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Events from the year 1911 in Canada.

Events

• May 16 - James Palmer becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing F. L. Haszard
• September 21 - Federal election: Robert Borden's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals
• October 10 - Robert Borden becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• October 16 - James Flemming becomes Premier of New Brunswick, replacing Sir John Hazen
• December 2 - John Mathieson becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James Palmer
• December 11 - 1911 Ontario election: Sir James Whitney's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority

Full date unknown

• Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada is founded.
• Dominion Parks Branch is established, the world's first national park service, now called Parks Canada.

Arts and literature

Births

January to June

• January 3 - Jean Bourcier, ice hockey player
• January 27 - Blanche Meagher, diplomat
• February 3 - Robert Charboneau, writer
• March 12 - Stanley Brehaut Ryerson, historian, educator and political activist (d.1998)
• April 22 - Alexander Bell Patterson, politician (d.1993)
• April 29 - Andrew Hill Clark, geographer
• May 11 - William Cecil Ross, politician (d.1998)
• May 11 - Mitchell Sharp, politician and Minister (d.2004)
• June 24 - Portia White, singer (d.1968)
• June 28 - Czeslaw Brzozowicz, engineer (d.1997)

July to December

• July 18 - Hume Cronyn, actor (d.2003)

Marshall McLuhan in the early 1970s

• July 21 - Marshall McLuhan, educator, philosopher, and scholar (d.1980)
• August 5 - Albert Sanschagrin, Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec (d.2009)
• August 28 - Nérée Arsenault, politician

Deaths

• November 6 - John Carling, businessman and politician (b.1828)
• December 12 - Daniel J. Greene, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b.1850)