1923 in Canada
Events from the year 1923 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
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 H. 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 Drury's United Farmers of Ontario
- July 1 - The Chinese Immigration Act of 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 Drury
- August 17 - The Home Bank of Montreal fails
- September 5 - James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing J.H. Bell.
- October 8 - A stevedore's strike begins in Vancouver
- October 10 - Canadian National Railway#Creation of the company, 1918–1923 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.
Arts and literature
Music
New books
Sport
Births
January to March
- January 1 - Roméo Sabourin, World War II hero (d.1944)
- January 7 - Hugh Kenner, literary scholar, critic and professor (d.2003)
- January 21 - Judith Merril, science fiction writer, editor and political activist (d.1997)
- February 4 - Conrad Bain, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes) (d.2013)
- March 1 - Uno Helava, inventor
- March 2 - Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, painter
- March 4 - Stanley Haidasz, politician (d.2009)
- March 10 - Richard Doyle, journalist, editor and Senator (d.2003)
- March 15 - Laurent Desjardins, politician (d.2012)
- March 19 - Henry Morgentaler, physician and pro choice advocate (d.2013)
- March 30 - Milton Acorn, poet, writer and playwright (d.1986)
April to June
July to September
- July 21 - Rudolph A. Marcus, chemist and 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
- July 31 - Victor Goldbloom, pediatrician, lecturer and politician
- August 3 - Robert Campeau, financier and real estate developer
- August 6 - Paul Hellyer, politician and commentator
- August 21 - Robert William Stewart, scientist
- September 1 - Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, businessman and art collector (d.2006)
- September 2 - David Lam, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (d.2010)
- September 18 - Bertha Wilson, jurist and first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.2007)
- September 21 - Robert Uffen, research geophysicist, professor, and university administrator (d.2009)
October to December
- October 7 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter and sculptor (d.2002)
- October 22 - Rodrigue Bourdages, politician (d.1997)
- October 22 - Norman Levine, short-story writer, novelist and poet (d.2005)
- October 23 - Réjane L. Colas, jurist
- November 1 - Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author (d.2001)
- November 2 - Harold Horwood, novelist and non-fiction writer (d.2006)
- November 11 - Donald Tolmie, politician (d.2009)
- November 22 - Arthur Hiller, film director
- December 27 - Bruno Bobak, artist (d.2012)
Full date unknown
Deaths
January to June
July to December
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