* 1917 – Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1, 900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

* 1823 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada ( d. 2008 )

* 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a " temporary " measure ( lowest bracket is 4 % and highest is 25 %).

Like their US counterparts, motels were initially constructed in Canada alongside the growth of the original two-lane provincial highways, of which the first to be paved was the concrete Toronto-Hamilton Highway in 1917.

In 1917, Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden suggested that the Turks and Caicos join Canada, but this suggestion was rejected by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.

Main Building, built in 1854, and Dalton Hall, built between 1917 and 1919, are on the registry of Historic Places of Canada.

King returned to Canada to run in the 1917 election, which focused almost entirely on the conscription issue.

Building on the success of the AWO, the IWW's Lumber Workers Industrial Union ( LWIU ) used similar tactics to organize lumberjacks and other timber workers, both in the deep South and the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada, between 1917 and 1924.

It was often used for propaganda, particularly in Canada by the Unionist Party during the 1917 federal election amidst the Conscription Crisis.

* Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle, 1st Baronet, of Toronto, in the Dominion of Canada ( 1917 ), extinct 1985

The US Navy Radio Service radio station in New Brunswick, Canada, transmitted the Fourteen Points by wireless to Nauen in 1917.

* 1917 Sam McLaughlin Director Dominion Bank of Canada until 1959

Eventually, Sir Wilfrid Laurier was able to lead the Liberals back to a competitive position in English Canada, but by the time of the First World War, and the Conscription Crisis of 1917, Laurier again found himself in charge of a Liberal Party limited to Quebec and a few other pockets.

Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey ( 28 November 185129 August 1917 ) was a British nobleman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the ninth since Canadian Confederation.

Associated with those events in the present day are the Bell Family's museum home on Tutela Heights Road, now called the Bell Homestead National Historic Site, and the Bell Telephone Memorial ( below ), dedicated by the Governor General of Canada in 1917 to mark the invention of the telephone in Brantford.

The Halifax Explosion occurred on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the detonation of the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship that was fully loaded with wartime explosives.

In Canada, margarine was banned from 1886 until 1948 though this ban was temporarily lifted from 1917 until 1923 due to dairy shortages.

Shortly after the 1917 provincial election ( in which Stewart and the Liberals were both soundly re-elected ), Canada found itself embroiled in a conscription crisis.

The last provincial election had been held in June 1917, and four years was the normal life of a legislature in Canada.

Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton, PC, KC ( October 26, 1858 – January 21, 1921 ) was a Canadian politician who served as the second Premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917 and as a minister in the Government of Canada thereafter.

Sifton as a federal cabinet ministerThe Conscription crisis of 1917 divided the Liberal Party of Canada, and this division extended into the provincial camp.

Enlisted as a cadet, Royal Flying Corps in Canada on July 9, 1917 to avoid a delay in getting into a U. S. flying program.

Canada was providing troops and supplies, and Cavendish, shortly after his installation, and on the advice of Borden, introduced conscription, a decision that was particularly divisive between French and English Canadians and sparked the Conscription Crisis of 1917.

The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

At least one state vehicle was in existence in 1917.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles indicates that at least one state automobile was registered as far back as 1917.

While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

Seward also negotiated to purchase the Danish West Indies, but the Senate refused to approve the purchase in 1867 ( it eventually was accomplished in 1917 ).

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

Atle Selberg ( 14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007 ) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory.

François-Auguste-René Rodin ( 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 ), known as Auguste Rodin ( ; ), was a French sculptor.

The International Bible Students Association ( precursor to Jehovah's Witnesses ) identified Abaddon as Satan in the 1917 seventh and final volume of Millennial Dawn, to which Charles Taze Russell's name was attached ( although his authorship of the work is doubted ).

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (, ; – 11 June 1970 ) was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.

During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Nimzowitsch was in the Baltic war zone.

After the Globes closure, it was reestablished as a society news column in the Daily Express from 1917 onwards, initially written by social correspondent Major John Arbuthnot who invented the name " Beachcomber ".

The paper was purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1917.

Each series was set in a different period of British history, beginning in 1485 and ending in 1917, and comprised six half-hour episodes.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

The Psovoi was popular with the Tsars before the 1917 revolution.

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

A sham trial before a military tribunal in Salonika was held in May 1917 for Apis and others.