1922 in Canada

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See also: 1921 in Canada, other events of 1922, 1923 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Table of contents

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Arts and Literature
4 Births
5 Deaths

Incumbents

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

February 25 - Molly Bobak, artist
April 26 - Jeanne SauvÃÂ©, first female Governor General
June 9 - Fernand Seguin, biochemist
June 27 - Richard Vollenweider, environmentalist
August 7 - Helmut Kallmann, historian
August 11 - Mavis Gallant, writer
August 24 - RenÃÂ© LÃÂ©vesque, separatist premier of Quebec
September 3 - Salli Terri, singer/songwriter
December 11 - Pauline Jewett, educator

Deaths

August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone