1919 in Canada

Events from the year 1919 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 19 – Canadian troops take part in the Battle of Shenkursk, part of the Russian Civil War.
February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and former prime minister of Canada, dies in office.
April 17 – New Brunswick women are permitted to vote.
April 10 – The Quebec referendum on the prohibition of alcohol.
May 3 – Yukon women are permitted to vote.
May 15 – June 25 – Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
May 22 – The House of Commons passes the Nickle Resolution.
June – Rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bronc chute is designed and made by rodeo cowboy Earl W. Bascom at the Bascom Ranch in Lethbridge, Alberta
June 6 – The government-owned Canadian National Railway is formed out of a number of financially troubled private railways.
June 28 – Canada signs the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the First World War

January 13 – Igor Gouzenko, Russian defector
January 23 – Frances Bay, actress
February 17 – J. M. S. Careless, historian
February 20
*Thomas Ide, educator and the founding Chairman of TVOntario
*Joe Krol, Canadian football player
March 21 – Victor Copps, politician and Mayor of Hamilton
March 26 – Vernon Singer, politician
April 16 – Louis Harrington Lewry, politician and reporter
April 21 – William Perehudoff, painter
May 27 – Francess Halpenny, editor and professor
May 29 – Jacques Genest, physician and academic
June 18 – Gordon A. Smith, artist and teacher
June 19
*Gérard Dionne, Roman Catholic bishop
*Simon Reisman, civil servant and chief negotiator of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement
June 21 – Gérard Pelletier, journalist, editor, politician and Minister

July 5 – Gordon Towers, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta
August 1 – Jack Butterfield, President of the American Hockey League
August 9 – Edmund Hockridge, singer and actor
August 19 – Margaret Marquis, Canadian-American actress
August 21 – Marcel Lambert, politician and House of Commons of Canada">House of Commons of Canada">House of Commons of Canada
September 1 – Gladys Davis, professional baseball player
September 11 – Daphne Odjig, artist

[Image:Pierre Trudeau.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Pierre Trudeau in 1980]

October 12 – Gilles Beaudoin, politician and mayor of Trois-Rivières
October 17 – Violet Milstead, World War II aviator and bush pilot
October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, politician and 15th Prime Minister of Canada
November 1 – Russell Bannock, aviator and test pilot
November 14 – Albert Ludwig, politician
November 21 – Eleanor Collins, jazz singer
December 10 – Vincent Brassard, politician
December 25 – Paul David, cardiologist and founder of the Montreal Heart Institute

January 30 – Sam Steele, soldier and member of the North-West Mounted Police
February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, politician and 7th Prime Minister of Canada
July 29 – Frederick Peters, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
August 18 – Joseph E. Seagram, distillery founder, politician, philanthropist and racehorse owner
October 14 – Simon Hugh Holmes, publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
November 10 – Charles Mickle, politician
November 11 – George Haddow, politician and merchant
December 10 – Arthur Boyle, politician
December 29 – William Osler, physician

[Image:Laurier funeral procession.jpg|thumb|center|350px|Funéraille de Wilfrid Laurier]