Events from the year 1915 in Canada.
[edit] Events [edit] Arts and literature [edit] New works [edit] Births [edit] January to June [edit] July to December - 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)
[edit] Full date unknown [edit] Deaths - June 14 - Antoine Audet, politician (b.1846)
- July 22 - Sandford Fleming, engineer and inventor (b.1827)
- August 10 - William Mortimer Clark, lawyer, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1836)
- September 10 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, politician and 3rd Premier of Quebec (b.1822)
- September 11 - William Cornelius Van Horne, pioneering railway executive (b.1843)
- October 19 - Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1842)
- October 30 - Charles Tupper, politician, Premier of Nova Scotia and 6th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1821)
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