1910 in Canada

Prime Ministers Robert Borden and Wilfrid Laurier. At the time of this photo, Laurier was Prime Minister of Canada, and Borden was Leader of the Opposition.

Events from the year 1910 in Canada.

Events

• January 3 - Happiness and contentment are found from one end of Canada to the other - headline in London Times (page 5)
• January 10 - The Laurier government introduces the Naval Service Bill creating a Canadian navy to great controversy. The bill would end up alienating most of Laurier supporters, and lead to his defeat in the 1911 election.
• January 10 - Le Devoir first published
• January 21 - A train wreck in Webbwood, near Sudbury, kills 42
• March 5 - 65 are killed in an avalanche in Rogers Pass
• May 4 - The Royal Canadian Navy is created after the Naval Service Bill passes
• May 6 - King Edward VII dies and is succeeded by George V
• May 26 - Arthur Sifton becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Alexander Rutherford
• July 31 - British murderer Dr. Crippen is caught in Quebec City
• December 9 - a coal mine explosion at Bellevue, Alberta kills 31

Arts and literature

New Books

• Anne of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Ednyfed Fychan - William Williams
• Practical Political Economy - Stephen Leacock

Births

January to June

• February 2 - Andrew McKeller, astrophysicist
• February 5 - Charles Philippe Leblond, pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research (d. 2007)
• February 27 - Robert Bryce, civil servant (d. 1997)
• May 4 - Arsène Gagné, Quebec politician (d. 1964)
• May 30 - Keir Clark, Prince Edward Island politician (d. 2010)
• June 17 - George Hees, politician and minister (d. 1996)
• June 26 - Munroe Bourne, swimmer (d. 1992)

July to December

James Coyne

• July 2 – Lorne Carr, hockey player (d. 2007)
• July 17 - James Coyne, second Governor of the Bank of Canada
• July 19 - Jean Wilson, speed-skater
• July 29 - Norman Fawcett, politician (d. 1997)
• August 13 - Gwendolyn Ringwood, playwright
• August 18 - Robert Winters, politician and businessman (d. 1969)
• August 25 - Ruby Keeler, actress, singer and dancer (d. 1993)
• August 26 - Jessie Gray, surgeon (d. 1978)
• September 10 - Harry Thode, geochemist, nuclear chemist and academic administrator (d. 1997)
• September 21 - Anne Wilkinson, poet (d. 1961)
• October 8 - Ray Lewis, track and field athlete, Olympic bronze medalist, first Canadian-born black Olympic medalist (d. 2003)
• October 13 – Otto Joachim, German-born composer (d. 2010)
• October 21 - Pauline Mills McGibbon, politician and 22nd Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario (d. 2001)
• October 27 – Jack Carson, actor (d. 1963)
• November 14 - Michael Starr, politician and first Canadian cabinet minister of Ukrainian descent (d. 2000)

Full date unknown

• James Cameron, writer
• Al Clouston, storyteller, humourist and author (d. 2004)
• Leo Landreville, politician and judge implicated in the Northern Ontario Natural Gas scandal (d. 1996)

Deaths

• February 2 – George Murdoch, politician and 1st mayor of Calgary (b.1850)
• February 9 – George Barnard Baker, lawyer, politician and Senator (b.1834)
• February 15 – Joseph-Élisée Beaudet, businessman and politician (b.1834)
• February 26 – Adelaide Hoodless, educational reformer who founded the Women's Institute (b.1857)
• May 6 – King Edward VII, King of Canada (b.1841)
• June 7 – Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist (b.1823)
• June 9 – Charles Braithwaite, politician and agrarian leader (b.1850)
• September 2 – Hector Fabre, lawyer, journalist, diplomat and senator (b.1834)