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Events relating to canada
The Grain Growers' Grain Company is established, soon becoming an important element in Canada's grain market
Roald Amundsen and his crew are the first to achieve the Northwest Passage, in a journey lasting three years in a 70-ft fishing boat
Sea captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier unveils a plaque in the Arctic Archipelago, declaring that all the islands belong to Canada
Conservative leader Robert Laird Borden becomes prime minister of Canada, ending fifteen years of Liberal rule under Wilfrid Laurier
The Canadian Arctic Expedition, led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, sets off to the north
More than 1000 die when the liner Empress of Ireland sinks after a collision in the St Lawrence river
More than 30,000 troops in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sail to fight with Britain
Captain Peter Nissen, a Canadian mining engineer, designs the Nissen Hut for the Allied armies
A massive explosion devastates Halifax, in Canada, after a collision involving a French munitions ship
German U-boats sink 430 Allied and neutral merchant ships in this month alone
Canadian troops take Vimy Ridge, subsequently the site of Canada's most important war memorial
The Allies frustrate the German U-boats by introducing the convoy system
Employers' refusal to allow collective bargaining prompts a general strike in Winnipeg, the largest dispute of its kind in Canada's history
John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown fly from St John's in Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland
Canadian National Railways is formed from two of the country's largest rail systems
Artists dedicated to celebrating the Canadian landscape come together as the Group of Seven
The schooner Bluenose begins a long series of international racing victories for Canada
W.L. Mackenzie King begins a nine-year spell as Canadian prime minister, albeit with a brief interruption in 1926
Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to sit in Canada's parliament
Canadian physiologists Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin from the pancreas for the treatment of diabetes
In The Fur Trade in Canada Harold Innis traces the economic development linking the trade and the nation
Conservative leader R.B. Bennett defeats the Liberals and becomes prime minister of Canada
The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth
25% of workers in Canada are unemployed as the Depression continues to deepen
Five girls are born as quintuplets in the Dionne family of French Catholic farmers in Corbeil, Ontario
