EVENTS

June 22, 1911 - A monument to honour Laura Secord (1775-1868) is unveiled at Lundy's Lane, Ontario Source Jean Bannerman Leading Ladies Canada. Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing, 1977  pg 15

1911 -  The Women's College Hospital and Dispensary is opened with 7 beds Source: A history of Women's College  (Accessed February 2006)

1911 - The Proctor and Gamble Company develops hydrogenated vegetable shortening called Crisco Source: Culinary Journey. submitted to Famous Canadian Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario

1911 - The Ontario College of Art is established in Toronto Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton,  University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects http://ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/timeline (accessed February 2006)

1911 - The New York Electric Exhibition introduces the world to electric skillets, grills, toasters and waffle irons!  Source: Culinary Journey. submitted to Famous Canadian Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario

Births 1911:
1911 - Born Kay Christie (1911-1994) nurse with Royal Canadian Medical Corps, POW (prisoner of war) in Hong Kong
1911 - Born Doris Horwood (1911-2003) lexicographer
1911 - Born Gertrude 'Trudi' Le Caine (1911-1999) social activist in Ottawa, Order of Canada
1911 - Born Helen May McKercher (1911-1985) agricultural education activist
1911 - Born Florence Isobel Matheson (1911-1992) president National Women's Institutes
1911 - Born Rebecca Belle Watson (1911? - 1976) Vancouver, British Columbia Community Activist
1911 - Born Rita Laroque Morel (1911-2011) public servant
1911 - Born Leola Ellen Neal (1911-1995) psychologist
1911 - Born Agnes C. O'Dea (1911-1993) librarian and bibliographer
January 27, 1911 - Born Blanche Margaret Meagher (1912-1999) pioneer Canadian diplomat
February 22, 1911 - Born Betty Edwards Tancock (1911-2009) medal winning and record setting swimmer
April 3, 1911 - Born Nanette Bordeaux, (1911-1956) actor
April 30, 1911 - Born Kay Smith (1911-2004) poet
May 13, 1912 - Died Agnes Deans Cameron (1863-1912) teacher, school administrator and journalist
May 11, 1911 - Born Evelyn Laura Brandon (1911-1998), historian
May 12, 1911 - Born Dorothy Wetherald Rungeling (1911-2018) pilot & author
June 18, 1911 - Born Evelyn Bowen (1911-1999) , stage actress who organized and directed the first all Negro dram group in Canada
June 18, 1911 - Born Clare Bernhardt (1911-1993) author and journalist who composed Canada's Centennial Hymn
June 29, 1911 - Born Katherine De Mille (1911-1995) movie actor
July 11, 1911 - Born Helen Griffith Wylie Watson (1911-1974) award winning nurse & officer in the Order of Canada
July 31, 1911 - Born Lyn Harrington (1911-    ) children's award winning author.
August 1911 - Born Ruth Haythorn (1911-2010) educator
September 1911 - Born Alice Moulton (1911-1912) librarian with the University of Toronto
September 1, 1911 - Born Helen Pauline Wattie (1911-2009) educator
September 28, 1911 - Born Ivy Eastwood Granstrom (1911-2004) blind athlete
October 15-1911 - Born Anna Gertrude Ingham (1911-  ) educator
December 12, 1911 - Born Martha Shepard (1911-2009) librarian with responsibility of establishing the National Library of Canada
December 27, 1911 - Born Anna Claudia Russell (1911-2006) comedienne considered the best in the world in her day

1913 -The Royal Canadian Academy "relaxes" it rules that withhold membership from women Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton,  University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects (accessed February 2006)

July 31, 1913 - Alys McKey Bryant, (1880-1954) an American, is the 1st woman to pilot an airplane in Canada when she performs in an exhibition flight for Prince Albert, Duke of York (future George VI)

1913 – Cecelia Rebecca Green, Victoria British Columbia is the 1^st woman to study law in British Columbia

1913 -The 1^st degree program in Household Sciences at the University of Toronto. In 1913. The course grew out of the 1902 Lillian Massey School of Household Science and Art ^{Source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Online (Accessed January 2013)}

1913 - The Methodist Ladies Aid is formed in Toronto Source: Voices of United Church Women 1962-2002. Edited by Elizabeth Gillan Muir. (Toronto; United Church of Canada, 2002)

1913 - New Brunswick Women's Institutes hold their 1st provincial convention Source: New Brunswick Women's History online. Accessed June 2013.

1913 - The Equal Franchise League of Edmonton, Alberta is founded

1913 - The Canadian Ladies Golf Union is formed

1913 - The 1st women's ice hockey competitions are held in the Maritimes with the Reds and Blues and the Kananites of Nova Scotia

November 13, 1913 - In support of the women’s franchise movement the Montreal Herald allowed women to create the edition of the newspaper and then go out on the streets to sell copies Source: Janet Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.  

December 31, 1913 - The Ottawa Police Force hires its 1st woman officer Flora Ann Campbell (1883-1961) who mainly to help charged women in court

1913 - The Ezras Noshem (women’s help) Society of Toronto is founded

1913 – The Friendly League of Jewish Women in Montreal, Quebec formed a Welcome Club for Jewish women workers

