1921 in Canada

Events from the year 1921 in Canada.

Events

• March 26 - The Bluenose is launched
• June 9 - Saskatchewan general election, 1921: William M. Martin's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority
• June 15 - Prohibition comes to an end in British Columbia
• July 18 - Alberta general election, 1921: Herbert Greenfield's United Farmers of Alberta win a majority, defeating Premier Charles Stewart's Liberals
• July 27 - Frederick Banting and Charles Best discover insulin
• August 13 - Herbert Greenfield becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Charles Stewart
• November 21 - Canada is granted a coat of arms by Royal Proclamation. Canada's official colours declared to be red and white
• December 6 - Federal election: William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberals win a minority, defeating Arthur Meighen's Conservatives. Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman elected to Parliament. Canadian women exercise their right to vote for the first time.
• December 29 - Mackenzie King becomes prime minister, replacing Arthur Meighen.

Full date unknown

• The school board in Victoria, B.C., creates a segregated school for the Chinese population. After a boycott of the new school, the plan is scrapped.
• A study of Saskatchewan school students discovers that 56% of them are infected with tuberculosis
• Cenotaph, Montreal unveiled
• War Memorial of Montreal West unveiled

Arts and literature

• February 15 - The Capitol Theatre opened in Winnipeg.
• March 12 - The Capitol Theatre, a lush 2,500 seat movie palace, opened on Vancouver's Granville Street.

Sports

• April 4 - The Ottawa Senators beat the Vancouver Millionaires 2-1 to win the Stanley Cup
• December 3 - The first East-West Grey Cup game took place between the Toronto Argonauts and the Edmonton Eskimos.

Births

January to March

• January 6 - Hazen Argue, politician (d.1991)
• January 9 - Lister Sinclair, broadcaster, playwright and polymath (d.2006)
• January 21 - Jacques Ferron, physician and author, founder of the Parti Rhinocéros (d.1985)
• February 8 - Barney Danson, politician and soldier (d.2011)
• February 21 - George Manuel, Aboriginal leader (d.1989)
• February 25 - Pierre Laporte, Quebec politician and Minister, kidnapped and murdered by Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) (d.1970)
• March 10 - Cec Linder, actor (d.1992)
• March 27 - Calvin Gotlieb, professor and computer scientist

April to June

• April 4 - Charles Dubin, lawyer and former Chief Justice of Ontario (d.2008)
• April 30 - Don Jamieson, politician, diplomat and broadcaster (d.1986)
• May 12 - Farley Mowat, conservationist and author
• May 31 - Peter Fox, politician (d.1989)
• June 8 - Alexis Smith, actress (d.1993)
• June 25 - Celia Franca, ballet dancer and founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada (d.2007)

July to December

Deanna Durbin on the cover of
Yank Magazine, January 1945

• July 6 - Allan MacEachen, politician, Minister and senator, first Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
• August 4 - Maurice Richard, ice hockey player (d.2000)
• August 8 - John Herbert Chapman, scientist and space researcher (d.1979)
• August 11 - Allan Waters, businessman and media mogul (d.2005)
• August 25 - Monty Hall, game show host, producer, actor, singer and sportscaster
• September 16 - Ursula Franklin, metallurgist, research physicist, author and educator
• September 29 - James Cross, British diplomat kidnapped by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)
• November 25 - Fraser Elliott, lawyer, supporter of the arts and philanthropist (d.2005)
• December 4 - Deanna Durbin, singer and actress
• December 6 - George Beurling, most successful Canadian fighter pilot of World War II (d.1948)
• December 10 - Howard Fredeen, scientist and animal breeding researcher

Full date unknown

• Fred Davis, broadcaster and moderator of Front Page Challenge (d.1996)

Deaths

Arthur Sifton

• January 21 - Arthur Sifton, politician and 2nd Premier of Alberta (b.1858)
• August 29 - Lionel Herbert Clarke, businessman and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1859)
• October 19 - George Washington Kendall (b.1881)
• November 1 - Zoé Lafontaine, wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1842)
• November 10 - Jennie Kidd Trout, physician, first woman in Canada legally to become a medical doctor and only woman in Canada licensed to practice medicine until 1880 (b.1841)
• November 27 - Douglas Colin Cameron, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1854)