Canada-related events during the year of 1912
Events from the year 1912 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Sport
Arts and literature
Births
January to March
April to June
April 2 –
John Marlyn , writer (d.
2005 )
April 26 –
A. E. van Vogt , science fiction author (d.
2000 )
May 5 –
Louis-René Beaudoin , politician and
Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d.
1970 )
May 8 –
George Woodcock , poet, essayist, critic, biographer and historian (d.
1995 )
May 13 –
Gil Evans , jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (d.
1988 )
May 17 –
George Brown , ice hockey player
May 26 –
Jay Silverheels , actor (d.
1980 )
June 8 –
Clyde Gilmour , radio broadcaster and journalist (d.
1997 )
June 10
June 11 –
Keith R. Porter , biologist and academic (d. 1997)
July to December
June Havoc in
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
July 14 –
Northrop Frye , literary critic and literary theorist (d.
1991 )
July 17 –
Art Linkletter , television personality (d.
2010 )
August 21 –
Hugh Alexander Bryson , politician (d.
1987 )
September 21 –
Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr. , minister and librarian (d.
1989 )
October 5 –
Bora Laskin , jurist and 14th
Chief Justice of Canada (d.
1984 )
October 25
October 31 –
Graham Westbrook Rowley , arctic explorer (d. 2003)
November 8 –
June Havoc , actress (d.
2010 )
November 16 –
Richard Spink Bowles , lawyer and Lieutenant Governor of
Manitoba (d.
1988 )
December 27 –
Steve Peters , politician (d.
1976 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
Edward Blake
January to June
July to December
August 9 –
George Blewett , academic and philosopher (b.
1873 )
August 12 –
Timothy Coughlin , farmer and politician (b.
1834 )
September 24 –
Sir Richard Cartwright , businessman, politician and Minister (b.
1835 )
October 30 –
Adam Carr Bell , politician, Leader of the Opposition of Nova Scotia (b.
1847 )
November 10 –
Louis Cyr , strongman (b.
1863 )
November 26 –
Lemuel Owen , shipbuilder, banker, merchant, politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island (b.
1822 )
December 23 –
Benjamin Allen , politician (b.
1830 )
Historical documents
Residential school principal advocates replacing it with day school to preserve family ties and love that staff cannot provide
[2]
People of
Gitxsan community
Gitsegukla (B.C.) raise funds to pay their pastor's hospital bill
[3]
Pauline Johnson hears from old
klootchman how
Fraser River
sockeye salmon run once failed because
tillicum insisted great
tyee 's first child be male
[4]
Appeal for justice from speaker who asks why
Sikhs -
British subjects - are
discriminated against in Canada
[5]
Advice to Ontario
temperance campaigners on legislative, economic, criminal and personal aspects of liquor consumption
[6]
Federal Liberal Party claims false arrest of party workers aided Conservative win in
Manitoba by-election
[7]
Provincial
forest fire law in British Columbia has several sections regulating railways (construction, clearing and patrolling, fighting fires, etc.)
[8]
British
architect and
builder express importance of community over private interest in
Calgary
town planning
[9]
Advertisement:
Canadian Pacific Railway's free "Canada for Women" pamphlet describes "
opportunities for women in Canada in every branch of life"
[10]
"Cargo on the main deck was not secured" - Enquiry seeks reasons Cecilia L. wrecked when storm struck on
Lake Saint-Louis
[11]
Visitor sees huge change in
Edmonton just six years after previous visit
[12]
Careful preparation of straightaway at Calgary's Gridiron Motor Course results in
world speed record claim
[13]
Finding and preserving
duckbilled dinosaur fossil near
Drumheller , Alberta
[14]
References
^
"King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .
^ Letter of W. McWhinney (January 11, 1912), United Church of Canada Central Archives, in Denise Hildebrand,
Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 112. Accessed 9 June 2021
^ Letter of H.C. Wrinch (February 3, 1912), United Church of Canada Archives.
https://upanddownthecoast.ca/documents/ (scroll down to "Letter to Mr. Farrell;" see also
photos of Hazelton Hospital and staff) Accessed 13 November 2022
^ E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), "The Lost Salmon Run,"
Legends of Vancouver (4th Edition, 1912), pgs. 29-38 (PDF pgs. 49-58). Accessed 13 November 2022
^ Sundar Singh,
"The Sikhs In Canada" The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 112-16. Accessed 25 February 2020
^ F.S. Spence,
The Campaign Manual; 1912 Edition Accessed 25 February 2020
^ Central Information Office of the Canadian Liberal Party,
How the Macdonald By-Election Was Won; Read the Affidavits.... Publication No. 3. Accessed 25 February 2020
^ Forest Service, Province of British Columbia,
"The Forest Fire Law of British Columbia" (excerpts; 1912), British Columbia Legislative Library. Accessed 27 March 2022
^ Thomas H. Mawson, "The City of The Plain And How To Make It Beautiful," and Henry Vivian, "How to Apply Town Planning to Calgary,"
Two Notable Addresses on Town Planning and Housing Accessed 25 February 2020
^
"Canada for Women" Women's Employment, Vol. 12, No. 21 (London, U.K., November 15, 1912), pg. 19. Accessed 12 September 2022
^
"Shifting Cargo Jammed Rudder" The (Montreal) Gazette (November 23, 1912). Accessed 8 May 2021
^ "Booming Edmonton," Edmonton Capital (May 24, 1912). Accessed 25 January 2020
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Robert+George+Brett%3A+%22We+shall+not+look+upon+his+like+again%22.-a0100807304 (scroll to bottom of article)
^ John B. Jeffery and C.E. Ferguson,
"The Story of Barney Oldfield's Flight; August 10th, 1912." Accessed 25 February 2020 (See also 1913 Mack Sennett comedy short
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life )
^ Charles H. Sternberg,
Hunting Dinosaurs in the Bad Lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada (1917), pgs. 43-8. Accessed 25 February 2020
1912 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories