Timeline of Quebec History (1900 To 1930) - 1910s

1910s

• 1910 - Henri Bourassa founds Le Devoir (newspaper).
• 1912 - The Parliament of Canada passes Quebec Boundaries Extension Act that extends the northern boundary of the province of Quebec to Hudson Strait.
• 1912 - Ontario limits the teaching in French to grades one and two of elementary school with Regulation 17.
• 1912 - Quebec general election: Liberals win.
• 1914 - Beginning of First World War.
• 1916 - English becomes the only authorized language of instruction in Manitoba. The province's sizeable French-speaking population is forced to attend English schools until 1970.
• 1916 - Quebec general election: Liberals win.
• 1917 - There are riots in Quebec as the federal government enforces conscription. See Conscription Crisis of 1917.
• 1918 - Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur presents a motion demanding the independence of Quebec.
• 1918 - Lionel Groulx, becomes the first priest to publicly denounce what he considers injustices against French speakers. He denounces the unilingual English face of Montreal, the absence of bilingual coins and bank notes, and the absence of French in Ottawa, the federal capital.
• 1918 - Women win the right to vote in Canadian federal elections. All provinces follow suit by 1922 except Quebec, which does not give women the right to vote in provincial elections until 1940.
• 1919 - On May 8, the branch of Université Laval built in Montreal in 1878 becomes autonomous and is renamed Université de Montréal.
• 1919 - Quebec general election: Liberals win.