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1931 in Canada

Events from the year 1931 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George V

Federal government

 * Governor General – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (until April 4) then Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
 * Prime Minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
 * Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 17th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert (until May 5) then William Legh Walsh
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce (until July 18) then John William Fordham Johnson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Frank Stanfield (until September 25) then Walter Harold Covert (from October 5)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross (until October 25) then William Mulock
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands (until March 31) then Hugh Edwin Munroe

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
 * Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
 * Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
 * Premier of New Brunswick – John Baxter (until May 19) then Charles Dow Richards
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington
 * Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Walter Lea (until August 29) then James D. Stewart
 * Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Commissioners

 * Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George Ian MacLean
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory (until March 31) then Hugh Rowatt

Events

 * May 19 – Charles Richards becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing John Baxter
 * August 29 – James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing Walter Lea
 * November 12 – Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto
 * September 29 – Striking coal miners clash with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Estevan riot.
 * December 11 – the Statute of Westminster goes into effect: Canada is granted full legislative independence in national and international affairs, with the Crown represented by the Governor General.
 * The Beauharnois Scandal breaks out

Sport

 * March 27 - The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Elmwood Millionaires win their only Memorial Cup by defeating Ottawa City Junior Hockey League's Ottawa Primroses 2 games to 1. The deciding Game 3 was played at Ottawa Auditorium
 * April 14 - The Montreal Canadiens win their fourth Stanley Cup by defeating the Chicago Black Hawks 3 game to 2. The deciding game was played at the Montreal Forum
 * November 12 - Maple Leaf Gardens opens
 * December 5 - The Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers win their first and only Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Roughriders 22 to 0 in the 19th Grey Cup played Percival Molson Memorial Stadium in Montreal

January to March

 * January 5 - Percy Schmeiser, businessman, farmer, and politician (d. 2020)
 * January 6 - Dickie Moore, ice hockey player, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
 * January 7 - Elizabeth Kishkon, politician (d. 2018)
 * January 19 - Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist (d. 2024)
 * January 27 - Mordecai Richler, author, screenwriter and essayist (d. 2001)
 * January 30 - John Crosbie, politician and Minister (d. 2020)
 * February 16 - Bernie Geoffrion, ice hockey player (d. 2006)
 * February 17 - Mark MacGuigan, academic and politician (d. 1998)
 * February 26 - C. William Doody, politician and Senator (d. 2005)
 * March 10 - Georges Dor, author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator and theatrical producer and director (d. 2001)
 * March 12 - Danny Lewicki, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2018)
 * March 22 - William Shatner, actor and novelist
 * March 22 - Monte Kwinter, politician
 * March 25 - Jack Chambers, artist and filmmaker (d. 1978)
 * March 28 - Jane Rule, novelist and non-fiction writer (d. 2007)
 * March 30 - Gérard Bruchési, politician

April to June

 * April 2 - Howard Engel, writer and television producer (d. 2019)
 * April 9 - Richard Hatfield, politician and 26th Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1991)
 * April 13 - Cliff Lumsdon, world champion marathon swimmer (d. 1991)
 * April 15 - Helen Maksagak, politician, first woman and first Inuk Northwest Territories Commissioner (d. 2009)
 * April 19 - Walter Stewart, writer, editor and journalism educator (d. 2004)
 * April 22 - John Buchanan, lawyer, politician and 27th Premier of Nova Scotia
 * April 29 - Chris Pearson, 1st Premier of the Yukon (d. 2014)
 * May 18 - Clément Vincent, politician (d. 2018)
 * May 21 - Jeannine Pelland, former President of the Order of nurses of Quebec
 * May 22 - Arthé Guimond, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan (2000–2006) (d. 2013).
 * May 24 - Bruce Owen, politician and lawyer (d. 2022)
 * May 25 - Herb Gray, politician, Canada's first Jewish federal cabinet minister
 * June 23 - Charles Keith Taylor, politician
 * June 25 - Stan Dromisky, politician
 * June 27 - Charles Bronfman, businessman and philanthropist
 * June 30 - Joyce Wieland, experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist (d. 1998)

July to September

 * July 2 - Robert Ito, actor
 * July 5 - Peter Silverman, broadcast journalist (d. 2021)
 * July 6 - Jean Campeau, Quebec businessman and politician
 * July 7 - Charles Alexander Best, politician (d. 1978)
 * July 10 - Alice Munro, short-story writer (d. 2024)
 * July 15 - Jacques-Yvan Morin, politician (d. 2023)
 * July 19 - Allan Slaight, rock and roll radio pioneer, media mogul, and philanthropist (d. 2021)
 * July 20 - Gilles Morin, politician
 * August 18 - Bramwell Tillsley, General of The Salvation Army
 * August 29 - Lise Payette, politician, feminist, writer and columnist
 * August 30 - Frank Zakem, politician and businessman (d. 2013)
 * August 31 - Jean Béliveau, ice hockey player
 * September 23 - Gerald Merrithew, politician (d. 2004)

October to December

 * October 4 - Werner Israel, physicist (d. 2022)
 * October 8 - Isadore Sharp, businessman
 * November 5 - Charles Taylor, philosopher
 * November 8 – Morley Safer, journalist (60 Minutes) (d. 2016)
 * November 13 - Andrée Lachapelle, actress (d. 2019)
 * November 28 - George Ramsay Cook, historian (d. 2016)
 * November 30 - Harry Enns, politician
 * December 10 - Jack Riddell, politician (d. 2024)
 * December 15 - John Allen Fraser, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (d. 2024)

Deaths

 * July 10 - Louise McKinney, first woman sworn into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and first woman elected to a legislature in Canada and in the British Empire (b. 1868)
 * July 28 - Charles Doherty, politician and jurist (b. 1855)
 * November 10 - Henrietta Edwards, women's rights activist and reformer (b. 1849)
 * December 30 - George Eulas Foster, politician and academic (b. 1847)

Full date unknown

 * Fred Dixon, politician (b. 1881)

Historical documents
Greater autonomy enacted in Statute of Westminster, ending (with exceptions) British parliament's power over Canada

Before statute's passage, PM Bennett affirms that it will not affect constitution's amending process or division of powers

Liberals assert that preserving British parliament's constitution amending power is not subordination, but done "by our own agreement"

MP Henri Bourassa says Statute of Westminster incites "national spirit superior to all provincial, religious and racial prejudices"

Solicitor General Maurice Dupré backs consultation with provinces in amendment of constitution or imperial statutes

Prime Minister's New Year greeting after "a year of difficulty and of testing" that has proven "soundness of our economic structure"

Federal budget includes "imposts that will be felt by everyone in the Dominion in a most direct manner"

Canada not encouraging immigration, and those who do come should have funds to support them for at least six months

Year-end assessment points to Canada's resource and financial assets as well as agriculture troubles and government "extravagance"

Census shows there are 74.32 radios per 1,000 population, Toronto has highest number of radios, and B.C. has highest percentage of farms with radios

Saskatchewan labour groups form political party with platform including nationalization, debt relief and planned economy

Canadian Communists defiant following arrest of comrades for sedition under Criminal Code Section 98

Canadian-born evangelist ministers to new immigrants in California with philosophy that no one is alien in eyes of God

Unlike one-industry cities, Toronto is widely diversified in industrial, commercial and financial enterprises

Toronto Star newsletter encourages carriers with success stories, prizes and "One Order a Day" Club

Cover art: Menu from RMS Empress of Japan voyage

title: 1931 in Canada


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1932 in Canada

Events from the year 1932 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George V

Federal government

 * Governor General – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
 * Prime Minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
 * Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 17th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mulock (until November 1) then Herbert Alexander Bruce
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
 * Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
 * Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington
 * Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart
 * Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Commissioners

 * Gold Commissioner then Controller of Yukon – George Ian MacLean (until June 30) then George A. Jeckell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt

Events

 * February 17 – The "Mad Trapper" is killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the Yukon
 * July 20 – The Ottawa Imperial Conference is held, it creates a zone of preferential trade within the Commonwealth
 * August 1 – The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) is formed in Calgary
 * August 3 – Henri Bourassa leaves Le Devoir
 * October 29 – The Dominion Drama Festival is founded

Full date unknown

 * A seven-month miners strike occurs in Alberta's coal mines in Crowsnest Pass
 * The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.

New Books

 * A Broken Journey – Morley Callaghan

Sport

 * April 4 – The Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Sudbury Cub Wolves win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs 2 games to 0. All games played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
 * April 9 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their third Stanley Cup by defeating the New York Rangers 3 game to 0. The deciding game was played at the newly opened Maple Leaf Gardens
 * February 13 – Canada (represented by the Winnipeg Hockey Club) wins their fourth (consecutive) hockey gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics
 * December 3 – The Hamilton Tigers win their fifth and final Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Roughriders 25 to 6 in the 20th Grey Cup played at Hamilton's Civic Stadium

January to March

 * January 2 – Jean Little, author
 * January 11 – Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk, nurse (d. 2021)
 * February 4 – Bob Dawson, football player (d. 2017)
 * February 24 – John Vernon, actor (d. 2005)
 * February 28 – Don Francks, actor (d. 2016)
 * March 1 – Donald Stovel Macdonald, politician and Minister
 * March 2 – Jack Austin, politician and Senator
 * March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, artist (d. 2007)

April to June

 * April 3 – Jean-Claude Corbeil, linguist and lexicographer (d. 2022)
 * April 6 – Eugène Bellemare, politician
 * April 12 – Dick Fowler, mayor, MLA (d. 2012)
 * April 14 – Bill Bennett, politician and 27th Premier of British Columbia (d. 2015)
 * April 22 – Ron Basford, politician and Minister (d. 2005)
 * April 26 – Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2000)
 * May 7 – Jordi Bonet, artist (d. 1979)
 * May 28 – John Savage, politician and 23rd Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
 * June 5 – Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, general and Chief of the Defence Staff (d. 1998)
 * June 10 – Hal Jackman, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
 * June 24
 * Mel Hurtig, publisher, author and political activist
 * David McTaggart, environmentalist (d. 2001)

July to September

 * July 11 – Jean-Guy Talbot, ice hockey defenceman and coach (d. 2024)
 * July 13 – Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist (d. 2023 in France)
 * July 16 – Hédi Bouraoui, poet, novelist and academic
 * July 22 – Doug Kyle, long-distance runner
 * July 27 – George Ryga, playwright and novelist (d. 1987)
 * August 2 – Leo Boivin, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
 * August 11 – Izzy Asper, tax lawyer and media magnate (d. 2003)
 * August 28 – Andy Bathgate, ice hockey player
 * August 31 – Allan Fotheringham, newspaper and magazine journalist
 * September 14 – Harry Sinden, ice hockey player, general manager and coach
 * September 25 – Glenn Gould, pianist (d. 1982)
 * September 27 – Gabriel Loubier, politician

October to December

 * October 16 – Lucien Paiement, politician, Mayor of Laval (d. 2013)
 * October 18 – Iona Campagnolo, politician, first female Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
 * October 24 – Robert Mundell, professor of economics (d. 2021)
 * November 10 – Martin Hattersley, lawyer and politician
 * November 13 – Marilyn Brooks, fashion designer
 * November 29 – Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist
 * December 6 – Hank Bassen, ice hockey player (d. 2009)

Deaths

 * March 6 – Joseph-Hormisdas Legris, politician and Senator (b. 1850)
 * July 22 – Reginald Fessenden, inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
 * August 1 – Wellington Willoughby, politician and lawyer (b. 1859)
 * August 7 – Napoléon Belcourt, politician (b. 1860)
 * August 21 – Leonard Burnett, politician, farmer and teacher (b. 1845)
 * November 11 – Georgina Fraser Newhall, author and the bardess of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada (b. 1860)
 * November 26 – J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven (b. 1873)

Historical documents
Federal budget broadly raises tax rates and restricts exemptions

Liberals claim "blank cheque legislation" to aid unemployed allows government to bypass Parliament

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation founded "to regulate production, distribution and exchange for supplying human needs"

At average 35 cents per bushel, prices for wheat farmers about one-third what they were in 1929

United Farmers of Alberta convention's calls to nationalize credit and monetary system, and make wheat certificates legal tender

Mass meeting denounces maladministration by Newfoundland government of Richard Squires

German politics "a fight between philosophies of life[...]as violent and as irreconcilable as you will never be able to believe"

Place held by Jews of western Canada in professions, business and agriculture

House of Commons debates deportation procedures and rights of residents

Women's Institutes are for radio for Canadians and against "weariness of advertisement before and after every item of music or speech"

Edward Johnson on importance of music to mind and spirit

CBC interview with member of aircrew who joined "Mad Trapper" manhunt for Albert Johnson in Northwest Territories

Thunder Bay (Ont.) area farmers set local record for construction

Letter-to-editor profiles Watson Duchemin, inventor of brass roller bearing block

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title: 1932 in Canada


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1934 in Canada

Events from the year 1934 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George V

Federal government

 * Governor General – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
 * Prime Minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
 * Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
 * Parliament – 17th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor (until December 1) then William Johnston Tupper
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Herbert Alexander Bruce
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George Des Brisay de Blois
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll (until April 29) then Esioff-Léon Patenaude
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee (until July 10) then Richard Gavin Reid
 * Premier of British Columbia – Duff Pattullo
 * Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Leonard Tilley
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
 * Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry (until July 10) then Mitchell Hepburn
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – William J. P. MacMillan
 * Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson (until July 19) then James Garfield Gardiner

Commissioners

 * Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt (until April 30) then Vacant (Roy A. Gibson acting)

Events

 * March 9 - New Brunswick women win the right to hold office
 * June 19 - Ontario election: Mitchell Hepburn's Liberals win a majority, defeating George S. Henry's Conservatives
 * June 19 - Saskatchewan election: James Garfield Gardiner's Liberals win a majority, defeating James T.M. Anderson's Conservative-led coalition government
 * July 3 - The Bank of Canada is formed
 * July 10 - Mitchell Hepburn becomes premier of Ontario, replacing George Henry
 * July 10 - Richard G. Reid becomes premier of Alberta, replacing John Brownlee
 * July 19 - James Gardiner becomes premier of Saskatchewan for the second time, replacing James Anderson
 * August 14 - John Sackville Labatt kidnapped
 * October 26 - Reconstruction Party of Canada formed

Sport

 * February 14 – The Ace Bailey Benefit Game (forerunner of the annual National Hockey League All-Star Game) is played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
 * April 5 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto St. Michael's Majors win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Edmonton Junior Hockey League's Edmonton Athletics 2 games to 0. All games were played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
 * November 24 – The Sarnia Imperials win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Roughriders 20 to 12 in the 22nd Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

January to March

 * January 3 - Yves Gaucher, artist (d. 2000)
 * January 7 - Jean Corbeil, politician (d. 2002)
 * January 11 - Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
 * January 16 - Judy Erola, broadcaster and politician
 * January 19 - Lloyd Robertson, television news anchor and senior editor
 * January 23 - Pierre Bourgault, politician and essayist (d. 2003)

 * February 5 - Don Cherry, ice hockey player, coach and commentator
 * February 8 - Philip Seeman, schizophrenia researcher and neuropharmacologist (d. 2021)
 * February 22 - Victor M. Power, politician (d. 2024)
 * March 7 - Douglas Cardinal, architect
 * March 9 - Marlene Streit, golfer
 * March 16 - Ray Hnatyshyn, politician and 24th Governor General of Canada (d. 2002)
 * March 22 - George Stulac, basketball player and decathlete
 * March 24 - Alice Whitty, high jumper (d. 2017)

April to June

 * April 13 - John Muckler, ice hockey coach and executive (d. 2021)
 * May 17 - George Karpati, neurologist and neuroscientist (d. 2009)
 * May 28 - Dionne quintuplets, first quintuplets known to survive their infancy
 * June 7 - David Strangway, Canadian geophysicist and academic (d. 2016)
 * June 16 - Roger Neilson, ice hockey coach (d. 2003)
 * June 22
 * Willie Adams, politician and senator
 * Nathan Nurgitz, lawyer, judge, and senator (d. 2019)
 * June 24 - Jean-Pierre Ferland, singer/songwriter (d. 2024)
 * June 27 - Norman Atkins, businessman and senator (d. 2010)
 * June 30 - Aron Tager, Canadian actor (d. 2019)

July to September

 * July 8 - Fred Stewart, Alberta politician
 * July 12 - Mira Spivak, politician
 * July 13 - Peter Gzowski, broadcaster, writer and reporter (d. 2002)
 * July 16 - Albert Aguayo, neurologist
 * July 19 - Larry Zolf, journalist (d. 2011)
 * July 27 - Jim Elder, horse rider and Olympic gold medalist
 * August 16 - Douglas Kirkland, Canadian-born American photographer (d. 2022 in the United States)
 * August 22 - Ralph Mellanby, sportscaster and television producer (d. 2022)
 * August 27 - Reggie Parks, wrestler and engraver (d. 2021)
 * August 31 - Herb Epp, politician, MPP of the Ontario Legislature for Waterloo North (1977–1990) (d. 2013)
 * September 2 - Donald B. Redford, archaeologist
 * September 11 - Oliver Jones, jazz pianist, organist, composer and arranger
 * September 21 - Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and artist (d. 2016)
 * September 25 - Ronald Lou-Poy, lawyer and community leader (d. 2022)

October to December

 * October 1 - Margaret McCain, philanthropist and first female Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
 * October 4 - Rudy Wiebe, author and professor
 * October 5 - Kenneth D. Taylor, diplomat involved in the Iran hostage crisis (d. 2015)
 * November 6 - Barton Myers, American/Canadian architect
 * November 11 - Suzanne Lloyd, film and television actress
 * November 21 - Howard Pawley, politician, professor and 18th Premier of Manitoba (d. 2015)
 * November 26 - Conrad Santos, politician (d. 2016)
 * November 30 - Marcel Prud'homme, politician and Senator (d. 2017)
 * December 11 - Mike Nykoluk, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2022)
 * December 25 - Peter Trueman, journalist and news presenter (d. 2021)

Deaths

 * March 7 - John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Governor General of Canada (b. 1847)
 * March 15 - Davidson Black, paleoanthropologist (b. 1884)
 * April 17 - Frank S. Cahill, politician (b. 1876)
 * July 28 - Marie Dressler, actress (b. 1868)
 * September 1 – William Anderson Black, politician (b. 1847)
 * October 4 - Henry Sproatt, architect (b. 1866)
 * November 10 - Sir Donald Mann, railway contractor and entrepreneur (b. 1853)

Historical documents
B.C. MLA Gerry McGeer says depression not "due to a reckless public" but businessmen who "expanded far beyond the needs of the time"

Prime Minister Bennett says nothing "spectacular" will be done to regain economic stability

Conservatives note 25,000 fewer families on relief by end of 1933, but C.C.F. leader finds no improvement in situation

Bill introduced to create Bank of Canada with initial capital of $5 million and "appropriate limitations" on loans

Newfoundland goes under rule by commission "until the credit of the country has been restored"

P.E.I. premier says Island's farming and fishing are "at low ebb," with fishermen "in dire straits"

Bennett government's resources marketing bill will end cutthroat competition in fisheries

P.E.I. merchant finds 1932 Commonwealth trade agreements have produced much export shipping in Halifax

Canadian Jewish Congress will raise $950,000 for German Jewish refugees and ruined businesses in Germany and Poland

MP Samuel William Jacobs indicts German consul-general in Montreal for anti-Semitic pamphlet "Germany's Fight for Western Civilization"

Prairie provinces and federal government assuming dictatorial powers over wheat in emergency control laws

Agriculture deputy minister tells Senate committee how Prairie grasshopper losses as high as 60% will be reduced to less than 10%

"Officials and supporters of the Wheat Pools of Western Canada" give advice to farmers by radio broadcast

Quebec dairy farmer tells Senate committee why he only breaks even and what causes Montreal milk middlemen to lose money

Toronto chain store, needle trade and other employers pay far below minimum wage while city expends $6.6 million in relief

"Preparation of a cavity for an Indian is exactly the same as for anyone else" - Dentist explains cost realities at Mohawk Institute Residential School

Indigenous art (described in past tense as it is "rapidly passing away") can be reinvigorated if promoted to tourists

title: 1934 in Canada


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1935 in Canada

Events from the year 1935 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George V

