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1937 in Canada

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Events from the year 1937 in Canada.

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January to JuneEdit

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DeathsEdit

January to JuneEdit

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Historical documentsEdit

With graphic descriptions of slaughter, United Church moderator expresses outrage at atrocities in Spain and China<ref>Peter Bryce, "I Can No Longer Be Silent" (August 24, 1937). Accessed 16 June 2020</ref>

Peace league calls national congress because "Human life, Liberty, Social Culture and the Arts hang in terrible jeopardy"<ref>Canadian League for Peace and Democracy, "Call to Action; Canadian Congress for Peace and Democracy" (1937). Accessed 16 June 2020 Links to entire congress brochure: http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000671.jpg http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000671-2.jpg http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000671-3.jpg http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000671-4.jpg http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000671-5.jpg</ref>

Ontario Lieutenant-Governor endorses Youth Crusade for Peace: "Youth of the world should have a decisive voice"<ref>Letter of Herbert A. Bruce (Government House, Toronto, October 12, 1937). Accessed 16 June 2020</ref>

J.W. Dafoe, J.S. Woodsworth, Sidney E. Smith and others lead weekly 1937 radio broadcast discussions on various Canadian defence policies<ref>Canadian Defence; What We Have to Defend (1937). Accessed 17 May 2022</ref>

On committee studying death penalty, MP Agnes Macphail argues criminally insane murderers should suffer death like other killers<ref>Testimony of M.F. Gallagher (February 23, 1937), Special Committee on the Criminal Code (Death Penalty), pgs. 36-7 Accessed 27 October 2020</ref>

Commons debates Trans-Canada Air Lines (when planes went through mountain passes on 16-hour Winnipeg-Vancouver flights)<ref>"Trans-Canada Air Lines; Arrangement with Corporation Respecting Lines and Services for Transport of Passengers, Goods and Mails" (April 1, 1937), House Of Commons Debates, 18th Parliament, 2nd Session: Vol. 3, pgs. 2443-61. Accessed 16 June 2020</ref>

Call for more British immigrants to allow West "to develop a race of people that is strong, sturdy and self-reliant"<ref>Garnet Neff, "Can Canada Remain British" (February 4, 1937), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 194-208. Accessed 16 June 2020</ref>

"The danger is that the Chinese or Japanese by inter-marriage would absorb our own race" - race fear in denying vote to "oriental"<ref>Testimony of Thomas Reid, MP: "Assimilability of the Oriental" (March 11, 1937), [House] Special Committee on Elections and Franchise Acts, pgs. 209-10. Accessed 27 October 2020</ref>

Alberta Social Credit government's "accurate news" bill amended in face of "almost[...]Fascism" and "dictatorship" criticism<ref>B.T. Richardson, "Yields to Pressure; Alta. Government Amends Vigorously-Criticized Newspaper Bill," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LXV, No. 29 (October 5, 1937), pgs. 1, 8. Accessed 16 June 2020</ref>

Britain's debt to Newfoundland, in its history of exploiting and leaving it underdeveloped, balances assuming its liabilities currently<ref>J.A. Cochrane, "Mother Country's Debt to Newfoundland" (February 22, 1937), Dr. Cluny Macpherson Notebook 1, pgs. 59-65a. Accessed 17 June 2020</ref>

Calling him "sly" and "delightful," newspaper profiles judge representing Canada on Trail, B.C. fumes tribunal<ref>A.C.L. Jr., "Canadian Fume Member Charms; Chief Justice Greenshields of Tribune (sic) Has Keen Sense of Humor" (Spokane, Wash.) Spokesman-Review (July 24, 1937). Accessed 17 June 2020</ref>

Canadian studying at Harvard writes about friends fighting in Spain and his fervour for communism<ref>Letter of Herbert Norman (March 3, 1937). Accessed 17 June 2020</ref>

Report of cooperative Canadian and U.S. work done on site of Champlain's Habitation of Port Royal in Nova Scotia<ref>Harriet Taber (Mrs. Frederick A.) Richardson, "A Report on the Work Accomplished for Rebuilding the Habitation of Port Royal, New France, at Lower Granville, Nova Scotia" (July 22, 1937). Accessed 17 June 2020</ref>

Artist Emily Carr enjoys reasonably good sketching trip despite days of pouring rain<ref>Letter of Emily Carr (ca. 1937), Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Accessed 1 January 2025</ref>

Advertisement for Westinghouse World Cruiser Radio - "Tonal Fidelity Reflects the Living Image of Each Broadcast Note"<ref>Canadian Westinghouse Co. Limited, "Fidelity" Canadian Home Journal (1937). Accessed 16 June 2020</ref>

Two Canadian Pacific Railway dining car menus<ref>Canadian Pacific, "The Chateau Frontenac; In Old Quebec" and "Evangeline at the Well; Grand Pré, Nova Scotia" (April 3, 1937). (See also "Dinner menu from the Dominion train from 1936") Accessed 17 June 2020</ref>

Cover art: Menu from Empress of Britain world cruise<ref>"Meridian Day dinner menu from the Empress of Britain" The Chung Collection, University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 21 April 2024</ref>

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