1923 in Canada

Events from the year 1923 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – George V

Federal government

Governor General – Julian Byng
Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
Chief Justice – Louis Henry Davies
Parliament – 14th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Premier of Alberta – Herbert Greenfield
Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
Premier of New Brunswick – Walter Foster then Peter Veniot
Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray then Ernest Howard Armstrong
Premier of Ontario – Ernest Drury then George Howard Ferguson
Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Howatt Bell then James D. Stewart
Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Premier of Saskatchewan – Charles Avery Dunning

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Events

January 1 – The Department of National Defence comes into being
January 24 – Ernest Armstrong becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing George Henry Murray, who had governed for 27 years
February 28 – Peter Veniot becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Walter Foster
April 23 – Marijuana is prohibited soon after the House of Commons passes a bill on this date that includes making marijuana illegal
March 2 – The Halibut Treaty signed with the United States is Canada's first international treaty not signed under the auspices of the United Kingdom
June 25 – Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Ernest Charles Drury's United Farmers of Ontario
July 1 – The Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 comes into effect, banning all Chinese from entering Canada except for businessmen, diplomats, foreign students, and "special circumstances"
July 16 – Howard Ferguson becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Ernest Charles Drury
July 26- Warren G Harding visits Vancouver the first sitting American president to visit Canada post confederation
August 18 – The Home Bank of Canada fails
September 5 – James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing John Howatt Bell
October 8 – A stevedore's strike begins in Vancouver
October 10 – Canadian National Railway is formed by merger of Canadian Government Railways, Canadian Northern Railway, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, and Grand Trunk Railway
October 25 – Frederick Banting and Charles Best win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of insulin
October 31 – Louis-Philippe Brodeur becomes Quebec's 13th Lieutenant Governor
November 11 – The Fredericton Cenotaph was dedicated in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Full date unknown

The Duplex, a Canadian 4-cylinder automobile is built in Montreal.
Fleetwood-Knight, a Canadian automobile is built in Kingston, Ontario.

Arts and literature

Music

April 23 – The Toronto Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert.

New books

Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery

Sport

March 14 – The world's first complete play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional ice hockey game is done by Pete Parker in Regina.
March 22 – Foster Hewitt announces his first ice hockey game.
March 22 and 26 – The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's University of Manitoba win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Kitchener Colts 14 to 6 in a two-game aggregate played at Arena Gardens in Toronto
March 31 – The Ottawa Senators win their 10th Stanley Cup by defeating the Western Canada Hockey League's Edmonton Eskimos 2 games to 0. The deciding game was played at Vancouver's Denman Arena
December 1 – Queen's University win their second Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Rugby Club 54–0 in the 11th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

Births

January to March

January 1 – Roméo Sabourin, World War II spy
January 7 – Hugh Kenner, literary scholar, critic and professor
January 21 – Judith Merril, science fiction writer, editor and political activist
January 27 – Marcelle Corneille, administrator and educator
February 4 – Conrad Bain, actor
March 1 – Uno Helava, inventor
March 2 – Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, painter
March 4 – Stanley Haidasz, politician
March 10 – Richard Doyle, journalist, editor and Senator
March 15 – Laurent Desjardins, politician
March 19 – Henry Morgentaler, physician and pro choice advocate
March 23 - James Barber, cookbook author and television chef
March 30 – Milton Acorn, poet, writer and playwright

April to June

April 7 – Aba Bayefsky, artist and teacher
April 25 – Melissa Hayden, ballerina
May 5 – John Black Aird, lawyer, politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
May 9 – Reuben Baetz, politician
May 18 – Jean-Louis Roux, entertainer and playwright
May 20 – Frank Morris, Canadian football player
June 3 – Phil Nimmons, jazz musician
June 5 – Roger Lebel, actor
June 6 – Bruce Campbell, Edmonton alderman

July to September

July 21 – Rudolph A. Marcus, chemist and 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
July 25 – Bill Fitsell, sports journalist and historian
July 31 – Victor Goldbloom, pediatrician, lecturer and politician
August 3 – Robert Campeau, financier and real estate developer
August 6 – Paul Hellyer, politician and commentator
September 1 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, businessman and art collector
September 2 – David Lam, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
September 7 – Byron Seaman, businessman and part owner of the Calgary Flames
September 18 – Bertha Wilson, jurist and first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
September 21 – Robert Uffen, research geophysicist, professor, and university administrator

October to December

October 7 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter and sculptor
October 10 - Kildare Dobbs, short story and travel writer
October 22 – Rodrigue Bourdages, politician
October 22 – Norman Levine, short-story writer, novelist and poet
October 23 – Réjane L. Colas, jurist
November 1 – Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author
November 2 – Harold Horwood, novelist and non-fiction writer
November 11 – Donald Tolmie, politician
November 22 – Arthur Hiller, film director
December 27 – Bruno Bobak, artist

Deaths

January to June

February 20 – Thomas George Roddick, surgeon, medical administrator and politician
March 2 – Joseph Martin, lawyer, politician and 13th Premier of British Columbia
April 25 – Louis-Olivier Taillon, Premier of Quebec
June 7 – John Best, politician

July to December

July 17 – John Strathearn Hendrie, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
October 2 – John Wilson Bengough, political cartoonist
December 5 – William Mackenzie, railway contractor and entrepreneur
December 9 – John Herbert Turner, Premier of British Columbia