1917 in Canada

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1917
in
Canada

Decades:
See also:

Events from the year 1917 in Canada.

Incumbents[edit]

Crown[edit]

Federal government[edit]

Provincial governments[edit]

Lieutenant governors[edit]

Premiers[edit]

Territorial governments[edit]

Commissioners[edit]

Elections[edit]

Provincial

Federal

Events[edit]

January to June[edit]

July to December[edit]

Arts and literature[edit]

Sport[edit]

Births[edit]

January to June[edit]

July to December[edit]

Full date unknown[edit]

Deaths[edit]

January to June[edit]

July to December[edit]

Mackenzie Bowell

Historical documents[edit]

Army chaplain explains why Canadians should reject peace offers at this time[5]

Woman recalls being six-year-old in family caught in Halifax Explosion[6]

Victoria Cross citation for Ukrainian-Canadian soldier's bravery in battle[7]

Battle of Vimy Ridge described by Canadian signalman observing battlefront[8]

Amputee says horrors of Somme fighting worse than losing his arm there[9]

Recuperating Canadian soldier describes birdsong, currant and hawthorn blossoms and other beauties of spring in England[10]

Frontline doctor treats (and changes mind of) German prisoner of war[11]

Letter of thanks from soldier receiving socks, saying all intend to see war won[12]

Letter of thanks from soldier receiving socks, describing Christmas dinner[13]

International planning consultant advises against special programs to set up returning soldiers in agriculture[14]

Profile of Medicine Hat, Alta. branch of Great War Veterans Association[15]

"That woman suffrage will help the cause of Temperance is shown by the following facts"[16]

In inaugural address, President Wilson says U.S.A. cannot be independent of war, but is not part of it[17]

American upset over Canadian hostility to U.S. non-participation in World War I[18]

Poster for U.S. vs Canada charity baseball game in London, U.K.[19]

Prosecution's opening statement in trial of Inuk for murder on Coppermine River[20]

Modern conveniences would save farm women from lifting tons of water a day[21]

"The increase of fibre decreases digestibilty" - Ontario Agricultural College researcher on limited usefulness of whole-wheat flour[22]

Calgary mayor agrees that door-to-door distribution of flyers for birth control play should be prohibited[23]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ "About the Court – Full History". Tax Court of Canada. Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  3. ^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Weather Extremes for the Western States
  4. ^ Loren Ruth Lerner; Mary F. Williamson (1 January 1991). Art Et Architecture Au Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 753. ISBN 978-0-8020-5856-0.
  5. ^ Rev. C.W. Gordon, "Stripped to the Skin," Canadian Club, Ottawa, January 23, 1917. Accessed 13 March 2020 http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/gordon/Website/Box%2021/Folder%2013/thumbnails.shtml (scroll down to "Stripped")
  6. ^ Jean Holder, "Halifax Explosion" (December 6, 1985). Accessed 13 March 2020 (See also Views of the Halifax Catastrophe including photos of Chebucto School)
  7. ^ Corporal Filip Konowal. Accessed 13 March 2020 http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205019047 (scroll down to Object description)
  8. ^ Letter of Harold E. Panabaker (May 17, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020
  9. ^ Letter of James Hepburn, Jr. (January 10, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020
  10. ^ Letter of Thomas William Johnson (May 11, 1917). Accessed 3 March 2020
  11. ^ Letter of Harold W. McGill (May 28, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020
  12. ^ Letter of J. MacLachlan (September 23, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020 http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/maclachlan-j-letter-23-september-1917 http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/maclachlan-j-letter-23-september-1917-0
  13. ^ Letter of R.C. Beswick (December 27, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020 http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/beswick-rc-letter-27-december-1917 http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/beswick-rc-letter-27-december-1917-0 http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/beswick-rc-letter-27-december-1917-1
  14. ^ Thomas Adams, "Chapter VIII; Returned Soldiers and Land Settlement" Rural Planning and Development (1917), pgs. 207-17 Accessed 6 December 2019
  15. ^ Great War Veterans Association, Calgary Branch, "Medicine Hat G.W.V.A." G.W.V.A. Year Book, 1919, pg. 231. Accessed 13 March 2020
  16. ^ Isabel R. Erichsen Brown, "Equal Franchise and Temperance" (Toronto, January 1917), National Union of Woman Suffrage Societies of Canada. Accessed 2 May 2021 https://www.picturingpolitics.com/miss-representation/ (scroll down to Swaying the Public)
  17. ^ Woodrow Wilson, Second Inaugural Address (March 5, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020
  18. ^ Letter of Mrs. Harry Sharp (January 5, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020 http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/gordon/Website/Box%2021/Folder%2011/thumbnails.shtml (scroll down to Sharp; note: writer misdated letter 1916)
  19. ^ "BaseBall." Accessed 3 May 2021
  20. ^ "Address of C.C. McCaul, K.C....before the Hon. Chief Justice Harvey and a Jury, at Edmonton, Alberta; August 14th, 1917." Accessed 13 March 2020
  21. ^ [Lethbridge Herald article reprints,] "Water Supply and the Farmer's Wife; Lifting a Ton of Water a Day" More and Better Water For Our Farms and Rural Communities; Report of a Conference[...]at Lethbridge, Alberta, on June 22nd, 1917 (unpaginated). Accessed 13 March 2020
  22. ^ Evidence of Prof. R. Harcourt, "Evidence Given before the [Senate] Standing Committee on Public Health and Inspection of Foods on the Subject of Whole Wheat Bread," pgs. 57-9. Accessed 5 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_SOC_1207_1_1/61?r=0&s=1 (scroll to bottom of page)
  23. ^ Letters of Rev. Dr. J.T. Ferguson and Mayor Michael Copps Costello (August 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020