1923 in Canada

See also: 1922 in Canada, other events of 1923, 1924 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• January 1 - The Department of National Defence comes into being
• January 24 - Ernest Armstrong becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing George Murray, who had governed for 27 years
• February 28 - Peter Veniot becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Walter Foster
• 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
• March 22 - Foster Hewitt announces his first hockey game
• June 25 - Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Ernest Drury's United Farmers of Ontario
• July 1 - Almost all Chinese immigration to Canada is ended by the federal government
• July 16 - Howard Ferguson becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Ernest Drury
• August 17 - The Home Bank of Montreal fails
• October 8 - A longshoreman's stike beigns in Vancouver
• October 25 - Frederick Banting and John Macleod win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of insulin
• September 5 - James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing J. H. Bell
• Canadian National Railway is formed by merger of Canadian Government Railways, Canadian Northern Railway, Grand Trunk Railway and National Transcontinental Railway.
• Marijuana is made illegal in Canada

Arts and literature

New books

• Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery

Births

• January 1 - Roméo Sabourin, war hero
• March 1 - Uno Helava, inventor
• March 2 - Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, painter
• March 10 - Richard Doyle, newspaper editor
• March 19 - Henry Morgentaler, abortion activist
• March 30 - Milton Acorn, poet
• April 25 - Melissa Hayden, dancer
• May 18 - Jean-Louis Roux, actor
• August 21 - Robert Stewart, scientist
• September 18 - Bertha Wilson, Supreme Court Justice
• October 7 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter
• October 23 - Réjane L. Colas, jurist
• November 22 - Arthur Hiller, film director
• Samuel Nathan Cohen, critic
• Kildare Dobbs , writer
• Harold Horwood, writer

Deaths

• October 30 - Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister