1929_in_Canada
1929 in Canada
Canada-related events during the year of 1929
Events from the year 1929 in Canada.
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Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Theodore Arthur Burrows (until January 18) then James Duncan McGregor (from January 28)
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Lomer Gouin (until March 28) then Henry George Carroll (from April 2)
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands
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
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Edgar Nelson Rhodes
- Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders
- Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner (until September 9) then James Thomas Milton Anderson
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- January 10 – Lomer Gouin becomes Quebec's 15th Lieutenant Governor, serving until his death on March 28, 1929.
- March 22 – The Canadian schooner and rum-runner I'm Alone is sunk by the US Coast Guard's USCGC Dexter.
- April 4 – Henry George Carroll becomes Quebec's 16th Lieutenant Governor.
- June 6 – 1929 Saskatchewan election: James Garfield Gardiner's Liberals win a plurality, but the other parties, led by James T.M. Anderson's Conservatives, will form a coalition against Gardiner, forcing him to resign as premier
- May 29 – A series of explosions rip through Ottawa's sewer system.
- September 9 – James Anderson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
- September 10 – The Hudson Bay Railway opens for traffic to Churchill, Manitoba
- October 18 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rules in the Persons Case that women are eligible to be senators.
- October 29 – The crash of the New York Stock Exchange marks the beginning of the Great Depression
- October 30 – Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority
- November 13 – A second stock market crash hits Canada.
- January 6 – Regina's Darke Hall auditorium opened.
- Wop May and Vic Horner brave poor visibility and −30 °C temperatures in an open cockpit to rush diphtheria anti-toxin to Fort Vermilion.
- Frozen fish fillets are introduced by the Biological Board of Canada developed by Archibald Huntsman.
- March 30 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Elmwood Millionaires 2 games to 0. The deciding Game 2 was played at Mutual Street Arena in Toronto
- September 12 – The first legal forward pass in Canadian football is completed.
- November 30 – The Hamilton Tigers win their fourth Grey Cup, defeating the Regina Roughriders 14 to 3 in the 17th Grey Cup played at A.A.A. Grounds in Hamilton
January to March
- January 17 – Jacques Plante, ice hockey player (d. 1986)
- January 20 – Pat Mahoney, businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South (1968–1972), General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders (1965) (d. 2012)
- January 21 – Bill Norrie, politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992), Chancellor of the University of Manitoba (2001–2009), respiratory failure. (d. 2012)
- January 23 – John Polanyi, chemist and 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry joint laureate
- January 25 – Brian O'Neill, ice hockey executive (d. 2023)
- February 12 – Philip Kives, businessman
- February 28 – Frank Gehry, architect
- March 20 – William Andrew MacKay, academic, President of Dalhousie University (1980–1986) (d. 2013)
April to June
- April 8 – Garnet Bloomfield, politician (d. 2018)
- April 11 – Eric Luoma, cross-country skier (d. 2018)
- May 8 – Claude Castonguay, banker and politician (d. 2020)
- May 10
- Antonine Maillet, novelist, playwright and scholar[2]
- Peter C. Newman, journalist
- May 12 – Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
- May 13 – Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author (d. 1996)
- May 14 – Gump Worsley, ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- May 16 – Claude Morin, politician
- May 18 – Walter Pitman, educator and politician
- June 7
- John Turner, lawyer, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Canada
- Walter Weir, politician and 15th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1985)
- June 8 – Louise Maheux-Forcier, author
- June 9
- Jean Rougeau, professional wrestler and bodyguard of Quebec Premier René Lévesque (d. 1983)
- Harold R. Steele, businessman (d. 2022)
- June 10 – Pearl McGonigal, politician
- June 20 – Edgar Bronfman, Sr., businessman
- June 27 – H. Ian Macdonald, economist
July to September
- July 2 – Anna-Marie Globenski, pianist and teacher (d. 2008)
- July 3 – Béatrice Picard, actress
- July 10 – Moe Norman, golfer (d. 2004)
- July 18 – Roy Killin, footballer
- July 19 – Ronald Melzack, psychologist (d. 2019)
- July 26 – Marc Lalonde, politician and Minister (d. 2023)[3]
- July 30 – Bill Davis, politician and 18th Premier of Ontario
- August 1 – Sidney Green, politician
- August 3 – Peter Salmon, swimmer (d. 2003)
- August 9 – George Scott Wallace, British Columbia physician and politician (d. 2011)
- August 19 – Leonard Evans, politician
- August 27 – George Scott, professional wrestler and promoter (d. 2014)
- September 14 – Dimitri Dimakopoulos, architect
- September 19 – Gertrude Story, writer and broadcaster (d. 2014)[4][5]
- September 24 -Edward M. Lawson, trade unionist, politician and Senator
October to December
- October 7 – Graeme Ferguson, filmmaker and inventor who co-invented IMAX (d. 2021)
- November 1 – Charles Juravinski, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2022)[6]
