Canada-related events during the year of 1922
Events from the year 1922 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Full date unknown
Sport
Arts and literature
Births
January to June
January 21
February 13 –
Fred E. Soucy , politician
February 18 –
J. Keith Fraser , physical geographer
February 25
April 3 –
Maurice Riel , senator (d.
2007 )
April 7 –
Nancy Mackay , athlete (d.
2016 )
April 24 –
Philip Givens , politician, judge and Mayor of
Toronto (d.
1995 )
April 26 –
Jeanne Sauvé , politician and first female
Governor General of Canada (d.
1993 )
[3]
April 28 –
Daryl Seaman , businessman (d.
2009 )
May 2 –
Alastair Gillespie , businessman and politician (d.
2018 )
May 2 –
A. M. Rosenthal , columnist and newspaper editor (d.
2006 )
May 3 –
Jeanne Landry , composer, pianist and teacher (d.
2011 )
May 26 –
Lorraine Monk , photographer (d.
2020 )
June 9 –
Fernand Seguin , biochemist, professor and television host (d.
1988 )
June 11 –
Erving Goffman , sociologist and writer (d.
1982 )
June 22 –
Richard Vollenweider , limnologist (d.
2007 )
July to September
July 1 –
Derek Riley , rower (d.
2018 )
July 5 –
Doris Margaret Anderson , nutritionist and politician (d.
2022 )
July 13 –
Ken Mosdell , ice hockey player (d.
2006 )
July 14
July 16 –
Augustin Brassard , politician (d.
1971 )
July 18 –
Harry Kermode , basketball player (d.
2009 )
July 23 –
Jenny Pike , WWII servicewoman and photographer (d.
2004 )
July 30 –
Jack McClelland , publisher (d.
2004 )
August 7 –
Helmut Kallmann , historian (d.
2012 )
August 11 –
Mavis Gallant , writer (d.
2014 )
August 24 –
René Lévesque , politician, Minister and 23rd
Premier of Quebec (d.
1987 )
September 1 –
Yvonne De Carlo , actress, dancer and singer (d.
2007 )
September 3 –
Salli Terri , singer, arranger, recording artist and songwriter (d.
1996 )
September 16 –
Alex Barris , actor and writer (d.
2004 )
October to December
October 9 –
Léon Dion , political scientist (d.
1997 )
October 17 –
Pierre Juneau , politician and film and broadcast executive (d.
2012 )
November 12 –
Charlotte MacLeod , writer (d.
2005 )
December 3 –
Muriel Millard , actress, dancer, painter, singer-songwriter (d.
2014 )
December 11 –
Pauline Jewett , politician and educator (d.
1992 )
December 22 –
Percy Smith , barrister, lawyer and politician (d.
2009 )
December 25 –
Steve Wochy , ice hockey player
Full date unknown
Deaths
See also
Historical documents
With words like "hypocrisy" and "criminal disregard,"
Peter Bryce outlines his efforts to end government inaction on Indigenous health
[4]
Letter criticizes failure to assist homeless
veterans in
Montreal
[5]
Dominion Veterans' Alliance calls for no fishing licences to "Orientals" (unless veterans of France) and exclusion of "alien Asiatics"
[6]
Observations of artist
Mary Riter Hamilton , returned from
painting tour of First World War battlefields
[7]
"A stalwart
peasant in a sheep-skin coat, born on the soil,[...]is good quality" -
Clifford Sifton 's
idea of good choices for agricultural immigration
[8]
Sifton speaks on Canada's
conflicted status as both sovereign country and British dominion
[9]
Tight money causes U.S. farmers to consider Canada
[10]
Call for return of
Wheat Board to help near-bankrupt western farmers forced to sell wheat below world price
[11]
B.C.
MP claims canneries favour
Japanese Canadians to exclusion of whites, but cannery president says whites are just lazy
[12]
First human
insulin trial on
young diabetes patient is encouraging
[13]
Article about
Jews who made Quebec "the cradle of Jewish political emancipation in the British Empire"
[14]
Sen.
Raoul Dandurand advises colleagues to keep
Senate
non-partisan , without "victors and vanquished"
[15]
At its founding convention,
Canadian Trotskyite tells
Workers Party of Canada it will unify labour for
international revolution
[16]
Call for women to fight
capitalism , "the home-wrecker"
[17]
Premier details origins and successes of
prohibition in Ontario
[18]
Article reports activities of arsonist ghost in Antigonish County,
Nova Scotia
[19]
Mysterious wreck in upper St. Lawrence River may be British warship
[20]
References
^
"King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .
^
"CBC/Radio-Canada – Our History – 1920–1939" .
CBC.ca . Archived from
the original on 2012-03-01. Retrieved 2012-03-04 .
^
"Jeanne Sauvé | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 29 January 2021 .
^ P.H. Bryce,
The Story of a National Crime (1922). Accessed 9 June 2021
^ Leslie M. Roberts,
"Poppy Day 'Poppy Cock'" The Axe; A Journal of Action against Reaction, No. 4 (February 3, 1922), pg. 3. Accessed 17 April 2020
^
"Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence" (April 26, 1922), Pensions, Soldiers' Insurance and Re-Establishment; Proceedings of the [House] Special Committee[....], pg. 177. Accessed 15 October 2020 (See also Commons debate citing
calls for "oriental exclusion" from Retail Merchants' Association of Canada, Great War Veterans Association, Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and United Farmers of British Columbia)
^ "Mary Riter Hamilton: Traces of War," Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 17 April 2020
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/mary-riter-hamilton/Pages/introduction.aspx (click on each of the Thematic Galleries)
^ Clifford Sifton,
"The Immigrants Canada Wants" Maclean's (April 1, 1922). Accessed 8 January 2023
^ Clifford Sifton, "The Political Status of Canada; Address before the Canadian Club of Ottawa; April 8, 1922. Accessed 21 April 2020
http://www.archive.org/details/politicalstatuso00siftuoft (note: pgs. 2-3 missing)
^
"Canada Lands Attractive to U.S. Farmers" The (Edmonton) Morning Bulletin (January 27, 1922), pg. 1. Accessed 21 April 2020
^
"Minutes of Evidence" (April 6, 1922), [House Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization; Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence, pgs. 5. Accessed 15 October 2020
^
"Minutes of Evidence" (April 21, 1922), Official Report of Evidence Taken by the Marine and Fisheries Committee of the House[,] Respecting Fisheries of British Columbia, pgs. 6, 17-18. Accessed 15 October 2020
^
"Work on Diabetes Shows Progress against Disease" (Toronto) Star Weekly (January 14, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020
^
"When Quebec Led the World" Montreal Daily Star (December 16, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020
^
Raoul Dandurand (March 14, 1922) Senate Debates, 14th Parliament, 1st Session: Vol. 1, pgs. 15-16. Accessed 8 November 2020
^
Maurice Spector address taken from The Worker (March 15, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020
^ Florence Custance,
"Women and The New Age" The Worker (May 1, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020
^ E.C. Drury,
"Prohibition in the Province of Ontario" International Convention; The World League Against Alcoholism; Toronto, Canada; November 24th-29th, 1922. Accessed 21 April 2020
^ Harold B. Whidden,
"My Experiences at the MacDonald Homestead" (1922). Accessed 22 April 2020
^
"Sunken Craft Still Visible" Daily (Kingston, Ont.) British Whig (November 20, 1922). Accessed 22 April 2020
1922 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories