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Vignette: Timeline of the Canadian centenarians, 1901 to 2006 (Alternate format)

Timeline of the Canadian centenarians, 1901 to 2006 (see footnotes on age and population)
Year	Age	Population	Fact
Footnotes 1. Age of centenarian born in 1900 2. Total population of Canada in selected census years
1901	1 year	5 million	Marconi sends the first transatlantic message
1905	5 years		Alberta and Saskatchewan become provinces of Canada
1910	10 years		The first incandescent street lamps are lit in Toronto
1914	14 years		The First World War begins
1917	17 years		Income taxes are introduced
1918-1919	18-19 years		Spanish flu kills more than 20 million people around the world
1921	21 years		Canadian women win the right to vote
1923	23 years		Canadian Dr. Banting wins the Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery of insulin
1927	27 years		Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo transatlantic flight
1928	28 years		British scientist Dr. Fleming discovers penicillin
1929	29 years	10 million	The collapse of the stock market marks the start of the Great Depression
1939	39 years		The Second World War breaks out
1941	41 years		Unemployment Insurance is introduced
1944	44 years		Family Allowances are introduced
1945	45 years		The Second World War ends
1946	46 years		The baby-boom begins
1948	48 years		30% of Canadian homes are equipped with refrigerators
1949	49 years		Newfoundland becomes a province of Canada
1950	50 years		The first “automatic” washing machines arrive
1952	52 years	14 million	The CBC has its first television broadcast
1961	61 years		The contraceptive pill is available in Canada
1967	67 years	20 million	Expo 67 is held in Montréal
1972	72 years		Healthcare is introduced across Canada
1972	72 years		Paul Henderson scores the winning goal of the Canada-USSR hockey series
1973	73 years		Oil crisis
1980	80 years		The era of personal computer begins
1981	81 years		Recession. Interest rates hit 21%
1982	82 years		The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is signed
1984	84 years		The AIDS virus is identified
1989	89 years		The Free Trade Agreement between Canada and USA comes into effect
1996	96 years		Immigrants make up 42% of the population of the Toronto metropolitan area
1997	97 years		There are 9.5 million cellular phone users
1999	99 years		Researchers publish the first map of a human chromosome
1999	99 years		Creation of Nunavut
2001	101 years	30 million	September 11th attacks in the United States
2005	105 years		Adoption of the law permitting same-sex marriage in Canada
2006	106 years	31.6 million	31.6 million Canadians enumerated in 2006