Births 1913:
1913 - Born Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999) psychologist
1913 - Born Willa Walker (1913- 2010) author
1913 - Born Margaret Craig Eaton Dunn (1913-1988) Director General Canadian Women's Army Corp 1944
1913 - Born Eileen Tallman Sufrin (1913-1999) social activist who led Eaton's Employees in an attempt to unionize
January 18, 1913 - Born Gwethalyn Graham. (1913-1935) award winning author
February 2, 1913 - Born Mercedes Palomino (1913-2006) actor, broadcaster & theatre director
March 5, 1913 - Born Evelyn Blankstein (1913-2001) architect
March 10, 1913 - Born Marge Saunders (1913-2010) Olympic Archer 1972
April 3, 1913 - Born Wilhelmina 'Willa' Walker (1913-2010) Commanding Officer of the Woman's Division , RCAF
April 9, 1913 - Born Saida Gerrard (1913-2005)  made significant contributions to  modern dance in Canada
April 24, 1913 - Born Violet Archer (1913-2000) musician & award winning composer
April 30, 1913 - Born Edith Margaret Fowke (1913-1996) folklorist, collector, writer, & teacher
May 3, 1913 - Born Joyce Carmen Barkhouse (1913-2012) poet
May 10, 1913 - Born Reva Brooks  (1913-2004) pioneer photographer
May 24, 1913 - Born Phyllis Georgie Haslam (1913-1991) social activist with Elizabeth Fry Society working with female prisoners.
June 15, 1913 - Born Mary John Sr (1913-2004) Aboriginal leader and activist for Carrier language
June 24, 1913 - Born Isobel MacLeod (1913-   ) nursing administrator
July 23, 1913 - Born Erica Deichmann Gregg (1913-1989) potter
July 26, 1913 - Born Dorothy Corrigan (1913-  ) Mayor of Charlottetown, P.E.I., Order of Canada 1978.
September 3, 1913 - Born Bronislawa 'Betty' Barban (1913-2013) pianist who became 1st conductor of the St John Symphony
September 11, 1913 - Born Hilda Ranscombe (1913-1999) hockey player & member of Canadian Sport Hall of Fame.
October 9, 1913 - Born Charlotte Bastien (1913-2005) Librarian & private secretary to National Librarian Guy Sylvester
November 5, 1913 - Born Joyce Anne Marriott (1913-1947) poet
November 7, 1913 - Born Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook (1913-2009) internationally acclaimed sculptor
November 16, 1913 - Born Dora de Pédery-Hunt (1913-  ) sculptor & designer of medals
November 17, 1913 - Born Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook ( 1913-    ) international acclaimed sculptor
December 1, 1913 - Born Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999) psychologist
December 18, 1913 - Born Emma Caslor (1913-1977) folksinger & pianist

Deaths 1913:
1913 - Died Elizabeth Frame (1820-1913) teacher & author
1913 - Died Marion Oliver (1855-1913) one of the 1st Canadian medical missionaries in India
March 7, 1913 - Died Pauline Johnson, (1861-1913) Canada's 1st renowned Aboriginal poet
April 10, 1913 - Died Annie Emma Affleck Thompson (1845-1913) wife of Prime Minister Sir John Thompson (1845-1894)
April 11, 1913  - Died Amelia Yeomans (1842-1913) pioneer medical doctor & feminist
May 1, 1913 - Died Agnes Dunbar Fitzgibbon Chamberlin (1833-1913) author & painter
October 26, 1913 - Died Ada Borradaile Chipman (1860?-1913) organized Woman's Art Association for women in 1907

September 29, 1914 - The 1st group of Canadian nursing sisters, of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, embark for England and service in World War I on the Franconia Source: Canadian Nurses in World War I. Trent University Archives: Fowlds Exhibit  (accessed July 22, 2005)

1914 - The 1^st Official Canadian Figure Skating Championship is hel in Ottawa. Figure skating is recognized as a sport separate from speed skating and the Figure Skating Department becomes a section of Amateur Skating Association of Canada. The two main clubs are Minto Skating Club, Ottawa and Earl Grey Skating Club. Montreal

1914 - Emily Coonan receives the 1st National Gallery travel grant to study in Europe. She puts a hold on her travel till after World War l Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton,  University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects  (accessed February 2006)

1914 - Georgina Binnie-Clark (1871-1947) published her work Wheat & Women describing the discrimination she faced as a single woman farmer in the Canadian West

1914-1915 - Annie Langstaff (1887-1975) 1st woman to receive a degree in Law from McGill University

1914 - The Hebrew Young Ladies Boot and Shoe Society is founded in Toronto to provide shoes for the poor and encourage sports among its members. It disbanded in 1924

Births 1914:
1914 - Born Ina Caton (1914-2004) 1st woman in Saskatchewan to be ordained as a deacon & be called to the Anglican priesthood in Canada
1914 - Born Marianne Linnell (1914-1990, Vancouver politician was the only woman on the committee for Canada's Centennial Commission
1914 - Born Laura Banks (1914-1988) TV broadcaster who used the name of Laura Lindsay
1914 - Born Dorothy Hurst (1914-1997) acclaimed dancer, baton twirler & teacher
1914 - Born Judith St John (1914-2007) internationally acclaimed children's librarian and lecturer in Library Sciences
January 12, 1914 - Born Helen MacKie MacDonald (1914-????) social activist
January 21, 1914 - Born Josefina Napravilova (1914-2014) returned children to Czech Republic after World War ll.
February 14, 1914 - Born Ruth Gorman (1914-2002) lawyer and Officer of the Order of Canada
February 21, 1914  - Born Sister Bernice Cullen ( 1913-2007) female head of St. Dunstan's University, P.E.I. in Religious
April 3, 1914 - Born Margaret Fane Rutledge.(1914-2004) pioneer aviator member of the British Columbia Aviation Hall of Fame
April 13, 1914 - Born Margaret Weisbord (1914-2011) musician
April 18, 1914 - Born Claire Martin Faucher (1914-2014) author
April 21, 1914 - Born Judith Crawley,(1914-1986) film producer, director & scriptwriter
April 30,1914 - Born Dorothea Crittenden (1915-    ) 1st female deputy minister in Ontario
June 11, 1914 - Born Norma Abernethy (1914-1973) pianist & teacher
June 28, 1914 - Born Elizabeth Le Geyt (1914-2017 ) renowned Ottawa columnist & birder
June 29, 1914 - Born Thelma Finlayson (1914-2016)  professor emeritus in Biology at the University at Simon Fraser University
July 6, 1914 - Born Viola Desmond (1914-1965) 1st Black woman to  challenge discrimination successfully in Canada
July 19, 1914 - Born Margaret Allemang (1914-2005) advocate of Canadian nursing history
July 21, 1914 - Born Myrtle Raivio (1914-1982) Alberta's first woman guide and outfitter
July 24, 1914 - Born Frances Kathleen Oldman Kelsey (1914-2015) Doctor who saved the U.S.A from Thalidomide
August 12, 1914 - Born Ruth Lowe-Sandler (1914-1981) pianist & songwriter I'll never smile again
October 8, 1914 - Born Mary Lile Benham (1914-1991) author & historian
November 23, 1914 - Born Verna Marie Huffman Splane (1914-2015) acclaimed nurse
December 10, 1914 - Born Anne ‘Tagish Anne’ Graham (1914-1976) Yukon businesswoman
December 16, 1914 - Born Hanna Spencer (1914-2014) president, National Women's Council
December 24, 1914 - Born Loreen Rice Lucas (1914-2011) author

