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Events from the year 1924 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• January 3 - First session of the British Columbia Older Boys' Parliament (now the British Columbia Youth Parliament) held in Victoria, British Columbia.
• January 26 - An Order-in-Council mandates the use of the Canadian Red Ensign on Canadian government buildings outside Canada. It the first officially allowed use of the flag on land, although it has been used unofficially for many years.
• April 1 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• June - Rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging is designed and made by rodeo cowboy and saddle maker Earl Bascom at the Bascom Ranch in Stirling, Alberta
• July 3 - The Chateau Lake Louise burns down
• October 24 - Former provincial treasurer Peter Smith and financier Aemilius Jarvis are found guilty in connection with the Ontario Bond Scandal.
• October 29 - An explosion kills Doukhobor leader Peter Verigin and eight other passengers on a CPR train from Brilliant to Grand Forks, British Columbia. Ten others are injured. Although never proven, it is alleged that Verigin was assassinated using a time bomb.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Births

[edit] January to March

• January 10 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, ballet dancer, choreographer and director (d.1996)
• January 29 - Marcelle Ferron, painter and stained glass artist (d.2001)
• January 29 - Lois Marshall, soprano (d.1997)
• February 3 - Martial Asselin, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
• February 7 - Ivor Dent, politician and mayor of Edmonton (d.2009)
• February 24 - Erik Nielsen, politician (d.2008)
• February 24 - Douglas Jung, politician and first Chinese Canadian MP in the Canadian House of Commons (d.2002)
• March 11 - Eva Von Gencsy, dancer

[edit] April to June

• April 5 - Orville Howard Phillips, politician and Senator (d.2009)
• May 28 - Paul Hébert, actor
• June 2 - June Callwood, journalist, author and social activist (d.2007)
• June 3 - Colleen Dewhurst, actress (d.1991)
• June 14 - Arthur Erickson, architect and urban planner (d.2009)

[edit] July to September

• July 11 - Eugene Whelan, politician and Minister
• July 20 – Mort Garson, electronic musician (d.2008)
• July 21 - Lynn R. Williams, labour leader
• July 29 - Lloyd Bochner, actor (d.2005)
• July 30 - Roland Penner, politician
• September 13 - Léonel Beaudoin, politician
• September 19 - Don Harron, comedian, actor, director, journalist, author and composer

[edit] October to December

• October 18 - Buddy MacMaster, fiddle player
• November 1 - Jean-Luc Pépin, academic, politician and Minister (d.1995)
• November 10 - Danny Cameron, politician (d.2009)
• December 6 - Donald Jack, novelist and playwright (d.2003)
• December 15 - Robert B. Salter, surgeon
• December 19 - Doug Harvey, ice hockey player (d.1989)
• December 20 - Judy LaMarsh, politician and Minister, lawyer, author and broadcaster (d.1980)

[edit] Deaths

• January 23 - James Wilson Morrice, painter (b.1865)
• May 1 - Louis Henry Davies, lawyer, businessman, politician and 3rd Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1845)
• June 6 - Laure Conan, novelist (b.1845)
• September 21 - Edouard Deville, cartographer and Surveyor General of Canada (b.1850)
• October 29 - Peter Vasilevich Verigin, philosopher, activist and leader and preacher of the Doukhobors (b.1859)
• December 9 - Judson Burpee Black, physician and politician (b.1842)