April 21 - Canadian Captain Roy Brown (209 Squadron, RAF) supposedly shoots down the famed Red Baron. More accepted theories credit either Sergeant Cedric Popkin (Australian 24th Machine Gun Company), Gunner Snowy Evans or Gunner Robert Buie (both of 53rd Battery, 14th Field Artillery Brigade, RAA) with the kill.
May 24 - Canadian women (except status Indians) obtain the right to vote in federal elections (even if they did not yet have the right to vote in provincial elections); some limited women's suffrage had been granted the year earlier. Status Indians gained federal suffrage in 1960.[1]
August 2 - The first general strike in Canada occurred in Vancouver, British Columbia, triggered by the murder of Ginger Goodwin.
August 8 - World War I: At the Battle of Amiens superior Canadian gunners assist a great allied breakthrough (also called Canada's 100 Days)
Canada demands and receives - over the initial opposition of Britain, France and the USA - the right to participate in the Versailles Peace Conference and in the League of Nations.
Arts and literature
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Births
January to June
February 6 - Louis Dudek, poet, literary critic and publisher (d.2001)
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