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1921 in Canada

Events from the year 1921 in Canada.

March 26 - The Bluenose is launched
June 9 - Saskatchewan general election, 1921: William M. Martin's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority
June 15 - Prohibition comes to an end in British Columbia
July 18 - Alberta general election, 1921: Herbert Greenfield's United Farmers of Alberta win a majority, defeating Premier Charles Stewart's Liberals
July 27 - Frederick Banting and Charles Best discover insulin
August 13 - Herbert Greenfield becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Charles Stewart
November 21 - Canada is granted a coat of arms by Royal Proclamation. Canada's official colours declared to be red and white
December 6 - Federal election: William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberals win a minority, defeating Arthur Meighen's Conservatives. Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman elected to Parliament. Canadian women exercise their right to vote for the first time.
December 29 - Mackenzie King becomes prime minister, replacing Arthur Meighen.

The school board in Victoria, B.C., creates a segregated school for the Chinese population. After a boycott of the new school, the plan is scrapped.^[1]
A study of Saskatchewan school students discovers that 56% of them are infected with tuberculosis^[2]
Cenotaph, Montreal unveiled
War Memorial of Montreal West unveiled

February 15 - The Capitol Theatre opened in Winnipeg.
March 12 - The Capitol Theatre, a lush 2,500 seat movie palace, opened on Vancouver's Granville Street.

April 4 - The Ottawa Senators beat the Vancouver Millionaires 2-1 to win the Stanley Cup^[3]
December 3 - The first East-West Grey Cup game took place between the Toronto Argonauts and the Edmonton Eskimos.

January 6 - Hazen Argue, politician (d.1991)
January 9 - Lister Sinclair, broadcaster, playwright and polymath (d.2006)
January 21 - Jacques Ferron, physician and author, founder of the Parti Rhinoc ros (d.1985)
February 8 - Barney Danson, politician and soldier (d.2011)
February 21 - George Manuel, Aboriginal leader (d.1989)
February 25 - Pierre Laporte, Quebec politician and Minister, kidnapped and murdered by Front de lib ration du Qu bec (FLQ) (d.1970)
March 10 - Cec Linder, actor (d.1992)
March 27 - Calvin Gotlieb, professor and computer scientist

April 4 - Charles Dubin, lawyer and former Chief Justice of Ontario (d.2008)
April 30 - Don Jamieson, politician, diplomat and broadcaster (d.1986)
May 12 - Farley Mowat, conservationist and author
May 31 - Peter Fox, politician (d.1989)
June 8 - Alexis Smith, actress (d.1993)
June 25 - Celia Franca, ballet dancer and founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada (d.2007)

Deanna Durbin on the cover of
Yank Magazine, January 1945

July 6 - Allan MacEachen, politician, Minister and senator, first Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
August 4 - Maurice Richard, ice hockey player (d.2000)
August 8 - John Herbert Chapman, scientist and space researcher (d.1979)
August 11 - Allan Waters, businessman and media mogul (d.2005)
August 25 - Monty Hall, game show host, producer, actor, singer and sportscaster
September 16 - Ursula Franklin, metallurgist, research physicist, author and educator
September 29 - James Cross, British diplomat kidnapped by the Front de lib ration du Qu bec (FLQ)
November 25 - Fraser Elliott, lawyer, supporter of the arts and philanthropist (d.2005)
December 4 - Deanna Durbin, singer and actress
December 6 - George Beurling, most successful Canadian fighter pilot of World War II (d.1948)
December 10 - Howard Fredeen, scientist and animal breeding researcher

Arthur Sifton

January 21 - Arthur Sifton, politician and 2nd Premier of Alberta (b.1858)
August 29 - Lionel Herbert Clarke, businessman and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1859)
October 19 - George Washington Kendall (b.1881)
November 1 - Zo Lafontaine, wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1842)
November 10 - Jennie Kidd Trout, physician, first woman in Canada legally to become a medical doctor and only woman in Canada licensed to practice medicine until 1880 (b.1841)
November 27 - Douglas Colin Cameron, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1854)