1915 in Canada

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Events from the year 1915 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• January 4 - WWI: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry becomes the first Canadian troops sent to the front lines
• January 15 - The Canadian Northern Railway line to Vancouver, British Columbia, is completed
• February 4 - After a training accident, Lieutenant W. F. Sharpe becomes the first Canadian military airman killed
• February 21 - Nellie McClung presents a petition to the Alberta Legislature demanding women's suffrage
• February 28 - WWI: Canadian troops launch the first trench raid of the war; by the end of the conflict Canadian troops will be regarded as the experts at this manoeuvre
• April 22 - WWI: In the Second Battle of Ypres Canadian forces bear the brunt of the first chemical weapons attack of the war. They devise makeshift gas masks of urine-soaked rags and hold their ground
• May 3 - "In Flanders Fields" is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.
• May 12 - Tobias Norris becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Sir Rodmond Roblin
• July 5 - The Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton opens
• August 6 - Manitoba General Election
• September 13 - WWI: with the arrival of the 2nd Canadian Division a separate Canadian Corps is created
• December 15 - William John Bowser becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Richard McBride
• December 19 - Captain M.M. Bell-Irving,No.1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, achieves the first aerial victory by a Canadian when he shot down a German aircraft
• WWI - Many Canadian soldiers grow upset at the inferior quality of their Ross Rifles

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New works

• "In Flanders Fields": John McCrae
• The Golden Road: Lucy Maud Montgomery

[edit] Sport

• March 26 - The Vancouver Millionaires defeat the Ottawa Senators to win the Stanley Cup.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• January 18 - Syl Apps, pole vaulter and ice hockey player (d.1998)

Daniel Johnson, Sr.

• February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (d.1987)
• April 9 - Daniel Johnson, Sr., politician and 20th Premier of Quebec (d.1968)
• April 11 - Eddie Sargent, politician (d.1998)
• May 3 - Stu Hart, wrestler, promoter and trainer (d.2003)
• May 28 - Conrad Bourcier, ice hockey player
• May 28 - Frank Pickersgill, World War II hero (d.1944)
• June 22 - Arthur Gelber, philanthropist (d.1998)

[edit] July to December

• July 4 - Harold E. Johns, medical physicist (d.1998)
• July 6 - Leonard Birchall, World War II hero (d.2004)
• August 3 - Frank Arthur Calder, politician, first Status Indian to be elected to any legislature in Canada (d.2006)
• August 20 - H. Gordon Barrett, politician (d.1993)
• August 22 - James Hillier, scientist and inventor, jointly designed and built first electron microscope (d.2007)
• August 22 - Jacques Flynn, politician and Senator (d.2000)
• August 25 - John Bassett, publisher and media baron (d.1998)
• October 7 - Harry J. Boyle, broadcaster and writer (d.2005)
• October 7 - Charles Templeton, cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author (d.2001)
• October 25 - Tommy Prince, one of Canada's most decorated First Nations soldiers (d.1977)
• November 27 - Yves Thériault, author (d.1983)
• December 13 - Ross Macdonald, novelist (d.1983)

[edit] Full date unknown

• Arthur Julian Andrew, diplomat and author (d.1994)
• Earl Cameron, broadcaster and news anchor (d.2005)
• Percy Saltzman, meteorologist and television personality, first weatherman in Canadian television history (d.2007)^[1]

[edit] Deaths

Charles Tupper

• June 14 - Antoine Audet, politician (b.1846)
• August 10 - William Mortimer Clark, lawyer, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1836)
• September 11 - William Cornelius Van Horne, pioneering railway executive (b.1843)
• October 19 - Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1842)
• October 30 - Charles Tupper, politician, Premier of Nova Scotia and 6th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1821)

[edit] Full date unknown

• Kit Coleman, journalist (b.1864)

[edit] References