Canada-related events during the year of 1908
Events from the year 1908 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Full date unknown
Arts and literature
Births
January to June
January 1 –
Clarence Dunlap , Chief of the Air Staff Royal Canadian Air Force (d. 2003)
January 22 –
Sinclair Ross , banker and author (d.
1996 )
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 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Historical documents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
[2]
To
get people from "countries whose climatic conditions promise a suitable class of settlers," Canada pays bonuses to agents
[3]
Testimonials for service
Salvation Army provides for immigrants to Canada
[4]
Lecturer describes largely American and mostly male immigration to Canada
[5]
Cabinet doubles spending-money amount required of jobless, hostless immigrants
[6]
Visiting agricultural tour reports on Canadian wages and cost of living
[7]
Visiting agriculturalist thinks Maritimes agriculture has much unmet potential
[8]
Visiting agriculturalist says Quebec's new
Macdonald College will shake up "the worst farmers in Canada"
[9]
Visiting agriculturalist finds splendid fruit-growing potential in BC's Kootenay and
Okanagan valleys
[10]
Government horticulturist
W.T. Macoun advocates growing stands of trees on farms despite
older farmers' antipathy toward them
[11]
Speaker celebrates
Quebec City tercentenary , praising founders and their spirit
[12]
Brandon College principal supports right to separate religious university education
[13]
Fort McMurray fur trader introduces
visitors to her Indigenous friends
[14]
Alberta rustlers convicted, one for rustling and one for perjury (Note:
anti-Mormon comments )
[15]
Edmonton Board of Trade's guide to road and pack trail route to
Finlay River , B.C.
[16]
Midwife blows
cayenne pepper into woman's nose to induce sneezing and quick
delivery of baby
[17]
References
^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011).
Canada's Constitutional Monarchy . Dundurn. p. 235.
ISBN
978-1-55488-980-8 .
^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1908 (January 25), pgs.
6 -7. Accessed 11 February 2020
^
"Canadian Immigration" (April 29, 1908), Report of the [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization[...]1907-8, pgs. 323-4. Accessed 12 October 2020
^
"Appendix II; Voices from the West" The Surplus (1909), pgs. 80-8. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ L.P. Gravel, Canada; Its History; Its Resources; Its Development (1908), pgs.
21 -3. Accessed 11 February 2020
^
Order in Council (September 11, 1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
^
"Cost of Living" Report of the Scottish Commission on Agriculture to Canada (1908), pgs. 179-86. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ 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
^
Report of(...)the Edmonton Board of Trade on the Transportation Facilities(...)to the Peace, Finlay, and MacKenzie River Basins (June 29, 1908; unpaginated). Accessed 11 February 2020
^ 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
1908 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories