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1914 in Canada

Events from the year 1914 in Canada.

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  • All-time high levels of immigration are ended by the war
  • The Better Farming Train made its first tour of Saskatchewan.
  • Canada suspends the convertibility of the dollar into gold
  • Edmonton adopts a new numbered street and avenue pattern
  • Ontario passes a worker's compensation act that provides all workers with funding in case of disability

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George William Ross
 
James Whitney

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Governor General assures British government that Canadian people will make every effort and sacrifice to maintain integrity and honour "of our Empire"[3]

British government accepts Canada's offers of expeditionary force and 1 million 98-lb. bags of flour (latter will steady prices and relieve distress)[4]

Before shipping out, professor says that war is good for nation's health[5]

Prime Minister Borden speaks out against German "ideals of force and violence"[6]

Chief Justice expresses Canada's loyalty, satisfaction and trust in Empire[7]

Nellie McClung describes "The Women's Parliament" burlesque of attitudes toward women's suffrage[8]

"The race problem is becoming a serious one in Canada" - Many examples of menial jobs held by workers of Asian origin in B.C. (Note: racial stereotypes)[9]

MP says civilization best in British Empire and northern Europe and "Anglo-Saxon and kindred peoples" must meet threat to it from 340,000,000 Asiatics[10]

College president advocates saving Saskatchewan agriculture with cooperatives[11]

Nova Scotia premier urges farmers to increase tillage and yields to feed Britain and Europe[12]

Testimony of Katzie chief to royal commission about conditions on their Fraser River reserves near Vancouver[13]

"Practical business and moral benefit[...]both to employers and workers" - Senate committee witness advocates federal labour bureaus[14]

Survivor's account of escaping passenger liner Empress of Ireland as it sank in St. Lawrence River[15]

Newsreel footage of Empress of Ireland victims being returned to Quebec City, and one family's two lone survivors - godfather and his goddaughter[16]

Canadian militia fatally shoot duck hunter from Buffalo, N.Y. on Niagara River[17]

Editorial on foolish chances shippers take while sailing on Great Lakes[18]

References

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  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ "1914 in Canada". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
  3. ^ "From the Governor General to the Secretary of State for the Colonies" (second of this title, August 1, 1914), Documents Relative to the European War (1914), pg. 41 (PDF frame 38). (See also pledges of support in Prime Minister Borden's speech to House of Commons) Accessed 16 May 2022
  4. ^ Telegrams between Governor General and Secretary of State for the Colonies (August 6–7, 1914), Documents Relative to the European War (1914), pgs. 43-4 (PDF frames 40-1). Accessed 16 May 2022
  5. ^ Reginald Bateman, "The War" (October 25, 1914), Reginald Bateman; Teacher and Soldier; A Memorial[....] (1922), pgs. 129-37. Accessed 28 February 2020
  6. ^ "The Right Honourable Sir Robert Laird Borden; Speech before the Canadian Club at Halifax; December 18, 1914" Accessed 28 February 2020 (See also collection of Borden speeches at various Canadian Clubs)
  7. ^ Charles Fitzpatrick, "The Constitution of Canada; Address before the American Bar Association...." (October 21, 1914). Accessed 28 February 2020
  8. ^ Nellie McClung, The Stream Runs Fast: My Own Story (1945), pgs. 113-18. Accessed 1 March 2020
  9. ^ "Canada's Yellow Peril; Where White Labour Is Being Ousted" The Seaman, Vol. 1, No. 42 (New Series; May 29, 1914), pg. 5. Accessed 12 September 2022
  10. ^ "Asiatic Immigration" (March 2, 1914), House of Commons Debates, 12th Parliament, 3rd Session; Vol. 2, pg. 1243 (PDF pg. 233). Accessed 8 January 2023
  11. ^ Edmund H. Oliver, "Co-operatives in the West" Regina Morning Leader (January 2, 1914), pg. 13. Accessed 1 March 2020
  12. ^ G.H. Murray, "To the Farmers of Nova Scotia" The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (October 7, 1914). Accessed 2 March 2020
  13. ^ "Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for the Province of B.C.; Meeting with the Katzie Band or Tribe of Indians on Katzie Indian Reserve No. 1, on the 29th Day of April 1914...." pgs. 92-7, 99-103. Accessed 2 March 2020
  14. ^ "Miss St. John Wileman" Evidence Given Before the Senate Committee on Immigration and Labour; 6th May, 1914, pgs. 3-7. Accessed 1 October 2020
  15. ^ "Margaret et [sic] Thomas Greenaway," Personal Stories, The Forgotten Tragedy. Accessed 2 March 2020 http://www.empress2014.ca/seclangen/testimonies.html (scroll down to Greenaway)
  16. ^ "St. Lawrence Collision; The Lady Grey arrives at Quebec with the victims of the Empress of Ireland Disaster" (1914), Dans l'oeil du collectionneur, no 4. Accessed 29 May 2021 https://zoom-out.ca/view/dans-lil-du-collectionneur-n-4 (newsreel begins at 2:17)
  17. ^ Diplomatic correspondence in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States[....] (1915), pgs. 415-23. Accessed 2 March 2020
  18. ^ "The Chances Sailors Take" The Globe (Toronto, May 4, 1914). Accessed 2 March 2020
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