Deaths
- January 4 - George Halsey Perley, politician and diplomat (b.1857)
- January 8 - Aimé Bénard, politician (b.1873)
- January 28 - Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher (b.1848)
- February 20 - William Alves Boys, politician and barrister (b.1868)
- March 23 - Thomas Walter Scott, politician and first Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1867)
- April 13 - Grey Owl, writer and conservationist (b.1888)
- April 24 - John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, artist (b.1850)
- May 6 - Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, politician and 11th Governor General of Canada (b.1868)
- May 7 - Frederick Cronyn Betts, politician (b.1896)
- July 25 - Francis Haszard, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1849)
- December 26 - Pierre-Ernest Boivin, politician and businessman (b.1872)
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“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“On almost the incendiary eve
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