[edit]

  • 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)
Fay Wray – Publicity photo, ca. 1930
  • 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)[3]

Deaths[edit]

January to June[edit]

  • 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)
  • June 12 – John Waldie, politician (b.1833)

July to December[edit]

  • August 10 – James Brien, politician and physician (b.1848)
  • September 26 – Alexander Gunn, politician (b.1828)
  • October 10 – Cassie Chadwick, fraudster (b.1857)[4]
  • October 13 – Harvey William Burk, politician and farmer (b.1822)
  • November 6 – James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon (b.1834)

Historical Documents[edit]

Report that staff "minimize the dangers of infection" in "the defective sanitary condition" of many residential schools in Prairie Provinces[5]

Fallout from September 7 riot against Asian Canadians in Vancouver[6]

Opposition Leader Robert Borden's Vancouver speech on restricting East Asian immigration[7]

Mackenzie King believes workers running cooperative will learn capitalists' risks and responsibilities, thus reducing labour strife[8]

Rudyard Kipling speaks on spirit of development in Winnipeg[9]

Speech on U.S. influence on Canadian thought, habits, literature and press[10]

Local Saskatchewan debate on women's suffrage results in negative decision[11]

Western boards of trade resolutions call for state-supported hospitals[12]

Mayor of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan advocates transportation route to Hudson Bay[13]

Stinkers, mortal terror, and common enemy: automobile issues in Nova Scotia[14]

McGill University principal on place of classical studies in modern education[15]

Article on inner workings of Marconi wireless telegraph station[16]

Minister and three other rowers survive ice and huge waves in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland[17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Jasper National Park Is The Most Beautiful Place In Canada". All That's Interesting. 5 January 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Dr Hans Selye". home.cc.umanitoba.ca. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé". The Canadian Encyclopedia. April 25, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
  4. ^ "CHADWICK, CASSIE L." case.edu. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  5. ^ 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 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3024/21.html
  6. ^ "Vancouver's Agitation for Exclusion of Asiatics," Victoria Daily Colonist (September 13, 1907). Accessed 4 February 2020 http://webarchive.bac-lac.gc.ca:8080/wayback/20120413130850/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/immigrants/021017-2422.01-e.html
  7. ^ "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 http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4313209?n=5&s=4
  8. ^ "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 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1003_2_1/95?r=0&s=1
  9. ^ "Address by Rudyard Kipling to the Canadian Club; Winnipeg; 2nd October, 1907" Accessed 5 February 2020 https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll8/id/1055378
  10. ^ J. Castell Hopkins, "Continental Influences in Canadian Development" (February 28, 1907), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 228-43. Accessed 5 February 2020 http://speeches.empireclub.org/62237/data?n=1
  11. ^ "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 http://library2.usask.ca/sni/stories/beg13.html Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ 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
  13. ^ 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 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3018/11.html
  14. ^ 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)
  15. ^ W. Peterson, "The Claims of Classical Studies in Modern Education," Canadian Essays and Addresses (1915), pgs. 287-303. Accessed 5 February 2020 http://www.archive.org/stream/canadianessaysad00peteuoft/
  16. ^ "Interior Description of the Operator's Room at Marconi Wireless Station, Morien," Sydney (N.S.) Daily Post (October 16, 1907). Accessed 5 February 2020 http://marconi100.ca/clip/marconi-sydpost19071016.html Archived 2019-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ 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")