1907 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Edward VII

Federal government

• Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
• Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
• Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
• Parliament – 10th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – James Dunsmuir
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball (until February 24) then Lemuel John Tweedie (from March 6)
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Duncan Cameron Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
• Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie (until March 6) then William Pugsley (March 6 to May 31) then Clifford William Robinson
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – John T. Lithgow (acting) (until June 17) then Alexander Henderson
• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin (from June 17)
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

• March 6 – William Pugsley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Lemuel John Tweedie
• May 24 – Boer War Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
• May 30 – King Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Alberta
• May 31 – Clifford Robinson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing William Pugsley
• August 24 – Part of the under-construction Quebec Bridge collapses in Quebec City killing 75 construction workers and injuring 11.
• September 7
  • An anti-Asian riot in Vancouver attacks Chinatown
  • Alexander Grant MacKay is elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
• September 14 – Jasper Forest Park later named Jasper National Park is established.

Full date unknown

• The National Council for Women demands "equal pay for equal work"
• The world's first rotary telephone came into use at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
• The first Sobeys opens in Stellarton, Nova Scotia

Births

January to June

• January 14 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, politician (d.1985)
• January 26 – Hans Selye, endocrinologist (d.1982)
• February 9 – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, geometer (d.2003)
• March 20 – Hugh MacLennan, author and professor of English (d.1990)
• March 24 – Paul Sauvé, lawyer, soldier, politician and 17th Premier of Quebec (d.1960)
• April 16 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor, businessman and founder of Bombardier Inc. (d.1964)
• April 17 – Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger, politician (d.1989)
• June 19 – Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general (d.1985)

July to December

• July 6 – George Stanley, historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant and designer of the current Canadian flag (d.2002)
• August 5 – Herman Linder, rodeoist
• August 24 – Alfred Belzile, politician and farmer
• September 3 – Andrew Brewin, lawyer and politician (d.1983)

• September 15 – Fay Wray, actress (d.2004)
• October 20 – Carl Goldenberg, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator (d.1996)
• November 19 – Frederick Thomas Armstrong, politician (d.1990)
• November 21 – Christie Harris, children's author (d.2002)
• December 12 – Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé, pianist, soprano and teacher (d.2007)

Unknown

• Edythe Shuttleworth, mezzo-soprano (d.1983)

Deaths

January to June

• January 1 – William Pearce Howland, politician (b.1811)
• January 25 – Andrew George Blair, politician and 6th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1844)
• January 31 – Timothy Eaton, businessman and founder of Eaton's (b.1834)
• March 3 – Oronhyatekha, Mohawk physician and scholar (b.1841)
• March 8 – Edward Cochrane, politician (b.1834)
• March 20 – Louis Adolphe Billy, politician and lawyer (b.1834)
• April 6 – William Henry Drummond, poet (b.1854)
• May 24 – Frederick William Lewis, politician.
• June 12 – John Waldie, politician (b.1833)

July to December

• August 10 – James Brien, politician and physician (b.1848)
• September 26 – Alexander Gunn, politician (b.1828)
• October 10 – Cassie Chadwick, fraudster (b.1857)
• October 13 – Harvey William Burk, politician and farmer (b.1822)

References

References

1. (15 November 2011). "Canada's Constitutional Monarchy". Dundurn.
2. (5 January 2015). "Jasper National Park Is The Most Beautiful Place In Canada".
3. "Dr Hans Selye".
4. (April 25, 2012). "Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé".
5. (October 25, 2009). "Edythe Shuttleworth".
6. (11 May 2018). "CHADWICK, CASSIE L.".