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1926 in Canada

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1926
in
Canada

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Events from the year 1926 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Territorial governments

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Commissioners

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Events

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Full date unknown

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Sport

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Arts and literature

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Births

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Leslie Nielsen in 1982

January to June

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July to December

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Full date unknown

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Deaths

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Nérée Le Noblet Duplessis

See also

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Historical documents

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Prime Minister King's resignation letter urges Gov. Gen. Byng to rethink his refusal of King's advice to dissolve Parliament [2]

King profoundly relieved that Byng took Meighen's advice to dissolve, "deliver[ing] himself so completely into my hands"[3]

British government recognizes Canada's need of direct diplomatic relations with U.S.A.[4]

Canada posts its first diplomatic representative in Washington[5]

House committee studying minimum wage hears details of decent and unhealthy standards of living affordable on industrial wages[6]

Tourist guide to Rocky Mountains resorts includes Banff, Lake Louise, Yoho, and Glacier parks, plus Vancouver and Victoria, B.C.[7]

Exile-weary anarchist Emma Goldman hopes Canada will let her stay[8]

Touching letter to stranger follows visit to her brother's grave in France[9]

English immigrant loves slush-free winters and long summer days in Dawson City, Yukon[10]

Instructions for bleaching out suntan[11]

References

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  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ Letter of William Lyon Mackenzie King to Governor General Byng (June 28, 1926). Accessed 8 May 2020
  3. ^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1926 (July 2), pg. 174 Accessed 11 May 2020
  4. ^ "Relations with Foreign Countries, General Conduct of Foreign Policy," Imperial Conference, 1926; Inter-Imperial Relations Committee; Report, pg. 9 (PDF frame 10) Accessed 11 May 2020
  5. ^ United States Department of State, "Approval by the United States of Proposal by the British Government for the Appointment of a Canadian Minister at Washington," Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1926, pgs. 578-90 Accessed 8 May 2020
  6. ^ "Minutes of Evidence" (May 1926), Select Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations, pgs. 19-21 and 41-50 Accessed 20 October 2020
  7. ^ Canadian Pacific Railway Company, "Resorts in the Canadian Pacific Rockies" (1926), University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 19 February 2023
  8. ^ Letter of Emma Goldman to Theodore Dreiser (October 22, 1926). Accessed 8 May 2020
  9. ^ Letter of Minnie M. Miller to Jessie I. Lawson (August 2, 1926). http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/MOP/english/ww1/dosearch.asp?browse=10&results=50&all=true (scroll down to Miller) Accessed 11 May 2020
  10. ^ Letter of Claude Tidd (April 6, 1926). Accessed 11 May 2020
  11. ^ Lucrezia Bor, "Bleaching for Beauty," Daily World, Vol. 1, No. 56 (Montreal, August 31, 1926), pg. 11. Accessed 11 May 2020 http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3677279 (turn to pg. 11)