1911
in
Canada

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Events from the year 1911 in Canada.

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Historical documents

With "unenviable record for deaths," residential school principal blames drafty building and its "sanitary and heating appliances"[3]

Henri Bourassa denounces prejudiced attacks on French Canadian nationalism[4]

Order in Council cancels previous order prohibiting entry for one year of "any immigrant belonging to the Negro race"[5]

Cartoon: anti-reciprocity depiction of Johnny Canuck and Uncle Sam cutting up watermelon (Note: racial stereotypes and blackface)[6]

Saskatchewan premier and farmers disappointed federal election has ruled out reciprocity with U.S.A.[7]

Poster recruits U.S. men to harvest 100,000,000 bushels of Canadian grain[8]

Nellie McClung speaks on importance of social life in rural areas[9]

Fruit co-operative manager says co-ops would do better if farmers valued business methods more and self-reliance less[10]

British woman fired from first au pair job on her undercover investigation of domestic work in Manitoba[11]

U.S. reporter explains how church-going, law-abiding Canadians had no Wild West[12]

U.S. reporter calls Quebec City economic backwater with fine sightseeing[13]

Ancient farms and conservative rural ways on St. Lawrence River near Quebec City[14]

Terrible fire does not discourage exploitation of immense mineral wealth in Timmins area of northern Ontario[15]

Great healing powers (and products) found in Manitou Lake, near Watrous, Saskatchewan[16]

Mackenzie King falls for his ideal woman[17]

References

  1. "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. Baldissera, Lisa. "AUTUMN IN FRANCE 1911". aci-iac.ca/.
  3. Letter of Walter McLaren (December 26, 1911), United Church of Canada Central Archives, in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 171. Accessed 10 June 2021
  4. Henri Bourassa, "To the English Speaking Reader" The Reciprocity Agreement and Its Consequences As Viewed from the Nationalist Standpoint (1911), pgs. I-IV. Accessed 21 February 2020
  5. "Negro Immigration cancellation O.C. 1911/08/12 prohibiting - M. Int. 1911/10/04" (October 5, 1911), Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 12 November 2021
  6. Newton McConnell, "Uncle Sam: 'Lemme divide tha mellion foh yo' Johnnie I'se had sperience'" (ca. 1911). Accessed 2 May 2021 https://www.picturingpolitics.com/whose-story/ (scroll down to Racism in Editorial Cartoons)
  7. Walter Scott, "Address to the People of Saskatchewan" (1911). Accessed 21 February 2020
  8. Canada Department of the Interior, "40,000 Men Needed in Western Canada...Going Only August...1911." Accessed 21 February 2020
  9. Nellie McClung, "The Importance of Social Life in Country Homes" Report of the First Annual Convention of the Homemakers' Club of Saskatchewan[....] (1911), pgs. 36-9. Accessed 21 February 2020
  10. James E. Johnson, "Co-Operative Fruit Culture; Why Co-Operation Is Not More Successful among Farmers" (February 1, 1911), Report of the [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization[;] 1910-11, pgs. 90-1. Accessed 14 October 2020
  11. Ella Constance Sykes, "My First Post as a Home-Help" A Home-Help in Canada (1912), pgs. 43-52. Accessed 21 February 2020
  12. William E. Curtis, "Western Canada Life Free from Disorder" (September 25, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 139-42. Accessed 21 February 2020
  13. William E. Curtis, "Yankee Visitors' Dollars Help to Support Quebec" (August 22, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 11-16. Accessed 21 February 2020
  14. William E. Curtis, "Farm in Quebec Is Like a Ribbon, Ending at River" (August 28, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 33-7. Accessed 21 February 2020
  15. William E. Curtis, "Mines of Ontario Set a High Mark by Their Output" (September 5, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 77-9. Accessed 21 February 2020
  16. William E. Curtis, "Lake of Healing Aid in Boosting Watrous, Canada" (September 21, 1911), Letters on Canada, pgs. 125-9. Accessed 21 February 2020
  17. Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1911, pgs. "13-17" (one page is reproduced twice). Accessed 21 February 2020
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