Events
- January 4 – WWI: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry becomes the first Canadian troops sent to the front lines
- January 15 – The Canadian Northern Railway line to Vancouver, British Columbia, is completed
- February 2 - Vanceboro international bridge bombing
- February 4 – After a training accident, Lieutenant W. F. Sharpe becomes the first Canadian military airman killed
- February 14 – The Canadian Division arrives in France
- February 21 – Nellie McClung presents a petition to the Alberta Legislature demanding women's suffrage
- February 28 – WWI: Canadian troops launch the first trench raid of the war; by the end of the conflict Canadian troops will be regarded as the experts at this manoeuvre
- April 22 – WWI: In the Second Battle of Ypres Canadian forces bear the brunt of the first chemical weapons attack of the war. They devise makeshift gas masks of urine-soaked rags and hold their ground
- May 3 – "In Flanders Fields" is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.
- May 12 – Tobias Norris becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Sir Rodmond Roblin
- July 5 – The Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton opens
- August 6 – Manitoba General Election
- September 13 – WWI: with the arrival of the 2nd Canadian Division a separate Canadian Corps is created
- October 9 – WWI: The 3rd Canadian Division arrives in France
- December 15 – William John Bowser becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Richard McBride
- December 19 – Captain M.M. Bell-Irving,No.1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, achieves the first aerial victory by a Canadian when he shot down a German aircraft
- WWI – Many Canadian soldiers grow upset at the inferior quality of their Ross Rifles
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (18861973)
“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)