1922 in Canada

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Events from the year 1922 in Canada.

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January 1 - Motor vehicles in British Columbia changed from driving on the left to driving on the right hand side of the street.
January 11 - The world's first insulin treatment is made at the Toronto General Hospital. The successful technique would later win a Nobel Prize for its creators, Frederick Banting and Charles Best.
April 5 - Charles Dunning becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing William Martin
May 3 - The women of Prince Edward Island win the right to vote
July - Rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle is designed and made by rodeo cowboy and saddle maker Earl Bascom at the Bascom Ranch, Lethbridge, Alberta
August 8 - John Bracken becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Tobias Norris
September 15 - Prime Minister Mackenzie King refuses to support the British in the Chanak Affair, asserting foreign policy independence for the first time
October 9 - Prairie Bible College opens with 8 students in Three Hills, Alberta
October 22 - Dante Monument (Montreal) unveiled
The land around Vimy Ridge is given to Canada by France in gratitude for the Canadian sacrifices during World War I

January 21 - Lincoln Alexander, politician and 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
February 25 - Molly Lamb Bobak, teacher, writer, printmaker and painter
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)
April 28 - Daryl Seaman, businessman (d.2009)
May 2 - A. M. Rosenthal, columnist and newspaper editor (d.2006)
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 16 - Augustin Brassard, politician
July 30 - Jack McClelland, publisher (d.2004)
August 7 - Helmut Kallmann, historian
August 11 - Mavis Gallant, writer
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)

January 26 - Robert Beith, politician (b.1843)
April 12 - Robert Boston, politician (b.1836)
May 23 - Robert Franklin Sutherland, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b.1859)
July 22 - Sara Jeannette Duncan, author and journalist (b.1861)
August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone (b.1847)
December 3 - William Proudfoot, politician and barrister (b.1859)