1932 in Canada
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Events from the year 1932 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
- Prime Minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
- Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
- Parliament – 17th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mulock (until November 1) then Herbert Alexander Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
- Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington
- Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart
- Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Gold Commissioner then Controller of Yukon – George Ian MacLean (until June 30) then George A. Jeckell
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt
Events
- February 17 – The "Mad Trapper" is killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the Yukon
- July 20 – The Ottawa Imperial Conference is held, it creates a zone of preferential trade within the Commonwealth
- August 1 – The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) is formed in Calgary[2]
- August 3 – Henri Bourassa leaves Le Devoir
- October 29 – The Dominion Drama Festival is founded
Full date unknown
- A seven-month miners strike occurs in Alberta's coal mines in Crowsnest Pass[3]
- The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.[4]
Arts and literature
New Books
- A Broken Journey – Morley Callaghan
Sport
- April 4 – The Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Sudbury Cub Wolves win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs 2 games to 0. All games played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
- April 9 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their third Stanley Cup by defeating the New York Rangers 3 game to 0. The deciding game was played at the newly opened Maple Leaf Gardens
- February 13 – Canada (represented by the Winnipeg Hockey Club) wins their fourth (consecutive) hockey gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- December 3 – The Hamilton Tigers win their fifth and final Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Roughriders 25 to 6 in the 20th Grey Cup played at Hamilton's Civic Stadium
Births
January to March
- January 2 – Jean Little, author
- January 11 – Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk, nurse (d. 2021)
- February 4 – Bob Dawson, football player (d. 2017)
- February 13 – Robert Fulford, journalist (d. 2024)
- February 24 – John Vernon, actor (d. 2005)
- February 28 – Don Francks, actor (d. 2016)
- March 1 – Donald Stovel Macdonald, politician and minister
- March 2 – Jack Austin, politician and Senator
- March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, artist (d. 2007)
April to June
- April 3 – Jean-Claude Corbeil, linguist and lexicographer (d. 2022)
- April 6 – Eugène Bellemare, politician
- April 8 – Al Boliska, radio and television broadcaster
- April 12 – Dick Fowler, mayor, MLA (d. 2012)
- April 14 – Bill Bennett, politician and 27th Premier of British Columbia (d. 2015)
- April 22 – Ron Basford, politician and Minister (d. 2005)
- April 26 – Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2000)
- May 7 – Jordi Bonet, artist (d. 1979)
- May 28 – John Savage, politician and 23rd Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
- June 5 – Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, general and Chief of the Defence Staff (d. 1998)
- June 10 – Hal Jackman, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- June 24
- Mel Hurtig, publisher, author and political activist
- David McTaggart, environmentalist (d. 2001)
July to September
- July 11 – Jean-Guy Talbot, ice hockey defenceman and coach (d. 2024)
- July 13 – Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist (d. 2023 in France)
- July 16 – Hédi Bouraoui, poet, novelist and academic
- July 22 – Doug Kyle, long-distance runner
- July 27 – George Ryga, playwright and novelist (d. 1987)
- August 2 – Leo Boivin, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
- August 11 – Izzy Asper, tax lawyer and media magnate (d. 2003)
- August 28 – Andy Bathgate, ice hockey player
- August 31 – Allan Fotheringham, newspaper and magazine journalist
- September 14 – Harry Sinden, ice hockey player, general manager and coach
- September 25 – Glenn Gould, pianist (d. 1982)
- September 27 – Gabriel Loubier, politician
October to December
- October 16 – Lucien Paiement, politician, Mayor of Laval (d. 2013)
- October 18 – Iona Campagnolo, politician, first female Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
- October 24 – Robert Mundell, professor of economics (d. 2021)
- November 10 – Martin Hattersley, lawyer and politician
- November 13 – Marilyn Brooks, fashion designer
- November 29 – Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist
- December 6 – Hank Bassen, ice hockey player (d. 2009)
Deaths
- March 6 – Joseph-Hormisdas Legris, politician and Senator (b. 1850)
- July 22 – Reginald Fessenden, inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