Deaths  1914:
1914 - Died Isabel Mortimer-Green (1888-1914) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 1, 1914 - Died Grace Elizabeth Denison (  -1914) journalist known as "Lady Gay'
April 7, 1914 - Died Edith Eaton (1867-1914) author
October 29, 1914 - Died Emma Sophia Fiske (1832-1914) active volunteer & social activist

September 1915 - Margaret Gascoigne (   -1934) opens a school which would become known as 'The Study'  in Montreal with 6 students

1915 - Mary Pickford (1892-1979) is receiving 500 letters a week in fan mail. She earns $4000.00 a week and is reputed to be the highest paid woman in the world Source: 100 Canadian women : famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forster Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2004 pg. 206

1915 - The electric "icebox" is introduced to improve food storage Source: Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg 13.

1915 - The Corning Company in the United States introduces Pyrex to the baking world. Source: Culinary Journey. submitted to Famous Canadian Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario

1915 - The 1st Boys' and Girls' Clubs are formed by the Agriculture Rep in the District of Waterloo, Ontario. In 1952 the name will be changed to 4-H Clubs. Source: Archives of Ontario.

Births 1915:
1915 - Born Theodosia Mary Dawes Bond-Thornton (1915-2009) photographer
1915? - Born Lucy Qinnuayuak  (1915?-    ) Inuit artist
1915 - Born Margaret Millar (1915-1994) mystery writer
1915 - Born Helen Weinzweig (1915-2010) award winning author & playwright
1915 - Born Mary Jane Wright (1915-2014) 1st woman in Canada to chair a major psychology department at a university
January 7, 1915 - Born Helen Kathleen Mussallem (1915-2012) decorated nurse
January 23, 1915 - Born Noel MacDonald Robertson basketball player, member Canada Sports Hall of Fame
January 26, 1915 - Born Maureen Lormier Roberts (1915-2004) founder of Canadian Medic Alert Foundation
February 14, 1915 - Born Eileen Valentine Duncan (1915-2008) businesswoman
April 10, 1915 - Born Margaret Martha Brooks (1915-    )  only nurse of World War ll named a member (Military Division) of the Order of the British Empire
April 11, 1915 -  Born Agnes Butcher (1915-   ) pianist & teacher.
April 28, 1915 - Born Robina Higgins-Haight (1915-1990) track & field champions of the 1930's
May 5, 1915 - Born Betty Farrally (1915-1989) dancer & co-founder of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
May 16, 1915 - Born Jean Frances (1916-2011) Canada’s Doll Lady
May 18, 1915 - Born Maria Marrelli (1915-2012) social activist on behalf of Italian Canadians she was presented with the Italian Order of Merit
June 3, 1915 - Born Susan Ross (1915-2006) artist, printmaker & illustrator
June 19, 1915 - Born Elaine Russell (1915-2003) teacher, poet, and painter in P E I
August 5, 1915 - Born Betty Oliphant (1918-2004) founder of the National Ballet School of Canada
August 6, 1915 - Born Rina Lasnier, award winning author & poet
August 15, 1915 - Born Maryvonne Kwendergi / Kendergian (1915-2011) broadcaster, author, professor, musicologist, & pianist
September 1, 1915 - Born Barbara Smucker (1915-2003) noted children's author
September 19, 1915 - Born Elizabeth Stern (1915-1980) pioneer medical researcher credited with early detection of cervical cancer 
November 13, 1915 - Born Vera M. Good (1915-2019) executive producer of TVOntario, Polka Dot Door.
December 10, 1915 - Born Margaret Isobel Drynan (1915-1999) teacher, composer, organist/choirmaster & writer

Deaths 1915:
May 17, 1915 - Died Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon (1851-1915) founder of the Canadian Women's Historical Society & author
May 25, 1915 - Died Louisa Anne Donald Thomson (1844-1915) social activist & president of National Council of Women
June 27, 1915 - Died Helen McNicoll (1879-1915) artist
August 4, 1915 - Died Florence Daly Thompson, (1865-1915) accomplished artist, successful published science researcher, & librarian
August 30, 1915 - Died Mabel Phoebe Peters (1861-1914) suffragist & social activist in education
September 7, 1915 - Died Mary Frances Elizabeth Munro (1866-1915) World War l Nursing Sister
September 22, 1915  - Died Frances Ester (Hester) How, (1848-1915) teacher
November 3, 1915 - Died Lillian Frances Massey Treble (1854-1915) volunteer & philanthropist
December 29, 1915 - Died Eleanor Jean Thompson (1888-1915) Nursing Sister World War l

1916 - The National Research Council is established to promote scientific and industrial research

1916 - The electric washing machine replaces hand operated machines to improve laundry day Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg 13.

