1914 in Canada

Events from the year 1914 in Canada.

Incumbents

March 19 – The Royal Ontario Museum opens
April 11 – Canadian Margaret C. MacDonald is appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band and becomes the first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of major.
May 14 – First major discovery of oil in western Canada at Turner Valley
May 20 – The Niagara Falls peace conference begins. Representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the United States met for diplomatic negotiations in order to avoid war between the United States and Mexico
May 23 – The Komagata Maru, a Japanese steamship which sailed from Japan to British Columbia carrying 376 passengers, is turned back from Canada under authority of exclusion laws prohibiting Asian immigrants. Most of the passengers returned to India.
May 29 – Ocean liner sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.
June 19 – The Hillcrest mine disaster in Alberta kills 189 of 235, the worst mining disaster in Canadian history
June 29 – 1914 Ontario election: Sir James Whitney's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority

August 4 – World War I: United Kingdom declares war on Germany, meaning Canada, as a member of the British Empire, is in a state of war.
August 14 – Canada's War Measures Act is passed suspending some civil rights in Canada during a crisis.
September 9 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army
September 25 – James Whitney, Premier of Ontario, dies in office
October 1 – Edward VII Monument (Montreal) unveiled
October 2 – William Hearst becomes Premier of Ontario
October 3 – World War I: 33,000 Canadian troops depart for Europe, the largest force to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean at the time.
December 17 – George J. Clark becomes Premier of New Brunswick replacing the retiring James K. Flemming

All-time high levels of immigration are ended by the war
The Better Farming Train made its first tour of Saskatchewan.
Canada suspends the convertibility of the dollar into gold
Edmonton adopts a new numbered street and avenue pattern
Ontario passes a worker's compensation act that provides all workers with funding in case of disability

July 1 – Stephen Juba, politician and Mayor of Winnipeg
July 6 – Viola Desmond, black civil rights advocate
July 7 – Harry Strom, politician and 9th Premier of Alberta
July 10 – Joe Shuster, comic book artist, co-creator of Superman
July 19 – John Kenneth Macalister, World War II hero
July 24 – Ed Mirvish, businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario
August 2 – Félix Leclerc, folk singer, poet, writer, actor and political activist
August 14 – Francis Lawrence Jobin, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
September 12 – Janusz Żurakowski, fighter and test pilot, first test pilot of Avro Arrow
October 14 – Michael D. Moore, film director, second unit director and silent-era child actor
November 28 – Mud Bruneteau, professional ice hockey forward who played for the Detroit Red Wings
December 10 – Frank Thurston, engineer
December 25 – Charles-Noël Barbès, politician and lawyer
December 26 – Crawford Gordon, businessman

January 21 – Donald Alexander Smith, politician
January 27 – Daniel Woodley Prowse, lawyer, politician, judge, historian and essayist
March 1 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, Governor General of Canada
March 7 – George William Ross, educator, politician and 5th Premier of Ontario
March 9 – Robert Christie, Ontario businessman and politician
April 7 – Edith Maude Eaton, author
May 2 – John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Governor General of Canada
July 9 – Henry Emmerson, lawyer, businessman, politician, philanthropist and 8th Premier of New Brunswick
July 27 – Archibald Blue, teacher, journalist, and civil servant
September 25 – James Whitney, politician and 6th Premier of Ontario