Federal government

 * Governor General – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough (until November 2) then John Buchan
 * Prime Minister – Richard B. Bennett (until October 23) then William Lyon Mackenzie King
 * Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
 * Parliament – 17th (until 14 August)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William Johnston Tupper
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean (until February 8) then Murray MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Herbert Alexander Bruce
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George Des Brisay de Blois
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Esioff-Léon Patenaude
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Richard Gavin Reid (until September 3) then William Aberhart
 * Premier of British Columbia – Duff Pattullo
 * Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Leonard Tilley (until July 16) then Allison Dysart
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
 * Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – William J. P. MacMillan (until August 15) then Walter Lea
 * Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner (until November 1) then William John Patterson

Commissioners

 * Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Vacant (Roy A. Gibson acting)

January to June

 * January 2 – Prime Minister R. B. Bennett outlines his programme
 * February 11 – Goodwill, The Amity Group established
 * March 11
 * Bank of Canada established
 * The Bank of Canada issues a $500 banknote with Sir John A. Macdonald's portrait and a $1,000 note with Sir Wilfrid Laurier's portrait
 * May 6 – Silver Jubilee of George V's accession as King
 * May 7 – David Dunlap Observatory opens
 * May 25 – Cabot Monument unveiled, Montreal
 * June 5 – The On-to-Ottawa Trek begins
 * June 26 – "Regina Riot": Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire into unarmed crowd of unemployed marchers in Regina, Saskatchewan

July to December

 * July 5 – Canadian Wheat Board established
 * July 16 – Allison Dysart becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Leonard Tilley
 * August 15 – Walter Lea becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing William J. P. MacMillan
 * August 22 – 1935 Alberta general election: William Aberhart's Social Credit Party (SoCreds) wins a majority, defeating Richard G. Reid's United Farmers of Alberta
 * September 3 – Aberhart becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Reid
 * October 14 – Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a majority, defeating Bennett's Conservatives
 * October 3 – After the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Canada refuses to support military intervention or sanctions
 * October 23 – Mackenzie King becomes prime minister for the third time, replacing Bennett
 * November 1
 * William Patterson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
 * The magnitude 6.2 Timiskaming earthquake shakes western Quebec

Sport

 * April 9 – The Montreal Maroons win their second and final Stanley Cup by defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 3 games to 0. The deciding game was played at the Montreal Forum. This was the last time a non-Original Six team won the Stanley Cup until the Philadelphia Flyers won the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals.
 * April 13 – The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Sudbury Cub Wolves 2 games to 1. All game played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
 * December 7 – The Winnipeg 'Pegs become the first western team to win the Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tigers 18 to 12 in the 23rd Grey Cup played at Hamilton Amateur Athletic Association Grounds

January to June

 * January 6 – Joseph Rotman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
 * January 7 – Rey Pagtakhan, physician, professor, politician and Minister
 * January 10 – Ronnie Hawkins, pioneering rock and roll musician
 * January 14 – Lucille Wheeler, alpine skier, Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion
 * January 18 – Albert Millaire, actor and theatre director (d. 2018)
 * January 21 – Jack Tunney, professional wrestling promoter (d. 2004)
 * January 29 – Christina McCall, political writer (d. 2005)
 * February 9 – Ron Attwell, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
 * February 14
 * Rob McConnell, jazz musician (d. 2010)
 * Howie Glover, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
 * February 21 – Jean Pelletier, politician and Mayor of Quebec City (d. 2009)
 * March 2 – Al Waxman, actor and director (d. 2001)
 * March 15 – Mary Pratt, painter (d. 2018)
 * March 24 – Mary Seeman, psychiatrist
 * April 16 – Ray Frenette, 28th Premier of New Brunswick (d. 2018)
 * April 22 – Rita Johnston, politician, Canada's first female premier and 29th Premier of British Columbia
 * April 28 – Murray McBride, politician
 * May 5 – Billy Two Rivers, wrestler (d. 2023)
 * May 7 – Isobel Warren, author
 * May 25 – W. P. Kinsella, novelist and short story writer (d. 2016)
 * May 26 – Pat Carney, politician, minister and senator
 * May 30 – Ruta Lee, actress
 * June 2 – Carol Shields, author (d. 2003)
 * June 28 – Bob Hobert, football player

July to December

 * July 3 – Bill Reichart, ice hockey player (d. 2021 in the United States)
 * July 11 – Bobbie Sparrow, politician
 * July 17 – Donald Sutherland, actor (d. 2024)
 * July 23 – Danièle Dorice, singer and teacher (d. 2018)
 * July 24 – Bob McAdorey, television and radio broadcaster (d. 2005)
 * July 25 – Gilbert Parent, politician and 33rd Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 2009)
 * July 27
 * Don Mazankowski, politician and Minister (d. 2020)
 * François Barbeau, costume designer (d. 2016)
 * July 29 – Pat Lowther, poet (d. 1975)
 * August 30 – Daniel L. Norris, Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (d. 2008)
 * September 24 – Sean McCann, actor (d. 2019)
 * September 27 – Al MacNeil, ice hockey player and coach
 * October 3 – Floyd Laughren, politician
 * October 15 – Willie O'Ree, ice hockey player, first Black Canadian player in the National Hockey League
 * October 20 – Russell Doern, politician (d. 1987)
 * November 15 – Bill Graham, Canadian football player (d. 2020)
 * November 17 – Audrey Thomas, novelist and short story writer
 * December 9 – Christopher Pratt, painter and printmaker (d. 2022)
 * December 11 – Elmer Vasko, ice hockey player (d. 1998)
 * December 12 – John Wise, politician, MP for Elgin (1972–1988); Minister of Agriculture (1979–1980; 1984–1988) (d. 2013)
 * December 13 – Raymond Speaker, politician
 * December 21 – Edward Schreyer, politician, Premier of Manitoba and Governor General of Canada

Full date unknown

 * James Bourque, First Nations activist (d. 1996)
 * Lionel Giroux, midget wrestler (d. 1995)
 * J. Robert Janes, author
 * Alex Janvier, artist
 * Louise Laurin, educator and activist (d. 2013)

Deaths

 * March 15 – James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1860)
 * March 16 – John Macleod, physician, physiologist and Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
 * April 10 – Charles-Émile Trudeau, entrepreneur and father of Pierre Trudeau, who would later become Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1887)
 * April 19 – Willis Keith Baldwin, politician (b. 1857)
 * July 18 – George Clift King, politician and 2nd Mayor of Calgary (b. 1848)
 * September 30 – J. J. Kelso, journalist and social activist (b. 1864)
 * October 24 – Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b. 1859)
 * October 29 – Del Fontaine, Canadian middleweight boxing champion, executed for murder in the U.K.

Historical documents
On radio, PM Bennett declares "reform means Government intervention[,] control and regulation [and] the end of laissez faire"

In current national crisis, Commons Clerk suggests constituent assembly replace British North America Act with modern constitution

Prime Minister Bennett argues need to pass laws that courts will approve of

"The trouble is [lack of] accommodation designed objectively for the low wage earner" - House committee calls for national housing policy

In election broadcast, Bennett admits that at his age (65), "ambitions dim, the love of power dies"

PM King and President Roosevelt support trade – "another word for increased employment, transportation and consumption"

Secretary of State Hull says goal of U.S. foreign policy is to preserve peace of "friends," not of "inequality based on force"

Statement of 330 international psychiatrists warns of "evident war-psychosis" in global mentality

Tour of Flanders' grave-strewn fields, twenty years later

Eyewitnesses tell inquiry about clashes involving police, residents and On-to-Ottawa trekkers in Regina

Canadian Federation of the Blind founder explains to House committee need for pensions for blind people

Columbia University student newspaper's review of Maria Chapdelaine movie

title: 1935 in Canada


text:
1938 in Canada

Events from the year 1938 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George VI

Federal government

 * Governor General – John Buchan
 * Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
 * Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
 * Parliament – 18th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Eric Hamber
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William Johnston Tupper
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Murray MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Robert Irwin
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Albert Edward Matthews
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George Des Brisay de Blois
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Esioff-Léon Patenaude
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Archibald Peter McNab

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – William Aberhart
 * Premier of British Columbia – Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
 * Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Allison Dysart
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
 * Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Thane Campbell
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

Commissioners

 * Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell

Events

 * June 8 - Saskatchewan general election: William John Patterson's Liberals win a second consecutive majority

Full date unknown

 * Superman first appears in Action #1 (cover date June 1938), as a backup feature. The character is created by Joe Shuster (an artist for the Toronto Star) and American writer Jerry Siegel for National Comics.
 * Vaccination for tuberculosis (the leading cause of death in young people) is introduced.

Sport

 * April 12 - The Chicago Black Hawks win their second Stanley Cup by defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 3 games to 1.
 * April 18 - The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's St. Boniface Seals win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Oshawa Generals 3 games to 2. The deciding Game 5 was played Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * December 10 - In a repeat of the 25th Grey Cup, the Toronto Argonauts win their fifth Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 30 to 7 in the 26th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

January to June

 * January 9 - Claudette Boyer, politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Ottawa—Vanier (1999–2003) (d.2013)
 * January 10 - Frank Mahovlich, ice hockey player and Senator
 * January 13 - William B. Davis, actor
 * January 16 - Lou Angotti, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2021)
 * February 9 - Jovette Marchessault, writer and artist (d. 2012)
 * February 17 - Martha Henry, actress
 * February 22 - Pierre Vallières, journalist and writer (d. 1998)
 * April 5 - David Helwig, poet, novelist, and essayist (d. 2018)
 * April 8 - John Hamm, physician, politician and 32nd Premier of Nova Scotia
 * April 12 - Roger Caron, author
 * May 13 - Lucille Starr, singer, songwriter and yodeler
 * May 16 - Jim Coutts, political advisor (d.2013)
 * May 24 - Tommy Chong, comedian, actor and musician
 * May 26 - Teresa Stratas, operatic soprano
 * May 30 - Eugene Belliveau, Canadian football defensive lineman
 * June 4 - John Harvard, journalist, politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
 * June 13 - John Newlove, poet (d.2013)
 * June 19
 * Jean-Claude Labrecque, director and cinematographer
 * Beth Phinney, educator and politician
 * June 26 - Ken Monteith, politician

