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1921 in Canada

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1921
in
Canada

Decades:
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Events from the year 1921 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Territorial governments

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Commissioners

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Events

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Full date unknown

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Arts and literature

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  • February 15 – The Capitol Theatre opened in Winnipeg.
  • March 12 – The Capitol Theatre, a lush 2,500 seat movie palace, opened on Vancouver's Granville Street.

Sports

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Births

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January to March

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April to June

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July to December

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Deanna Durbin on the cover of
Yank Magazine, January 1945

Full date unknown

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Deaths

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Arthur Sifton

See also

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Historical documents

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Frederick Banting speaks on his research into separating life-saving insulin from pancreas's insulin-destroying secretion[6]

Former Indian agent says Kainai (Blood) cheated out of their land by "predatory leases"[7]

Film: morality-centred story of two women factory workers in Toronto[8]

Witness testifies to House committee on proportional representation so that MPs "may represent the opinions of people rather than acres"[9]

Prime Minister Meighen rebuffs Opposition Leader Mackenzie King's attempt to advise on upcoming Imperial Conference[10]

Prime Minister Meighen on unity in diversity in Commonwealth of Nations[11]

"Dark, gloomy, and brutal, [with] a disrespect for law and order" - Nellie McClung says movies are moral menace[12]

Film: Ontario fruit production includes young women picking fruit, storage and retail[13]

Police reject pleas to bust exposed knees[14]

"Races have awakened intense interest" - Lunenburg fishing schooner Bluenose wins international race off Halifax[15]

Christmas celebration at rural Prairie school[16]

Franklin D. Roosevelt's family cottage on Campobello Island, N.B., preserved to last year he stayed there[17]

References

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  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Agnes Macphail: The first woman elected to Canada's House of Commons." Elections Canada. http://www.elections.ca/res/eim/article_search/article.asp?id=108&lang=e&frmPageSize=
  3. ^ "Some Significant Moments in Chinese-Canadian History". Archived from the original on 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  4. ^ "Saskatchewan History". Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  5. ^ "1921 – the History of Metropolitan Vancouver".
  6. ^ F.G. Banting, "Early Work on Insulin" Science, Vol. 85, No. 2217 (June 25, 1937), pgs. 594-6. Accessed 16 June 2020
  7. ^ R.N. Wilson, Our Betrayed Wards; A story of "Chicanery, Infidelity and the Prostitution of Trust" (1921). Accessed 15 April 2020
  8. ^ Provincial Board of Health (Ontario), "Her Own Fault" (1921), Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 22 September 2024
  9. ^ "Minutes of Evidence" Proceedings of the Special [House of Commons] Committee Appointed to Consider the Subject of Proportional Representation and the Subject of the Single Transferable or Preferential Vote (April 14, 1921 and after), pg. 7 and following. Accessed 10 April 2020
  10. ^ Arthur Meighen, Speech to House of Commons (April 27, 1921). Accessed 15 April 2020
  11. ^ Arthur Meighen, "Unity in Diversity" Overseas Addresses; June–July 1921, pgs. 51-8. Accessed 16 April 2020
  12. ^ "Control and Censorship of Moving Pictures under Department of Education" The Edmonton Journal, Vol. 17, No. 161 (January 24, 1921), pg. 14. Accessed 15 April 2020
  13. ^ Department of Trade and Commerce (Ottawa), "Where Nature Smiles" (1921), Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 22 September 2024
  14. ^ "Women May Wear 'Em Short As They Like" (Ottawa, Jan. 22), The Edmonton Journal, Vol. 17, No. 160 (January 22, 1921), pg. 1. Accessed 15 April 2020
  15. ^ "The International Schooner Race" Appendix I, Sessional Papers; Second Session of the Fourteenth Parliament[...]; Volume 6 (1923), pg. 38. Accessed 18 April 2021
  16. ^ J.T.M. Anderson, "Christmas in 'Glory Hole'" The School; A Magazine Devoted to Elementary and Secondary Education, Volume X (Sept. 1921 - June 1922), pgs. 233-4. Accessed 16 April 2020
  17. ^ "The Road to Campobello," Roadside Adventures, Mountain Lake PBS, Plattsburgh, N.Y. Accessed 14 December 2019 https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_113-719kdhk9 (click on Transcript Show; note: transcript not consistent with audio recording)