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1920
in
Canada

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Events from the year 1920 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Territorial governments

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Commissioners

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Events

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The Capitol Cinema in Ottawa opens on November 8

Date unknown

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Arts and literature

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Sport

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1920 Olympics

Births

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January to March

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James Doohan, 1997

April to June

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July to December

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Deaths

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January to June

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July to December

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See also

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Historical documents

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Guide to improving your community by understanding its needs and resources [10]

Funding is "not sufficient to meet our needs in buying food," and Indian residential school lacks enough garden space to make up for it[11]

TB patient must follow sanatorium stay with home treatment and lifestyle change, including "winter living out of doors"[12]

Anti-vaccination group seeks "judicial recognition [that] every freeman owns his own body"[13]

Professor calls for better obstetrics training to lower high rate of injury to mothers[14]

School improvements in Nova Scotia include hot lunches, stove polish and pencil sharpeners[15]

Advocacy magazine says present civil servant compensation amounts to economic slavery[16]

Wood Gundy co-founder insists on Christianity in global business[17]

Nellie McClung wants newspaper articles about "heroism, generosity, neighborly kindness" more than crime stories[18]

Stepmother of murdered child is sentenced to death[19]

Disposition, care and management of general purpose Canadian horse breed known for its endurance[20]

Witness before Senate committee on Hudson Bay envisions 50 million domestic reindeer on northern pasture, and muskox ranching too[21]

Lawrence Lambe finds Hadrosaur fossil "Edmontosaurus" in good condition near Red Deer River, Alberta[22]

References

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  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Historically Relevant Dates to the RCMP". Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Archived from the original on 2014-06-14. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  3. ^ Indian Act
  4. ^ Dominion Elections Act Statues of Canada C 46 S 38.
  5. ^ "The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1920 Chronology".
  6. ^ 1920
  7. ^ http://www.sportshall.ca/accessible/hm_profile.php?i=318[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ "Dr Lou Siminovitch". Prix Siminovitch. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
  9. ^ "Hometown Hero - Qapik Attagutsiak, Arctic Bay, Nunavut". Parks Canada. 27 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  10. ^ The Citizens' Research Institute of Canada, Community Engineering (1920). Accessed 10 April 2020
  11. ^ Letter of John T. Ross (July 21, 1920), National Archives of Canada, in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 160. Accessed 10 June 2021
  12. ^ "Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence" (April 22, 1920), Pensions, Insurance and Re-Establishment; Proceedings of the [House] Special Committee[....], pgs. 141-2. Accessed 15 October 2020
  13. ^ Correspondence relating to An Appeal to the Imperial Authorities by The People's Anti-Vaccination and Medical Freedom League of B.C. Accessed 6 June 2021
  14. ^ Ferguson, Robert (October 1920). "A Plea for better Obstetrics". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 10 (10): 901–904. PMC 1523944. PMID 20312355.
  15. ^ "School Improvement". Journal of Education. 6 (5): 41. January 20, 1920.
  16. ^ "Economic Slavery" The Civilian, Vol. XIII, No. 12 (November 1920), pg. 1. Accessed 10 April 2020
  17. ^ "The Forward Movement" The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 20-35. Accessed 9 April 2020
  18. ^ Nellie L. McClung, "The Newspaper of the Future" The Western Home Monthly (December 1920), pg. 3. Accessed 10 April 2020
  19. ^ "La justice humaine venge l'enfant martyre" (translated), La Presse (April 22, 1920), pg. 1. Accessed 6 April 2020
  20. ^ Gus. Langelier, The French-Canadian Horse Department of Agriculture Dominion Experimental Farms, Bulletin No. 95, Regular Series (1920). Accessed 10 April 2020
  21. ^ "Extract from the Evidence of Mr. V. Stefansson, Arctic Explorer" Report of the Special Committee[...]on the Navigability and Fishery Resources of Hudson Bay and Strait (June 4, 1920), pgs. 33-4. Accessed 5 October 2020
  22. ^ Lawrence M. Lambe, "The Hadrosaur Edmontosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta" Department of Mines - Canada, Geological Survey, No. 102, Geological Series (1920). Accessed 10 April 2020