Events
- March 1 - Harlan Brewster, premier of British Columbia, dies in office
- March 6 - John Oliver becomes premier of British Columbia
- March 30 - C Squadron of Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) conducts a cavalry charge against the Germans at Moreuil Wood. The squadron suffers atrocious casualties, but the action is one of the keys of halting the German advance in Operation Michael. Lieutenant Gordon Flowerdew will be awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously.
- April 21 - Canadian Roy Brown supposedly shoots down the famed Red Baron. His claim is countered by those in the 53rd Australian Infantry. Namely, Sgts. Cedric Popkin, Evans and Buie.
- May 24 - All female citizens aged 21 and over became eligible to vote in federal elections, regardless of whether they had yet attained the provincial franchise.
- August 2 - The first General Strike in Canada on in Vancouver, British Columbia triggered by the murder of Ginger Goodwin.
- August 8 - World War I: At the Battle of Amiens superior Canadian gunners assist a great allied breakthrough (also called Canada's 100 Days)
- September - Canadian forces arrive in northern Russia to assist the White Russians in their battle against the Bolsheviks
- October - A second group of Canadian forces is sent to Siberia
- October 24 - Beniah Bowman bad luck the first deputy working to take back by-election of Manitoulin in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- November 11 - The First World War ends. Over 600 000 Canadians fought in Europe: 70 000 were killed and 173 000 were wounded
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)