1923 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 |
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Events from the year 1923 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Mary of Teck)
Federal government
- Governor general – Julian Byng (viceregal consort – Evelyn Byng)
- Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Cameron Nichol
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Albert Manning Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Pugsley (until February 28) then William Frederick Todd
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – MacCallum Grant
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry Cockshutt
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Murdock MacKinnon
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Charles Fitzpatrick (until October 31) then Louis-Philippe Brodeur
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – Herbert Greenfield
- Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick – Walter Foster (until February 28) then Peter Veniot
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray (until January 24) then Ernest Howard Armstrong
- Premier of Ontario – Ernest Drury (until July 16) then George Howard Ferguson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Howatt Bell (until September 5) then James D. Stewart
- Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – Charles Avery Dunning
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory
Events
- January 1 - The Department of National Defence comes into being
- January 24 - Ernest Armstrong becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing George H. Murray, who had governed for 27 years
- February 28 - Peter Veniot becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Walter Foster
- April 23 - Marijuana is prohibited soon after the House of Commons passes a bill on this date that includes making marijuana illegal
- March 2 - The Halibut Treaty signed with the United States is Canada's first international treaty not signed under the auspices of the United Kingdom
- June 25 - Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Ernest Drury's United Farmers of Ontario
- July 1 - The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 comes into effect, banning all Chinese from entering Canada except for businessmen, diplomats, foreign students, and "special circumstances"
- July 16 - Howard Ferguson becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Ernest Drury
- August 17 - The Home Bank of Montreal fails
- September 5 - James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing J.H. Bell.
- October 8 - A stevedore's strike begins in Vancouver
- October 10 - Canadian National Railway#Creation of the company, 1918–1923 is formed by merger of Canadian Government Railways, Canadian Northern Railway, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, and Grand Trunk Railway
- October 25 - Frederick Banting and Charles Best win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of insulin
- October 31 - Louis-Philippe Brodeur becomes Quebec's 13th Lieutenant Governor.
Arts and literature
Music
- April 23 - The Toronto Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert.
New books
- Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery (1921)
Sport
- March 14 - World's first complete play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional ice hockey game is done by Pete Parker in Regina.
- March 22 - Foster Hewitt announces his first ice hockey game.
Births
January to March
- January 1 - Roméo Sabourin, World War II hero (d.1944)
- January 7 - Hugh Kenner, literary scholar, critic and professor (d.2003)
- January 21 - Judith Merril, science fiction writer, editor and political activist (d.1997)
- February 4 - Conrad Bain, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes) (d.2013)
- March 1 - Uno Helava, inventor
- March 2 - Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, painter
- March 4 - Stanley Haidasz, politician (d.2009)
- March 10 - Richard Doyle, journalist, editor and Senator (d.2003)
- March 15 - Laurent Desjardins, politician (d.2012)
- March 19 - Henry Morgentaler, physician and pro choice advocate (d.2013)
- March 30 - Milton Acorn, poet, writer and playwright (d.1986)
April to June
- April 7 - Aba Bayefsky, artist and teacher (d.2001)
- April 16 - Samuel Nathan Cohen, critic
- April 25 - Melissa Hayden, ballerina (d.2006)
- May 5 - John Black Aird, lawyer, politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1995)
- May 9 - Reuben Baetz, politician (d.1996)
- May 18 - Jean-Louis Roux, entertainer and playwright
- May 20 - Frank Morris, Canadian football player (d.2009)
- June 6 - Bruce Campbell, Edmonton alderman (d.2011)
July to September
- July 21 - Rudolph A. Marcus, chemist and 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
- July 31 - Victor Goldbloom, pediatrician, lecturer and politician
- August 3 - Robert Campeau, financier and real estate developer
- August 6 - Paul Hellyer, politician and commentator
- August 21 - Robert William Stewart, scientist
- September 1 - Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, businessman and art collector (d.2006)
- September 2 - David Lam, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (d.2010)
- September 18 - Bertha Wilson, jurist and first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.2007)
- September 21 - Robert Uffen, research geophysicist, professor, and university administrator (d.2009)
October to December
- October 7 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter and sculptor (d.2002)
- October 22 - Rodrigue Bourdages, politician (d.1997)
- October 22 - Norman Levine, short-story writer, novelist and poet (d.2005)
- October 23 - Réjane L. Colas, jurist
- November 1 - Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author (d.2001)
- November 2 - Harold Horwood, novelist and non-fiction writer (d.2006)
- November 11 - Donald Tolmie, politician (d.2009)
- November 22 - Arthur Hiller, film director
- December 27 - Bruno Bobak, artist (d.2012)
Full date unknown
- James Barber, cookbook author and television chef (d.2007)
- Kildare Dobbs, short story and travel writer
Deaths
January to June
- February 20 - Thomas George Roddick, surgeon, medical administrator and politician (b.1846)
- March 2 - Joseph Martin, lawyer, politician and 13th Premier of British Columbia (b.1852)
- April 25 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1840)
- June 7 - John Best, politician (b.1861)
July to December
- July 17 - John Strathearn Hendrie, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1857)
- October 2 - John Wilson Bengough, political cartoonist (b.1851)
- December 5 - William Mackenzie, railway contractor and entrepreneur (b.1849)
- December 9 - John Herbert Turner, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1834)
