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List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1909 in the Canada .
Incumbents Crown Federal government Provincial governments Lieutenant governors Premiers Territorial governments Commissioners Events Full date unknown University of Toronto Schools opens as an all-boys school.Leon's furniture store opens.The Criminal Code is amended to criminalize the abduction of women. Before this, the abduction of any woman over 16 was legal, except if she was an heiress.[3] Arts and literature Sport Births January to June February 4 – Jack Shadbolt , painter (d.1998 ) February 14 – A. M. Klein , poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer (d.1972 ) March 2 – Art Alexandre , ice hockey player (d.1976 ) March 19 – John Fauquier, war hero March 20 – Jack Bush , painter (d.1977 ) March 22 – Gabrielle Roy , author (d.1983 ) April 6 – George Isaac Smith , lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1982 ) May 8 – Samuel Boulanger , politician (d.1989 ) May 29 – Red Horner , ice hockey player (d.2005 ) May 31 – Aurore Gagnon , murder victim (d.1920 ) June 23 – David Lewis , lawyer and politician (d.1981 ) July to December Full date unknown Deaths May 5 – Daniel Lionel Hanington , politician and 5th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1835 ) May 7 – William Hallett Ray , politician (b. 1825 ) May 12 – Michel Auger , politician (b.1830 ) October 7 – William Thomas Pipes , politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1850 ) October 27 – James William Bain , politician (b.1838 ) November 14 – Joshua Slocum , seaman, adventurer, writer, and first man to sail single-handedly around the world (b.1844 ) December 17 – George Cox , mayor of Ottawa (b.1834 ) Historical documents Government report on huge tar sand deposit in northern Alberta[4]
Origins of Canadian Red Cross Society outlined in Senate bill incorporating it[5]
Union leaders object after Archbishop of St. John's disapproves of Fishermen's Protective Union as secret society[6]
Report of Toronto lecture where British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst explains rationale for extreme measures[7]
Scottish editorial asks whether Scotsmen should take up farming in Canada[8]
House of Commons agriculture committee learns about types, history and marketing of Lake Erie apples (District No. 1)[9]
Pilot John McCurdy 's testimony on flights and development of Silver Dart airplane[10]
Political cartoon about Canadian wheat milled in Minnesota [11]
Postcard: Photo shows "Broadway Falls," created when water from overflowing creek poured into Broadway and Heather St. intersection, Vancouver [12]
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