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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 Sauv�, 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 - Ren� L�vesque, 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

Categories: 1922 | Years in Canada

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1922 in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (293 words)
	See also: 1921 in Canada, other events of 1922, 1923 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.
	The land around Vimy Ridge is given to Canada by France in gratitude for the Canadian sacrifices during World War I
	Nanook of the North is released, it is the first film to be called a documentary

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