1914 in Canada

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See also: 1913 in Canada, other events of 1914, 1915 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.

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March 19 - The Royal Ontario Museum opens
May 14 - First major discovery of oil in western Canada at Turner Valley
May 29 - Ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.
June 19 - A coal mine explosion in Hillcrest, Alberta kills 189 of 235, the worst mining disaster in Canadian history
June 29 - 1914 Ontario election: Sir James Whitney's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority
August 4 - WWI: United Kingdom declares war on Germany, meaning Canada is automatically involved.
August 14 - Canada's War Measures Act is passed suspending all civil rights in Canada during a crisis.
September 9 - WWI: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army
October 2 - William Hearst becomes Premier of Ontario replacing the retiring James Whitney
October 3 - WWI: 33 000 Canadian troops depart for Europe, the largest force to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean at the time.
December 17 - George J. Clark becomes Premier of New Brunswick replacing the retiring James K. Flemming
All-time high levels of Immigration are ended by the war
Canada suspends the convertibility of the dollar into gold
Edmonton adopts a new numbered street and avenue pattern
Ontario passes a worker's compensation act that provides all workers with funding in case of disability
The Komagata Maru, a Japanese steamship which sailed from Hong Kong to British Columbia carrying 376 passengers, is turned back from Canada under authority of exclusion laws prohibiting Asian immigrants. Most of the passengers returned to India.