1917 in Canada

Events from the year 1917 in Canada.

Incumbents

Provincial

June 7 – Alberta election: Arthur Sifton's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority. Louise McKinney and Roberta MacAdams are elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, the first two women elected to a legislature in the British Empire.
June 26 – Saskatchewan election: William Martin's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority.

Federal

December 17: Robert Borden's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority in the Federal election

February 1 – James Alexander Murray becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing George Johnson Clarke
April 4 – Walter Foster becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Murray
April 9 – April 14 – Battle of Vimy Ridge.
April 17 – Leon Trotsky, en route from New York to Russia, is detained in Halifax. He will spend the next month in Amherst Internment Camp before being released.
June 21 – Aubin Arsenault becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing John Mathieson

July 1: Canada celebrates its 50th Dominion Day.
August: The government introduces conscription triggering the Conscription Crisis of 1917
September 20: The Income War Tax Act receives royal assent, establishing a "temporary" tax, which remains in force to this day.
September 20: The Wartime Elections Act gives female relatives of servicemen the vote.
October 26 – November 10: Second Battle of Passchendaele.
October 30: Charles Stewart (1868–1946) becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Arthur Sifton
November 1 to 30: Swanson Bay, British Columbia, records of precipitation for the month, which remains the highest officially recorded for one calendar month in North America.
December 6: Halifax Explosion kills 1,900 people and injures 9,000. The largest ever man-made explosion pre-Hiroshima atomic bomb.

Tom Thomson paints The Jack Pine, one of Canada's most widely recognized and reproduced artworks.

March 26 – The Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Seattle Metropolitans become the first American team to win the Stanley Cup by defeating the National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens 3 games to 1. The Metropolitans won their only Cup in front of their home crowd at Seattle Ice Arena
November 26 – The National Hockey League is established in Montreal, with 4 teams from the National Hockey Association The owners would form a new team in Toronto due to a dispute Toronto Blueshirts owner Eddie Livingstone, the Toronto Hockey Club
December 19 – Montreal Wanderers defeat the Toronto Arenas in the first NHL game.

January 6 – Sydney Banks, broadcaster and producer
January 11 – John Robarts, lawyer, politician and 17th Premier of Ontario
April 11 – Danny Gallivan, radio and television broadcaster and sportscaster
April 25 – George R. Gardiner, businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum
May 12 – Frank Clair, Canadian Football League coach
May 19 – Robert Gordon Robertson, civil servant and 7th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories
May 21 – Raymond Burr, actor
May 22 – Lude Check, ice hockey player
May 24 – Ross Thatcher, politician and 9th Premier of Saskatchewan
June 17 – Dufferin Roblin, businessman, politician and 14th Premier of Manitoba
June 18 – Arthur Tremblay, politician and Senator
June 29 – Archie Green, folklorist and musicologist

January 8 – Ward Bowlby, lawyer and politician, reeve of Berlin, Ontario
January 14 – Alexander Cameron, physician and politician
February 17 – Ralph Smith, coal miner, labour leader and politician
February 26 – George Johnson Clarke, lawyer, journalist, politician and 14th Premier of New Brunswick
April 21 – George Thomas Baird, politician, Senator for Victoria, New Brunswick
June 13 – Louis-Philippe Hébert, sculptor