- August 1 – Wellington Willoughby, politician and lawyer (b. 1859)
- August 7 – Napoléon Belcourt, politician (b. 1860)
- August 21 – Leonard Burnett, politician, farmer and teacher (b. 1845)
- November 11 – Georgina Fraser Newhall, author and the bardess of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada (b. 1860)
- November 26 – J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven (b. 1873)
Historical documents
Federal budget broadly raises tax rates and restricts exemptions[5]
Liberals claim "blank cheque legislation" to aid unemployed allows government to bypass Parliament[6]
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation founded "to regulate production, distribution and exchange for supplying human needs"[7]
At average 35 cents per bushel, prices for wheat farmers about one-third what they were in 1929[8]
United Farmers of Alberta convention's calls to nationalize credit and monetary system, and make wheat certificates legal tender[9]
Mass meeting denounces maladministration by Newfoundland government of Richard Squires[10]
German politics "a fight between philosophies of life[...]as violent and as irreconcilable as you will never be able to believe"[11]
Place held by Jews of western Canada in professions, business and agriculture[12]
House of Commons debates deportation procedures and rights of residents[13]
Women's Institutes are for radio for Canadians and against "weariness of advertisement before and after every item of music or speech"[14]
Edward Johnson on importance of music to mind and spirit [15]
CBC interview with member of aircrew who joined "Mad Trapper" manhunt for Albert Johnson in Northwest Territories[16]
Thunder Bay (Ont.) area farmers set local record for construction[17]
Letter-to-editor profiles Watson Duchemin, inventor of brass roller bearing block[18]
References
- ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ Canadian Press, "J.S. Woodsworth Heads New Political Group; Would Alter System," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 11 (August 2, 1932), pg. 2. Accessed 1 June 2020 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19320802&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
- ^ Start: January 1932, The Canadian Encyclopedia
- ^ Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. http://criaw-icref.ca/millenium Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Canadian Press, "Sales Tax Six Per Cent" The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LIX, No. 212 (April 6, 1932), pg. 1. Accessed 1 June 2020
- ^ Canadian Press, "Relief Measure Amendment Lost(...); Liberals Lay Down Concentrated Attack on Unemployment Proposals as Closure Is Applied; Tempers Frayed" The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LIX, No. 206 (March 30, 1932), pgs. 1-2. Accessed 1 June 2020
- ^ Canadian Press, "J.S. Woodsworth Heads New Political Group; Would Alter System," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 11 (August 2, 1932), pg. 2 Accessed 1 June 2020
- ^ "Reduced Income of Farmer Due to Financial Depression and Crop Failure," Report on Rural Relief Due to Drought Conditions and Crop Failures in Western Canada; 1930-1937 pgs. 25-6. Accessed 1 June 2020
- ^ Canadian Press, "U.F.A. Urges National Credit Plan; Financial System Is Denounced" The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LIX, No. 148 (January 21, 1932), pgs. 1-2. Accessed 1 June 2020
- ^ "The People Demand Justice and Truth; Monster Gathering in Majestic Theatre Protests[...] - Citizens Decide to Go En Masse to House of Assembly," The (St. John's) Evening Telegram (April 5, 1932). Accessed 1 June 2020 http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/meetings_apr04.html (scroll down to "Telegram")
- ^ Count Von Luckner and Victor Lange, "The New Germany" (November 29, 1932), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 316-31. Accessed 1 June 2020
- ^ H.E. Wilder (ed.),The 100th Anniversary Souvenir of Jewish Emancipation in Canada and the 50th Anniversary of the Jew in the West (1932), pgs. 38 and 54-8 Accessed 1 June 2020
- ^ "Deportation Cases" (May 6, 1932), House of Commons Debates, 17th Parliament, 3rd Session: Vol. 3, pgs. 2658-9. Accessed 1 June 2020
- ^ "Appendix No. 38; The Canadian Radio League; Evidences of Public Support," [House] Special Committee on Radio Broadcasting, pgs. 292-3 Accessed 22 October 2020
- ^ Edward Johnson, "Music In A Disordered World" (December 29, 1932), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 350-5. Accessed 1 June 2020
- ^ "1932: 'Mad Trapper' killed by RCMP after lengthy manhunt" (July 26, 1979), CBC Digital Archives. Accessed 1 June 2020
- ^ Arnott A. Toole, "1932 Farm Building Activities Set New Record for District" The Fort William Daily Times-Journal (December 10, 1932). Accessed 1 June 2020
- ^ "Watson Duchemin, Inventor" Charlottetown Guardian (March 2, 1932). Accessed 1 June 2020
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