1906 in Canada

Events from the year 1906 in Canada.

Incumbents

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January 1 – Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal
January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
March 27 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
April 30 – The Ottawa Public Library opens
May 7 – Ontario Hydro created
May 23 – Regina decreed capital of Saskatchewan
June 24 – Octave Crémazie Monument unveiled
August 26 – Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Saskatchewan
The Revillon Frères trading post opens at Fort Saint John, British Columbia, as competition against the Hudson's Bay Company
August 28 – Treaty 10 is signed.

February 23 – Tommy Burns becomes the First Canadian to be Boxing's Heavyweight champion by defeating Marvin Hart

January 15 – Edna Staebler, author (d. 2006)
January 27 – Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (d.1987)
January 29 – Joe Primeau, ice hockey player (d.1989)
February 14 – Roland Beaudry, politician, journalist, publicist and publisher (d.1964)
March 10 – Lionel Bertrand, politician, journalist and newspaper editor (d.1979)
May 15 – Robert Methven Petrie, astronomer (d.1966)
May 16 – Alfred Pellan, painter (d.1988)
June 22 – Stanley Fox, politician (d.1984)
June 26 – Marian Scott, painter
July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic and politician (d. 1992)
September 24 – Leonard Marsh, social scientist and professor (d.1983)
November 20 – John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (d.1996)
December 16 – Barbara Kent, Canadian actress

February 2 – Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (b.1823)
March 31 – James McIntyre, poet (b.1828)
April 12 – Robert Thorburn, merchant, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1836)
May 3 – Peter White, politician (b.1838)
May 19 – Gabriel Dumont, Metis leader (b.1837)
June 9 – William Carpenter Bompas, Church of England clergyman, bishop and missionary (b.1834)
June 11 – Hector-Louis Langevin, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1826)
October 7 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (b.1848)

Reconciling Dominion Lands Act rules on homesteading and traditional Doukhobor communal practice is complicated by poverty, religious freedom and squatting.Department of the Interior, [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3032/9.html "Memo(...)in regard to homestead entries by Doukhobors"] Papers Relating to the Holding of Homestead Entries by Members of the Doukhobor Community[....] (1907), pgs. 6-11. Accessed 3 February 2020

Rugby School lecture gives somewhat fantastic and imperial picture of life in Canada for immigrant Englishman[https://rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/viewer.html?file=%2fFilename.ashx%3ftableName%3dta_meteor%26columnName%3dfilename%26recordId%3d844%26page%3d3%26end%3d5 "'Canada.' By O.H. Hanson, Esq."] The Meteor, No. 473 (April 3, 1906), pgs. 43-4. Accessed 15 March 2022

Hardships and success of Barr Colony settlers at Lloydminster, Saskatchewan[https://web.archive.org/web/20190123193817/https://folklore.library.ualberta.ca/dspCitation.cfm?ID=15 "The Barr Colony after 3 Years"] Edmonton Bulletin (July 30, 1906). Accessed 3 February 2020

British printers complain of being tricked into breaking Winnipeg strikeColonial Office (London), [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2957/5.html Canada: Correspondence Relating to the Complaint of Certain Printers Who Were Induced to Emigrate to Canada by False Representations] (1906). Accessed 3 February 2020

Save Manitoba elk and moose from "the white man's lust for killing"John Percival Turner, [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3008/3.html "The Moose and Wapiti of Manitoba; A Plea for Their Preservation"] The Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, Transaction No. 69 (March 8, 1906). Accessed 3 February 2020