July to September

 * July 12 - Matt Ravlich, ice hockey defenceman
 * July 14 - Moshe Safdie, architect and urban designer
 * July 18 - Helen Gardiner, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum (d.2008)
 * July 29
 * Peter Jennings, journalist and television news anchor (d.2005)
 * Jean Rochon, politician (d. 2021)
 * August 1 - Noble Villeneuve, politician (d. 2018)
 * August 8 - Jacques Hétu, composer (d. 2010)
 * August 9 - Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, musician and composer (d.1985)
 * August 25 - Colin Thatcher, politician and murderer
 * August 28 - Paul Martin, politician and 21st Prime Minister of Canada

October to December

 * October 8 - Walter Gretzky, ice hockey player and coach (d.2021)
 * October 14 - Ron Lancaster, Canadian football player and coach (d.2008)
 * October 27 - Tim Ralfe, journalist (d.2000)
 * October 28 - Gary Cowan, golfer
 * November 3 - Yvon Cormier, wrestler (d.2009)
 * November 4 - LeRoy Fjordbotten, politician (d. 2017)
 * November 13 - Gérald Godin, poet and politician (d.1994)
 * November 15 - Denis DeJordy, ice hockey player and coach
 * November 17 - Gordon Lightfoot, singer and songwriter (d. 2023)
 * November 18 – Annon Lee Silver, lyric soprano (d.1971)
 * November 26 - Rich Little, impressionist and voice actor
 * December 16 - John Allan Cameron, folk singer (d.2006)
 * December 22 - Lucien Bouchard, lawyer, diplomat, politician and Minister

Undated

 * Roland Doré, educator, President of the Canadian Space Agency

Deaths

 * January 4 - George Halsey Perley, politician and diplomat (b.1857)
 * January 8 - Aimé Bénard, politician (b.1873)
 * January 28 - Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher (b.1848)
 * February 20 - William Alves Boys, politician and barrister (b.1868)
 * March 23 - Thomas Walter Scott, politician and first Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1867)
 * April 13 - Grey Owl, writer and conservationist (b.1888)
 * April 24 - John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, artist (b.1850)
 * May 6 - Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, politician and 11th Governor General of Canada (b.1868)
 * May 7 - Frederick Cronyn Betts, politician (b.1896)
 * July 25 - Francis Haszard, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1849)
 * December 26 - Pierre-Ernest Boivin, politician and businessman (b.1872)

Historical documents
Prime Minister Chamberlain defends Munich Agreement in "peace for our time" speech in British House of Commons

President Roosevelt requests increased defence appropriations from Congress

President Roosevelt says "we[...]are no longer a far away continent" in address at Queen's University at Kingston

Vancouverites fail in plot to bomb Japanese ocean liner Hiye Maru

"Map of the Pacific Ocean [showing] route taken by the Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Asia from Hong Kong to Vancouver, [B.C. via Shanghai and Japan]"

Jewish Anti-Defamation League member says act on "passion for democracy" in face of world events

Jewish columnist sets radio host straight on his "joke" about Jews

Al-Rashid Mosque, Canada's first, opened in Edmonton with Indian statesman and Hanna, Alta. mayor present

With prices for necessities and product sold dictated to them, Alberta farmers form United Farmers of Canada branch

Manitoba premier comments on globally higher production, lower demand and drastically lower prices for wheat

Development of huge Turner Valley oil field and its significance to Canada and Empire (especially British Navy)

Nellie McClung praises cooperation as solution to poverty resulting from "profit system divorced from Christian ethics"

Woonsocket, Rhode Island Franco-American mill worker and his family survive another layoff during Depression

Trans-Canada Air Lines will be part of multi-day international flights linking Britain with New Zealand and Australia

Tides and trees, gardens and exiles are subjects of Nellie McClung's Nova Scotia travel article

New wing of Kitchener-Waterloo YWCA hosts Saturday morning games, stories and handwork for girls

18th century Kanien’kéhà:ka-British alliance seen as "administration" of Indigenous people versus French "encroachments"

title: 1938 in Canada


text:
1939 in Canada

Events from the year 1939 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George VI

Federal government

 * Governor General – John Buchan
 * Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
 * Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
 * Parliament – 18th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Eric Hamber
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William Johnston Tupper
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Murray MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Robert Irwin
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Albert Edward Matthews
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George DesBrisay DeBlois (until September 11) then Bradford William LePage
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Esioff-Léon Patenaude (until December 30) then Eugène Fiset
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Archibald Peter McNab

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – William Aberhart
 * Premier of British Columbia – Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
 * Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Allison Dysart
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
 * Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Thane Campbell
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis (until November 9) then Adélard Godbout
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

Commissioners

 * Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell

Events

 * May 17 – King George VI and Queen Elizabeth begin their royal tour of Canada, eventually visiting every province and Newfoundland.
 * September 3 – The Department of Labour establishes the Wartime Prices and Trade Board to control inflation.
 * September 7 – Prime Minister Mackenzie King calls for a special session of Parliament, to discuss a declaration of war versus Nazi Germany. The session lasts until September 13.
 * September 10 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, one week after the United Kingdom does so.
 * September 11 – World War II: Canada establishes a High Commission of Canada in Australia. Australia reciprocates the next day.
 * September 16 – World War II: The Royal Canadian Navy escorts the first of many transatlantic convoys.
 * September 28 – World War II: Air training facilities are set up in Canada to train pilots from Britain and the rest of the Empire.
 * October 25 – The Quebec election is won by the Liberals under Joseph-Adélard Godbout.
 * December 17 – World War II: The 1st Canadian Infantry Division lands in Scotland en route to England. The division is accompanied by a team of announcers and technicians, who set up Radio Canada's overseas service.
 * November 9 – Adélard Godbout becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Maurice Duplessis.

Year-long

 * Canada expands its international presence by establishing High Commissions in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa.

Sport

 * February 12 – The Trail Smoke Eaters win the 1939 Ice Hockey World Championships for Canada.
 * April 16 – The Boston Bruins win their second Stanley Cup (and last until 1970) by defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 4 games to 1.
 * April 17 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Oshawa Generals win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Edmonton Junior Hockey League's Edmonton Athletic Club Roamers 3 games to 1. The deciding Game 4 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
 * December 9 – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers win their second Grey Cup by defeating the Ottawa Rough Riders 8 to 7 in the 27th Grey Cup played in Lansdowne Park in Ottawa.

January to March

 * January 3 - Bobby Hull, ice hockey player (d. 2023)
 * January 11 - Anne Heggtveit, alpine skier and Olympic gold medalist
 * January 14 - Martha Gibson, actress
 * January 19 - Grant Notley, politician (d. 1984)
 * February 3 - Ovid Jackson, politician
 * February 10 - Adrienne Clarkson, journalist and 26th Governor General of Canada
 * March 1 - Marlene Catterall, politician
 * March 5 - Peter Woodcock, serial killer and child rapist (d. 2010)
 * March 8 - Lynn Seymour, ballerina (d. 2023)
 * March 17 - Bill Graham, politician (d. 2022)
 * March 20 - Brian Mulroney, politician and 18th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2024)
 * March 26 - Patrick Lane, poet (d. 2019)

April to June

 * April 14 - Ian Binnie, jurist and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
 * April 20 - Wayson Choy, writer (d. 2019)
 * April 24 - Dan Hays, politician
 * April 24 - Ernst Zündel, German-born neo-Nazi, Holocaust denier and pamphleteer (d. 2017)
 * May 7 - Sidney Altman, molecular biologist, joint 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2022)
 * May 11 - Ken Epp, politician (d. 2022)
 * May 16 - Roger Soloman, politician (d. 2021)
 * May 26 - Gerry McAlpine, politician
 * June 5 - Joe Clark, journalist, politician, statesman, businessman, professor and 16th Prime Minister of Canada
 * June 23 - Jack MacIsaac, politician

July to September

 * July 12 - David Bazay, television journalist (d. 2005)
 * July 19 - Ray Turnbull, curler (d. 2017)
 * July 25 - Catherine Callbeck, politician and 30th Premier of Prince Edward Island
 * August 12 - Roy Romanow, politician and 12th Premier of Saskatchewan
 * August 15 - Hardial Bains, founder and leader of Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (d. 1997)
 * August 21 - JoAnn Wilson, murder victim (d. 1983)
 * August 23 - Isabel Bassett, broadcaster and politician
 * August 31 - Dennis Lee, poet and children's writer
 * September 1 - Jake Epp, politician
 * September 2 - Henry Mintzberg, academic and author on business and management
 * September 4 - Jim Penner, businessman and politician (d. 2004)
 * September 10 – Jim Pappin, ice hockey player (d. 2022)
 * September 11 – Lyse Richer, administrator and music teacher
 * September 30 - Len Cariou, actor

October to December

 * October 5 - Marie-Claire Blais, novelist, poet and playwright (d. 2021)
 * November 6 - Joyce Fairbairn, Senator and first woman to serve as Leader of the Government in the Senate (d. 2022)
 * November 18 - Margaret Atwood, author, poet, critic, feminist and social campaigner
 * November 23 - Bill Bissett, poet
 * November 30 - Louis LeBel, jurist and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
 * December 2 - Francis Fox, politician, minister and senator
 * December 21 - Lloyd Axworthy, politician and minister
 * December 24 - James Bartleman, diplomat, author and 27th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

Full date unknown

 * Michael Estok, poet (d. 1989)
 * Michael Overs, businessman, founder and owner of Pizza Pizza Limited (d. 2010)
 * Tony Parsons, journalist and television news anchor
 * Robin Spry, filmmaker and television producer (d. 2005)

Deaths

 * January 24 - Alfred Edmond Bourgeois, politician (b. 1872)
 * March 7 - Sir Joseph Flavelle, businessman (b. 1858)
 * March 8 - Henry Pellatt, financier and soldier (b. 1859)
 * May 6 - Edward S. Rogers, Sr., inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1900)
 * July 12 - Fernand Rinfret, politician (b. 1883)
 * August 21 - Francis Patrick O'Connor, businessman, politician and philanthropist (b. 1885)
 * November 12 - Norman Bethune, physician and medical innovator (b. 1890)
 * November 28 - James Naismith, sports coach and innovator, inventor of basketball (b. 1861)
 * December 22 - Herbert James Palmer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1851)
 * December 27 – Napoléon Turcot, politician (b. 1867)

