1928 in Canada
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| Years: | 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 |
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Events from the year 1928 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Theodore Arthur Burrows
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Frederick Todd (until December 28) then 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 – Narcisse Pérodeau (until December 31) then Lomer Gouin
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
- Premier of British Columbia – John Duncan MacLean (until August 21) then 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
Commissioners
Events
- April 2 – Camillien Houde elected mayor of Montreal
- April 24 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that women are not persons who can hold office according to the British North America Act, 1867—reversed a year later by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain
- May 7 – The St. Roch is launched. It would become the first ship to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east and to circumnavigate North America.
- May 31 – The Legislative Council of Nova Scotia is abolished
- July 4 – Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball.
- August 20 – John Duncan MacLean resigns as premier of British Columbia
- August 21 – Simon Fraser Tolmie becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing John Duncan MacLean
- August 25 – Canada's first major air disaster occurred when bad weather caused a BC Airways Ford Trimotor plane to crash in Puget Sound, Washington[1]
Science and technology
- Frank Morse Robb of Ontario obtains a patent for the first Electronic Organ, the Robb Wave Organ.
Sports
- The Winter Olympics take place in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The University of Toronto Grads won a gold medal in ice hockey.
- The Summer Olympics take place in Amsterdam. Percy Williams and Ethel Catherwood won gold medals for Canada.
- March 26 – The South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Ottawa City Junior Hockey League's Ottawa Gunners 2 game to 1. The deciding Game 3 was played Arenas Garden in Toronto
- December 1 – The Hamilton Tigers win their third Grey cup by shutting out the Regina Roughriders 30 to 0 in the 16th Grey Cup played at A.A.A Grounds in Hamilton
Births
January to March
Allen Sapp
- January 2 -
- Avie Bennett, businessman and philanthropist
- Allen Sapp, painter
- January 7 – Benny Woit, ice hockey player (d. 2016)
- January 20 – Peter Donat, actor (d. 2018)
- January 25 – Jérôme Choquette, lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
- February 8 – Gene Lees, biographer and lyricist (d. 2010)
- February 13 – Gerald Regan, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia
- February 16 – Les Costello, ice hockey player and Catholic priest (d.2002)
- February 26 – Donald Davis, actor (d.1998)
- March 3 – Diane Foster, athlete
- March 9 – Gerald Bull, engineer and artillery designer (d. 1990)
- March 10 – Robert Coates, politician and Minister (d. 2016)
- March 12 – Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, politician and Senator (d. 2009)
- March 13 – Douglas Rain, actor and narrator (d. 2018)
- March 17 – William John McKeag, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.2007)
- March 31 – Gordie Howe, ice hockey player (d. 2016)
April to June
- April 10
- Kenneth Earl Hurlburt, politician (d. 2016)
- Fraser MacPherson, jazz musician (d. 1993)
- April 17 – Fabien Roy, politician
- April 28 – Zbigniew Basinski, physicist
- April 30 – Hugh Hood, novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor (d.2000)
- May 4 – Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpet player and bandleader (d.2006)
- May 7 – Bruno Gerussi, actor and television presenter (d.1995)
- May 9 – Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (d.2012)
- May 23 -
- Pauline Julien, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist (d.1998)[2]
- Sidney Spivak, politician and Minister (d. 2002)
- June 1 – Larry Zeidel, Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
- June 2 – George Wearring, basketball player (d.2013)
- June 13 – Renée Morisset, pianist (d. 2009)
- June 25 – Michel Brault, Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
- June 26 – Samuel Belzberg, businessman, philanthropist (d. 2018)
July to December
- July 3 – Raymond Setlakwe, entrepreneur, lawyer and politician
- July 7 – Tom Chambers, politician (d. 2018)
- July 12 – Paul Ronty, ice hockey centre
- July 17 – Robert Nixon, politician
- July 21 – Anne Harris, sculptor
- July 22 – Hugh Edighoffer, politician (d. 2019)
- July 26 – Peter Lougheed, lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
- July 31 – Gilles Carle, film director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- August 7 – James Randi, stage magician and scientific skeptic (d. 2020 in the United States)
- September 10
- Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant, politician
- Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche
- October 1 – Jim Pattison, businessman
