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Crown

Monarch – Edward VII^[1]

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Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
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Parliament – 10th (until 17 September)

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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 – Lemuel John Tweedie
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Duncan Cameron Fraser
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Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté (until September 15) then Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier
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 – Clifford William Robinson (until March 24) then John Douglas Hazen
Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters (until January 29) then Francis Haszard (from February 1)
Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Events

January 2 – The Royal Canadian Mint opens.
January 29 – Arthur Peters, Premier of Prince Edward Island, dies in office
February 1 – F. L. Haszard becomes premier of Prince Edward Island.
March 7 – The University of British Columbia is established by the British Columbia University Act.
March 24 – Sir John Douglas Hazen becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Clifford Robinson.
June 8 – In the Ontario election, Sir James Whitney's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority.
June 12 – Saskatchewan Government Telephones created.
August 2 – A fire in the Kootenay region kills 70.
August 14 – In the Saskatchewan election, Walter Scott's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.
September 23 – The University of Alberta opens.
October 26 – In the federal election, Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority.

Full date unknown

Anne of Green Gables is first published, having a great effect on Prince Edward Island.
The Opium and Narcotics Act is passed banning certain drugs in Canada.
The Grain Growers Guide is first published.
The Child Labour Act of Ontario is passed.^{[citation needed]}
Vancouver Courier first published.

Arts and literature

Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables is published.

Births

January to June

January 1 – Clarence Dunlap, Chief of the Air Staff Royal Canadian Air Force (d. 2003)
January 22 – Sinclair Ross, banker and author (d.1996)
February 1 – Louis Rasminsky, third Governor of the Bank of Canada (d.1998)
February 7 – Lela Brooks, speed skater (d.1990)
February 10 – Jean Coulthard, composer and academic (d.2000)
March 5 – Colin Emerson Bennett, politician and lawyer (d. 1993)
March 24 – Carl Klinck, literary historian and academic (d. 1990)
April 7 – Percy Faith, band-leader, orchestrator and composer (d. 1976)
May 11 – Hide Hyodo Shimizu, Japanese-Canadian educator and activist (d. 1999)
May 19 – Percy Williams, athlete (d. 1982)
May 26 – James Sinclair, politician, businessman and father of Margaret Sinclair, one-time wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and grandfather of Justin Trudeau (d.1984)
May 28 – Léo Cadieux, politician (d.2005)
June 5 – Maxwell Meighen, financier (d.1992)
June 18 – Stanley Knowles, politician (d.1997)

July to December

July 11
- Gérard Légaré, politician (d. 1997)
- Yves Prévost, politician and lawyer (d. 1997)
September 20 – Ernest Manning, Premier of Alberta (d.1996)
October 18 – Alfred Henry Bence, politician and barrister (d.1977)
October 24 – John Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist and geologist (d. 1993)
October 31 – Muriel Duckworth, pacifist and social activist (d. 2009)
November 3 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (d. 1990)
November 10 – Charles Merritt, army officer and politician (d. 2000)
December 6 – Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor, administrator and artistic director (d.2004)
December 13 – W. L. Morton, historian (d.1980)
December 23 – Yousuf Karsh, photographer (d.2002)

Deaths

January to June

January 6 – George Dixon, first Canadian-born boxing champion (b.1870)
January 13 – George Anthony Walkem, jurist and Premier of British Columbia (b.1834)
January 29 – Arthur Peters, Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1854)
May 31 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, politician and writer (b.1839)
June 14 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Governor General of Canada (b.1841)
June 24 – William Whiteway, Premier of Newfoundland (b.1828)

July to December

August 18 – Alfred Boyd, 1st Premier of Manitoba (b.1835)
September 7 – Joseph-Guillaume Bossé, politician and lawyer (b.1843)
October 30 – Thomas Greenway, 7th Premier of Manitoba (b.1838)
November 16 – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 4th Premier of Quebec and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (b.1829)
December 11 – Jean Blanchet, politician (b.1843)
December 25 – William McGuigan, politician and 10th Mayor of Vancouver (b.1853)

Historical documents

Mackenzie King and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt discuss Japanese immigration^[2]

To get people from "countries whose climatic conditions promise a suitable class of settlers," Canada pays bonuses to agents^[3]

Testimonials for service Salvation Army provides for immigrants to Canada^[4]

Lecturer describes largely American and mostly male immigration to Canada^[5]

Cabinet doubles spending-money amount required of jobless, hostless immigrants^[6]

Visiting agricultural tour reports on Canadian wages and cost of living^[7]

Visiting agriculturalist thinks Maritimes agriculture has much unmet potential^[8]

Visiting agriculturalist says Quebec's new Macdonald College will shake up "the worst farmers in Canada"^[9]

Visiting agriculturalist finds splendid fruit-growing potential in BC's Kootenay and Okanagan valleys^[10]

Government horticulturist W.T. Macoun advocates growing stands of trees on farms despite older farmers' antipathy toward them^[11]

Speaker celebrates Quebec City tercentenary, praising founders and their spirit^[12]

Brandon College principal supports right to separate religious university education^[13]

Fort McMurray fur trader introduces visitors to her Indigenous friends ^[14]

Alberta rustlers convicted, one for rustling and one for perjury (Note: anti-Mormon comments)^[15]

Edmonton Board of Trade's guide to road and pack trail route to Finlay River, B.C.^[16]

Midwife blows cayenne pepper into woman's nose to induce sneezing and quick delivery of baby ^[17]

References

^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy. Dundurn. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8.
^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1908 (January 25), pgs. 6-7. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ "Canadian Immigration" (April 29, 1908), Report of the [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization[...]1907-8, pgs. 323-4. Accessed 12 October 2020
^ "Appendix II; Voices from the West" The Surplus (1909), pgs. 80-8. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ L.P. Gravel, Canada; Its History; Its Resources; Its Development (1908), pgs. 21-3. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ Order in Council (September 11, 1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
^ "Cost of Living" Report of the Scottish Commission on Agriculture to Canada (1908), pgs. 179-86. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; The Maritime Provinces" Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pgs. 15-18. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; Quebec and Ontario," Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pg. 20. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; British Columbia," Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pgs. 23-4. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ "Growing of Forest Trees in Plantations[....]" (May 7, 1908), Report of the [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization[...]1907-8, pgs. 281-2. Accessed 12 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1004_1_1/305?r=0&s=1 (scroll down to Experiments with Forest Trees)
^ Adélard Turgeon, The Tercentenary of Quebec (July 29, 1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
^ Archibald P. McDiarmid, The Right and Expediency of Independence in University Education (1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
^ Agnes Deans Cameron, The New North; Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic (1909), pgs. 84-7. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ R. Burton Deane, Mounted Police Life in Canada; A Record of Thirty-one Years' Service (1916), pgs. 292-8. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ Report of(...)the Edmonton Board of Trade on the Transportation Facilities(...)to the Peace, Finlay, and MacKenzie River Basins (June 29, 1908; unpaginated). Accessed 11 February 2020
^ Wilfred Abram Bigelow, Forceps, Fin & Feather: The Memoirs of Dr. W.A. Bigelow (1970), pg. 52 (quoted in Whitney L. Wood, Birth Pangs: Maternity, Medicine, and Feminine Delicacy in English Canada, 1867-1950 pgs. 81-2). Accessed 25 January 2020

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