1906 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1906 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 1 – Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal
January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
March 27 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
April 30 – The Ottawa Public Library opens
May 7 – Ontario Hydro created
May 23 – Regina decreed capital of Saskatchewan
June 24 – Octave Crémazie Monument unveiled
August 26 – Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Saskatchewan
The Revillon Frères trading post opens at Fort Saint John, British Columbia, as competition against the Hudson's Bay Company
August 28 – Treaty 10 is signed.

February 23 – Tommy Burns becomes the First Canadian to be Boxing's Heavyweight champion by defeating Marvin Hart

January 15 – Edna Staebler, author (d. 2006)
January 27 – Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (d.1987)
January 29 – Joe Primeau, ice hockey player (d.1989)
February 14 – Roland Beaudry, politician, journalist, publicist and publisher (d.1964)
March 10 – Lionel Bertrand, politician, journalist and newspaper editor (d.1979)
May 15 – Robert Methven Petrie, astronomer (d.1966)
May 16 – Alfred Pellan, painter (d.1988)
June 22 – Stanley Fox, politician (d.1984)
June 26 – Marian Scott, painter
July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic and politician (d. 1992)
September 24 – Leonard Marsh, social scientist and professor (d.1983)
November 20 – John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (d.1996)
December 16 – Barbara Kent, Canadian actress

February 2 – Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (b.1823)
March 31 – James McIntyre, poet (b.1828)
April 12 – Robert Thorburn, merchant, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1836)
May 3 – Peter White, politician (b.1838)
May 19 – Gabriel Dumont, Metis leader (b.1837)
June 9 – William Carpenter Bompas, Church of England clergyman, bishop and missionary (b.1834)
June 11 – Hector-Louis Langevin, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1826)
October 7 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (b.1848)

Reconciling Dominion Lands Act rules on homesteading and traditional Doukhobor communal practice is complicated by poverty, religious freedom and squatting.^[2]
Rugby School lecture gives somewhat fantastic and imperial picture of life in Canada for immigrant Englishman^[3]
Hardships and success of Barr Colony settlers at Lloydminster, Saskatchewan^[4]
British printers complain of being tricked into breaking Winnipeg strike^[5]
Save Manitoba elk and moose from "the white man's lust for killing"^[6]