The following lists events that happened during 1909 in Canada.

1909
in
Canada

Decades:
See also:

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Territorial governments

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Commissioners

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Events

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Full date unknown

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  • University of Toronto Schools opens as an all-boys school.
  • Leon's furniture store opens.
  • The Criminal Code is amended to criminalize the abduction of women. Before this, the abduction of any woman over 16 was legal, except if she was an heiress.[3]

Arts and literature

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Sport

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Births

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January to June

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July to December

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Full date unknown

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Deaths

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Historical documents

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Government report on huge tar sand deposit in northern Alberta[4]

Origins of Canadian Red Cross Society outlined in Senate bill incorporating it[5]

Union leaders object after Archbishop of St. John's disapproves of Fishermen's Protective Union as secret society[6]

Report of Toronto lecture where British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst explains rationale for extreme measures[7]

Scottish editorial asks whether Scotsmen should take up farming in Canada[8]

House of Commons agriculture committee learns about types, history and marketing of Lake Erie apples (District No. 1)[9]

Pilot John McCurdy's testimony on flights and development of Silver Dart airplane[10]

Political cartoon about Canadian wheat milled in Minnesota[11]

Postcard: Photo shows "Broadway Falls," created when water from overflowing creek poured into Broadway and Heather St. intersection, Vancouver[12]

References

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  1. ^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy. Dundurn. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8.
  2. ^ "The OPP Museum > Historical Highlights of the Ontario Provincial Police". Ontario Provincial Police. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  3. ^ Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. http://criaw-icref.ca/millenium Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Canada Department of the Interior, New Northwest Exploration: Report of Exploration, by Frank J.P. Crean, C.E., in Saskatchewan and Alberta[....] (1910), pgs. 58-60. Accessed 18 February 2020
  5. ^ The Senate of Canada, "Preamble" Bill HH; An Act to incorporate The Canadian Red Cross Society (April 23, 1909), Senate Bills, 11th Parliament, 1st Session: A-GGG. Accessed 7 March 2020
  6. ^ "Letter to Archbishop M.F. Howley from Peter Trimlett and Others, Salmonier, March 23, 1909." Accessed 18 February 2020
  7. ^ "Mrs. Pankhurst in Toronto" (source of newspaper clipping not recorded; "ca. November 24, 1909"). Accessed 18 February 2020
  8. ^ "The Granary of the Empire" North British Agriculturalist (February 4, 1909), reprinted in Canada, As It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists[....] (1909), pgs. 12-14. Accessed 18 February 2020
  9. ^ "Fruit Districts of Ontario" (April 15, 1909), The Apple Trade of Canada, pgs. 148-50. Accessed 12 October 2020
  10. ^ "Deposition by J.A.D. McCurdy, April 9, 1920" Accessed 18 February 2020
  11. ^ Charles Lewis Bartholomew (Bart), "It Is Up to Congress to Say Which" Minneapolis Journal (May 6, 1909). Accessed 27 September 2021
  12. ^ "View of Broadway Falls at the corner of Broadway and Heather Street, Vancouver, B.C." (1909), University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 6 November 2022