1922 in Canada

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Events from the year 1922 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Mary of Teck)

Federal government

• Governor general – Julian Byng (viceregal consort – Evelyn Byng)
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Cameron Nichol
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Albert Manning Aikins
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Pugsley
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – MacCallum Grant
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry Cockshutt
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Murdock MacKinnon
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Fitzpatrick
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Herbert Greenfield
• Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
• Premier of Manitoba – Tobias Norris (until August 8) then John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Walter Foster
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – Ernest Drury
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Howatt Bell
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – William Melville Martin (until April 5) then Charles Avery Dunning

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events

• January 1 – British Columbia changes from driving on the left to the right
• January 11 – The world's first insulin treatment is made at the Toronto General Hospital. The successful technique would later win a Nobel Prize for its creators, Frederick Banting and Charles Best.
• April 5 – Charles Dunning becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing William Martin
• May 3 – The women of Prince Edward Island win the right to vote
• July – Rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle is designed and made by rodeo cowboy and saddle maker Earl Bascom at the Bascom Ranch, Lethbridge, Alberta
• August 8 – John Bracken becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Tobias Norris
• September 15 – Prime Minister Mackenzie King refuses to support the British in the Chanak Affair, asserting foreign policy independence for the first time
• October 9 – Prairie Bible College opens with eight students in Three Hills, Alberta
• October 22 – Dante Monument (Montreal) unveiled
• December 1 - New Brunswick changes from driving on the left to the right
• December 5 - The land around Vimy Ridge is given to Canada by France in gratitude for the Canadian sacrifices during World War I

Full date unknown

• Montreal Clock Tower completed
• The first licences for private commercial radio stations are issued

Arts and literature

• Nanook of the North is released, the first film to be called a documentary

Births

January to June

• January 21 - Lincoln Alexander, politician and 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.2012)
• February 25 - Molly Lamb Bobak, teacher, writer, printmaker and painter
• April 24 - Philip Givens, politician, judge and Mayor of Toronto (d.1995)
• April 26 - Jeanne Sauvé, politician and first female Governor General of Canada (d.1993)
• April 28 - Daryl Seaman, businessman (d.2009)
• May 2 - A. M. Rosenthal, columnist and newspaper editor (d.2006)
• June 9 - Fernand Seguin, biochemist, professor and television host (d.1988)
• June 11 - Erving Goffman, sociologist and writer (d.1982)
• June 22 - Richard Vollenweider, limnologist (d.2007)

July to September

• July 16 - Augustin Brassard, politician
• July 30 - Jack McClelland, publisher (d.2004)
• August 7 - Helmut Kallmann, historian
• August 11 - Mavis Gallant, writer
• August 24 - René Lévesque, politician, Minister and 23rd Premier of Quebec (d.1987)
• September 1 - Yvonne De Carlo, actress, dancer and singer (d.2007)
• September 3 - Salli Terri, singer, arranger, recording artist and songwriter (d.1996)
• September 16 - Alex Barris, actor and writer (d.2004)

October to December

• October 9 - Léon Dion, political scientist (d.1997)
• October 17 - Pierre Juneau, politician and film and broadcast executive
• November 12 - Charlotte MacLeod, writer (d.2005)
• December 11 - Pauline Jewett, politician and educator (d.1992)
• December 22 - Percy Smith, barrister, lawyer and politician (d.2009)

Full date unknown

• Milt Harradence, lawyer, pilot, politician and judge (d.2008)
• Hilda Watson, leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (d.1997)

Deaths

• January 26 - Robert Beith, politician (b.1843)
• April 12 - Robert Boston, politician (b.1836)
• May 23 - Robert Franklin Sutherland, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b.1859)
• July 22 - Sara Jeannette Duncan, author and journalist (b.1861)
• August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone (b.1847)
• December 3 - William Proudfoot, politician and barrister (b.1859)