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1923 in Canada
See also: 1922 in Canada, other events of 1923, 1924 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
Incumbents
Events
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January 1 - The Department of National Defence comes into being
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January 24 - Ernest Armstrong becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing George H. Murray, who had governed for 27 years
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February 28 - Peter Veniot becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Walter Foster
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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
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March 14 - World's first complete play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional hockey game is done by Pete Parker in Regina.
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March 22 - Foster Hewitt announces his first hockey game
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June 25 - Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Ernest Drury's United Farmers of Ontario
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July 1 - The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 came into effect, banning all Chinese from entering Canada except for businessmen, diplomats, foreign students, and "special circumstances"
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July 16 - Howard Ferguson becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Ernest Drury
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August 17 - The Home Bank of Montreal fails
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October 8 - A longshoreman's stike beigns in Vancouver
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October 25 - Frederick Banting and John Macleod win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of insulin
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September 5 - James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing J.H. Bell
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Canadian National Railway is formed by merger of Canadian Government Railways, Canadian Northern Railway, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, and Grand Trunk Railway.
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Marijuana is made illegal in Canada
Arts and literature
- New books
Births
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January 1 - Roméo Sabourin, war hero
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March 1 - Uno Helava , inventor
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March 2 - Ghitta Caiserman-Roth , painter
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March 4 - Stanley Haidasz, politician
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March 10 - Richard Doyle, newspaper editor
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March 15 - Laurent Desjardins, Manitoba politician
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March 19 - Henry Morgentaler, abortion activist
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March 30 - Milton Acorn, poet
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April 7 - Aba Bayefsky, artist
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April 16 - Samuel Nathan Cohen , critic
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April 25 - Melissa Hayden , dancer
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May 5 - John Black Aird, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
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May 18 - Jean-Louis Roux, actor
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July 21 - Rudolph A. Marcus, Nobel laureate
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July 31 - Victor Goldbloom, Quebec politician
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August 3 - Robert Campeau, businessman
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August 6 - Paul T. Hellyer, politician
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August 21 - Robert Stewart, scientist
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September 1 - Kenneth Thomson, businessman
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September 2 - David Lam, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
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September 18 - Bertha Wilson, Supreme Court Justice
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October 7 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter
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October 23 - Réjane L. Colas , jurist
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November 1 - Gordon R. Dickson, author
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November 2 - Harold Horwood, writer
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November 22 - Arthur Hiller, film director
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Kildare Dobbs, writer
Deaths
Last updated: 02-09-2005 19:57:10
Last updated: 04-25-2005 03:06:01
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