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Events from the year 1937 in Canada.
IncumbentsEdit
CrownEdit
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Federal governmentEdit
- Governor General – John Buchan<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie KingTemplate:Cn
- Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)Template:Cn
- Parliament – 18thTemplate:Cn
Provincial governmentsEdit
Lieutenant governorsEdit
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Philip Primrose (until March 17)Template:Cn then John C. Bowen (from March 23)Template:Cn
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Eric HamberTemplate:Cn
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William Johnston TupperTemplate:Cn
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Murray MacLarenTemplate:Cn
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert (until April 7)Template:Cn then Robert IrwinTemplate:Cn
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Herbert Alexander Bruce (until November 23)Template:Cn then Albert Edward MatthewsTemplate:Cn
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George Des Brisay de BloisTemplate:Cn
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Esioff-Léon PatenaudeTemplate:Cn
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Archibald Peter McNabTemplate:Cn
PremiersEdit
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- 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
Territorial governmentsEdit
CommissionersEdit
- Controller of Yukon – George A. JeckellTemplate:Cn
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles CamsellTemplate:Cn
EventsEdit
- April – A Crucifix was hung in the Montreal city council at the initiative of Joseph-Émile Dubreuil. The crucifix would hung there until 2019.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- April 10 – Trans-Canada Airlines, the predecessor of Air Canada, was created as a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway<ref name=":0" />
- July 5 – Midale and Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, record the highest temperature ever in Canada, with a record high of Template:Convert.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- August 15 – The Rowell-Sirois Commission is formed<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- September 1 – Regular flights of Trans-Canada Air Lines begin<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>
- October 6 – Ontario election: Mitchell Hepburn's Liberals win a second consecutive majority<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- November 24 – The first Governor General's Awards are given.Template:Cn
- First ascent of Mount Lucania (5,226 m), third highest mountain in Canada.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
SportEdit
- April 17 – The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Copper Cliff Redmen 3 games to 1. The deciding Game 4 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in TorontoTemplate:Cn
- December 11 – Toronto Argonauts win their fourth Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 4 to 3 in the 25th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in TorontoTemplate:Cn
BirthsEdit
January to JuneEdit
- January 5 – Richard Cashin, lawyer, politician and trade union leader<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- January 21 – Jim Unger, cartoonist (d. 2012)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- January 24 – Suzanne Tremblay, politician<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- January 26 – Maureen Hemphill, politician<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- January 29 – Frank Iacobucci, jurist and Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- January 31 – Andrée Boucher, politician and 39th Mayor of Quebec City (d. 2007)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- February 5 – Larry Hillman, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2022)<ref>Larry Hillman, youngest player to have his name on Stanley Cup, dead at 85</ref>
- February 10 – Roy Megarry, publisher<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- February 26 – Hagood Hardy, composer, pianist and vibraphonist (d. 1997)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- March 2 – Joseph B. MacInnis, diver<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- March 9
- Bernard Landry, lawyer, teacher, politician and 28th Premier of Quebec<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Harry Neale, ice hockey coach and broadcaster
- March 10 – Tommy Hunter, country music singer<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- March 16 – Brian Browne, jazz pianist and composer (d. 2018)
- March 26 – James Lee, politician and 28th Premier of Prince Edward Island<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- March 30 – Maria Rika Maniates, musicologist (d. 2011)Template:Cn
- April 13 – Stan Stasiak, pro wrestlerTemplate:Cn
- April 29 – Jean Gauthier, ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins) (d. 2013)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- May 9 – Jim Walding, politician (d. 2007)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- May 13 – Roch Carrier, novelist<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- June 15 – Toby Tarnow, actress<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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July to DecemberEdit
- July 12 – Michel Louvain, singer (d. 2021)Template:Cn
- July 30 – John de Chastelain, general, diplomat and Chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (in Northern Ireland)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- August 2 – Garth Hudson, musician<ref>Template:Usurped</ref>
- August 16 – David Anderson, politician and Minister<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- August 16 – Ian Deans, politician (d. 2016)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- August 25 – John G. Bryden, lawyer, public servant, businessman and Senator<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- September 2 – Len Carlson, voice actor (d. 2006)
- September 3 – Gerry Brisson, ice hockey player (d. 2013)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- September 5 – John Dahmer, politician (d. 1988)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- September 8 – Barbara Frum, radio and television journalist (d. 1992)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- September 9 – Jean Augustine, politician<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- September 12 – George Chuvalo, boxer<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- September 19 – Neil Gaudry, politician (d. 1999)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- September 23 – Jacques Poulin, novelist<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- September 27 – Guido Basso, jazz musician (d. 2023)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- October 19 – Marilyn Bell, long-distance swimmer, first person to swim across Lake Ontario<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- October 19 – Stanley Faulder, murderer and first Canadian citizen to be executed in the United States since 1952 (d. 1999)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- November 4 – Michael Wilson, politician and diplomat (d. 2019)Template:Cn
- November 6 – Gerry St. Germain, politician<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- November 11 – Stephen Lewis, politician, broadcaster and diplomat<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- November 12
- Barbara McDougall, politician and Minister<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Glen Shortliffe, Clerk of the Privy Council (d. 2010)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- December 4 – Donnelly Rhodes, actor (d. 2018)Template:Cn
- December 19 – Wayne Maunder, Canadian-born American actor (d. 2018)Template:Cn
Date unknownEdit
- Élise Paré-Tousignant, music administrator and pedagogue (d. 2018)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
DeathsEdit
January to JuneEdit
- January 21 – Marie Prevost, actress (b. 1896)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- January 29 – Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (b. 1869)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- February 16 – Rodmond Roblin, businessman, politician and 9th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1853)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- March 8 – Howie Morenz, ice hockey player (b. 1902)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- June 10 – Robert Borden, lawyer, politician and 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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July to DecemberEdit
- July 25 – Charles E. Saunders, agronomist (b. 1867)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- October 13 – Simon Fraser Tolmie, politician and 21st Premier of British Columbia (b. 1867)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- November 21 – Matthew Robert Blake, politician (b. 1876)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- December 27 – John Douglas Hazen, politician and 12th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1860)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
See alsoEdit
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>
ReferencesEdit
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