1914 in Canada - Definition

See also: 1913 in Canada, other events of 1914, 1915 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.

Events

• January 14 - Swift Current, Saskatchewan incorporates as a city.
• March 19 - The Royal Ontario Museum opens
• May 14 - First major discovery of oil in western Canada at Turner Valley
• May 29 - Ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.
• June 19 - A coal mine explosion in Hillcrest, Alberta kills 189, the worst mining disaster in Canadian history
• June 29 - 1914 Ontario election: Sir James Whitney's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority
• August 4 - WWI: United Kingdom declares war on Germany, meaning Canada is automatically involved.
• August 14 - Canada's War Measures Act is passed suspending all civil rights in Canada during a crisis.
• September 9 - WWI: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army
• October 2 - William Hearst becomes Premier of Ontario replacing the retiring James Whitney
• October 3 - WWI: 33 000 Canadian troops depart for Europe, the largest force to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean at the time.
• December 17 - George J. Clark becomes Premier of New Brunswick replacing the retiring James K. Flemming
• All-time high levels of Immigration are ended by the war
• Canada suspends the convertibility of the dollar into gold
• Edmonton adopts a new numbered street and avenue pattern
• Ontario passes a worker's compensation act that provides all workers with funding in case of disability

Births

• February 2 - Eric Kierans, economist and politician
• March 13 - W.O. Mitchell, author
• April 3 - Edwin Boyd, bank robber
• April 11 - Norman McLaren, animated film director
• April 11 - Robert Stanfield, Tory leader
• April 14 - Robert Bend, Manitoba politician
• April 18 - David Smith, veterinarian
• May 9 - Hank Snow, musician
• May 15 - J. Angus MacLean, Premier of PEI
• July 1 - Stephen Juba, businessman
• July 7 - Harry Strom, Premier of Alberta
• July 10 - Joe Shuster, artist
• July 19 - John Kenneth Macalister, WWII hero
• July 25 - Ed Mirvish, businessman
• August 2 - Félix Leclerc, writer and musician
• August 14 - Francis Lawrence Jobin, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
• September 12 - Janusz Zurakowski, pilot
• December 10 - Frank Thurston, engineer
• December 26 - Crawford Gordon, businessman
• Hugh LeCaine, instrument designer

Deaths