1909 in Canada

The following lists events that happened during 1909 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 11 – The Boundary Waters Treaty signed.
February 23 – The first powered flight in Canada is made by John McCurdy in the AEA Silver Dart, flying from the ice of Bras d'Or Lake at Baddeck on Cape Breton Island.
March 22 – 1909 Alberta election: Alexander Rutherford's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.
April 6 – Robert Peary claims to have reached the North Pole.
July 13 – Gold is discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.
August – The Canadian Pacific Railway's Spiral Tunnels are opened in British Columbia's Kicking Horse Pass.
September 2 – Jeanne Mance Monument unveiled in Montreal.
September 6 – Field Day Sports athletic competition Toronto.
October 13 – The Ontario Provincial Police is established.

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.

February 4 – Jack Shadbolt, painter
February 14 – A. M. Klein, poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer
March 2 – Art Alexandre, ice hockey player
March 19 – John Fauquier, war hero
March 20 – Jack Bush, painter
March 22 – Gabrielle Roy, author
April 6 – George Isaac Smith, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
May 8 – Samuel Boulanger, politician
May 29 – Red Horner, ice hockey player
May 31 – Aurore Gagnon, murder victim
June 23 – David Lewis, lawyer and politician

August 12 – Albert Bruce Matthews, commander of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division during the Second World War
August 15 – Maurice Breton, politician and lawyer
August 18 – Gérard Filion, businessman and journalist
September 12 – Donald MacDonald, labour leader
October 12 – Dorothy Livesay, poet
October 19 – Robert Beatty, actor
October 24 – Sheila Watson, novelist, critic and teacher
November 3 – Russell Paulley, politician

May 5 – Daniel Lionel Hanington, politician and 5th Premier of New Brunswick
May 7 – William Hallett Ray, politician
May 12 – Michel Auger, politician
October 7 – William Thomas Pipes, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
October 27 – James William Bain, politician
November 14 – Joshua Slocum, seaman, adventurer, writer, and first man to sail single-handedly around the world
December 17 – George Cox, mayor of Ottawa