View source for 1907 in Canada

{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive -->
{{Refimprove|date=September 2023}}
{{Year in Canada|1907}}
{{History of Canada}}

Events from the year '''1907 in Canada'''.

==Incumbents==

=== Crown ===
* [[List of Canadian monarchs|Monarch]] – [[Edward VII]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tidridge |first1=Nathan |title=Canada's Constitutional Monarchy |date=15 November 2011 |publisher=Dundurn |isbn=978-1-55488-980-8 |page=235 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KAvtMxqSDncC&pg=PA235 |language=en}}</ref>

=== Federal government ===
* [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]] – [[Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey]] 
* [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] – [[Wilfrid Laurier]]
* [[Chief Justice of Canada|Chief Justice]] – [[Charles Fitzpatrick]] ([[Quebec]]) 
* [[Parliament of Canada|Parliament]] – [[10th Canadian Parliament|10th]]

=== Provincial governments ===

==== Lieutenant governors ====
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Alberta]] – [[George H. V. Bulyea|George Hedley Vicars Bulyea]] 
*[[Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia]] – [[James Dunsmuir]] 
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba]] – [[Daniel Hunter McMillan]]
*[[Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick]] – [[Jabez Bunting Snowball]] (until February 24) then [[Lemuel John Tweedie]] (from March 6)
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia]] – [[Duncan Cameron Fraser]]   
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Ontario]] – [[William Mortimer Clark]] 
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island]] – [[Donald Alexander MacKinnon]] 
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Quebec]] – [[Louis-Amable Jetté]] 
*[[Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan]] – [[Amédée E. Forget|Amédée Forget]]

==== Premiers ====
*[[Premier of Alberta]] – [[Alexander Cameron Rutherford]]    
*[[Premier of British Columbia]] – [[Richard McBride]]  
*[[Premier of Manitoba]] – [[Rodmond Roblin]]  
*[[Premier of New Brunswick]] – [[Lemuel John Tweedie]] (until March 6) then [[William Pugsley]] (March 6 to May 31) then [[Clifford William Robinson]] 
*[[Premier of Nova Scotia]] – [[George Henry Murray]] 
*[[Premier of Ontario]] – [[James Whitney (politician)|James Whitney]]   
*[[Premier of Prince Edward Island]] – [[Arthur Peters (Canadian politician)|Arthur Peters]] 
*[[Premier of Quebec]] – [[Lomer Gouin]]  
*[[Premier of Saskatchewan]] – [[Thomas Walter Scott]]

===Territorial governments===

====Commissioners====
* [[Commissioner of Yukon]] – [[John T. Lithgow]] (acting) (until June 17) then [[Alexander Henderson (Canadian politician)|Alexander Henderson]] 
* [[Gold Commissioner of Yukon]] – [[F.X. Gosselin]] (from June 17)
* [[Commissioner of Northwest Territories]] – [[Frederick D. White]]

==Events==
*March 6 – [[William Pugsley]] becomes premier of [[New Brunswick]], replacing [[Lemuel John Tweedie]]
*May 24 – [[Boer War Memorial (Montreal)]] unveiled 
*May 30 – King [[Edward VII]] grants the [[Coat of Arms of Alberta]]
*May 31 – [[Clifford William Robinson|Clifford Robinson]] becomes premier of [[New Brunswick]], replacing [[William Pugsley]]
*August 24 – Part of the under-construction [[Quebec Bridge]]  collapses in [[Quebec City]] killing 75 construction workers and injuring 11. 
*September 7 
**An [[1907 Vancouver anti-Asian riots|anti-Asian riot in Vancouver]] attacks [[Chinatown, Vancouver|Chinatown]]
**[[Alexander Grant MacKay]] is elected leader of the [[Ontario Liberal Party]]
*September 14 – Jasper Forest Park{{snd}} later named [[Jasper National Park]]{{snd}} is established.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jasper National Park Is The Most Beautiful Place In Canada|url=http://allthatsinteresting.com/jasper-national-park-canada|website=All That's Interesting|access-date=14 May 2018|date=5 January 2015}}</ref>

===Full date unknown===
*The National Council for Women demands "[[equal pay for equal work]]"
*The world's first [[rotary telephone]] came into use at [[Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia]]
*The first [[Sobeys]] opens in [[Stellarton, Nova Scotia]]