September 14, 1916 - The British Columbia provincial election included a plebiscite on female suffrage which saw a large majority of voters in favour of the question

September 15, 1916 - Canadian Madge Watt (1868-1948) founds 1st Women's Institute in Great Britain at Llanfair-On-Anglesey. Wales

October 1916 - The CGIT (Canadian Girls in Training.) publishes it's 1st program outline in a booklet called Canadian Girls in Training -- Suggestions for the Mid-Week Meetings of Sunday School Classes, Clubs, etc., for Teen-age Girls and it sold for the sum of 5¢. The booklet was extremely  popular with church youth leaders Source : (accessed January 4, 2005)

1916 - The 1st international women's ice hockey tournament is held in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. between the Americans and Canadians

Births 1916:
1916 - Born Ada Bronstein (1916-  ) pianist, accompanist & teacher
1916 - Born Molly Chadsey (1916-2014) World War ll photographic specialist
1916 - Born Edith Hope Cromwell (1916-2009) Black activist & teacher in Nova Scotia
1916 - Born Judith Jasmin (1916-1972) pioneer & accomplished broadcast journalist
1916 - Born Ellen Neel (1916-1966) carver of totem poles
January 9, 1916 - Born Thelma Ruck Keene ( 1916-    ) businesswoman & author
January 15, 1916- Born J. Margot Brown Chester (1916-2012) journalist, editor, community volunteer & author
January 28, 1916 - Born Dorothy 'Dottie' Hunter (1916-2005) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
February 22, 1916 - Born Elizabeth 'Betty' Gardner Taylor-Campbell (1922-1977) Olympic medial winner in track & field
February 23, 1916 - Born Molly Kool, First registered woman Sea Captain in North America
March 5, 1916 -  Born Phyllis Dewar(1916-1961), swimmer and member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame
April 27, 1916 - Born Myfanwy Pavelic (1916-2007) portrait artist
May 3, 1916 - Born Margaret 'Marmie' Perkins Hess (1916-2016) specialist in Inuit art and aboriginal crafts
May 4, 1916 - Born Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) social activist & foremost urban architect/planner.
June 4, 1916 - Born Shirley Burnham Elliott (1916-2004) legislative librarian of Nova Scotia & author
June 7, 1916 - Born Barbara Alice West Jefferys Allen (1916-2014) artist
July 18, 1916 - Born Margaret Wade Labarge (1916-2009) historian & professor of medieval studies
August 1, 1916 - Born Anne Hébert (1916-2000) award winning poet, playwright, & novelist
September 1, 1916 - Born Bertha Baumann (1916-2005) leading nurse in St Boniface, Manitoba
November 8, 1916 - Born June Havoc (1916-2010) vaudeville entertainer & award winning Broadway director
November 23, 1916 - Born P.K. Page (1916-2010) award winning author & a artist.
December 5, 1916 - Born Frankie Tillman (1916-2003) social activist with YWCA
December 9, 1916 - Born Effie Constance Astbury (!916-2008) Librarian first Director Canadian Bibliographic Centre (National Library of Canada and later Library and Archives Canada)
December 12, 1916 - Born Jessie Annie Middleton (1912-2019) nurse serving in World War ll
December 22, 1916 - Born Anne Abrametz (1915-2015) social activist for Canada's Ukrainian culture preservation

Deaths 1916:
February 16, 1916 - Died  Charlotte Whitehead Ross (1843-1916) first woman doctor in Montreal and in Manitoba
May 15, 1916 - Died Lydia Elizabeth 'Eliza or Lyda' Hall (1864-1916) evangelist with sister, she was known as a gifted preacher
May 16, 1915 - Died Kathleen 'Kit' Blake Coleman (1856-1915) pioneer journalist, 1st woman war correspondent
May 18, 1916 - Died- Grace Annie Lockhart (1855-1916) 1st woman to receive a university degree in Canada
June 11, 1916 - Died Johanna 'Joan' Matheson (1842-1916) one of the 1st nurses to serve in the Canadian military
July 4, 1916 - Died Elizabeth Secord (1841-1916) 1st qualified registered physician in the Province of New Brunswick 1883
November 16, 1916 - Died Frances Elizabeth Herring (1851-1916) west coast novelist 
December 9, 1916 - Died Adruenna ‘Addie’ Allen Tupper (1870-1916) World War l Nursing Sister

1917 - The Canadian government passes legislation introducing Income tax  as a temporary wartime measure

April 5, 1917- British Columbia women win the rights to vote and to hold provincial office (Statutes of British Columbia 1917 c. 23)

April 12, 1917 - Ontario white women win the rights to vote and hold public office in the province. (Statutes of Ontario 1917 c. 5)

Spring 1917 - The Nova Scotia Equal Franchise League is formed with unification of various women’s groups

May 1917 - The government of British Columbia is the 1st province to pas Equal Guardianship of Infants Act which gives mothers equal rights with fathers concerning care, control, and custody of children

June 7, 1917 - Louise McKinney (1868-1931) and Roberta MacAdams (1880-1959) are the 1st women in Canada elected to a provincial legislature, in Alberta and the 1st elected to a legislature in the British Commonwealth

1917 - Jean Ethel MacLachian (1875-1963) is the 1st person to become a juvenile Court Judge in Saskatchewan and the 1st woman in Canada to be appointed a justice of the Peace

July 9, 1917 - Helen Gregory MacGill (1864-1947) is appointed the 1st woman judge in British Columbia and Canada  Source: British Columbia Federation of Labour.  http://bcfed.com/issues/women/history

