1918 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Events

  • March 1 – Harlan Brewster, premier of British Columbia, dies in office
  • March 6 – John Oliver becomes premier of British Columbia
  • March 28 – April 1 – In the Easter Riots in Quebec City, the Militia suppress anti-conscription protesters. Four civilians are killed.
  • March 30 – C Squadron of Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) conducts a cavalry charge against the Germans at Moreuil Wood. The squadron suffers atrocious casualties, but the action is one of the keys of halting the German advance in Operation Michael. Lieutenant Gordon Flowerdew will be awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously.
  • April 21 – Canadian Captain Roy Brown (209 Squadron, RAF) supposedly shoots down the famed Red Baron. More accepted theories credit either Sergeant Cedric Popkin (Australian 24th Machine Gun Company), Gunner Snowy Evans or Gunner Robert Buie (both of 53rd Battery, 14th Field Artillery Brigade, RAA) with the kill.
  • May 24 – Canadian women (except status Indians) obtain the right to vote in federal elections (even if they did not yet have the right to vote in provincial elections); some limited women's suffrage had been granted the year earlier. Status Indians gained federal suffrage in 1960.[1]
  • August 2 – The first general strike in Canada occurred in Vancouver, British Columbia, triggered by the murder of Ginger Goodwin.
  • August 8 – World War I: At the Battle of Amiens superior Canadian gunners assist a great allied breakthrough (also called Canada's 100 Days)
  • August 26 – September 3 – Battle of Arras, 1918
  • September – Canadian forces arrive in northern Russia to assist the White Russians in their battle against the Bolsheviks
  • September 2–3 – Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line
  • September 9–12 – Battle of the Hindenburg Line
  • September 27 – October 2 – Battle of Canal du Nord
  • October – A second group of Canadian forces is sent to Siberia
  • October 8–9 – Battle of Cambrai (1918)
  • November 1–2 – Battle of Valenciennes
  • November 11 – The First World War ends. Over 600 000 Canadians fought in Europe: 70 000 were killed and 173 000 were wounded

Full date unknown

Arts and literature

Sport

Births

January to June

July to December

Deaths

John McCrae in uniform, circa 1914

Historical Documents

British prime minister Lloyd George details British war aims, including liberation and self-determination of nations[2]

Ontario women recruited for summer work in food production[3]

Saskatchewan Victoria Cross winner Hugh Cairns cited for "most conspicuous bravery"[4]

His brother describes presentation of Victoria Cross to George Pearkes, "looking a very fine soldier indeed"[5]

Account of Canadian cavalry action resulting in Victoria Cross award for Gordon Flowerdew[6]

Shot-down pilot describes jumping from his falling plane despite bullet wounds and burns[7]

Canadian soldier describes his psychological strain[8]

Folksy Canadian enjoys leave in Paris, despite street crime[9]

Soldier appreciates "toothsomeness" of Christmas treats after living on hardtack and bully beef[10]

U.S. soldier newspaper salutes Canadian forces, but confuses Victoria Day and Dominion Day[11]

Saint John Housewives' League and War Gardens Association exhibit their prowess and patriotism in competitive exhibitions[12]

Ontario health board's tips and myths regarding influenza[13]

Various Montreal community groups aid fight against influenza[14]

Death notice for Mi'kmaq grand chief John Denny Jr. and inauguration of new grand chief Gabriel Sylliboy on Cape Breton Island[15]

United Farm Women of Ontario get their male counterparts to work with them[16]

United Farmers of Ontario protest undemocratic wartime government practices[17]

Basic English manual is aimed at foreign-born adults of "industrial class"[18]

Labour lawyer comments at length on deteriorating worker-management relations in Winnipeg[19]

Journalist says people in central Canada have no more influence on government than Westerners do (and perhaps less)[20]

Vilhjalmur Stefansson speaks on difficulties of his Arctic explorations, and overcoming them[21]

University of Manitoba convocation speaker addresses optimism[22]

Wilfrid Laurier comments on Louis Hémon's novel Maria Chapdelaine[23]

