1906 in Canada

Events from the year 1906 in Canada.

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January 1 - Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal
January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
February 23 - Tommy Burns becomes the first Canadian to be boxing's heavyweight champion
March 27 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
April 30 - The Ottawa Public Library opens
May 14 - Ontario Hydro created
May 23 - Regina decreed capital of Saskatchewan
June 24 - Octave Crémazie Monument unveiled
August 26 - King Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Saskatchewan
The Revillon Frères trading post opens at Fort Saint John, British Columbia, as competition against the Hudson's Bay Company

January 15 - Edna Staebler, author (d. 2006)
January 27 - Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (d.1987)
January 29 - Joe Primeau, ice hockey player (d.1989)
February 14 - Roland Beaudry, politician, journalist, publicist and publisher (d.1964)
March 10 - Lionel Bertrand, politician, journalist and newspaper editor (d.1979)
May 15 - Robert Methven Petrie, astronomer (d.1966)
May 16 - Alfred Pellan, painter (d.1988)
June 22 - Stanley Fox, politician (d.1984)
June 26 - Marian Scott, painter
July 18 - S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic and politician (d. 1992)
September 24 - Leonard Marsh, social scientist and professor (d.1983)
November 20 - John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (d.1996)
December 16 - Barbara Kent, Canadian actress

February 2 - Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (b.1823)
March 31 - James McIntyre, poet (b.1828)
April 12 - Robert Thorburn, merchant, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1836)
May 3 - Peter White, politician (b.1838)
May 19 - Gabriel Dumont, Metis leader (b.1837)
June 9 - William Carpenter Bompas, Church of England clergyman, bishop and missionary (b.1834)
June 11 - Hector-Louis Langevin, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1826)
October 7 - Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (b.1848)