1917 – The Canadian Corps / Conscription |
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Canada and the World |
Victoria |
| First Jazz recording | |
| Jan 27 – Breakwater for Victoria harbour completed. Read this article from the Victoria Daily Times about the breakwater. Feb 3 – Margaret Haney, the first of four merchant ships launched in Victoria. Feb 9 – 143rd Battalion departed for the front | |
| Mar 11– Russian Revolution Mar 15 – The Russian Revolution – Czar Nicholas abdicated | |
| Mar 17 – Canada issued a $1 note to mark the birthday of Princess Patricia | |
| Apr 6 – United States declared war on Germany | Apr 5 – Women (except Asians and aboriginals) won the right to vote and hold public office. |
| Apr 9 – Battle of Vimy Ridge – the Canadian Corps of four divisions captured a key German position near Arras. | |
| Apr 12 – Women’s vote in Ontario | |
| July 25 – Finance Minister Sir Thomas White introduced The Income War Tax Act as a war time measure | |
| May 18 – Borden announced decision to implement conscription | |
| June 2 – Billy Bishop awarded the Victoria Cross | June 9 – Helen MacGill was appointed the first woman judge in BC |
| June 7 – First women elected to Provincial Legislature in Alberta | June 9 – Sir Arthur Currie of Victoria promoted Lieutenant General and appointed to Command the Canadian Corps
 General Sir Arthur Currie. |
| July 17 – the Royal family changed their name to the “House of Windsor” | |
| Aug 15 – Battle of Hill 70 – First major action by the Canadian Corps under Canadian Command | Aug 6 – Sir Richard McBride former BC premier died in London |
| Aug 29 – Military Service Act passed implementing conscription. | |
| Sept 20 – Wartime Elections Act extends right to vote to women in the armed forces and female relatives of men in uniform. | |
| Oct 17 – Borden announces the formation of a Union government | |
| Oct 26 – Battle of Passchendaele | |
| Nov 2 – Balfour declaration that Britain supported the establishment of a permanent home for Jews in Palestine | |
| Nov 6 – The October Revolution culminated in the capture of the Winter Palace in Petrograd by Trotsky, | Nov 20 – The Governor General, The Duke of Devonshire arrived in Victoria for a five day visit. |
| Nov 26 – National Hockey League formed | |
| Dec 6 – The Halifax Explosion –killed more than 1600 | |
| Dec 17 – Union government under Borden won 153 seats to 82 for the Liberals in a general election | |
