1932 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 |
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| Years: | 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 |
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Events from the year 1932 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Mary of Teck)
Federal government
- Governor general – Vere Ponsonby (viceregal consort – Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough)
- Prime minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
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 Regina, Saskatchewan
- 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[1]
- The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.[2]
Arts and literature
New Books
- A Broken Journey - Morley Callaghan
Sport
- The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
- At the 1932 Winter Olympics Canada wins the gold medal in hockey
- At the 1932 Summer Olympics Canada wins two gold medals.
Births
January to March
- February 24 - John Vernon, actor (d.2005)
- 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 6 - Eugène Bellemare, politician
- April 12 - Dick Fowler, mayor, MLA (d.2012)
- April 22 - Ron Basford, politician and Minister (d.2005)
- April 26 - Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d.2000)
- 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
- June 24 - David McTaggart, environmentalist (d.2001)
July to September
- July 13 - Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist
- 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 11 - Izzy Asper, tax lawyer and media magnate (d.2003)
- August 18 - Bill Bennett, politician and 27th Premier of British Columbia (d.2015)
- 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
- 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 26 - J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven (b.1873)
References
- ↑ The Canadian Encyclopedia. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/crowsnest-pass-strike-1932/
- ↑ Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. http://criaw-icref.ca/millenium
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