Full date unknown

 * Constance Piers, journalist, poet and editor (b. 1866)

Historical documents
With crisis in Europe, MP suggests Canada follow up on Statute of Westminster by declaring neutrality and following America-oriented defence policy

Labour Day finds fighters and nurses enlisting for overseas service and Red Cross rushing its wartime planning

Editorial says Canada and Commonwealth are "one and indivisible, [and] pledged unwaveringly to the support of the Mother Country"

Before declaring war, PM King asks Commons for "authority for effective cooperation by Canada at the side of Britain"

MP J.S. Woodsworth interrogates "cooperation," unspoken government policy, and whether Canada is already in war

"We cannot be at peace while the head of this Empire is at war" - Sen. Arthur Meighen insists Canada enter European conflict

Canada's declaration of war against German Reich

Editorial says PM King, in choosing home defence over expeditionary force, is not giving "definite leadership"

Regimen for Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry's transport ship includes lectures, training and organized games

Enlisted man's 1939 surprises: Poland's fall weeks after invasion, and Christmas invitation given on his first day in England

Editorial says "equality of sacrifice," essential to war effort, must include fairness in agricultural costs, prices and margins

British meals depend on Canada for breakfast porridge and (with other wheat exporters) bread, and cheese, tinned soup, and suet in pudding at tea

MP A.A. Heaps advocates joining other countries in welcoming refugees from persecution

Mentioning uranium ore in Canada and German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Einstein urges President Roosevelt to back atomic energy research

"Only a mile from home" - Eleven-year-old student Andrew Gordon from Gordon's reserve residential school dies of exposure walking home

Supreme Court finds tavern, in absence of specific law, has "freedom of commerce" to not serve Black man

Law professor comments on Quebec's Padlock Law allowing police to seal premises and arrest occupants deemed "communistic"

Private intelligence agency offers to spy on corporation's workers to detect "plots, plans and unrest"

Mao's appreciation of Norman Bethune - "We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him"

Poster: "Time Is Life" depicts Bethune riding a galloping horse

King George VI - "It is my earnest hope that my present visit may give my Canadian people a deeper conception of their unity as a nation."

Woman records her excitement over 1939 royal tour of George VI and Elizabeth in her diary

Film of royal tour's stops in Calgary, Banff, Vancouver and Victoria

CBC chairman tells House committee move into television will not come soon because of its current technical and financial limitations

Course in interior decoration includes hands-on stitching, glazing, block-printing, weaving, lettering, etc., etc.

Photo: children work on their art projects in Arthur Lismer's children's art classes in Toronto

Calling "more friendly relations" essential to world progress, bank's advertisement pledges friendship in its service

title: 1939 in Canada


text:
1940 in Canada

Events from the year 1940 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George VI

Federal government

 * Governor General – John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir (until February 11) then Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (from June 21)
 * Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
 * Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
 * Parliament – 18th (until 25 January) then 19th (from 16 May)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Eric Hamber
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William Johnston Tupper(until November 1) then Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Murray MacLaren (until March 5) then William George Clark
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Robert Irwin (until May 31) then Frederick Francis Mathers
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Albert Edward Matthews
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Bradford William LePage
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Eugène Fiset
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Archibald Peter McNab

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – William Aberhart
 * Premier of British Columbia – Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
 * Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Allison Dysart (until March 13) then John McNair
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald (until July 10) then A.S. MacMillan
 * Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Thane Campbell
 * Premier of Quebec – Adélard Godbout
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

Commissioners

 * Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell

January to June

 * March 13 – John McNair becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Allison Dysart
 * March 21 – Alberta election: William Aberhart's Social Credit Party wins a second consecutive majority
 * March 26 – Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
 * April 3 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor General of Canada replacing the late John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
 * April 25 – Quebec women get the vote in provincial elections
 * May 28–June 30 – World War II: The Canadian navy stations seven destroyers in the English Channel; these play an important role in evacuating Allied troops from France
 * June – World War II: Canadian troops are some of a small number of forces defending Britain
 * June 5 – Nazi, fascist, and communist groups are declared illegal in Canada and leaders and members are jailed
 * June 10 – World War II: Canada declares war against Italy
 * June 13–18 – World War II: A small number of Canadian troops land in Brest, France but are forced to evacuate soon after
 * June 21 – The National Resources Mobilization Act is passed; conscription is introduced, but only for homeland defence
 * June 25 – HMCS Fraser (H48) sinks in a collision in the Gironde estuary in France. 45 sailors die.

July to December

 * July 10: Alexander MacMillan becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Angus Macdonald
 * August 1 – September 17: World War II: 80 Canadian pilots participate in the Battle of Britain
 * August 5: Camillien Houde, the mayor of Montreal is arrested for sedition due to his anti-conscription rhetoric
 * August 7: Unemployment insurance is introduced
 * August 13: The Canadian Armoured Corps is established
 * August 18: The Odgensburg Agreement on continental defence is signed with the United States
 * September 5: United Kingdom trades most of its North American military bases to the United States in exchange for 50 destroyers
 * October 22: HMCS Margaree (H49) is sunk in a collision in the North Atlantic. 142 sailors die and 34 survive.
 * November 7: The Permanent Active Militia is renamed the Canadian Army (Active) and the Non-Permanent Active Militia is renamed the Canadian Army (Reserve).

Full date unknown

 * The Icefields Parkway in the Canadian Rockies is completed.
 * The Rowell-Sirois Commission report on federal-provincial relations is released
 * Wilbur Franks invents the g-suit at the University of Toronto

New Works

 * Morley Callaghan – Just ask George

Awards

 * See the 1940 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Sport

 * April 13 – The New York Rangers win their third Stanley Cup (and last until 1994) by defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * April 22 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Oshawa Generals win their second (consecutive) Memorial Cup by defeating Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Kenora Thistles 3 games to 1. The deciding Game 4 was played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
 * November 30 – The Ottawa Rough Riders win their second Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers 20 to 7 in the 28th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

January to March

 * January 1 - Clifford Olson, serial killer (d. 2011)
 * January 10 - Guy Chevrette, politician
 * January 19 - Linda Sorenson, actress
 * January 28 - Valery Fabrikant, professor of mechanical engineering and murderer responsible for the Concordia University massacre on August 24, 1992
 * February 4 - Michelle Rossignol, Canadian actress
 * February 16 - Don Bertoia, middle-distance runner
 * March 4 - Nellie Cournoyea, former politician and 6th Premier of the Northwest Territories and the first female premier of a Canadian territory
 * March 6 - Ken Danby, artist (d. 2007)
 * March 22 - Dave Keon, ice hockey player

April to June

 * May 4 - Paul Thompson, playwright and theatre director
 * May 8 - Irwin Cotler, politician and minister
 * May 10 - Peter Liba, journalist and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d. 2007)
 * May 20 - Otto Jelinek, figure skater, businessman and politician
 * June 14 - Mark Assad, politician
 * June 21 - Helen Potrebenko, author and activist (d. 2022)
 * June 25 - Louise Dacquay, politician

July to September

 * July 4 - Pat Stapleton, ice hockey player (d. 2020)
 * July 11 - Yvon Charbonneau, politician (d. 2016)
 * July 15 - Glen Findlay, politician
 * July 22 - Alex Trebek, television personality and game show host (d. 2020)
 * July 27 - Harvie Andre, engineer, businessman, politician and Minister
 * July 28 - Mario Sergio, politician
 * August 7 - Sally McCallum, track and field athlete
 * September 1 - Edward Roberts, lawyer and politician (d. 2022)
 * September 6 - Brian Smith, ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 1995)
 * September 9 - Larry Lund, ice hockey player
 * September 11 - Gerry Phillips, politician
 * September 19
 * Sylvia Tyson, singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * Ed Westfall, ice hockey player and sportscaster
 * September 20 - Doug Young, politician and Minister
 * September 30
 * Harry Jerome, track and field runner (d. 1982)
 * Dewey Martin, rock drummer (d. 2009)

October to December

 * October 11 - David McFadden, poet, fiction writer and travel writer
 * October 19 - Bill Gairdner, track and field athlete
 * October 29 - Galen Weston, businessman
 * November 13 - Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor
 * November 20 - George Swede, poet and children's writer
 * November 29 - Denny Doherty, singer and songwriter (d. 2007)
 * December 20 - Ed Helwer, politician
 * December 29 - George Puce, discus thrower

Full date unknown

 * Christine Demeter, murder victim (d. 1973)
 * Stan Hagen, politician (d. 2009)
 * Dave Nichol, Loblaws products marketer (d. 2013)

January to June

 * February 11 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, novelist, politician and 15th Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)
 * March 3 - Joseph Ovide Brouillard, politician and businessman (b. 1859)
 * March 26 - Richard Squires, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b. 1880)
 * April 25 - John Hampden Burnham, politician and lawyer (b. 1860)
 * May 2 - James Bowman, politician (b. 1861)
 * June 10 - Norman McLeod Rogers, lawyer, politician and Minister (b. 1894)

July to December

 * September 2 - Maude Abbott, physician (b. 1869)
 * September 7 - Laura Borden, wife of Robert Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1862)
 * October 9 - Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary (b. 1865)
 * October 10 - Berton Churchill, actor (b. 1876)
 * December 5 - Wilfred Lucas, actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1871)

Historical documents
"The influence of the older generation" - Indian residential school principal sorry his pupils' "good training" neutralized at home

"Almost terrifying sums of money" - Transport Minister C.D. Howe on War Supply Board's huge task, and power

Training facilities across Canada will be set up to turn out 35,000 Commonwealth pilots, air gunners and observers annually

Infantry training at Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition grounds to supply reinforcements for units now in England

Limit to "complete equality for women" is on North Atlantic as female reporters tour Canadian destroyer at sea

CBC speeches by J.W. Dafoe, playwright Robert E. Sherwood, novelist James Hilton and columnist Dorothy Thompson on wartime "causes and issues"

Controversy erupts in Ontario Liberal Party over Premier Hepburn's "personal grudge" censure of King war policy

"My own bomb came looking for me, but I was not at home" - Canadian diplomat survives Blitz (just barely) in London

King George walks five miles and stops to chat 50 times as he inspects Canadian First Division in England

