Events from the year 1901 in Canada.

Events

• March 9 Japanese Canadians win the vote in British Columbia
• December 12 Guglielmo Marconi receives a transatlantic radio message at St. John's, Newfoundland
• December 18 The Territorial Grain Growers' Association is founded
• December 29 Arthur Peters becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Donald Farquharson
• First ascent of Mount Assiniboine by James Outram's party

Arts and literature

Births

January to June

• January 12 Jack Humphrey, painter (d.1967)
• January 14 Dana Porter, politician and jurist (d.1967)
• January 29 E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder (d.1989)

Dr. W.R. Franks

• March 4 Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (d.1986)
• March 25 Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944 (d.1985)
• April 15 Thomas Ricketts, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient in 1918 (d.1967)
• May 5 Donald Buchanan Blue, politician

July to December

• July 15 James Litterick, politician
• September 8 Harold Connolly, journalist, newspaper editor, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1980)
• September 14 George Carlyle Marler, politician, notary and philatelist (d.1981)
• September 15 Gweneth Lloyd, choreographer
• September 22 Charles Brenton Huggins, physician, physiologist, cancer researcher and Nobel prize laureate (d.1997)
• October 14 John Oates Bower, politician, businessman and executive (d.1981)

Full date unknown

• Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1989)

Deaths

George M. Dawson in May 1885.

• January 22 Queen Victoria, Queen of Canada (b.1819)
• March 2 George Mercer Dawson, scientist and surveyor (b.1849)
• May 4 John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1831)
• May 7 George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick (b.1839)

Arthur Sturgis Hardy

• June 13 Arthur Sturgis Hardy, lawyer, politician and 4th Premier of Ontario (b.1837)
• July 24 George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (b.1822)
• October 25 Colin MacDougall, politician and lawyer (b.1834)

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