1915 in Canada - Events

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 - Vanceboro international bridge bombing
  • February 4 – After a training accident, Lieutenant W. F. Sharpe becomes the first Canadian military airman killed
  • February 14 – The 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 – 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
  • WWI – Many Canadian soldiers grow upset at the inferior quality of their Ross Rifles

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