First loan drive (for 12-year bonds at 3.25% interest) brings in more than $136 million from cities, towns and hamlets

Nazi-linked German nationals and suspect German-Canadians to be interned as possibly dangerous to Canada

"No place for excitement in the hearts of people" regarding federal election issues, but deep concern over world affairs in Ottawa

Hours before its capitulation to Germans, Canadian, British and U.S. governments pledge help to imperilled France

Following fall of France, Quebec editorials call on English and French Canadian men to heed call to Canada's defence

Every Canadian resident (including aliens) 16 or over must comply with National Registration process and carry registration certificate at all times

Importance of British subject status and "race" (e.g., English, Scottish, French, Italian) in National Registration process

Montreal mayor interned as "prejudicial to the public safety" after he "blasted" wartime compulsory training order

Editorials point out importance of U.S.A. to Allies' struggle, and its people's recognition of that

Canada shifting main war partnership from Britain to U.S.A.; public wants greater war effort (except overseas conscription)

U.S. ambassador reports Canadian public demanding "some form of joint defence understanding with the United States"

U.S.A. and Canada set up Permanent Joint Board on Defence to protect North America

Leslie Gilbert Illingworth political cartoon of U.S.-Canada defence pact has Wild West setting

Supervisor of German sanitorium and Württemberg bishop object to unlawful killing of mental patients and epileptics

"Such a sudden and swift offensive" - Ukrainian-Canadian leftists are arrested in wide police sweep in Winnipeg

With government "forcing conscription of unemployed and needy youth," Canadian Youth Congress wants training and jobs

Liberal Party federal election leaflet identifies CCF (and Nazis) as socialist

German Jewish refugee Frederick Mendel turns Saskatoon meatpacking plant into thriving business

Anarchist Emma Goldman feels "gagged and paralyzed" in wartime Canada as she collects money for refugees

Black man becomes CPR sleeping car porter after being repeatedly rejected as machinist and told to shine shoes (Note: "nigger" used)

title: 1940 in Canada


text:
1942 in Canada

Events from the year 1942 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George VI

Federal government

 * Governor General – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
 * Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
 * Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
 * Parliament – 19th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – William Culham Woodward
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William George Clark
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Frederick F. Mathers (until November 17) then Henry Ernest Kendall
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Albert Edward Matthews
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Bradford William LePage
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Eugène Fiset
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Archibald Peter McNab

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – William Aberhart
 * Premier of British Columbia – John Hart
 * Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
 * Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – A.S. MacMillan
 * Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn (until October 21) then Gordon Daniel Conant
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Thane Campbell
 * Premier of Quebec – Adélard Godbout
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

Commissioners

 * Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell

Events

 * January 10 – Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Filion become the first female lawyers in Quebec
 * February 10 – The GERMAN SUBMARINE U-136 torpedoes and sinks HMCS Spikenard, which had eight survivors.
 * February 26 – Japanese Canadians are interned and moved further inland.
 * April 27 – A national plebiscite is held on the issue of conscription. Most English-Canadians are in favour, while most French-Canadians are not.
 * June 20 – The JAPANESE SUBMARINE I-26 shells the Estevan Point lighthouse on Vancouver Island.
 * July – The Official Food Rules is published, for the first time.
 * August – The National Resources Mobilization Act is repealed as a result of the April plebiscite.
 * August 6 – HMCS Assiniboine (I18) sinks the GERMAN SUBMARINE U-120. Max Bernays will be awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal for his actions in the battle.
 * August 19 – Dieppe Raid
 * September 7 – The GERMAN SUBMARINE U-165 sinks HMCS Raccoon near Anticosti Island. All sailors aboard Racoon are killed.
 * September 9 – The Canadian government establishes the Wartime Information Board, a government agency responsible for pro-conscription propaganda.
 * September 11 – The GERMAN SUBMARINE U-517 sinks HMCS Charlottetown (1941) near Cap-Chat, Quebec, killing 9 out of the crew of 64.
 * September 14 – The GERMAN SUBMARINE U-91 sinks HMCS Ottawa (H60) in the North Atlantic, killing 114 sailors, with 69 surviving.
 * October 14 – The GERMAN SUBMARINE U-69 sinks the ferry SS Caribou in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, killing 137. Margaret Brooke will be named a Member of the Order of the British Empire for her actions during the sinking.
 * October 21 – Gordon Conant becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Mitchell Hepburn
 * December 12 – The Knights of Columbus Hostel fire in St John's, Newfoundland, kills 99.

Sport

 * April 18 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their fourth Stanley Cup by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3 after being down to the Red Wings 3–0. The deciding Game 7 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * April 20 – The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Portage la Prairie Terriers win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Oshawa Generals 3 games to 1. The deciding Game 4 was played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
 * December 5 – The Toronto RCAF Hurricanes win their only Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg RCAF Bombers 8 to 5 in the 30th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

January to March

 * January 12 - Hilary Weston, businessperson and 26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
 * January 16 - René Angélil, husband and manager of Céline Dion
 * January 19 - John Reynolds, politician
 * February 5 - Tim Sale, politician
 * February 19 - Norm Sterling, politician
 * February 20 - Phil Esposito, ice hockey player
 * February 22 - Gerard Jennissen, politician
 * March 3 - Menaka Thakka, dancer

April to June

 * April 8 - Harold Gilleshammer, politician
 * April 10 - Nick Auf der Maur, journalist and politician (died 1998)
 * April 21 - Pierre Lorrain, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2004)
 * April 22 - Sandra Birdsell, novelist and short story writer
 * April 26 - Sharon Carstairs, politician and Senator
 * May 1 - Becky Barrett, politician
 * May 3 - Earl McRae, journalist (Ottawa Sun) (died 2011)
 * May 8 - Pierre Morency, Canadian poet and playwright
 * May 29 - Larry Mavety, ice hockey player and coach (died 2020)
 * June 9 - John Gerretsen, politician
 * June 10 - Preston Manning, politician
 * June 15 - Ian Greenberg, media businessman (died 2022)
 * June 21 - Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, Native rights advocate
 * June 25 - Michel Tremblay, novelist and playwright

July to September

 * July 1 - Geneviève Bujold, actress
 * July 4 - Len Harapiak, politician
 * July 11 - Terry Carisse, singer, guitarist, and songwriter (died 2005)
 * July 11 - Nancy Zerg, poet
 * July 22 - Anita Neville, politician
 * July 24 - Gloria George, Native leader
 * August 10 - Jim Downey, politician
 * August 18 - Jim Abbott, politician
 * August 24 - Gary Filmon, politician and 19th Premier of Manitoba
 * August 24 - Tony Hunt, artist
 * August 25 - Ivan Koloff, pro wrestler
 * August 30 - Rick Salutin, novelist, playwright and critic
 * September 4 - George Baker, politician and Senator
 * September 13 - Michael Breaugh, politician (died 2019)
 * September 13 - Michel Côté, businessman and politician
 * September 20 - Gérald Tremblay, businessman and politician, 41st Mayor of Montreal

October to December

 * October 10 - Roy Miki, poet and scholar
 * October 11 - Dianne Brushett, politician
 * November 1 - Ralph Klein, politician and 12th Premier of Alberta (died 2013)
 * November 19 - Jim Ernst, politician
 * November 20 - Raymond Bonin, politician
 * December 1 - Charlie Penson, politician
 * December 19 - John Godfrey, educator, journalist and politician
 * December 21 - Oliver Bowen, engineer
 * December 30 - Matt Cohen, writer (died 1999)

Full date unknown

 * Yves Lever, film critic and historian
 * Dermot O'Reilly, musician, producer and songwriter (died 2007)
 * Jay Roberts, football player, lung cancer (died 2010)

Deaths

 * January 16 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, 10th Governor General of Canada (born 1850)
 * January 30 - Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, politician and 1st Premier of the Northwest Territories (born 1857)
 * February 4 - Louis-Adolphe Paquet, theologian (born 1859)
 * March 11 - Raoul Dandurand, politician (born 1861)
 * March 15 - Edgar Nelson Rhodes, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia (born 1877)
 * March 21 - J. S. Woodsworth, politician (born 1874)
 * April 24 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, author (born 1874)
 * May 18 - Herménégilde Boulay, politician (born 1861)
 * June 17 - Charles Fitzpatrick, lawyer, politician and 5th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1853)
 * October 6 - Ella Cora Hind, journalist and women's rights activist (born 1861)
 * December 26 - Frank Dawson Adams, geologist (born 1859)

Historical documents
Canadian Press reporter's landing craft "under intense Nazi fire" from boats, planes and infantry at Dieppe

Official study details objectives, heroism and failures of combined commando raid on Dieppe, France

Canadian soldier in Dieppe raid describes prisoner-of-war camp life in Germany

Painting: portrait of Indigenous soldier Lloyd George Moore, Royal Canadian Artillery

"Considerable excitement and tension" - HMCS Oakville rams U-boat while on convoy duty in Caribbean Sea

Pubnico, Nova Scotia children salvage flour, cigarettes and candy bars from torpedoed freighters in harbour

"Blasted from a cosy state room to a cold, icy water" - Survivors' tales of torpedoed Sydney–to–Port-aux-Basques ferry Caribou

Illustration: U.S. Coast Guard rescues Canadian fliers from Greenland ice shelf

To maintain status quo with Vichy France, Allies manoeuvre to get Free French forces off St. Pierre and Miquelon

Minister of Finance says Canadians not working for themselves or their families, but for victory

In U.S. government profile of Allies, Canada noted for contributions like 2 billion pounds of food and "54% of everyone's income"

"Has Canada fully mobilized her material resources [and] man and woman power to wage total war?" - Opposition Leader's 7-point plan

Federal agriculture minister James Gardiner lists supports and goals for producers, and praises farm men, women and children

PM King broadcasts enhanced plan of men's, women's and youth's service to achieve "total effort for total war"

Women's Land Army members work on farms and socialize with Canadian soldiers in Sussex, England

In House of Commons debate, Minister of National Defence J.L. Ralston addresses total war policy and conscription

"The most sacred understanding" - PM King asks voters for release from pledge of no conscription for overseas military service

Canadians vote "yes" in conscription plebiscite by large majorities in 8 provinces, with strong "no" in Quebec