August 1917 - The province of Ontario has its 1st well baby clinic at the Canadian National Exhibition. Nurses see 700 mothers and 150 infants in 12 days

September 20, 1917 - The Military Voters Act extends federal enfranchisement, until the end of the war, to women in the services and to those women who had close relatives in the armed services of Canada or Great Britain.  In British Columbia a provincial Military Voters Act gives voting rights to British women who are war widows or had sons or husbands serving overseas. At this time most people born in Canada were British subjects but this provincial Act did not apply status Indians nor members of specific minorities.  These groups would be separately enfranchised in later acts of the B.C. provincial parliament

December 6, 1917 - Over 2000 people are killed and some 9000 injured when a munitions ship explodes in Halifax harbour

December 10, 1917 - Hannah 'Annie' Elizabeth Gale (1876-1970) in 1917 she became one of the 1st woman in the British Empire and the 1st in Canada to become an alderman when she is elected in Calgary, Alberta. Source Merna Forster, Annie Gale (1876-1970) Heroines.ca (Accessed May 2015) ; Annie Gale, Alberta Champions Online (Accessed May 2015) Book: Judith Lishman, Alderman Mrs. Annie Gale (Ottawa, 1985)

1917 - 35,000 women were employed in munitions factories in Ontario and Montreal

1917 - Under the Canadian federal Military Voters Act, nurses in the armed forces are given the vote 

1917 - Alberta is the 1st province to adopt a minimum wage law for women

1917 - Alberta passes the Dower Act providing that a homestead in which a wife has a life interest cannot be disposed of without her consent

1917 - The British Columbia government passes legislation to ensure equal guardianship of children for both husband & wife

1917 - The British Columbia government enacts a law giving custody of children if the woman has been deserted by her husband. This is a direct result of the work of Judge Helen Gregory MacGill (1864-1947)

1917 - "Farmerette Camps" accommodate some 900 women agricultural workers in the Niagara fruit belt of Ontario  


Births 1917:
1917 - Born Phyllis Burgess (1917-1988)  administrator and developer of nursing strategies for treatment of cancer patients
1917 - Born Elizabeth Miriam Janzen Dreger (1917/1918 - 1979) social activist
1917 - Born Althea Pearleen Borden Oliver (1917-2008) social activist for maritime Black women
1917 - Born Beatrice 'Bea' Caroline Rowly (1917-2017) poet
1917 - Born Gladys Taylor (1917-2015) writer, journalist and publisher
1917 - Born Beatrice Wickett-Nesbitt (1917-2010) psychologist who forged the way for others to follow in the profession
January 13, 1917 - Born Flo Whyard (1917-2012) journalist , editor Whitehorse Star, MLA and Mayor of Whitehorse, Yukon
January 17, 1917 - Born Isabel Frances Leith Macdonald (1917-2013) drama teacher
January 21, 1917 - Born Harriet 'Hallie' Jennie Todd Sloan (1917-2017) military nurse so advocated for the growth of military nursing.
January 29, 1917 - Born Marial M.  Mosher (1917-2008) academic
February 28, 1917 - Born Philippa Mary Faulkner (1917-2001) artist
March 10, 1917 - Born Edith Iglauer Hamburger Daly (1917-2019) author
April 1, 1917 - Born Eira 'Babs' Friesen (1917-2008) social activist
April 4, 1917 - Born  Ayako 'Irene' Uchida (1917-2013) medical researcher who connected radiation and Downs Syndrome in pregnancy
May 6, 1917 - Born Vicki Bisaro (1917-2017) community volunteer
May 7, 1917 - Born Olive Bend Little (1917-1987) member of the American Girls Professional Baseball League
June 5, 1917 - Born Helen Arlene Dahlstrom (1917-    ) classical musician
July 9, 1917 - Born Beatrice 'Bea' Caroline Rowley (1917-   ) poet who uses pen name R.H. Grenville
August 12, 1917 - Born Hélène Shingles (1917-2009) a dentist who has received the Order of Canada for her humanitarian efforts
August 21, 1917 - Born Kay Helen McDaniel (1917-2015) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
September 17, 1917 - Born Irma Elizabeth Hacking (1917-2014) World War l nurse
October 2, 1917 - Born Alma Duncan (1917-2004) artist
October 14, 1917 - Born Isabella Dryden (1917-   ) teacher of business & computer skills
November 3, 1917 - Born Marguerite Davis (1917-1995) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
November 19, 1917 - Born Mimi Mitchell Donald (1917-2012) Canada's most outstanding teacher of the deaf in 20th century
November 27, 1917 - Born Betty Peterson (1917-2018) pacifist & social activist
November 29, 1917 - Born Nicole Germain (1917-19940 actor on radio & film in 1940's & 1950's
December 23, 1917 - Born Miriam Dworkin Waddington (1917-2004) acclaimed poet

Deaths 1917:
January 21, 1917 - Died Charlotte Selina "Nina" Bompas (1830-1917) Anglican Church missionary to the Canadian Northwest
January 21, 2017 - Died Harriet 'Hallie' Jennie Todd Sloan (1917-2017) military nurse so advocated for the growth of military nursing.
February 18, 1917 - Died Eliza Parks Hegan (1861-1917) one of 1st nurses trained in New Brunswick
February 20, 1917 - Died Rebecca 'Rivka' Fox Landsberg (1863-1917) social activist for Canadian immigrant Jewish families
March 9, 1917 - Died Agnes Sime Baxter Hill (1879-1917) noted mathematician
March 19, 1917 - Died Agnes Baxter ( 1870-1917) pioneer woman mathematician
July 30, 1917 - Died Jessie Kerr Lawson, (1838 -1917)  journalist
October 16, 1917 - Died Minnie Blanche Bishop (1864-1917) poet
October 17, 1917 - Died Florence Sarah Hall (1864-1917) temperance worker, suffragist, & feminist
November 4, 1917 - Died Teresa Margaret McDonnell (1835-1917) Sister Therese, pioneer pharmacist & country doctor

January 22, 1918 - Mary Ellen Smith (1863-1933) enters politics after the death of her husband Ralph Smith (   -1917) becoming the 1st woman in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. In March 1921 she became the 1st woman cabinet minister in the British Empire. . ^{Sources: Vancouver Hall of Fame Online (Accessed November 2012). : The Canadian Encyclopedia online (Accessed November 2012) , Herstory: A Canadian Women's Calendar 2006, Coteau Books, 2005.}

1918 - 3,141 Nursing Sisters served in the ranks of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War 1 Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Women in the Military.

