1912 in Canada

Summary

Events from the year 1912 in Canada.

1912
in
Canada

Decades:
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
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June Havoc in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

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Edward Blake

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Historical documents edit

Residential school principal advocates replacing it with day school to preserve family ties and love that staff cannot provide[2]

People of Gitxsan community Gitsegukla (B.C.) raise funds to pay their pastor's hospital bill[3]

Pauline Johnson hears from old klootchman how Fraser River sockeye salmon run once failed because tillicum insisted great tyee's first child be male[4]

Appeal for justice from speaker who asks why Sikhs - British subjects - are discriminated against in Canada[5]

Advice to Ontario temperance campaigners on legislative, economic, criminal and personal aspects of liquor consumption[6]

Federal Liberal Party claims false arrest of party workers aided Conservative win in Manitoba by-election[7]

Provincial forest fire law in British Columbia has several sections regulating railways (construction, clearing and patrolling, fighting fires, etc.)[8]

British architect and builder express importance of community over private interest in Calgary town planning[9]

Advertisement: Canadian Pacific Railway's free "Canada for Women" pamphlet describes "opportunities for women in Canada in every branch of life"[10]

"Cargo on the main deck was not secured" - Enquiry seeks reasons Cecilia L. wrecked when storm struck on Lake Saint-Louis[11]

Visitor sees huge change in Edmonton just six years after previous visit[12]

Careful preparation of straightaway at Calgary's Gridiron Motor Course results in world speed record claim[13]

Finding and preserving duckbilled dinosaur fossil near Drumheller, Alberta[14]

References edit

  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ Letter of W. McWhinney (January 11, 1912), United Church of Canada Central Archives, in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 112. Accessed 9 June 2021
  3. ^ Letter of H.C. Wrinch (February 3, 1912), United Church of Canada Archives. https://upanddownthecoast.ca/documents/ (scroll down to "Letter to Mr. Farrell;" see also photos of Hazelton Hospital and staff) Accessed 13 November 2022
  4. ^ E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), "The Lost Salmon Run," Legends of Vancouver (4th Edition, 1912), pgs. 29-38 (PDF pgs. 49-58). Accessed 13 November 2022
  5. ^ Sundar Singh, "The Sikhs In Canada" The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 112-16. Accessed 25 February 2020
  6. ^ F.S. Spence, The Campaign Manual; 1912 Edition Accessed 25 February 2020
  7. ^ Central Information Office of the Canadian Liberal Party, How the Macdonald By-Election Was Won; Read the Affidavits.... Publication No. 3. Accessed 25 February 2020
  8. ^ Forest Service, Province of British Columbia, "The Forest Fire Law of British Columbia" (excerpts; 1912), British Columbia Legislative Library. Accessed 27 March 2022
  9. ^ Thomas H. Mawson, "The City of The Plain And How To Make It Beautiful," and Henry Vivian, "How to Apply Town Planning to Calgary," Two Notable Addresses on Town Planning and Housing Accessed 25 February 2020
  10. ^ "Canada for Women" Women's Employment, Vol. 12, No. 21 (London, U.K., November 15, 1912), pg. 19. Accessed 12 September 2022
  11. ^ "Shifting Cargo Jammed Rudder" The (Montreal) Gazette (November 23, 1912). Accessed 8 May 2021
  12. ^ "Booming Edmonton," Edmonton Capital (May 24, 1912). Accessed 25 January 2020 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Robert+George+Brett%3A+%22We+shall+not+look+upon+his+like+again%22.-a0100807304 (scroll to bottom of article)
  13. ^ John B. Jeffery and C.E. Ferguson, "The Story of Barney Oldfield's Flight; August 10th, 1912." Accessed 25 February 2020 (See also 1913 Mack Sennett comedy short Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life)
  14. ^ Charles H. Sternberg, Hunting Dinosaurs in the Bad Lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada (1917), pgs. 43-8. Accessed 25 February 2020