- October 9 – Clare Drake, ice hockey coach (d. 2018)
- October 27 – Gilles Vigneault, poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
- November 3 – Gary Lautens, humorist and newspaper columnist (d.1992)
- November 16 – David Adams, ballet dancer (d. 2007)
- November 20 – Toni Onley, painter (d.2004)
- November 28 – Floyd Crawford, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
- December 16 – Roy Bailey, politician
- December 21 – Clayton Kenny, boxer
- December 28 – Moe Koffman, flautist and saxophonist (d.2001)
- December 29 -
- Robert Hylton Brisco, politician (d.2004)
- Norman Cafik, politician
Full date unknown
- Peter Bronfman, businessman (d.1996)
Deaths
- April 6 – Godfroy Langlois, politician, journalist and lawyer (b.1866)
- April 28 – George Gerald King, politician (b. 1836)
See also
Historical Documents
Supreme Court's negative decision on whether women can be appointed to Senate [3]
Emily Murphy leads Famous Five in response to Supreme Court decision against women entering Senate [4]
Influenza epidemic among Northwest Territories Indigenous people "spread[s] like wildfire" from Mackenzie delta to northern Alberta [5]
MP Agnes Macphail calls for federal department of peace because people lack "confidence in war or in preparedness for war" [6]
Guide to social hygiene combines public health and eugenics [7]
Manitoba MLA explains trials of unemployment for single men and new immigrants, especially after crop failure in her province[8]
Statements and petition from Quebec call on government to give settling "sons of our large families" priority over immigrants[9]
M.J. Coldwell would prioritize settling "those who through[...]damage to crops and mortgage companies had gone to the wall"[10]
Anglican bishop of Saskatchewan calls immigration "the foreignization of Canada [with the] aggression of the Church of Rome" [11]
Backing "Protestantism, Racial Purity, Gentile Economic Freedom" etc., KKK constitution adopted by Imperial Kloncilium in Regina [12]
Photographer Ansel Adams and other Sierra Club members' first experience of Canadian Rockies [13]
References
- "Canadian aviation history". Canadian Geographic. Sep–Oct 2000. Archived from the original on 2010-08-06. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
- Herstory 2012. Coteau Books. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-55050-454-5.
- "No. 9; In the Supreme Court of Canada" (April 24, 1928), In the Privy Council; No. 121 of 1928; On Appeal from the Supreme Court of Canada[....], pgs. 38-9. Accessed 14 May 2020 http://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_08451/38?r=0&s=1
- Nellie L. McClung, The Stream Runs Fast; My Own Story (1945), pgs. 187-8. Accessed 14 May 2020 http://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_08723/206?r=0&s=1
- Associated Press, "Epidemic Flu Killing Indians," Spokane (Washington) Chronicle (July 26, 1928). Accessed 14 May 2020 https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/collection/clipping/id/6903/
- Agnes Campbell Macphail, "Proposal for International Peace Department" (excerpt from Hansard). Accessed 13 May 2020 http://images.ourontario.ca/Macphail/details.asp?ID=24786
- Canadian Social Hygiene Council, Tell Your Children the Truth; A Social Hygiene Booklet for Parents (1928). Accessed 10 April 2020 https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/9377
- Testimony of Edith Rogers (April 19, 1928), [House] Select Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations [on] the question of Insurance against Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity, pgs. 41-4. Accessed 21 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1602_3_2/61?r=0&s=1
- "Productions," [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization; Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence, pgs. 813-18. Accessed 21 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1602_1_1/853?r=0&s=1
- "Traffic in Immigration Permits by Members of Federal House Alleged," The (Regina) Leader (November 24, 1927), read into record during testimony of M.J. Coldwell (May 15, 1928), [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization, pg. 678. Accessed 21 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1602_1_1/718?r=0&s=1
- G.E. Lloyd, "The Building of the Nation; Natural Increase and Immigration" (unpaginated; July 26, 1928). Accessed 14 May 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/5259/6.html
- "Constitution of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" (March 1928). Accessed 14 May 2020 http://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_09493/1?r=0&s=1
- Ruth Teiser (interviewer), "The Sierra and Other Ranges," Conversations with Ansel Adams (1972, 1974, 1975), pg. 279. Accessed 14 May 2020 https://archive.org/details/convanseladams00adamrich/page/279/mode/1up and Ruth Teiser (interviewer), "Helen M. LeConte; Reminiscences of LeConte Family Outings, the Sierra Club, and Ansel Adams," pgs. 22-3 (document pgs. 140-1), in Sierra Club Women (1976, 1977). Accessed 14 May 2020 http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/sc_women1_2.pdf
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