Contents

• Incumbents
• Crown
• Federal government
• Provincial governments
• Territorial governments
• Events
• Sport
• Births
• Deaths
• References

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Events from the year 1906 in Canada.

Incumbents

Events

• January 1 – Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal
• January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
• March 27 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
• April 30 – The Ottawa Public Library opens
• May 7 – Ontario Hydro created
• May 23 – Regina decreed capital of Saskatchewan
• June 24 – Octave Crémazie Monument unveiled
• August 26 – Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Saskatchewan
• The Revillon Frères trading post opens at Fort Saint John, British Columbia, as competition against the Hudson's Bay Company
• August 28 – Treaty 10 is signed.

Sport

• February 23 – Tommy Burns becomes the First Canadian to be Boxing's Heavyweight champion by defeating Marvin Hart

Births

• January 15 – Edna Staebler, author (d. 2006)
• January 27 – Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (d.1987)
• January 29 – Joe Primeau, ice hockey player (d.1989)
• February 14 – Roland Beaudry, politician, journalist, publicist and publisher (d.1964)
• March 10 – Lionel Bertrand, politician, journalist and newspaper editor (d.1979)
• May 15 – Robert Methven Petrie, astronomer (d.1966)
• May 16 – Alfred Pellan, painter (d.1988)
• June 22 – Stanley Fox, politician (d.1984)
• June 24 – George Alexander Gale, chief justice of Ontario (d. 1997)
• June 26 – Marian Scott, painter
• July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic and politician (d. 1992)
• September 24 – Leonard Marsh, social scientist and professor (d.1983)
• November 20 – John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (d.1996)
• December 16 – Barbara Kent, Canadian actress

Deaths

• February 2 – Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (b.1823)
• March 31 – James McIntyre, poet (b.1828)
• April 12 – Robert Thorburn, merchant, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1836)
• May 3 – Peter White, politician (b.1838)
• May 19 – Gabriel Dumont, Metis leader (b.1837)
• June 9 – William Carpenter Bompas, Church of England clergyman, bishop and missionary (b.1834)
• June 11 – Hector-Louis Langevin, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1826)
• October 7 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (b.1848)

References