1915 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

  Federal government

• Governor general – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
• Prime minister – Robert Borden
• Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick
• Parliament – 12th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George H. V. Bulyea then Robert Brett
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Francis Stillman Barnard
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Douglas Colin Cameron
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Josiah Wood
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Drummond McGregor then David MacKeen
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Strathearn Hendrie
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Benjamin Rogers then Augustine Colin Macdonald
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – François Langelier then Pierre-Évariste Leblanc
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – George W. Brown then Richard Stuart Lake

  Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Arthur Sifton
• Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride then William John Bowser
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin then Tobias Norris
• Premier of New Brunswick – George Johnson Clarke
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – William Hearst
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Alexander Mathieson
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – George Black
• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

  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 2 – WW1: Attempt to bomb the Vanceboro international bridge between the Canadian-US border by a German spy
• February 4 – WW1: After a training accident, Lieutenant W. F. Sharpe becomes the first Canadian military airman killed
• February 14 – WW1: The 1st Canadian Division arrives in France
• 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
• 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
• August 6 – Manitoba General Election
• September 13 – WWI: with the arrival of the 2nd Canadian Division a separate Canadian Corps is created
• October 9 – WWI: The 3rd Canadian Division arrives in France
• December 15 – William John Bowser becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Richard McBride
• December 19 – WW1: 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

  Full date unknown

• Fermière Monument unveiled
• World War I – 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

  Sport

• March 26 – The Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Vancouver Millionaires win their First and only Stanley Cup by defeating the National Hockey Association's Ottawa Senators 3 games to 0. All games played at Vancouver's Denman Arena
• November 20 – Hamilton Tigers win their 2nd Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Rugby and Athletic Association 13 to 7 in the 7th Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

  Births

January to June

• January 12 – Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ottawa
• January 18 – Syl Apps, pole vaulter and ice hockey player
• February 12 – Lorne Greene, actor
• March 10 – Maurice Camyré, Olympic boxer
• March 18 – Harold Crowchild, Tsuu T'ina elder and soldier, last Treaty 7 World War II veteran
• April 9 – Daniel Johnson, Sr., politician and 20th Premier of Quebec
• April 11 – Eddie Sargent, politician
• April 28 – Robina Higgins, track and field athlete
• May 3 – Stu Hart, wrestler, promoter and trainer
• May 28
• * Conrad Bourcier, ice hockey player
• * Frank Pickersgill, World War II hero
• June 22 – Arthur Gelber, philanthropist

  July to December

• July 4 – Harold E. Johns, medical physicist
• July 6 – Leonard Birchall, World War II hero
• August 3 – Frank Arthur Calder, politician, first Status Indian to be elected to any legislature in Canada
• August 20 – H. Gordon Barrett, politician
• August 22
• * James Hillier, scientist and inventor, jointly designed and built first electron microscope
• * Jacques Flynn, politician and Senator
• August 25 – John Bassett, publisher and media baron
• October 7
• * Harry J. Boyle, broadcaster and writer
• * Charles Templeton, cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author
• October 25 – Tommy Prince, one of Canada's most decorated First Nations soldiers
• November 27 – Yves Thériault, author
• December 4 – Johnny Lombardi, CHIN-TV television personality
• December 13 – Ross Macdonald, novelist

  Full date unknown

• Arthur Julian Andrew, diplomat and author
• Earl Cameron, broadcaster and news anchor
• Percy Saltzman, meteorologist and television personality, first weatherman in English-Canadian television history

  Deaths

• January 18 – Thomas Bain, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
• June 14 – Antoine Audet, politician
• July 22 – Sandford Fleming, engineer and inventor
• August 10 – William Mortimer Clark, lawyer, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• September 10 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, politician and 3rd Premier of Quebec
• September 11 – William Cornelius Van Horne, pioneering railway executive
• September 15 – Ernest Gagnon, folklorist
• October 19 – Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• October 30 – Charles Tupper, politician, Premier of Nova Scotia and 6th Prime Minister of Canada
• December 25 – Graham Fraser

  Full date unknown

• Kit Coleman, journalist

  Historical Documents