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1936 in Canada

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Events from the year 1936 in Canada.

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Saying "I hate war," President Roosevelt seeks foreign and economic policies that will encourage peace<ref>Franklin Roosevelt, "Address at Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936," Development of United States Foreign Policy; Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942), pgs. 11-15 Accessed 13 June 2020</ref>

Threatening embargo on Canadian liquor, U.S.A. demands back taxes and customs duties for liquor smuggled during Prohibition<ref>United States Department of State, "Protests of the Canadian Government Against Certain Provisions of the Liquor Tax Bill; Settlement of United States Claims Against Canadian Distillers" Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1936; Volume I, General, The British Commonwealth, pgs. 796-825. Accessed 11 June 2022</ref>

"Taxes are urgently needed" – Alberta's Two Rivers School District board cajoles ratepayers in arrears<ref>Two Rivers School District 3497 Minutes, 1936 pgs. 70, 71, 73, 75, 76. Accessed 11 June 2020</ref>

Seventy-year-old woman talks to enough of Yukon's 1,805 voters to be elected to House of Commons<ref>Martha Louise (Mrs. George) Black (as told to Elizabeth Bailey Price), "The Life I've Lived" Chatelaine (January 1936), pg. 14. Accessed 13 June 2020</ref>

"Sterilization is proposed[...]as logical humane procedure to limit the reproduction of the mentally defective."<ref>William Hutton, "A Brief for Sterilization of the Feeble-Minded" (Second Edition, June 1936). Accessed 13 June 2020</ref>

Vancouver business groups testify that limiting employment of "orientals" on Canadian ships may curtail or cancel service<ref>"Minutes of Evidence" (March 13, 1936), [House] Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations, pg. 8 Accessed 26 October 2020</ref>

Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir expresses his deep regret to King Edward VIII on his abdication<ref>Note of John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, to Private Secretary, Buckingham Palace (December 10, 1936). Accessed 13 June 2020</ref>

"A commission of three cannot[...]execute policies" – House committee calls for corporation to replace Canadian Radio Commission<ref>"Third and Final Report" (May 26, 1936), Special Committee on the Canadian Radio Commission, pg. 784 Accessed 26 October 2020</ref>

"We in Canada are sound asleep in flying matters," says Air Vice-Marshall Billy Bishop<ref>W.A. Bishop, "What Aviation Means to Canada" (February 13, 1936), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 235-52. Accessed 13 June 2020</ref>

Canadian Tuberculosis Association urges more clinics for Indigenous people, who suffer 30% of TB deaths in western Canada<ref>Canadian Press, "Aids Tubercular Indians; Canada Plans Traveling Clinics in Effort to Stem High Death Rate," New York Times (June 30, 1936). Accessed 14 June 2020 https://searchit.libraries.wsu.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=WSU_CDM5clipping%2F8680&context=L&vid=WSU (click on Link to Resource)</ref>

"In terrible shape" – Government official reports cemetery at Dunbow residential school is trampled by cattle and crosses knocked down<ref>Letter of Inspector of Indian Agencies (Alberta) to Secretary of Department of Indian Affairs (July 14, 1936), Sarcee Agency – General Correspondence Relating to the St. Joseph's (Dunbow) Industrial School Image 211, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 29 November 2024</ref>

Youth organizations ranging from church groups to Young Communist League unite for reform at 1936 Youth Congress<ref>Tim Buck, "Chapter Nine; Canada's Youth Comes of Age," Thirty Years; 1922-1952; The Story of the Communist Movement in Canada (1952). Accessed 20 May 2020 http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/compoundobject/collection/radical/id/81602/rec/15 (scroll to Page 131)</ref>

Stephen Leacock's views of travel writing and Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ont.<ref>Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West; A Discussion of East and West in Canada (1937), pgs. 1-14. Accessed 14 June 2020</ref>

"A Literary Map of Canada" includes insets "Some Books of the St. Lawrence Basin" and "The Land of Evangeline"<ref>"A literary map of Canada" (1936), McMaster University Digital Archive. Accessed 26 May 2024</ref>

Ralph J. Gleason praises Canadian hockey while covering college tournament for Columbia University student newspaper<ref>Ralph J. Gleason, "Christmas Opportunity Hockey Has Everything; Look, Boys, at Canada" Columbia Daily Spectator, Vol. LIX, No. 59 (January 6, 1936), pg. 3. Accessed 14 June 2020</ref>

Setting new record for one-mile event, Canadian race walker wins in New York City<ref>Daniel M. Friedman, "Let's Take a Walk; A Canadian Wizard; Venzke's Stock Booms" Columbia Daily Spectator, Vol. LIX, No. 73 (February 11, 1936), pg. 3. Accessed 14 June 2020</ref>

Cover photograph: Menu from Canadian Pacific Railway train<ref>"Dinner menu from the Dominion train from 1936" The Chung Collection, University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 21 April 2024</ref>

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