- November 2 – Richard E. Taylor, physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics joint laureate (d. 2018)
- November 21 – Laurier LaPierre, broadcaster, journalist, author and senator (d. 2012)
- November 24 – Harry Oliver Bradley, politician
- December 6 – Harry Langford, footballer (d. 2022)[7]
- December 13 – Christopher Plummer, actor (d. 2021)[8]
- December 15 – Emery Barnes, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1998)
- December 23 – Patrick Watson, broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director (d. 2022)
- December 28 – Terry Sawchuk, ice hockey player (d. 1970)
Full date unknown
- Ken Adachi, writer and literary critic (d. 1989)
January to March
- January 6 – George Henry Murray, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1861)
- January 14 – Alexander Warburton, politician, jurist, author and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1852)
- January 18 – Theodore Arthur Burrows, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1857)
- January 19 – Edward Charles Bowers, politician (b. 1845)
- January 29 – John Howatt Bell, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1846)
- February – Richard Gardiner Willis, politician (b. 1865)
- February 17 – James Colebrooke Patterson, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1839)
- March 1 – James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1851)
- March 28 – Lomer Gouin, politician and 13th Premier of Quebec (d. 1861)
- March 29 – Hugh John Macdonald, politician, Minister and 8th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1850)
April to December
- April 17 – Clifford Sifton, politician and Minister (b. 1861)
- May 6 – William Dillon Otter, soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff (b. 1843)
- June 3 – John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1842)
- June 8 – Bliss Carman, poet (b. 1861)
- June 23 – William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1848)
- July 30 – Antonin Nantel, priest, teacher, school administrator, and author (b. 1839)
- October 10 – Elijah McCoy, inventor and engineer (b. 1843)
British Privy Council members decide "that women are eligible to be summoned to and become members of the Senate of Canada"[9]
"Crest of the flood of selling" passes on New York Stock Exchange[10]
Charlotte Whitton warns family allowance would reduce mothers to economic slavery and government parental role would undermine family[11]
Residential school principal objects to farm training because land limited, students are not labourers, and hired hands would not obey her[12]
Calgary Board of Trade report on Turner Valley oil field[13]
At Walkerville, Ont. General Motors plant, it is "very dangerous" to work exposed pulleys late in 12-hour night shift[14]
Killing of Americans by U.S. border guards enforcing prohibition regulations draws outrage[15]
Lord Beaverbrook on overcoming "the great general division between farmers and industrialists" to establish imperial free trade [16]
Hunter-conservationist Jack Miner calls for extermination of wolves in Ontario[17]
Mackenzie King "wholly convinced in the reality of the spiritual world" after medium contacts his dead family members[18]
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- "Antonine Maillet | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- "Marc Lalonde | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
- Hammond, Margaret A. "Story, Gertrude (1929–)". The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
- "Gertrude Story". The StarPhoenix. January 18, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2021 – via Postmedia Obituaries.
- "Hamilton philanthropist Charles Juravinski dead at 92 - Hamilton | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Archived from the original on 2023-07-09.
- Weber, Bruce (5 February 2021). "Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to 'The Sound of Music,' Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- "Privy Council Appeal No. 121 of 1928. In the matter of a Reference as to the meaning of the word 'persons' in Section 24 of The British North America Act, 1867; Judgement of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council" (October 18, 1929), pgs. 2, 5, 7-8, 9, 11-13, 14. Accessed 19 May 2020
- Associated Press (New York, October 29), "Bankers Again Halt Big Flood of Liquidation" The (Montreal) Gazette, Vol. CLVIII, No. 260 (October 30, 1929), pg. 1. Accessed 19 May 2020
- Testimony of Charlotte Whitton (April 30, 1929), [House] Select Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations; [on] granting Family Allowances, pgs. 55-8. Accessed 21 October 2020
- Letter of Sister Saint Simon to Duncan Scott (June 24, 1929). Accessed 24 June 2021
- "A Trip through Turner Valley; with the Young Men's Section of the Calgary Board of Trade" (September 12, 1929). Accessed 19 May 2020
- "From a Member of the G.M.C. 'Happy Family' in Walkerville," Auto Workers' Life (1929). Accessed 12 August 2020 https://projects.windsorpubliclibrary.com/digi/sar/part3.htm (scroll down to Excerpt from Auto Workers's Life)
- [U.S.] Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, "Outrages on the Border" Canada Liquor Crossing the Border (1929), pgs. 18-21. Accessed 19 May 2020
- Max Aitken, "Empire Free Trade;...A Manifesto by Lord Beaverbrook." Accessed 10 April 2020
- Jack Miner, "Deer and Wolves" Jack Miner on Current Topics (copyright 1929), pgs. 61-9. Accessed 27 January 2020
