See also: 1922 in Canada, other events of 1923, 1924 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.


Table of contents
1 Events
2 Arts and literature
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

  • January 1 - The Department of National Defence comes into being
  • January 24 - Ernest Armstrong becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing George Murray, who had governed for 27 years
  • February 28 - Peter Veniot becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Walter Foster
  • March 2 - The Halibut Treaty signed with the United States is Canada's first international treaty not signed under the auspices of the United Kingdom
  • March 22 - Foster Hewitt announces his first hockey game
  • June 25 - Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Ernest Drury's United Farmers of Ontario
  • July 1 - Almost all Chinese immigration to Canada is ended by the federal government
  • July 16 - Howard Ferguson becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Ernest Drury
  • August 17 - The Home Bank of Montreal fails
  • October 8 - A longshoreman's stike beigns in Vancouver
  • October 25 - Frederick Banting and John Macleod win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of insulin
  • September 5 - James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing J. H. Bell
  • Canadian National Railway is formed by merger of Canadian Government Railways, Canadian Northern Railway, Grand Trunk Railway and National Transcontinental Railway.
  • Marijuana is made illegal in Canada

Arts and literature

New books

Births

Deaths