"A systemic policy of annihilation" - Zionist congress of Switzerland reports millions of Jews killed

"Defensive measures of the racial brotherhood" - "Final Solution" should include sterilization of "half-Jews"

Eviction from coastal British Columbia creates many social problems for people of Japanese origin

Young interned Japanese Canadians seek pen pals to "sling some ink our way"

Japanese Canadian George Tanaka experiences feeling of freedom in Toronto, along with both sympathy and racism

Canadian diplomat in Washington strongly suspects U.S. government is eavesdropping on his communications

Drills and training part of Manitoba's Air Raid Precaution campaign, though federal government calls it unnecessary

As part of Victory Bonds campaign, Winnipeg stages "If Day" mock German invasion including arrest of premier and mayor

Film: newsreel report on If Day in Winnipeg

"Death and Destruction!" - Victory Bonds promotion page shows Hamilton, Ont. after bomber attack

Hamilton hydro commission prohibits commercial and decorative lighting, and dims street lights to 60%

"Environments created by war foster dangerous inclinations and tendencies" - PM King urges temperance as part of war effort

"Prophet of a new idea" - Journalist Bruce Hutchison's tribute to late CCF leader and co-founder J.S. Woodsworth

"There is work for everyone" - Whitehorse, Yukon transformed by industrial development

Wife of U.S. Army general enjoys settling in Whitehorse (Note: "squaw" and rape mentioned)

Brief film of Alberta oil sands being quarried and refined

After three decades and 1.6 billion feet of lumber cut, Fort Frances, Ont. mill closes with banquet and dance for employees

Future Netherlands queen Juliana's Ottawa maternity suite declared outside Canadian jurisdiction for birth of her third child

title: 1942 in Canada


text:
1945 in Canada

Events from the year 1945 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George VI

Federal government

 * Governor General – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
 * Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
 * Chief Justice – Thibaudeau Rinfret (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 19th (until 16 April) then 20th (from 6 September)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – William Culham Woodward
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William George Clark (until November 1) then David Laurence MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Henry Ernest Kendall
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Albert Edward Matthews
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Bradford William LePage (until May 18) then Joseph Alphonsus Bernard
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Eugène Fiset
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Archibald P. McNab (until February 27) then Thomas Miller (February 27 to June 20) then Reginald John Marsden Parker (from June 22)

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – John Hart
 * Premier of Manitoba – Stuart Garson
 * Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – A.S. MacMillan (until September 8) then Angus Macdonald
 * Premier of Ontario – George A. Drew
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Commissioners

 * Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell

Events

 * 1944–1945: World War II: Japan's Special Balloon Regiment launched 9,000 Fu-Go balloon bombs towards the Pacific Northwest, intended to cause panic, by starting forest fires. Six casualties, a woman and her five children in American state of Oregon, were reported. The ten metre-wide balloons contained 540 cubic metres of hydrogen and reached as far inland as Manitoba. The Japanese project was declared a failure and abandoned, after six months.
 * January 8 – Brantford, Ontario becomes the first Canadian community to fluoridate its water supply.
 * January 20 – World War II: The first conscripted Canadian soldiers arrive overseas
 * February 8 – World War II: The Anglo-Canadian Operation Veritable launched in the Netherlands
 * February 24 – Radio Canada International begins operation
 * February 25 – Sergeant Aubrey Cosens posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross
 * March 1 – Major Frederick Albert Tilston wins the Victoria Cross
 * March 29 – The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan is shut down
 * April 16 – World War II: HMCS Esquimalt is sunk off Halifax by the GERMAN SUBMARINE U-190.
 * May 7 – The crew of HMCS Uganda vote themselves out of the Pacific war
 * May 8 – VE Day sees celebrations across the nation, but also the Halifax Riot.
 * June 4 – 1945 Ontario general election: George Drew's PCs win a majority
 * June 11 – Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a third consecutive majority
 * June 26 – Canada is a founding member of the United Nations
 * August 2 – The Canadian Armoured Corps becomes the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
 * August 15 – VJ Day marks the end of the Second World War. Over a million Canadians had fought in the conflict and 42,000 were killed.
 * September 5 – The defection of Soviet embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko reveals a Soviet spy ring in Canada.
 * September 8 – Angus Macdonald becomes premier of Nova Scotia for the second time, replacing Alexander MacMillan
 * September 12 – The Ford Motor employees in Windsor, Ontario, go on strike.
 * October 23 – Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Montreal Royals baseball team.

Full date unknown

 * Family allowance payments are introduced.
 * Canada has its first trade surplus with the United States.

Arts and literature

 * The Tin Flute (Bonheur d'occasion) by Gabrielle Roy.

Sport

 * February 25 – Maurice Richard sets a new record for the most goals (50) in a single ice hockey season.
 * April 22 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their fifth Stanley Cup by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3.
 * April 23 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto St. Michael's Majors win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Southern Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Moose Jaw Canucks 4 games to 1. All games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * September 29 – The Calgary Stampeders are established
 * December 1 – The Toronto Argonauts win their sixth Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 35 to 0 in the 33rd Grey Cup played in Varsity Stadium in Toronto.

January to March

 * January 15 - Bonnie Burnard, novelist (d. 2017)
 * January 18 - Steven Truscott, exonerated murderer
 * January 21 - Len Derkach, politician
 * January 23 - Mike Harris, politician and 22nd Premier of Ontario
 * January 27
 * Harold Cardinal, writer, political leader, teacher, negotiator and lawyer (d. 2005)
 * Joe Ghiz, politician and 29th Premier of Prince Edward Island (d. 1996)
 * February 5 - Nancy McCredie, track and field athlete
 * February 19
 * Jim Bradley, politician
 * Bill Casey, politician
 * February 20 - Donald McPherson, figure skater (d. 2001)
 * March 4 - Patrick Boyer, politician and university professor
 * March 6 - John A. MacNaughton, financier and executive (d. 2013)
 * March 17 - Dave Bailey, track and field athlete (d. 2022)
 * March 26 - Diane McGifford, politician
 * March 28 - Bobby Schmautz, ice hockey player (d. 2021)

April to June

 * April 24 - Doug Riley, Canadian keyboard player and producer (d. 2007)
 * May 3 – Leo Panitch, political scientist (d. 2020)
 * May 27 - Bruce Cockburn, folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter
 * June 11 - Robert Munsch, children's writer
 * June 16 - Lucienne Robillard, politician and minister
 * June 20 - Anne Murray, singer

July to September

 * August 4 - Ben Sveinson, politician
 * August 11 - David Walsh, businessman, disgraced head of Bre-X (d. 1998)
 * August 12 - Mary Stewart, swimmer and world record breaker
 * August 15 - Rosann Wowchuk, politician and Deputy Premier of Manitoba
 * September 21 - Bjarni Tryggvason, engineer and astronaut (d. 2022)

October to December

 * October 15 - John Murrell, playwright (d. 2019)
 * November 5 - Jacques Lanctôt, member of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)
 * November 11 - Norman Doyle, politician
 * November 12 - Neil Young, singer-songwriter, musician and film director
 * December 4 - Roberta Bondar, neurologist and Canada's first female astronaut
 * December 24 - John Till, musician (d. 2022)

Full date unknown

 * Felix Partz, artist and co-founder of the artistic collective General Idea (d. 1994)

Deaths

 * January 15 – Kate Simpson Hayes, playwright and legislative librarian (b. 1856)
 * March 2 - Emily Carr, artist and writer (b. 1871)
 * March 23 - Walter Charles Murray, first President of the University of Saskatchewan (b. 1866)
 * July 17 - Adjutor Rivard, lawyer, writer, judge and linguist (b. 1868)
 * October 24 - Franklin Carmichael, painter and Group of Seven member (b. 1890)
 * November 1 - Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, feminist and social activist (b. 1867)
 * December 10 - Joseph-Octave Samson, businessperson, politician and 28th Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1862)

Historical documents
Platoon leader in 48th Highlanders of Canada describes Battle of Apeldoorn in Netherlands

"A zest to life she has never felt before" - Manitoban nurses "tigers" of 1st Canadian Division in Italy

Food shortage in occupied France, especially in cities but benefiting farmers, accompanied after liberation by high inflation

Winter 1945 is trying for Canadian diplomats Charles Ritchie and Saul Rae and family, living in liberated Paris without fuel

Print: For European children dying of cold and hunger at Christmas

Record of two British mariners killed on Canadian cargo ship sunk in Scottish waters in war's last U-boat attack

Film: newsreel shows U-boats surrendering in North American waters, including off Shelburne, Nova Scotia

"A despondent-looking mob" - Canadian Parachute Battalion finds German soldiers and families eagerly surrender to avoid Russians

"My survival was an absolute miracle" - 14-year-old orphan liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp

Hundreds of children freed from Buchenwald, where several Polish inmates ran school

Agreement on trials of European war criminals, who will return "to the countries in which their abominable deeds were done"

"That vague expression and pose of utter bewilderment" - war artist's painting of lone survivor of bomber crash

Royal Navy electrician posted to Quebec City makes substantial extra pay playing trumpet in Al Bedard's band

War artist Lance-Corporal Molly Lamb's humorous graphic story of saying goodbye to her CWAC comrades

"A friend to the service man and his dependents at home" - New Brunswick MP's election campaign flyer is aimed at military voters

Black Canadian Army private goes to City Hall to challenge segregation policy in four Glasgow dance halls

Returning veterans should have houses and suits, but souvenir firearms are not encouraged

Poster: Information on Canadian production and fighting in later war period

British PM Clement Attlee says farm, factory and shipyard workers, scientists, technicians and research workers share credit for victory

"A steadfast and progressive people, blessed with a bountiful land" - production of energy and farm products in wartime Alberta

To block inflation, Canadians urged to avoid black markets, keep to price controls and "not buy two where one will do"

Discussion guide on women's war effort and future role of women in workplace, home and community

Postwar hurdles that Canadians face and need to discuss include too few people, too little independence, and disunity

Editorial speculates on "Japanese mind" in assessing Japan's crimes, "which no Japanese wants to hear about today"

Protests against transfer of more than half of Japanese Canadians to Japan, with calls for their rehabilitation and rights restoration

PM King explains proposal for peace and security organization (UN), and how it would improve on League of Nations

"Trust the people as to the future" - King believes putting war and UN conference above politics will aid Liberals' re-election

On way to UN conference, diplomat Charles Ritchie labels PM King "the fat little conjurer with his flickering, shifty eyes"

Canadians seek standing equal to their role in victory, but U.S. diplomat says cooperation among four major Allies is complex enough

U.S.A., U.K. and Canada intend to share non-military atomic research with all nations for "an atmosphere of reciprocal confidence"

Soviet embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko defects, "sickened by the evidence of intrigues and espionage directed against Canada"

Film: newsreel of Russian espionage case with shots of Deep River, Ontario "atom bomb plant" and many Mounties

U.S. State Department briefing paper on Britain's (and specifically Churchill's) lack of control over Commonwealth nations

"Anglophobia" in U.S.A. targets U.K. (and Canada, as still part of Empire), hampering postwar economic settlement

Private cars, buses and trucks seized for enormous roadblock during strike by Ford of Canada workers in Windsor, Ont.

Program of Oscar Peterson Trio concert includes works by Chopin, Kreisler, Dvorak, Gershwin, Ellington and Peterson

Photo: Ivy Lawrence Maynier, University of Toronto Law School class of 1945 - "First woman of colour to graduate from the U of T Law School"

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1949 in Canada

Events from the year 1949 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George VI

Federal government

 * Governor General – the Viscount Alexander of Tunis
 * Prime Minister – Louis St. Laurent
 * Chief Justice – Thibaudeau Rinfret (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 20th (until 30 April) then 21st (from 15 September)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Charles Arthur Banks
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Albert Walsh (until September 15) then Leonard Outerbridge
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Ray Lawson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Joseph Alphonsus Bernard
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Eugène Fiset
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – John Michael Uhrich

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – Boss Johnson
 * Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
 * Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Macdonald
 * Premier of Ontario – Thomas Laird Kennedy (until May 4) then Leslie Frost
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – John Edward Gibben
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside

Events

 * March 31 - Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province at a fraction of a second from April 1.
 * April 1 - Joey Smallwood becomes the first premier of Newfoundland as a Canadian province
 * April 4 - Canada joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
 * May 4 - Leslie Frost becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Thomas Kennedy
 * June 27 - Federal election: Louis Saint Laurent's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority
 * August 22 - Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
 * September 9 - Albert Guay affair: in-flight bombing of a Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 en route from Quebec City to Baie-Comeau
 * September 14 - The Noronic, the largest Canadian passenger ship on the Great Lakes, is destroyed by a fire while docked in Toronto, killing 118.

Full date unknown

 * Canadian appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council are abolished, making the Supreme Court of Canada the country's top court
 * British Columbia gives Asian-Canadians the vote
 * Gustave Sherman establishes his custume jewellery business, Sherman & Company Ltd. in Montreal.

Awards

 * See 1949 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Angeline Hango, Truthfully Yours

Sport

 * April 16 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their eighth (third consecutive) Stanley Cup by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 0. The deciding Game 4 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * May 16 – The Quebec Junior Hockey League's Montreal Royals win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Brandon Wheat Kings 4 games to 3 (with 1 tie). The deciding game was played Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
 * November 26 – The Montreal Alouettes win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Calgary Stampeders 28–15 in the 37th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

January to March

 * January 24 - Guy Charron, ice hockey player
 * February 14 - Denis Rocan, politician
 * February 23 - Marc Garneau, astronaut, engineer and politician
 * March 3 - Elijah Harper, politician (d. 2013)
 * March 16 - Victor Garber, actor and singer
 * March 16 - Jane Haist, discus thrower and shot putter
 * March 25 - Jean Potvin, ice hockey player (d. 2022)
 * March 29 - Pauline Marois, social worker, civil servant and 30th premier of Quebec
 * March 30 - Liza Frulla, politician

April to June

 * April 4 - Nava Starr, chess player and a Women's International Master
 * April 6 - Réginald Bélair, politician
 * April 8 - Claudette Bradshaw, politician
 * April 14 - Percy Mockler, politician and Senator
 * April 16 - Sandy Hawley, jockey
 * April 18 - Jean-Paul Saint-Pierre, politician, Mayor of Russell, Ontario (since 2010) (d. 2014)
 * April 26 - Ray Henault, general and Chief of Defence Staff
 * May 6 - Diane Ablonczy, politician
 * May 20 - Sheldon Oberman, children's writer (d. 2004)
 * May 20 - Dave Thomas, comedian and actor
 * June 7 - Christopher W. Morris, philosopher and academic
 * June 21 - Jane Urquhart, writer
 * June 22 - Wayne Easter, politician

July to September

 * July 3 - Jan Smithers, actress
 * July 11 - Liona Boyd, classical guitarist
 * July 12 - Ted Barris, writer, journalist, professor, and broadcaster
 * August 4 - Danny Williams, politician and 9th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
 * August 13 - Bobby Clarke, ice hockey player
 * August 21 - Larry Fisher, murderer (d. 2015)
 * August 30 - Don Boudria, politician and Minister
 * September 6 - Carole-Marie Allard, politician
 * September 12 - Kevin Major, author
 * September 26 - Marie Tifo, actress

October to December

 * October 10 - Michel Létourneau, politician (d. 2019)
 * October 24 - Robert Pickton, serial killer and pig farmer (d. 2024)
 * October 25 - Laurie Skreslet, mountaineer, first Canadian to reach the summit of Mount Everest
 * October 27 - Garth Drabinsky, film and theatrical producer and entrepreneur
 * November 27 - Nick Discepola, politician
 * November 28 - Paul Shaffer, musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer
 * November 29 - Stan Rogers, folk musician and songwriter (d. 1983)
 * December 13 - Denise Leblanc-Bantey, politician (d. 1999)
 * December 19 - Larry Bagnell, politician
 * December 21 - John Loewen, businessman and politician
 * December 30 - Jim Flaherty, politician and Minister (d. 2014)

Full date unknown

 * Zahra Kazemi, photographer, died in Iranian custody (d. 2003)

January to June

 * January 9 - Tom Longboat, long-distance runner (b. 1887)
 * January 11 - John Wesley Brien, physician and politician (b. 1864)
 * February 12 - Pegi Nicol MacLeod, artist (b. 1904)
 * May 22 - Sir Douglas Alexander, 1st Baronet, British-born Canadian industrialist (b. 1864)
 * June 2 - François Blais, politician (b. 1875)

July to December

 * July 7 - Fred Wellington Bowen, politician (b. 1877)
 * August 23 - Herbert Greenfield, politician and 4th Premier of Alberta (b. 1869)
 * September 2 - Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician and Minister (b. 1890)
 * December 7 - Stanislas Blanchard, politician (b. 1871)
 * December 16 - Albert Edward Matthews, 16th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1873)
 * December 16 - Sidney Olcott, film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1873)

Historical documents
Illingworth cartoon depicts Stalin-shaped mushroom cloud overshadowing western Europe and North America

Joint US-Canadian defence strategy must address not only huge Soviet force in Europe, but its recently revealed atomic weapon capability

"This struggle [with Communism] is coming closer and closer" - Canada should be aware that it has U.S.S.R. on its northern border

Denial of NATO "automatic commitment" comes from old idea of U.S.A. and Canada as "producers and not consumers of security"

Despite disapproval, Canada would strengthen its Article 2 on cultural, economic and social collaboration in draft NATO treaty

After prolonged objection to NATO treaty Article 2 by U.S. Senators, they publicly praise it as one reason for ratification

U.S.A. undermines Canada's export economy and aid to European recovery, and unfairly criticizes defence spending

Discussion of suggested USA-UK-Canada federation, UK's place in Europe, and Europe's economic decline as world industrializes

"Spectre of starvation, not only of the body, but also of the mind" - Canadians organize for cultural reconstruction of Europe

Canada raises $1 million for aid to devastated countries, including 5,000 school food boxes, 30,000 library books, and artists' equipment

PM Nehru explains India's "championship of freedom and racial equality in Asia" and asks Canada's support for liberty and against want

National Film Board's history of independent international distribution bothers Department of External Affairs

"(UNESCO should reject) projects not likely to achieve immediately useful results" - Example of Canada's role as helpful fixer

Letters of appreciation about (and from) displaced persons brought from Europe by government to work in Canada

Cabinet orders immigration officials to "deal favourably" with German husbands, wives, children (under 18) and senior parents of legal residents

Given their unpopularity in Canada, External Affairs urged to be judicious about allowing Germans in

"Running a war and a wide-open immigration policy at the same time[ – there's] no alternative" - Newspaper columnist on Israel

Canadian leadership tries to settle dispute in refugee organization over Jewish emigration to Palestine conflict zone

Canadian diplomat on elimination of corruption and black market and other positive changes in China following Communist takeover

"Undesirable contacts" - Federal official is leery about stationing Black U.S. troops near Inuit

Hydro-electricity, boundary waters, roads and railways: Canada wants information on U.S. interest in northwestern North America

Historical and diplomatic reasons for retaining "Alert" name for joint U.S.-Canadian weather station on Ellesmere Island

"You are joining a good country" - Prime Minister St. Laurent's speech on Newfoundland's entry into Confederation

"The Catholic Syndicates appear to have shunned [a] settlement" - Violence and unspoken motivation behind Quebec's Asbestos Strike

Film: newsreel of strikers, strikebreakers and police in Asbestos, Quebec

"The most powerful social and moral authority in the community" - Sociologist says unions are replacing church in Windsor, Ont.

Discussions between George Hislop and Jim Egan are roots of Toronto-area gay liberation

Fearing recent total war effort may result in permanent checks on individual rights, senator introduces draft bill of rights

"A more complete[...]Canadian democracy" - Canadian Jewish Congress promotes national institutions for cultural understanding

Massey Commission suggests questions on influences and possibilities to Ernest MacMillan for his critical study of Canadian music

"A cultural renaissance[...]from the grass roots" - Calgary Allied Arts Council urges Massey Commission to back community arts

"A new and gifted player" - Jazz at the Philharmonic presents Oscar Peterson's debut at Carnegie Hall, New York

Film: newsreel of cruise ship burning in Toronto harbour with scores of lives lost

Advertisement: CP Air staged flight to Australia with Honolulu and Fiji stopovers

title: 1949 in Canada