1910 in Canada

Events from the year 1910 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 3 – Happiness and contentment are found from one end of Canada to the other – headline in The Times
January 10 – The Laurier government introduces the Naval Service Act creating a Canadian navy to great controversy. The bill would end up alienating most of Laurier supporters and lead to his defeat in the 1911 election.
January 10 – Le Devoir first published
January 21 – A Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train derails and crashes into a bridge over the Spanish River near Nairn in Sudbury District, Ontario. Between 43 and 70 people are killed in what was at the time the worst disaster in Canadian Pacific history, and one of the worst railway disasters in Canadian history.
March 5 – 65 railway maintenance workers, over half of them Japanese, are killed in an avalanche at Rogers Pass, British Columbia while trying to clear the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental mainline. It is the worst disaster in Canadian Pacific history.
May 4 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created after the Naval Service Act passes
May 6 – Edward VII dies and is succeeded by George V
May 26 – Arthur Sifton becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Alexander Rutherford
July 31 – British murderer Dr. Crippen is caught in Quebec City
December 9 – a coal mine explosion at Bellevue, Alberta, kills 31

January 5/7 – Ottawa HC defeats Galt HC 15 goals to 4 to win the first Stanley Cup challenge in Ottawa's Dey's Arena
January 18/20 – Ottawa HC defeats Edmonton HC 21 goals to 11 to win the second Stanley Cup challenge in Ottawa's Dey's Arena
March 12 – Montreal Wanderers defeat Berlin Dutchmen 7 goals to 3 to win the final Stanley Cup challenge in Montreal's Jubilee Rink
September 13 – Regina Rugby Club are established
November 26 – The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Hamilton Tigers 16 to 7 to win the 2nd Grey Cup, played at Hamilton's A.A.A. Grounds

January 4 – Arthur Villeneuve, painter
February 2 – Andrew McKeller, astrophysicist
February 5 – Charles Philippe Leblond, pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research
February 27 – Robert Bryce, civil servant
May 4 – Arsène Gagné, Quebec politician
May 30 – Keir Clark, Prince Edward Island politician
June 17 – George Hees, politician and minister
June 26 – Munroe Bourne, swimmer

July 2 – Lorne Carr, hockey player
July 17 – James Coyne, second Governor of the Bank of Canada
July 19 – Jean Wilson, speed-skater
July 29 – Norman Fawcett, politician
August 13 – Gwendolyn Ringwood, playwright
August 18 – Robert Winters, politician and businessman
August 26 – Jessie Gray, surgeon
September 10 – Harry Thode, geochemist, nuclear chemist and academic administrator
September 21 – Anne Wilkinson, poet
October 8 – Ray Lewis, track and field athlete, Olympic bronze medallist, first Canadian-born black Olympic medallist
October 13 – Otto Joachim, German-born composer
October 21 – Pauline Mills McGibbon, politician and 22nd Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
October 27 – Jack Carson, actor
November 14 – Michael Starr, politician and first Canadian cabinet minister of Ukrainian descent

James Cameron, writer
Al Clouston, storyteller, humourist and author
Leo Landreville, politician and judge implicated in the Northern Ontario Natural Gas scandal

February 2 – George Murdoch, politician and 1st mayor of Calgary
February 9 – George Barnard Baker, lawyer, politician and Senator
February 15 – Joseph-Élisée Beaudet, businessman and politician
February 26 – Adelaide Hoodless, educational reformer who founded the Women's Institute
May 6 – Edward VII, King of Canada
June 7 – Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist
June 9 – Charles Braithwaite, politician and agrarian leader
September 2 – Hector Fabre, lawyer, journalist, diplomat and senator