==Births==

===January to June===
*January 14 – [[Georges-Émile Lapalme]], politician (d.[[1985 in Canada|1985]])
*January 26 – [[Hans Selye]], endocrinologist (d.[[1982 in Canada|1982]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr Hans Selye|url=https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~berczii/hans-selye.html|website=home.cc.umanitoba.ca|access-date=14 May 2018}}</ref>
*February 9 – [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]], geometer (d.[[2003 in Canada|2003]])
*March 20 – [[Hugh MacLennan]], author and professor of English (d.[[1990 in Canada|1990]])
<!--  Commented out: [[Image:Paul Sauvé.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Paul Sauvé]] -->
*March 24 – [[Paul Sauvé]], lawyer, soldier, politician and 17th [[Premier of Quebec]] (d.[[1960 in Canada|1960]])
*April 16 – [[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]], inventor, businessman and founder of [[Bombardier Inc.]] (d.[[1964 in Canada|1964]])
*April 17 – [[Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger]], politician (d.[[1989 in Canada|1989]])

===July to December===
*July 6 – [[George Stanley]], historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant and designer of the current [[Canadian flag]] (d.[[2002 in Canada|2002]])
*August 5 – [[Herman Linder]], rodeoist
*August 24 – [[Alfred Belzile]], politician and farmer
*September 3 – [[Andrew Brewin]], lawyer and politician (d.[[1983 in Canada|1983]])
[[Image:Fay Wray Stars of the Photoplay.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Fay Wray – Publicity photo, ca. 1930]]
*September 15 – [[Fay Wray]], actress (d.[[2004 in Canada|2004]])
*October 20 – [[Carl Goldenberg]], lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator (d.[[1996 in Canada|1996]])
*November 19 – [[Frederick Thomas Armstrong]], politician (d.[[1990 in Canada|1990]])
*November 21 – [[Christie Harris]], children's author (d.[[2002 in Canada|2002]])
*December 12 – [[Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé]], pianist, soprano and teacher (d.[[2007 in Canada|2007]])<ref name=CEntry>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/beauchamp-huppe-fleurette-emc|encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|date=April 25, 2012|access-date=December 6, 2020}}</ref>

===Unknown===
* [[Edythe Shuttleworth]], mezzo-soprano (d.[[1983 in Canada|1983]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Edythe Shuttleworth|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/edythe-shuttleworth-emc|encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|date=October 25, 2009|accessdate=May 12, 2021}}</ref>

==Deaths==

===January to June===
{{Unreferenced section|date=September 2023}}
*January 1 – [[William Pearce Howland]], politician (b.[[1811 in Canada|1811]]) 
*January 25 – [[Andrew George Blair]], politician and 6th [[Premier of New Brunswick]] (b.[[1844 in Canada|1844]])
*January 31 – [[Timothy Eaton]], businessman and founder of [[Eaton's]] (b.[[1834 in Canada|1834]])
*March 3 – [[Oronhyatekha]], [[Mohawk nation|Mohawk]] physician and scholar (b.[[1841 in Canada|1841]])
*March 8 – [[Edward Cochrane]], politician (b.[[1834 in Canada|1834]])
*March 20 – [[Louis Adolphe Billy]], politician and lawyer (b.[[1834 in Canada|1834]]) 
*April 6 – [[William Henry Drummond]], poet (b.[[1854 in Canada|1854]])
*May 24 – [[Frederick William Lewis]], politician.
*June 12 – [[John Waldie]], politician (b.[[1833 in Canada|1833]])

===July to December===
*August 10 – [[James Brien]], politician and physician (b.[[1848 in Canada|1848]])
*September 26 – [[Alexander Gunn (politician)|Alexander Gunn]], politician (b.[[1828 in Canada|1828]])
*October 10 – [[Cassie Chadwick]], fraudster (b.[[1857 in Canada|1857]])<ref>{{cite web|title=CHADWICK, CASSIE L.|url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/chadwick-cassie-l/|website=case.edu|date=11 May 2018 |access-date=14 May 2018|language=en}}</ref>
*October 13 – [[Harvey William Burk]], politician and farmer (b.[[1822 in Canada|1822]])

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

{{Canadian history}}
{{Canada year nav}}
{{North America topic|1907 in}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:1907 In Canada}}
[[Category:1907 in Canada| ]]
[[Category:Years of the 20th century in Canada]]
[[Category:1907 by country|Canada]]
[[Category:1907 in North America|Canada]]