| 1867-73; 1878-1891 |
John Alexander Macdonald |
| 1873-1878 |
Alexander MacKenzie |
| 1891-1892 |
John Joseph Caldwell Abbott |
| 1892-1894 |
John Sparrow David Thompson |
| 1894-1896 |
MacKenzie Bowell |
| 05.01.1896 - 07.08.1896 |
Charles Tupper |
| 1896-1911 |
Wilfrid Laurier |
| 1911-1920 |
Robert Laird Borden |
| 1920-1921; 06.29.1926 - 9.24.1926 |
Arthur Meighen |
| 1921-1926; 1926-1930; 1935-1948 |
William Lyon (W.L.) Mackenzie King |
| 1930-1935 |
Richard Bedford Bennett |
| 1874-80 |
Benjamin Disraeli |
| 1880-85 |
William Ewart Gladstone |
| 1885-86 |
Robert Arthur Talbot-Gascoyne-Cecil Salisbury |
| 1886 |
Gladstone |
| 1886-92 |
Salisbury |
| 1892-94 |
Gladstone |
| 1894-95 |
Archibald Philip-Primrose Rosebery |
| 1895-1901 |
Salisbury |
| 1902-05 |
Arthur James Balfour |
| 1905-08 |
Henry Campbell-Bannerma |
| 1908-16 |
Herbert Henry Asquith |
| 1916-22 |
David Lloyd George |
| 1922-23 |
Andrew Bonar Law |
| 1923-24 |
Stanley Baldwin |
| 1924 |
James Ramsey MacDonald |
| 1924-29 |
Baldwin |
| 1929-35 |
MacDonald |
| 1935-37 |
Baldwin |
| 1937-40 |
Neville Chamberlain |
| 1940-45 |
Winston Churchill |
| 1887 |
Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria |
| 1899-1902 |
Boer War in South Africa |
| 1901 |
Queen Victoria dies |
| 1912 |
Titanic sinks |
| 1914-18 |
First World War (for the U.S.A., 1916-18) |
| 1917 |
Lenin leads the Bolsheviks to power |
| 1919 |
Canadian National Railways Incorporated
Lady Astor is the first woman elected to British Parliament |
| 1919 |
Treaty of Versailles
First Canadian female elected MP: Agnes Macphail |
| 1922 |
Insulin applied to humans with success
Mussolini takes over Italy, which becomes fascist |
| 1925 |
Scopes on trial in U.S.A. for teaching evolution in the classroom |
| 1927 |
Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic |
| 1927 |
Stalin consolidates power in Russia |
| 1929 |
The Persons Case: women declared to be persons and eligible to be
appointed to Senate (Canadian/British) |
| 1929-39 |
Depression, almost world-wide |
| 1933 |
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany |
| 1934 |
Dionne quintuplets born in Ontario |
| 1936-39 |
Spanish Civil War |
| 1937 |
Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific |
| 1939 |
Britain and France declare war on Germany, Second World War begins |
| 1941 |
Pearl Harbor attacked and the U.S.A. enters the Second World War |
| 1876 |
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone |
| 1877 |
Thomas A. Edison invents the gramophone and phonograph |
| 1879 |
Edison (and simultaneously Sir Joseph Swan) invent the lightbulb |
| 1884 |
Lewis A. Waterman creates the fountain pen |
| 1886 |
John S. Pemberton makes Coca-Cola |
| 1888 |
George Eastman creates the Kodak camera |
| 1890 |
Whitcomb L. Judson invents what is later called the zipper |
| 1893 |
Edison creates the modern movie |
| 1895 |
X-rays developed by Wilhelm Roentgen |
| 1898 |
Typewriter by Christopher Latham Sholes |
| 1900 |
Paper clip is patented |
| 1901 |
Marconi's first wireless transatlantic message is received in St.
John's, NF |
| 1903 |
Airplane invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| 1908 |
Henry Ford's assembly-line production of the Model T automobile |
| 1911 |
General Electric mass produces a refrigerator invented by a French
monk |
| 1915 |
Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity |
| 1921 |
Insulin: Dr. Frederick Banting, Charles Best, J.J.R. Macleod |
| 1926 |
Warner Brothers Pictures uses sound synchronization in their movies |
| 1927 |
Philo T. Farnsworth invents the television |
| 1932 |
Electron microscope (1932-39) by Vladimir Zworykin |
| 1936 |
Heinrich Focke invents the helicopter |
| 1937 |
Chester F. Carlson patents xerography |
J.M. Barrie
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Agatha Christie
Joseph Conrad
Arthur Conan Doyle
T.S. Eliot
Kenneth Grahame
Thomas Hardy
James Joyce
Rudyard Kipling
D.H. Lawrence
Alice Meynell
George Bernard Shaw
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf
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