1920 in Canada

Events from the year 1920 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 10 – Canada is a founding member of the League of Nations, effectively ending the declaration of war.
February 1 – The Royal North-West Mounted Police and the Dominion Police are amalgamated and renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
February 14 – Université de Montréal founded.
February 26 – The Indian Act is amended to give Canadian aboriginal peoples the right to vote in band elections.
March 12 – The first Lions Club outside the United States is founded in Windsor, Ontario.
May 14 – Canadian Forum magazine founded.
June – The Catholic Women's League is formed in Montreal.
June 24 – Dollard des Ormeaux Monument unveiled.
July 1 – Under the Dominion Elections Act, uniform franchise is established and the right for women to be elected to parliament is made permanent.
July 9 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Lomer Gouin.
July 10 – Arthur Meighen becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Robert Borden.
July 11 – Charles Stephens, a barber and daredevil from Bristol, England, dies attempting to go over Niagara Falls.
October 17 – The first airplane to fly across Canada arrives in Richmond from Halifax.
December 25 – Walter Cameron Nichol becomes the 12th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

Esther Marjorie Hill becomes the first female architect in Canada when she graduates from the University of Toronto.

May 7 – The first exhibit of art by the Group of Seven opens in Toronto.
November 8 – The Capitol Cinema opens in Ottawa, the capital's only true movie palace.
Undated – A group of artists, educators, and art patrons formed the British Columbia Art League to lobby the provincial and city governments for a school.

January 10 – The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto St. Patricks combine for 21 goals to set an NHL record for most goals in a single game.
March 23–25 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Canoe Club win their first Memorial Cup by defeating Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association's Selkirk Fishermen 15 to 5 in a 2-game aggregate played at Arena Gardens in Toronto
April 1 – The NHL's Ottawa Senators win their ninth Stanley Cup by defeating the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Seattle Metropolitans 3 games to 2. The deciding game was played at Toronto's Arena Gardens
December 4 – The University of Toronto Varsity Blues win their fourth and final Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Argonauts 16 to 3 in the 8th Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

April 26 – The Winnipeg Falcons representing Canada beat Sweden 12–1 to win the gold medal for ice hockey at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.
August 18 – Earl Thomson wins a gold medal in Men's 110 m Hurdles at the Athletics
August 23 – Bert Schneider wins a gold medal for Canada in the Boxing Welterweight at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.

January 4 – James William Baskin, politician and businessman
January 6 – Henry Corden, Canadian-born American actor, voice actor and singer
January 7 – Margaret W. Thompson, geneticist
January 12 – Bill Reid, artist
February 22 – Ralph Raymond Loffmark, politician.
February 23 – Paul Gérin-Lajoie, lawyer, philanthropist, politician and Minister
February 25
*Merrill Edwin Barrington, politician, accountant and insurance broker
*Gérard Bessette, author and educator
March 3 – James Doohan, actor
March 9 – Erwin Schild, rabbi and author
March 19
* Cyril Lloyd Francis, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
* Laurent Noël, Roman Catholic bishop
March 24 – Bill Irwin, Olympic skier

July 12
* Pierre Berton, author, television personality and journalist
* Bob Fillion, ice hockey player
August 2 – Marcel Adams, businessman
August 3 – Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
August 12 – Aidan Maloney, politician and executive
August 19 – Agnes Benidickson, first female chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario
August 24 – Alex Colville, painter
September 4 – Catherine Bennett, baseball player
September 6 – Helen Hunley, politician
September 9 – Joan Neiman, senator
September 11 – Dalton Camp, journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator
September 26 – Edmund Tobin Asselin, politician
October 1 – Charles Daudelin, sculptor and painter
October 13 – Evelyn Dick, murderer
October 29 – Bill Juzda, ice hockey player
November 11 – John Ferguson Browne, politician
November 17 – George Dunning, Canadian-born cartoon director, animator
November 18 – George Johnson, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba

February 12 – Aurore Gagnon, murder victim
February 16 – Augustus F. Goodridge, politician and Premier of Newfoundland
April 25 – Alexander Grant MacKay, teacher, lawyer and politician
June 6 – James Dunsmuir, industrialist, politician and Premier of British Columbia
June 18 – John Macoun, naturalist
June 27 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge, author and lyricist

September 5 – Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe, second wife of John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada
September 7 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician and Premier of Quebec
September 18 – Robert Beaven, businessman, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia
September 30 – William Wilfred Sullivan, journalist, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
November 19 – Byron Moffatt Britton, politician, lawyer and lecturer
December 12 – Edward Gawler Prior, mining engineer, politician and Premier of British Columbia