February 28-march 2 1918 - A Women’s War Conference was held in Ottawa. Nellie McClung (1873-1951) was one of the attendees. The conference discussed among other things the continued role of women in the war effort

April 26, 1918 - With the support of Premier George Henry Murray (1861-1929), the Assembly of Nova Scotia passes The Nova Scotia Franchise Act, which gives women the right to vote in Nova Scotia's provincial elections, the 1st province to do so in Atlantic Canada. A separate act on that same day gives women the right to be elected to the provincial legislature (Statutes of Nova Scotia  1918 c.2)

May 9, 1918 - Frances Lilian Fish (1888-1975) is the 1^st Graduate of the 1^st women in Law from Dalhousie University & September 10, 1918 she is the 1^st women called to the Bar in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

May 19, 1918 - Katherine Maude MacDonald (1893-1918) is the 1st Canadian nursing sister to die in action. She served in Brittany France when the area was bombed by German aircraft

May 24, 1918 - The Women’s Franchise Act is passed permitting all women citizens to vote in federal elections

June 27, 1918 - The Canadian Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle, despite being clearly marked as a hospital ship, is unexpectedly torpedoed by the enemy U-86 (submarine) and sinks. Among those who perished with the crew were 14 Canadian Nursing Sisters. Source: Canadian Nurses in World War I. Trent University Archives: Fowlds Exhibit   (accessed July 22, 2005)

1918 - a Minimum Wage Act is  passed. Manitoba & British Columbia the 1st provinces in Canada to introduce minimum wage legislation. In 1921, the minimum hourly wage in Manitoba was $0.25. Up until 1931, the minimum wage only applied to female workers

August 1918 - The Canadian National Exhibition hosts its 1st Woman's Day complete with a parade

1918 - The Manitoba government passes the Dower Act which allows a wife a share in the family property

1918 - McGill University, Montreal, Quebec accepts women medical students for 1^st tim. Source: The Indomitable Lady Doctors by Carlotta Hacker, Clarke Irwin, 1974.

1918 - Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia pass laws making it illegal to hire White women in Chinese-owned restaurants and laundries Source: Canadian Chinese National Council. Moments of Chinese Canadian History. (accessed July 7, 2003)

1918 - the federal minister of health banns all amateur sports in Canada due to the outbreak of the flu epidemic from October to late November

1918 - Roberta Catherine MacAdams (1880-1959) the second woman elected to the Alberta legislature in 1917, became in 1918 1st woman in British Empire to introduce legislation in a parliament when she brought forward a bill to incorporate the War Veterans Next of Kin Association Bill. Source: Our Future, Our Heritage. The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project. Online (Accessed May 2014) ; Roberta MacAdams and the New Woman. Alberta’s Women’s Institute. Online (Accessed May 2014).

1918 - Mary Ellen Smith (1861 or 63-1933) becomes British Columbia's 1st woman Member of the Legislative Assembly  Source: British Columbia Federation of Labour. 

1918 - Sarah Ramsland  (1882-1964) is the 1st woman elected to the Saskatchewan legislature

1918 - Mary Mcnulty (1895-1972) is called to the Bar in Ontario and becomes the 1st woman to practice law in the city of Ottawa, Ontario ^{Source: Diversifying the bar; Law Society of Upper Canada online accessed January 2013.:: Heritage Mississauga (accessed March 2003)}

1918 - The Women's College Hospital, Toronto has its 1st graduation class in nursing with 2 graduate. Source: A history of Women's College (Accessed February 2006)

1918 - The Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada is formed

1918 - Volunteer women patrols under the auspices of the YWCA are authorized as an experiment in Toronto, Ontario. After a short trial they are discontinued Source: Herstory: Milestones in the History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online Accessed June 2011.

August 16, 1918 - Almanda Walker-Marchand (1868-1949) officially founded the Federation des femmes-française. The organization worked to expand participation of French Canadian women in education, economics, culture and policies becoming national in scope.
Source: ‘Almanda Marchand (1868-1949)’, Ottawa Raconte-moi Online (Accessed July 2015)

September 10, 1918 - Frances Lillian Fish (1888-1975) is the 1^st woman to graduate Dalhousie University with a Law Degree. And she was the 1st woman called to the Bar in Nova Scotia

1918 - Annette Saint-Amant Frémont (1892-1928) is the 1st francophone woman journalist in Saskatchewan ^{Sources: Herstory, the Canadian Women’s Calendar 2006 Coteau Books, 2005; Dictionary of Canadian Biography online Accessed April 2013.}

1918 - The Canadian Canned Fruit and Vegetable Act introduces grading scales to commercial food canning processes Source: Culinary Journey. submitted to Famous Canadian Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario

1918 - The Montreal chapter of the National Jewish Women’s Council is founded

1918 - World War l ends with the signing of an armistice at 11 a.m. November 11. Bernice Furness (1884-1977) is the only woman journalist accredited to cover the 1919 Peace Treaty Negotiations

