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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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)