1907 in Canada

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Events from the year 1907 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Edward VII (consort – Queen Alexandra)

Federal government

• Governor general – Albert Grey (viceregal consort – Alice Holford)
• Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – James Dunsmuir
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball (until February 24) then Lemuel John Tweedie (from March 6)
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Duncan Cameron Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
• Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie (until March 6) then William Pugsley (March 6 to May 31) then Clifford William Robinson
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon - John T. Lithgow (acting) (until June 17) then Alexander Henderson
• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin (from June 17)
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

• March 6 - William Pugsley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Lemuel John Tweedie
• May 24 - Boer War Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
• May 30 - Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Alberta
• May 31 - Clifford Robinson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing William Pugsley
• August 24 - Part of the under-construction Quebec Bridge collapses in Quebec City killing 75 construction workers and injuring 11.
• September 7
  • An anti-Asian riot attacks Vancouver's Chinatown
  • Alexander Grant MacKay is elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
• September 14 - Jasper National Park established.

Full date unknown

• The National Council for Women demands "equal pay for equal work"
• The world's first rotary telephone came into use at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
• The first Sobeys opens in Stellarton, Nova Scotia

Births

January to June

• January 14 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, politician (d.1985)
• January 26 - Hans Selye, endocrinologist (d.1982)
• February 9 - Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, geometer (d.2003)
• March 20 - Hugh MacLennan, author and professor of English (d.1990)
• March 24 - Paul Sauvé, lawyer, soldier, politician and 17th Premier of Quebec (d.1960)
• April 16 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor, businessman and founder of Bombardier Inc. (d.1964)
• April 17 - Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger, politician (d.1989)

July to December

• July 6 - George Stanley, historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant and designer of the current Canadian flag (d.2002)
• August 5 - Herman Linder, rodeoist
• August 24 - Alfred Belzile, politician and farmer
• September 3 - Andrew Brewin, lawyer and politician (d.1983)

Fay Wray - Publicity photo, ca. 1930

• September 15 - Fay Wray, actress (d.2004)
• October 20 - Carl Goldenberg, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator (d.1996)
• November 19 - Frederick Thomas Armstrong, politician (d.1990)
• November 21 - Christie Harris, children's author (d.2002)
• December 7 - Fred Rose, politician and trade union organizer (d.1983)

Deaths

January to June

• January 1 - William Pearce Howland, politician (b.1811)
• January 25 - Andrew George Blair, politician and 6th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1844)
• January 31 - Timothy Eaton, businessman and founder of Eaton's (b.1834)
• March 3 - Oronhyatekha, Mohawk physician and scholar (b.1841)
• March 8 - Edward Cochrane, politician (b.1834)
• March 20 - Louis Adolphe Billy, politician and lawyer (b.1834)
• April 6 - William Henry Drummond, poet (b.1854)
• June 12 - John Waldie, politician (b.1833)

July to December

• August 10 - James Brien, politician and physician (b.1848)
• September 26 - Alexander Gunn, politician (b.1828)
• October 10 - Cassie Chadwick, fraudster (b.1857)
• October 13 - Harvey William Burk, politician and farmer (b.1822)
• November 6 - James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon (b.1834)