Births 1918:
1918 - Born M. Jean Anderson (1918-2013) nursing director
1918 - Born Alice Boissonneau (1918-2007) author
1918 - Born Fern Blodgett (1918-1991)  June 13, 1941 became the 1st Canadian woman to serve in the Merchant Marines
1918 - Born Jean E. Coolican (1918-2012) volunteer & co-founder of Save the Children Canada
1918 - Born Sheila Agnes Egoff (1918-2005) librarian, award winning expert in Children's literature
1918 - Born Joan Bamford Fletcher (1918-1979) lead 2,000 Dutch civilians to safety in Sumatran jungle
1918 - Born Pearl Keenan (1918?-   ) Elder of the Canadian North West
1918 - Born Fern Sunde (1918-1991) 1942 received Norwegian War medal for war effort, 1st woman to receive this award
January 1, 1918 - Born Frances Bay (1918-2011) actor with star on Canada's Walk of Fame
February 3, 1918 - Born Isobel Moira Dunbar (1918-1999) ice researcher, 1st woman on Canadian government icebreakers
March 18, 1918 - Born Ruby Martz (1918-1995) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
April 13, 1918 - Born Thelma Jo Walmsley (1918-1997) played for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
April 20, 1918 - Born Mildred Amanda Gottfriedson (1918-1989) 1st First Nations to receive Order of Canada
April 23, 1918 - Born Margaret Avison (1918-2007)  award winning poet. librarian & social worker
April 24, 1918 - Born Elizabeth Man Borgese (1918-02002) author & expert on ocean environment
April 30, 1918 - Born Mary Elizabeth Macdonald (1918-2006) civil servant, Order of Canada 1980
May 4, 1918 - Born Lyn Cook (1918 -    ) 1st author to have books for youth published after WW ll
May 11, 1918 - Born Sheila Branford, (1918- 1984)  author of one of the best animal tale, Incredible Journey
May 28, 1918 - Died Margaret Lowe (1886-1918) Nursing Sister World War l
May 31, 1918 - Born Margaret Agnes Todd (1918-1919) champion golfer
June 23, 1918 - Born Norah Urquhart (1918-2009) helped discover the secret of the Monarch Butterfly
June 25, 1918 - Born Marion Orr (1918-1995) pioneer aviator and 1st woman to own & operate a flying school in Canada
July 14, 1918 - Born Grace Hartman (1918-1993) social activist & union member
July 15, 1918 - Born Brenda Milner (1918-   ) internationally acclaimed neurologist
August 13, 1918 - Born Mildred Jeannette Dolson-Cavill (1918-2004) Olympic medal winning track and field athlete
August 8, 1918 - Born Irma Sophia Council (1918-   ) portrait artist & editor
September 2, 1918 - Born Claire Culhane (1918-1996) a social activist & protestor of war
September 21, 1918 - Born Kathleen 'Kay' Rex (1918-2006) journalist, historian, & author
September 28,1918 - Born Frances Morrison (1918-2011) librarian in Saskatchewan
October 4, 1918 - Born Ella Jean Canfield (1918-2000) 1st woman elected to the Legislative Assembly, Prince Edward Island
October 16, 1918 - Born Marianne Bossen (1916-2008) civil servant on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
November 11, 1918 - Born Madelaine Parent (1918-2013) social activist & labour leader
November 12, 1918 - Born Susan Budlovsky (1918-2011) heroine of Nazi death camps World War ll
November 28, 1918 - Born Fajel 'Faye' Lazebnik Schulman (1918-    ) member of polish resistance, photographer during World War ll
December 23, 1918 - Born Dr. Ricky Kanee Schachter (1918-   ) leader in her field of dermatology
December 25, 1918 - Born Mary Noel Balke (1918-2011) journalist, broadcaster, & librarian at Ottawa Public Library

Deaths 1918:
1918 - Died Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier Lamoureaux (1836-1918) pioneer of Northwest Territories & National Historic Person
1918 - Died Polly Verner (1837-1918)  citizen of Toronto
February 1, 1918 - Died Hannah Maynard (1834-1918)  pioneer portrait photographer
May 19, 1918 - Died Katherine Maud 'Christy' Macdonald (1893-19180 first Nursing Sister in WW 1 to die in action
May 21, 1918 - Died Gladys Maude Mary "Bob/Bobbie' Wake (1883-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
May 29, 1918 - Died Eden Lyal Pringle (1893-1918) youngest Nursing Sister to die in World War l
June 27, 1918 - Died Margaret Jane ‘Daisy Fortescue (1878-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Christina Campbell (1877-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Carola Josephine Douglas (1887-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Alexina Dussault (1882-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Minnie Follette (1884-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Margaret Jane Fortescue (1878-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Margaret Marjory 'Pearl' Fraser (1885-1918) World War l Nursing Matron
June 27, 1918 - Died Minnie Katharine Gallaher (1880?-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Jessie McDiarmid (1880-1918) World War i Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Mary Agnes McKenzie (1880-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Mae Belle Sampson (1890--1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Gladys Irene Sare (1889-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Anna Irene Stamers (1988-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Jean Templeman (1885-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Rena Maude McLean, (1879-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
August 26, 1918 - Died Robina 'Ruby' Lizars-Smith (1850-1918) author of historical works
September 14, 1918 - Died Clemetina Fessenden (1843-1918) founder of the Independent Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.)  
October 23, 1918 - Died Lulu Mae Johnson Eads (1877?-1918) businesswoman, dance hall performer & hotel proprietor. 
November 4, 1918 - Died Evelyn Vera McKay (1892-1018) World War 1 Nursing Sister
November 26, 1918 - Died Katherine Bawlf (1855-1918) social activist
November 29, 1918 - Died Ainslie St. Clair Dagg (1892-1918) World War l  Nursing Sister
December 12, 1918 - Died Lenna Mae Jenner (!889-1918) nurse serving during World War l
December 31, 1918 - Died Aileen Powers -Peel (1894-1918) nurse in World War l

