1908 in Canada

Events from the year 1908 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 2 – The Royal Canadian Mint opens.
January 29 – Arthur Peters, Premier of Prince Edward Island, dies in office
February 1 – F. L. Haszard becomes premier of Prince Edward Island.
March 7 – The University of British Columbia is established by the British Columbia University Act.
March 24 – Sir John Douglas Hazen becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Clifford Robinson.
June 8 – In the Ontario election, Sir James Whitney's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority.
June 12 – Saskatchewan Government Telephones created.
August 2 – A fire in the Kootenay region kills 70.
August 14 – In the Saskatchewan election, Walter Scott's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.
September 23 – The University of Alberta opens.
October 26 – In the federal election, Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority.

Anne of Green Gables is first published, having a great effect on Prince Edward Island.
The Opium and Narcotics Act is passed banning certain drugs in Canada.
The Grain Growers Guide is first published.
The Child Labour Act of Ontario is passed.
Vancouver Courier first published.

January 1 – Clarence Dunlap, Chief of the Air Staff Royal Canadian Air Force
January 22 – Sinclair Ross, banker and author
February 1 – Louis Rasminsky, third Governor of the Bank of Canada
February 7 – Lela Brooks, speed skater
February 10 – Jean Coulthard, composer and academic
March 5 – Colin Emerson Bennett, politician and lawyer
March 24 – Carl Klinck, literary historian and academic
April 7 – Percy Faith, band-leader, orchestrator and composer
May 11 – Hide Hyodo Shimizu, Japanese-Canadian educator and activist
May 19 – Percy Williams, athlete
May 26 – James Sinclair, politician, businessman and father of Margaret Sinclair, one-time wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and grandfather of Justin Trudeau
May 28 – Léo Cadieux, politician
June 5 – Maxwell Meighen, financier
June 12 – Alphonse Ouimet, broadcaster
June 18 – Stanley Knowles, politician

July 11
* Gérard Légaré, politician
* Yves Prévost, politician and lawyer
September 20 – Ernest Manning, Premier of Alberta
October 18 – Alfred Henry Bence, politician and barrister
October 24 – John Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist and geologist
October 31 – Muriel Duckworth, pacifist and social activist
November 3 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player
November 10 – Charles Merritt, army officer and politician
December 6 – Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor, administrator and artistic director
December 13 – W. L. Morton, historian
December 23 – Yousuf Karsh, photographer