Events from the year 1908 in Canada .
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Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
Territorial governments [ edit ]
Arts and literature [ edit ]
January 1 – Clarence Dunlap , Chief of the Air Staff Royal Canadian Air Force (d. 2003)
January 22 – Sinclair Ross , banker and author (d.1996 )
February 1 – Louis Rasminsky , third Governor of the Bank of Canada (d.1998 )
February 7 – Lela Brooks , speed skater (d.1990 )
February 10 – Jean Coulthard , composer and academic (d.2000 )
March 5 – Colin Emerson Bennett , politician and lawyer (d. 1993 )
March 24 – Carl Klinck , literary historian and academic (d. 1990 )
April 7 – Percy Faith , band-leader, orchestrator and composer (d. 1976 )
May 11 – Hide Hyodo Shimizu , Japanese-Canadian educator and activist (d. 1999 )
May 19 – Percy Williams , athlete (d. 1982 )
May 26 – James Sinclair , politician, businessman and father of Margaret Sinclair , one-time wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau , and grandfather of Justin Trudeau (d.1984 )
May 28 – Léo Cadieux , politician (d.2005 )
June 5 – Maxwell Meighen , financier (d.1992 )
June 12 – Alphonse Ouimet , broadcaster (d. 1988 )[ 2]
June 18 – Stanley Knowles , politician (d.1997 )
July 11
September 20 – Ernest Manning , Premier of Alberta (d.1996 )
October 18 – Alfred Henry Bence , politician and barrister (d.1977 )
October 24 – John Tuzo Wilson , geophysicist and geologist (d. 1993 )
October 31 – Muriel Duckworth , pacifist and social activist (d. 2009 )
November 3 – Bronko Nagurski , American football player (d. 1990 )
November 10 – Charles Merritt , army officer and politician (d. 2000)
December 6 – Nicholas Goldschmidt , conductor, administrator and artistic director (d.2004 )
December 13 – W. L. Morton , historian (d.1980 )
December 23 – Yousuf Karsh , photographer (d.2002 )
Historical documents [ edit ]
Mackenzie King and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt discuss Japanese immigration [ 3]
To get people from "countries whose climatic conditions promise a suitable class of settlers," Canada pays bonuses to agents[ 4]
Testimonials for service Salvation Army provides for immigrants to Canada[ 5]
Lecturer describes largely American and mostly male immigration to Canada[ 6]
Cabinet doubles spending-money amount required of jobless, hostless immigrants[ 7]
Visiting agricultural tour reports on Canadian wages and cost of living[ 8]
Visiting agriculturalist thinks Maritimes agriculture has much unmet potential[ 9]
Visiting agriculturalist says Quebec's new Macdonald College will shake up "the worst farmers in Canada"[ 10]
Visiting agriculturalist finds splendid fruit-growing potential in BC's Kootenay and Okanagan valleys[ 11]
Government horticulturist W.T. Macoun advocates growing stands of trees on farms despite older farmers' antipathy toward them[ 12]
Speaker celebrates Quebec City tercentenary , praising founders and their spirit[ 13]
Brandon College [broken anchor ] principal supports right to separate religious university education[ 14]
Fort McMurray fur trader introduces visitors to her Indigenous friends
[ 15]
Alberta rustlers convicted, one for rustling and one for perjury (Note: anti-Mormon comments )[ 16]
Edmonton Board of Trade's guide to road and pack trail route to Finlay River , B.C.[ 17]
Midwife blows cayenne pepper into woman's nose to induce sneezing and quick delivery of baby
[ 18]
^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy . Dundurn. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8 .
^ "Joseph-Alphonse Ouimet" . The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved June 18, 2024 .
^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1908 (January 25), pgs. 6 -7. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ "Canadian Immigration" (April 29, 1908), Report of the [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization[...]1907-8, pgs. 323-4. Accessed 12 October 2020
^ "Appendix II; Voices from the West" The Surplus (1909), pgs. 80-8. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ L.P. Gravel, Canada; Its History; Its Resources; Its Development (1908), pgs. 21 -3. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ Order in Council (September 11, 1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
^ "Cost of Living" Report of the Scottish Commission on Agriculture to Canada (1908), pgs. 179-86. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; The Maritime Provinces" Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pgs. 15-18. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; Quebec and Ontario," Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pg. 20 . Accessed 11 February 2020
^ R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; British Columbia," Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pgs. 23 -4. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ "Growing of Forest Trees in Plantations[....]" (May 7, 1908), Report of the [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization[...]1907-8, pgs. 281-2. Accessed 12 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1004_1_1/305?r=0&s=1 (scroll down to Experiments with Forest Trees)
^ Adélard Turgeon, The Tercentenary of Quebec (July 29, 1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
^ Archibald P. McDiarmid, The Right and Expediency of Independence in University Education (1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
^ Agnes Deans Cameron, The New North; Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic (1909), pgs. 84 -7. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ R. Burton Deane, Mounted Police Life in Canada; A Record of Thirty-one Years' Service (1916), pgs. 292 -8. Accessed 11 February 2020
^ Report of(...)the Edmonton Board of Trade on the Transportation Facilities(...)to the Peace, Finlay, and MacKenzie River Basins (June 29, 1908; unpaginated). Accessed 11 February 2020
^ Wilfred Abram Bigelow, Forceps, Fin & Feather: The Memoirs of Dr. W.A. Bigelow (1970), pg. 52 (quoted in Whitney L. Wood, Birth Pangs: Maternity, Medicine, and Feminine Delicacy in English Canada, 1867-1950 pgs. 81-2). Accessed 25 January 2020
1908 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories