1922 In Canada

Incumbents

• Sovereign - King George V
• Prime Minister - William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Governor General - Viscount Byng

• Premier of Alberta - Herbet Greenfield
• Premier of British Columbia - John Oliver
• Premier of Manitoba - Tobias Norris then John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick - Walter E. Foster
• Premier of Nova Scotia - George H. Murray
• Premier of Ontario - Ernest C. Drury
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - J. H. Bell
• Premier of Quebec - Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan - Willaim Martin then Charles Dunning

Events

• January 11 - The world's first insulin treatment is made at the Toronto General Hospital. The successful technique would later win a Nobel Prize for its creators Frederick Banting and Charles Best.
• April 5 - Charles Dunning becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Willaim Martin
• May 3 - The women of Prince Edward Island win the right to vote
• August 8 - John Bracken becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Tobias Norris
• September 15 - Prime Minister Mackenzie King refuses to support the British in the Chanak Affair, asserting foreign policy independence for the first time
• The land around Vimy Ridge is given to Canada by France in gratitude for the Canadian sacrifices during WWI

Arts and Literature

• Nanook of the North is released, it is the first film to be called a documentary

Births

• January 21 - Lincoln Alexander, politician
• February 25 - Molly Bobak, artist
• April 24 - Philip Gerald Givens, politician
• April 26 - Jeanne Sauv, first female Governor General
• June 9 - Fernand Seguin, biochemist
• June 11 - Erving Goffman, sociolgist
• June 27 - Richard Vollenweider, environmentalist
• July 30 - Jack McClelland, publisher
• August 7 - Helmut Kallmann, historian
• August 11 - Mavis Gallant, writer
• August 24 - Ren Lvesque, separatist premier of Quebec
• September 1 - Yvonne De Carlo, actor
• September 3 - Salli Terri, singer/songwriter
• September 16 - Alex Barris, actor
• October 17 - Pierre Juneau, politician and broadcaster
• December 11 - Pauline Jewett, educator

Deaths

• August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone

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