Deaths
- January 16 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, 10th Governor General of Canada (born 1850)
- January 30 - Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, politician and 1st Premier of the Northwest Territories (born 1857)
- February 4 - Louis-Adolphe Paquet, theologian (born 1859)
- March 11 - Raoul Dandurand, politician (born 1861)
- March 15 - Edgar Nelson Rhodes, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia (born 1877)
- March 21 - J. S. Woodsworth, politician (born 1874)
- April 24 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, author (born 1874)
- May 18 - Herménégilde Boulay, politician (born 1861)
- June 17 - Charles Fitzpatrick, lawyer, politician and 5th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1853)
- October 6 - Ella Cora Hind, journalist and women's rights activist (born 1861)
- December 26 - Frank Dawson Adams, geologist (born 1859)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)