References

  1. Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. http://criaw-icref.ca/millenium Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Labor Men Hear Lloyd George on British War Aims," The (Calgary) Morning Albertan (January 7, 1918), No. 261, pg. 1. Accessed 17 March 2020 https://cdm22007.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22007coll18/id/199022/rec/88
  3. Trades and Labour Branch, Department of Public Works, "Women's Work on the Land; How You May Assist in Food Production this Summer". Accessed 18 March 2020 http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayEcopies&rec_nbr=165380&ecopy=e000000412
  4. "Awarded The Victoria Cross; 472168 Sergeant Hugh Cairns, D.C.M.[....]" Accessed 17 March 2020 http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/war/memorials.html (scroll down to Cairns)
  5. Letter of W.A. Pearkes (June 22, 1918). Accessed 17 March 2020 http://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/schoolnet/digicol/pearkes/plv5/viccrosslet.html
  6. "Lieutenant Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, Lord Strathcona's Horse," Thirty Canadian V.Cs., pgs. 94-6. Accessed 17 March 2020 http://www.archive.org/stream/thirtycanadianvc00canauoft#page/94/mode/2up/
  7. Letter of Alan Arnett McLeod (April 2, 1918). Accessed 17 March 2020 https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2695124#page/1/mode/2up
  8. Letter of Don Mackenzie (June 29, 1918). Accessed 17 March 2020 https://archives.queensu.ca/exhibits/archival-resources-teachers/archival-look-world-war-i/warfare-wwi (scroll down to "Wilma" and click on page images)
  9. Letter of Jack Malcolm Brown (January 3, 1918). Accessed 17 March 2020 https://www.canadianletters.ca/content/document-622
  10. Letter of Joseph McCartney (January 22, 1918). Accessed 17 March 2020 https://www.canadianletters.ca/content/document-1820
  11. "Hail, Canada!" The Stars and Stripes (May 24, 1918), pg. 4. http://memory.loc.gov/service/sgp/sgpsas/1918/191805/19180524/04.pdf "Canada's Own Day," The Stars and Stripes (June 28, 1918), pg. 4. http://memory.loc.gov/service/sgp/sgpsas/1918/191806/19180628/04.pdf Accessed 17 March 2020
  12. Exhibition pamphlets. Accessed 18 March 2020 http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/MOP/english/ww1/dosearch.asp?browse=8&results=50&all=true (scroll down to "War Gardens")
  13. Ontario Provincial Board of Health, "Influenza Precautions; Warning to Health Authorities". Accessed 18 March 2020 http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/health_records/big/big_10_influenza.aspx
  14. S. Boucher, MD, "The Epidemic of Influenza," The Canadian Medical Association Journal (December 1918), pgs. 1090-1. Accessed 17 March 2020 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/flu/1870flu.0016.781/5/--epidemic-of-influenza
  15. Helen Sylliboy (translation), "Message on the Death of Chief John Denny". https://www.cbu.ca/indigenous-affairs/mikmaq-resource-centre/miscellany/message-on-the-death-of-chief-john-denny/ Helen Sylliboy (translation), "September 1918". https://www.cbu.ca/indigenous-affairs/mikmaq-resource-centre/miscellany/september-1918/ Accessed 18 March 2020
  16. "Chapter V; The United Farm Women," The Challenge of Agriculture; The Story of the United Farmers of Ontario (1921), pgs. 115-27. Accessed 18 March 2020 http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla2712857#page/114/mode/2up
  17. "Appendix," The Challenge of Agriculture; The Story of the United Farmers of Ontario (1921). Accessed 18 March 2020 http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla2712857#page/192/mode/2up
  18. George Elmore Reaman, "Preface," English for New Canadians (1919). Accessed 18 March 2020 http://www.archive.org/details/englishfornewcan00reamuoft
  19. Letter of Thomas Murray (May 28, 1918). Accessed 19 March 2020 http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayEcopies&rec_nbr=97933
  20. Bernard K. Sandwell, "West, East and the Government," Westing (1918), pgs. 14-15. Accessed 19 March 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/4425/14.html
  21. Vilh Jalmur [sic] Stefansson, "The Canadian Arctic Region," The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 364-79. Accessed 19 March 2020 http://speeches.empireclub.org/62674/data?n=1
  22. Robert Law, "Optimism" (May 10, 1918). Accessed 19 March 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/4403/5.html
  23. Oscar Douglas Skelton, Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Volume II (1921), pgs. 552-3. Accessed 19 March 2020 http://www.archive.org/stream/lifelettwilflaur02skeluoft/
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