1923 in Canada

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Events from the year 1923 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Mary of Teck)

Federal government

• Governor general – Julian Byng (viceregal consort – Evelyn Byng)
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Cameron Nichol
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Albert Manning Aikins
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Pugsley (until February 28) then William Frederick Todd
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – MacCallum Grant
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry Cockshutt
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Murdock MacKinnon
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Fitzpatrick (until October 31) then Louis-Philippe Brodeur
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Herbert Greenfield
• Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Walter Foster (until February 28) then Peter Veniot
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray (until January 24) then Ernest Howard Armstrong
• Premier of Ontario – Ernest Drury (until July 16) then George Howard Ferguson
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Howatt Bell (until September 5) then James D. Stewart
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Charles Avery Dunning

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events

• January 1 - The Department of National Defence comes into being
• January 24 - Ernest Armstrong becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing George H. Murray, who had governed for 27 years
• February 28 - Peter Veniot becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Walter Foster
• April 23 - Marijuana is prohibited soon after the House of Commons passes a bill on this date that includes making marijuana illegal
• March 2 - The Halibut Treaty signed with the United States is Canada's first international treaty not signed under the auspices of the United Kingdom
• June 25 - Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Ernest Drury's United Farmers of Ontario
• July 1 - The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 comes into effect, banning all Chinese from entering Canada except for businessmen, diplomats, foreign students, and "special circumstances"
• July 16 - Howard Ferguson becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Ernest Drury
• August 17 - The Home Bank of Montreal fails
• September 5 - James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing J.H. Bell.
• October 8 - A stevedore's strike begins in Vancouver
• October 10 - Canadian National Railway#Creation of the company, 1918–1923 is formed by merger of Canadian Government Railways, Canadian Northern Railway, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, and Grand Trunk Railway
• October 25 - Frederick Banting and Charles Best win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of insulin
• October 31 - Louis-Philippe Brodeur becomes Quebec's 13th Lieutenant Governor.

Arts and literature

Music

• April 23 - The Toronto Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert.

New books

• Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery (1921)

Sports

• March 14 - World's first complete play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional ice hockey game is done by Pete Parker in Regina.
• March 22 - Foster Hewitt announces his first ice hockey game.

Births

January to March

• January 1 - Roméo Sabourin, World War II hero (d.1944)
• January 7 - Hugh Kenner, literary scholar, critic and professor (d.2003)
• January 21 - Judith Merril, science fiction writer, editor and political activist (d.1997)
• February 4 - Conrad Bain, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes) (d.2013)
• March 1 - Uno Helava, inventor
• March 2 - Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, painter
• March 4 - Stanley Haidasz, politician (d.2009)
• March 10 - Richard Doyle, journalist, editor and Senator (d.2003)
• March 15 - Laurent Desjardins, politician (d.2012)
• March 19 - Henry Morgentaler, physician and pro choice advocate (d.2013)
• March 30 - Milton Acorn, poet, writer and playwright (d.1986)

April to June

• April 7 - Aba Bayefsky, artist and teacher (d.2001)
• April 16 - Samuel Nathan Cohen, critic
• April 25 - Melissa Hayden, ballerina (d.2006)
• May 5 - John Black Aird, lawyer, politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1995)
• May 9 - Reuben Baetz, politician (d.1996)
• May 18 - Jean-Louis Roux, entertainer and playwright
• May 20 - Frank Morris, Canadian football player (d.2009)
• June 6 - Bruce Campbell, Edmonton alderman (d.2011)

July to September

• July 21 - Rudolph A. Marcus, chemist and 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
• July 31 - Victor Goldbloom, pediatrician, lecturer and politician
• August 3 - Robert Campeau, financier and real estate developer
• August 6 - Paul Hellyer, politician and commentator
• August 21 - Robert William Stewart, scientist
• September 1 - Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, businessman and art collector (d.2006)
• September 2 - David Lam, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (d.2010)
• September 18 - Bertha Wilson, jurist and first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.2007)
• September 21 - Robert Uffen, research geophysicist, professor, and university administrator (d.2009)

October to December

• October 7 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter and sculptor (d.2002)
• October 22 - Rodrigue Bourdages, politician (d.1997)
• October 22 - Norman Levine, short-story writer, novelist and poet (d.2005)
• October 23 - Réjane L. Colas, jurist
• November 1 - Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author (d.2001)
• November 2 - Harold Horwood, novelist and non-fiction writer (d.2006)
• November 11 - Donald Tolmie, politician (d.2009)
• November 22 - Arthur Hiller, film director
• December 27 - Bruno Bobak, artist (d.2012)

Full date unknown

• James Barber, cookbook author and television chef (d.2007)
• Kildare Dobbs, short story and travel writer

Deaths

January to June

• February 20 - Thomas George Roddick, surgeon, medical administrator and politician (b.1846)
• March 2 - Joseph Martin, lawyer, politician and 13th Premier of British Columbia (b.1852)
• April 25 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1840)
• June 7 - John Best, politician (b.1861)

July to December

• July 17 - John Strathearn Hendrie, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1857)
• October 2 - John Wilson Bengough, political cartoonist (b.1851)
• December 5 - William Mackenzie, railway contractor and entrepreneur (b.1849)
• December 9 - John Herbert Turner, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1834)

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