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Events from the year 1915 in Canada.

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January 4 - WWI: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry becomes the first Canadian troops sent to the front lines
January 15 - The Canadian Northern Railway line to Vancouver, British Columbia, is completed
February 4 - After a training accident, Lieutenant W. F. Sharpe becomes the first Canadian military airman killed
February 21 - Nellie McClung presents a petition to the Alberta Legislature demanding women's suffrage
February 28 - WWI: Canadian troops launch the first trench raid of the war; by the end of the conflict Canadian troops will be regarded as the experts at this manoeuvre
April 22 - WWI: In the Second Battle of Ypres Canadian forces bear the brunt of the first chemical weapons attack of the war. They devise makeshift gas masks of urine-soaked rags and hold their ground
May 3 - "In Flanders Fields" is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.
May 12 - Tobias Norris becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Sir Rodmond Roblin
July 5 - The Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton opens
August 6 - Manitoba General Election
September 13 - WWI: with the arrival of the 2nd Canadian Division a separate Canadian Corps is created
December 15 - William John Bowser becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Richard McBride
December 19 - Captain M.M. Bell-Irving,No.1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, achieves the first aerial victory by a Canadian when he shot down a German aircraft
WWI - Many Canadian soldiers grow upset at the inferior quality of their Ross Rifles

Daniel Johnson, Sr.

July 4 - Harold E. Johns, medical physicist (d.1998)
July 6 - Leonard Birchall, World War II hero (d.2004)
August 3 - Frank Arthur Calder, politician, first Status Indian to be elected to any legislature in Canada (d.2006)
August 20 - H. Gordon Barrett, politician (d.1993)
August 22 - James Hillier, scientist and inventor, jointly designed and built first electron microscope (d.2007)
August 22 - Jacques Flynn, politician and Senator (d.2000)
August 25 - John Bassett, publisher and media baron (d.1998)
October 7 - Harry J. Boyle, broadcaster and writer (d.2005)
October 7 - Charles Templeton, cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author (d.2001)
October 25 - Tommy Prince, one of Canada's most decorated First Nations soldiers (d.1977)
November 27 - Yves Thériault, author (d.1983)
December 13 - Ross Macdonald, novelist (d.1983)

Arthur Julian Andrew, diplomat and author (d.1994)
Earl Cameron, broadcaster and news anchor (d.2005)
Percy Saltzman, meteorologist and television personality, first weatherman in Canadian television history (d.2007)^[1]

Charles Tupper