1901 in Canada

All you want to know about 1901 in Canada

See also: 1900 in Canada, other events of 1901, 1902 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Events

March 9 - Japanese Canadians win the vote in British Columbia
December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a transatlantic radio message at St. John's, Newfoundland
December 18 - The Territorial Grain Growers' Association is founded
December 29 - Arthur Peters becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Donald Farquharson
First ascent of Mount Assiniboine by James Outram's party

Births

January 12 - Jack Humphrey, artist
January 14 - Dana Porter, politician and jurist
March 4 - Wilbur Franks, inventor
March 25 - Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist
April 15 - Thomas Ricketts, war hero
April 30 - David Manners, actor
May 5 - Donald Buchanan Blue, politician
July 15 - James Litterick, Manitoba politician
September 8 - Harold Connolly, Premier of Nova Scotia
September 14 - George Carlyle Marler, Quebec politician
September 15 - Gweneth Lloyd, choreographer
October 14 - John Oates Bower, politician
Maryon Moody, wife of Lester B. Pearson

Deaths

January 22 - Queen Victoria, Queen of Canada
March 2 - George Mercer Dawson, explorer/surveyor of Canadian Rockies and Western Canada

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