1915 in Canada

1915 in Canada

"See also:"
1914 in Canada,
other events of 1915,
1916 in Canada and the
Timeline of Canadian history.

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Events

* January 4: WWI: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry becomes the first Canadian troops sent to the front lines
* January 15: The Canadian Northern Railway line to Vancouver, British Columbia, is completed
* February 4: After a training accident, Lieutenant W. F. Sharpe becomes the first Canadian military airman killed
* February 21: Nellie McClung presents a petition to the Alberta Legislature demanding women's suffrage
* February 28: WWI: Canadian troops launch the first trench raid of the war; by the end of the conflict Canadian troops will be regarded as the experts at this manoeuvre
* March 26: The Vancouver Millionaires defeat the Ottawa Senators to win the Stanley Cup
* April 22: WWI: In the Second Battle of Ypres Canadian forces bear the brunt of the first chemical weapons attack of the war. They devise makeshift gas masks of urine-soaked rags and hold their ground
* May 3: "In Flanders Fields" is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.
* May 12: Tobias Norris becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Sir Rodmond Roblin
* July 5: The Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton opens
* September 13: WWI: with the arrival of the 2nd Canadian Division a separate Canadian Corps is created
* December 15: William John Bowser becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Richard McBride
* December 19: Captain M.M. Bell-Irving,No.1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, achieves the first aerial victory by a Canadian when he shot down a German aircraft
* WWI: Many Canadian soldiers grow upset at the inferior quality of their Ross Rifles

Arts and literature

:New works
*"In Flanders Fields": John McCrae
*"The Golden Road": Lucy Maud Montgomery

Births

* January 22: Bill Durnan, goalie
* February 12: Lorne Greene, actor
* April 9: Daniel Johnson, Premier of Quebec
* April 11: Eddie Sargent, politician, humanitarian, entrepreneur
* May 3: Stu Hart, WWF wrestler and football player (Canadian Football League)
* May 28: Conrad Bourcier, hockey player
* May 28: Frank Pickersgill, Second World War hero
* July 4: Harold E. Johns, physicist
* July 6: Leonard Birchall, war hero
* August 3: Frank Calder, politician
* August 20: H. Gordon Barrett, politician
* August 22: Dr. James Hillier, electron microscope inventor
* August 22: Jacques Flynn, politician
* October 7: Charles Templeton, politician and broadcaster
* October 25 : Tommy Prince, Second World War hero
* November 27: Yves Thériault, writer
* December 13: Ross Macdonald, author
* Percy Saltzman, Canada's first weatherman
* Arthur Julian Andrew, ambassador and author

Deaths

* Kit Coleman, journalist
* October 30: Sir Charles Tupper, Prime Minister
* June 14: Antoine Audet, politician


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