1908 in Canada explained
Events from the year 1908 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Full date unknown
- Anne of Green Gables is first published, having a great effect on Prince Edward Island.
- The Opium and Narcotics Act is passed banning certain drugs in Canada.
- The Grain Growers Guide is first published.
- The Child Labour Act of Ontario is passed.
- Vancouver Courier first published.
Arts and literature
Births
January to June
- February 1 – Louis Rasminsky, third Governor of the Bank of Canada (d.1998)
- February 7 – Lela Brooks, speed skater (d.1990)
- February 10 – Jean Coulthard, composer and academic (d.2000)
- March 5 – Colin Emerson Bennett, politician and lawyer (d. 1993)
- March 24 – Carl Klinck, literary historian and academic (d. 1990)
- April 7 – Percy Faith, band-leader, orchestrator and composer (d. 1976)
- May 11 – Hide Hyodo Shimizu, Japanese-Canadian educator and activist (d. 1999)
- May 19 – Percy Williams, athlete (d. 1982)
- May 26 – James Sinclair, politician, businessman and father of Margaret Sinclair, one-time wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and grandfather of Justin Trudeau (d.1984)
- May 28 – Léo Cadieux, politician (d.2005)
- June 5 – Maxwell Meighen, financier (d.1992)
- June 12 – Alphonse Ouimet, broadcaster (d. 1988)[2]
- June 18 – Stanley Knowles, politician (d.1997)
July to December
- July 11
- September 20 – Ernest Manning, Premier of Alberta (d.1996)
- October 18 – Alfred Henry Bence, politician and barrister (d.1977)
- October 24 – John Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist and geologist (d. 1993)
- October 31 – Muriel Duckworth, pacifist and social activist (d. 2009)
- November 3 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (d. 1990)
- November 10 – Charles Merritt, army officer and politician (d. 2000)
- December 6 – Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor, administrator and artistic director (d.2004)
- December 13 – W. L. Morton, historian (d.1980)
- December 23 – Yousuf Karsh, photographer (d.2002)
Deaths
January to June
July to December
Historical documents
Mackenzie King and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt discuss Japanese immigration[3]
To get people from "countries whose climatic conditions promise a suitable class of settlers," Canada pays bonuses to agents[4]
Testimonials for service Salvation Army provides for immigrants to Canada[5]
Lecturer describes largely American and mostly male immigration to Canada[6]
Cabinet doubles spending-money amount required of jobless, hostless immigrants[7]
Visiting agricultural tour reports on Canadian wages and cost of living[8]
Visiting agriculturalist thinks Maritimes agriculture has much unmet potential[9]
Visiting agriculturalist says Quebec's new Macdonald College will shake up "the worst farmers in Canada"[10]
Visiting agriculturalist finds splendid fruit-growing potential in BC's Kootenay and Okanagan valleys[11]
Government horticulturist W.T. Macoun advocates growing stands of trees on farms despite older farmers' antipathy toward them[12]
Speaker celebrates Quebec City tercentenary, praising founders and their spirit[13]
Brandon College principal supports right to separate religious university education[14]
Fort McMurray fur trader introduces visitors to her Indigenous friends[15]
Alberta rustlers convicted, one for rustling and one for perjury (Note: anti-Mormon comments)[16]
Edmonton Board of Trade's guide to road and pack trail route to Finlay River, B.C.[17]
Midwife blows cayenne pepper into woman's nose to induce sneezing and quick delivery of baby[18]
Notes and References
- Book: Tidridge . Nathan . Canada's Constitutional Monarchy . 15 November 2011 . Dundurn . 978-1-55488-980-8 . 235 . en.
- Web site: Joseph-Alphonse Ouimet. The Canadian Encyclopedia. June 18, 2024.
- Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1908 (January 25), pgs. 6-7. Accessed 11 February 2020
- https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1004_1_1/347?r=0&s=1 "Canadian Immigration"
- https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:3726006$86i "Appendix II; Voices from the West"
- L.P. Gravel, Canada; Its History; Its Resources; Its Development (1908), pgs. 21-3. Accessed 11 February 2020
- http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/frontier/financeimmigration.html Order in Council
- http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3222/181.html "Cost of Living"
- R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; The Maritime Provinces" Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pgs. 15-18. Accessed 11 February 2020
- R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; Quebec and Ontario," Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pg. 20. Accessed 11 February 2020
- R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; British Columbia," Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pgs. 23-4. Accessed 11 February 2020
- "Growing of Forest Trees in Plantations[....]" (May 7, 1908), Report of the [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization[...]1907-8, pgs. 281-2. Accessed 12 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1004_1_1/305?r=0&s=1 (scroll down to Experiments with Forest Trees)
- Adélard Turgeon, The Tercentenary of Quebec (July 29, 1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
- Archibald P. McDiarmid, The Right and Expediency of Independence in University Education (1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
- Agnes Deans Cameron, The New North; Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic (1909), pgs. 84-7. Accessed 11 February 2020
- R. Burton Deane, Mounted Police Life in Canada; A Record of Thirty-one Years' Service (1916), pgs. 292-8. Accessed 11 February 2020
- http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3168/16.html Report of(...)the Edmonton Board of Trade on the Transportation Facilities(...)to the Peace, Finlay, and MacKenzie River Basins
- Wilfred Abram Bigelow, Forceps, Fin & Feather: The Memoirs of Dr. W.A. Bigelow (1970), pg. 52 (quoted in Whitney L. Wood, Birth Pangs: Maternity, Medicine, and Feminine Delicacy in English Canada, 1867-1950 pgs. 81-2). Accessed 25 January 2020
