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EVENTS

January 28 - Women are given the Right To Vote in Manitoba , after protests by people such as Nellie McClung

February 3 - The Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa burns down

February 10 - An anti-German riot hits Calgary

March 14 - Saskatchewan women get the vote

is fought, the Canadian forces are forced to retreat by the intensive German onslaught

April 19 - Alberta women get the vote

June - Rodeo's first side-delivery chute is designed and made by the Bascom brothers on their Bar-B-3 Ranch at Welling, Alberta.

July 1 - Prohibition on alcohol in introduced in Alberta

July 24 - Earl Bascom enters his first steer riding contest at Welling, Alberta and later becomes an international celebrity in the rodeo and fine art worlds. He is known as the first rodeo cowboy to become a professional cowboy artist and sculptor and the first cowboy artist to be honored as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of London,England.

July 29 The Matheson Fire in the region northwest of North Bay begins. It eventually takes the lives of between 200 and 250 people and destroys six towns, including Matheson and Cochrane

October 20 - William M. Martin becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Walter Scott

November 23 - Harlan Brewster becomes premier of British Columbia , replacing William Bowser

Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke Of Devonshire becomes Governor General Of Canada replacing Prince Arthur, Duke Of Connaught

The first Doukhobors arrive in Alberta

25,000 Canadians and Newfoundland ers are killed at the Battle Of The Somme

The Montreal Canadiens beat the Portland Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association to win their first Stanley Cup

ARTS AND LITERATURE

:New works

Lucy Maud Montgomery - ''The Watchman & Other Poems''

Max Aitken - ''Canada in Flanders''

BIRTHS

February 4 - Pudlo Pudlat , artist

February 10 - Claude Bissell , author

February 14 - Jean Drapeau , mayor of Montreal

March 10 - E. Davie Fulton , politician

April 27 - Myfanwy Pavelic , artist

May 3 - Léopold Simoneau , tenor

May 4 - Jane Jacobs , urbanist

June 20 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand , Premier of Quebec

July 16 - John Gallagher , industrialist

August 1 - Anne Hébert , author

November 8 - June Havoc , actor

November 23 - P.K. Page , author

December 7 - Margaret Carse , dancer

December 16 - Harry Gunning , scientist

DEATHS

December 12 - Albert Lacombe , missionary