1919 - Eliza Ritchie (1856-1935.) is  appointed to the Dalhousie University board of governors, a 1st  for Canadian women

1919 - Violet Irene Guymer (1885-1995) earns her diploma as a Funeral Director and Embalmer in Manitoba. She is the 1st  woman in Canada to graduate in this course Source: Quite and undertaking: the story of Violet Guymer, Canada's firs female licensed funeral director by Elizabeth Lycar and Lorrie Guymer Hutton, (Kelowna, B.C. : Nip and Tuck Publishing, 1966)

1919 - Alex Gibb (1891-1958) helps to found Ladies Ontario Basketball Association, she would serve as President in 1925 ^{Sources: “Queen of the Ice Lanes: the Preston Rivulettes and Women’s Hockey in Canada 1931-1940” by Carly Adams in Sport History Review no. 39 pages 1-29 2008; 100 more Canadian Heroines by Merna Forster Dundurn Press, 2011.}

1919 - Zonta International is founded. “Advancing the status of women worldwide.”  Zonta International, global service organization of executives in business and the professions, work together, across political and social boundaries, to advance the status of women worldwide. Zonta members volunteer their time, talents and money to local and international service programs as well as scholarship and award programs aimed at furthering women's education, leadership and youth development

1919 - The Young men’s/Young Women’s Hebrew Association (now Jewish Community Centres) is founded in Toronto

1919 - Anne of Green Gables is made into a silent film. Unfortunately the film has been lost but movie stills have survived. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) did not think the actress who played the part of Anne did not portrait the character as she had written her

Births 1919:
1919 - Born Jean Bessie Lumb (1919-2002) 1st Chinese Canadian inducted into Order of Canada
1919 - Born Olga Chumak ( 1919-2003) 1st woman lawyer of Ukrainian heritage in the province of Ontario
1919 - Born Gladys "Gladdy" Balsillie (1919-1987) businesswoman who was a burlesque agent
1919 - Born Jean Bessie Lumb (1919-2002) social activist for the Canadian Chinese community & Order of Canada
1919 - Born Mary "Bonnie" Baker (1919?- 2003) member of the All American Girls Baseball League
1919 - Born Nancy Lima Dent ( 1919 -   ) created a body of over 30 dance works, many are commentary on social issues
1919 - Born Clara 'Dolly' Scott (1919-1991) sideshow personality
January 1, 1919 - Born Blanche Wisenthal (1919 ---) social Activist & National President of Hadassah W.I.Z.O.
January 10, 1919 - Born Cassie Eileen Brown (1919-1986) journalist & author
January 25, 1919 - Born Margaret Elizabeth Cooper (1919-2016) decoder during World War ll
February 2, 1919 - Born Dorothy May Copithorn (1919-2013) musician, piano & organ
April 3, 1919 - Born Clairette Oddera (1919-2008) actor, singer from Quebec
April 6, 1919 - Born Paule Clouthier-Daveluy (1919-   ) author of French language books for young readers
April 27, 1919 - Born Ruth Wilson (1919-2001) medal winning basketball player
May 14 , 1919 - Born Solange Chaput-Rolland (1919-2001) author, editor, broadcaster & politician
May 22, 1919 - Born Clara McCandless Thomas (1919-   ) author & professor
May 24, 1919 - Born F. Marguerite "Peggy" Hill (1919-2012) medical doctor
May 27, 1919 - Born Francess Georgina Halpenny (1919-2017) editor & educator
June 13, 1919 - Born Helen Sandiford (1919-1993) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
June 30, 1919 - Born Dora Wasserman (1919-2003) award winning founder of the Yiddish Theatre of Montreal
July 18, 1919 - Born Raymonde 'Ray' Bowen (1919-2016) social activist for peace and women's rights
August 16, 1919 - Born Penny Martineuk Cooke (1919-2010) played with All American Girls Professional Baseball League
August 22, 1919 - Born May 'Billie' Alexandra Hallam (1919-2015) Miss Toronto 1937
August 28, 1919 - Born Hélène Baillargeon-Coté (1919-1997) entertained children on TV in bilingually well before her time
September 1, 1919 - Born Gladys Davis (1919-   ) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
September 3, 1939 - Born Jeannine Guindon (1919-2002) professor of psychology
September 4, 1919 - Born Bluma Levett Appel (1919-2007) noted philanthropist
September 11, 1919 - Born Daphne Odjig, (1919-2016) prolific Aboriginal artist
September 19, 1919 - Born Catherine Mary Wisnicki.(1919-2014) 1st Canadian woman university graduate in architecture
November 4, 1919 - Born Simonne Monet-Chartrand (1919-1993) feminist, unionist & pacifist
November 29, 1919 - Born Ruth Marion Bell (1919-2015) social activist working for women's right
December 19, 1919 - Born Catherine Mallory Knowles (1919-2014) librarian

Deaths 1919:
1919 - Died Annie Mackenzie Cleland (1859-1919) indomitable early Canadian woman doctor
1919 - Died  Alice Helena Berry (1868-1919) pioneer businesswoman of Prince Edward Island
1919 - Died Rose de Lima Lefebre (1862-1919) Sister Vincent pioneer of Canadian Northwest
1919 - Died Joanna E. Wood (d. 1919) author
May 20 1919 - Died Marion Elizabeth Crerar (1859-1919) social activist, volunteer, & philanthropist
July 31, 1919 - Died Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919-2006) Miss Lou, early Black radio and TV personality & journalist who was a member of the Order of the British Empire
August 8, 1919 - Died Julia Jane Murray Clark (1857-1919) pioneering social activist for child welfare