1929 in Canada

Events from the year 1929 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Federal government

• Governor General – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
• Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
• Parliament – 16th

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

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George Ian MacLean
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events

• 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 Template:USCGC.
• 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 rips 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.

Arts and literature

• January 6 – Regina's Darke Hall auditorium opened.

Science and technology

• 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.

Sport

• March 30Template:SndThe 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 12Template:SndThe first legal forward pass in Canadian football is completed.
• November 30Template:SndThe 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

Births

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 (1980Template:Ndash1986) (d. 2013)

April to June

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John Turner in September 2009

• 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
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• • Peter C. Newman, journalist (d. 2023)
• 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
• May 28- Shane Rimmer, actor (d. 2019 in the United Kingdom)
• 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 4 – Walt Konarski, Canadian football player
• 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)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 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)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 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)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 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)<ref>Stampeders mourn death of 'Ironman' Harry Langford</ref>
• December 13 – Christopher Plummer, actor (d. 2021)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 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)

Deaths

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)

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Lomer Gouin

• 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)

See also

• List of Canadian films

Historical documents

British Privy Council members decide "that women are eligible to be summoned to and become members of the Senate of Canada"<ref>"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</ref>

"Crest of the flood of selling" passes on New York Stock Exchange<ref>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</ref>

Charlotte Whitton warns family allowance would reduce mothers to economic slavery and government parental role would undermine family<ref> 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</ref>

Residential school principal objects to farm training because land limited, students are not labourers, and hired hands would not obey her<ref>Letter of Sister Saint Simon to Duncan Scott (June 24, 1929). Accessed 24 June 2021</ref>

Calgary Board of Trade report on Turner Valley oil field<ref>"A Trip through Turner Valley; with the Young Men's Section of the Calgary Board of Trade" (September 12, 1929). Accessed 19 May 2020</ref>

At Walkerville, Ont. General Motors plant, it is "very dangerous" to work exposed pulleys late in 12-hour night shift<ref>"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)</ref>

Killing of Americans by U.S. border guards enforcing prohibition regulations draws outrage<ref>[U.S.] Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, "Outrages on the Border" Canada Liquor Crossing the Border (1929), pgs. 18-21. Accessed 19 May 2020</ref>

Lord Beaverbrook on overcoming "the great general division between farmers and industrialists" to establish imperial free trade <ref>Max Aitken, "Empire Free Trade;...A Manifesto by Lord Beaverbrook." Accessed 10 April 2020</ref>

Hunter-conservationist Jack Miner calls for extermination of wolves in Ontario<ref>Jack Miner, "Deer and Wolves" Jack Miner on Current Topics (copyright 1929), pgs. 61-9. Accessed 27 January 2020</ref>

Mackenzie King "wholly convinced in the reality of the spiritual world" after medium contacts his dead family members<ref>Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1929, pg. 7. Accessed 19 May 2020</ref>