1923 in Canada
See also: 1922 in Canada, other events of 1923, 1924 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
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Incumbents
- Premier of Alberta – Herbert Greenfield
- Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick – Walter Foster then Peter Veniot
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George H. Murray then Ernest Armstrong
- Premier of Ontario – Ernest C. Drury then Howard Ferguson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – J.H. Bell then James D. Stewart
- Premier of Quebec – Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – C.A. Dunning
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
- 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
- March 14 – World's first complete play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional hockey game is done by Pete Parker in Regina.
- March 22 – Foster Hewitt announces his first hockey game
- 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 came 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
- October 8 – A longshoreman's stike beigns in Vancouver
- October 25 – Frederick Banting and John Macleod win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of insulin
- September 5 – James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing J.H. Bell
- Canadian National Railway is formed by merger of Canadian Government Railways, Canadian Northern Railway, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, and Grand Trunk Railway.
- Marijuana is made illegal in Canada
Arts and literature
- New books
- Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery
Births
- January 1 – Roméo Sabourin, war hero
- March 1 – Uno Helava, inventor
- March 2 – Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, painter
- March 4 – Stanley Haidasz, politician
- March 10 – Richard Doyle, newspaper editor
- March 15 – Laurent Desjardins, Manitoba politician
- March 19 – Henry Morgentaler, abortion activist
- March 30 – Milton Acorn, poet
- April 7 – Aba Bayefsky, artist
- April 16 – Samuel Nathan Cohen, critic
- April 25 – Melissa Hayden, dancer
- May 5 – John Black Aird, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- May 18 – Jean-Louis Roux, actor
- July 21 – Rudolph A. Marcus, Nobel laureate
- July 31 – Victor Goldbloom, Quebec politician
- August 3 – Robert Campeau, businessman
- August 6 – Paul T. Hellyer, politician
- August 21 – Robert Stewart, scientist
- September 1 – Kenneth Thomson, businessman
- September 2 – David Lam, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
- September 18 – Bertha Wilson, Supreme Court Justice
- October 7 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter
- October 23 – Réjane L. Colas, jurist
- November 1 – Gordon R. Dickson, author
- November 2 – Harold Horwood, writer
- November 22 – Arthur Hiller, film director
- Kildare Dobbs, writer
Deaths
- October 30 – Andrew Bonar Law, British prime minister
- December 5 – Sir William Mackenzie, railway entrepreneur
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