1922 in Canada

See also: 1921 in Canada, other events of 1922, 1923 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Incumbents

• Sovereign – King George V
• Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Governor General – Viscount Byng

• Premier of Alberta – Herbet Greenfield
• Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
• Premier of Manitoba – Tobias Norris then John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Walter E. Foster
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George H. Murray
• Premier of Ontario – Ernest C. Drury
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. H. Bell
• Premier of Quebec – Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Willaim Martin then Charles Dunning

Events

• January 11 – The world's first insulin treatment is made at the Toronto General Hospital. The successful technique would later win a Nobel Prize for its creators Frederick Banting and Charles Best.
• April 5 – Charles Dunning becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Willaim Martin
• May 3 – The women of Prince Edward Island win the right to vote
• August 8 – John Bracken becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Tobias Norris
• September 15 – Prime Minister Mackenzie King refuses to support the British in the Chanak Affair, asserting foreign policy independence for the first time
• The land around Vimy Ridge is given to Canada by France in gratitude for the Canadian sacrifices during WWI

Arts and Literature

• Nanook of the North is released, it is the first film to be called a documentary

Births

• January 21 – Lincoln Alexander, politician
• February 25 – Molly Bobak, artist
• April 24 – Philip Gerald Givens, politician
• April 26 – Jeanne Sauvé, first female Governor General
• June 9 – Fernand Seguin, biochemist
• June 11 – Erving Goffman, sociolgist
• June 27 – Richard Vollenweider, environmentalist
• July 30 – Jack McClelland, publisher
• August 7 – Helmut Kallmann, historian
• August 11 – Mavis Gallant, writer
• August 24 – René Lévesque, separatist premier of Quebec
• September 1 – Yvonne De Carlo, actor
• September 3 – Salli Terri, singer/songwriter
• September 16 – Alex Barris, actor
• October 17 – Pierre Juneau, politician and broadcaster
• December 11 – Pauline Jewett, educator

Deaths

• August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone