1920 in Canada - Events

Events

  • January 10 – Canada is a founding member of the League of Nations, effectively ending the declaration of war.
  • February 1 – The Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the Dominion Police are amalgamated and renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  • February 14 – Université de Montréal founded
  • February 26 – The Indian Act was amended to give Canadian aboriginal peoples the right to vote.
  • March 12 – The first Lions Club outside the United States is founded in Windsor, Ontario.
  • May 14 – Canadian Forum magazine founded
  • June – The Catholic Women's League is formed in Montreal
  • June 24 – Dollard des Ormeaux Monument unveiled
  • July 1 – Under the Dominion Elections Act, uniform franchise is established and the right for women to be elected to parliament is made permanent.
  • July 9 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Lomer Gouin
  • July 10 – Arthur Meighen becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Robert Borden
  • October 17 – The first airplane to fly across Canada arrives in Richmond from Halifax.
  • December 25 – Walter Cameron Nichol becomes the 12th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

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