1930 in Canada

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Events from the year 1930 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Commissioners

Events

Arts and literature

Sport

Births

January to March

April to June

Jacques Parizeau

July to December

Maureen Forrester photo taken by Carl Van Vechten

Full date unknown

  • Ben Kerr, street performer, author, broadcaster, musician and perennial candidate (d.2005)

Deaths

Emma Albani

Historical Documents

Constitutional amendment affects natural resources control, Indigenous peoples, parks etc. in Prairie provinces [1]

To reduce unemployment, B.C. MP wants limits on number of Japanese immigrants that are equal to those set for Europeans [2]

One Big Union organizes industrial wage workers in struggle with "those who possess and do not produce" [3]

Communist Party of Canada challenged by influence of ethnic "foreign language" organizations in its membership [4]

New Saskatchewan cancer commission will oversee education, diagnosis and treatment (with radiotherapy) [5]

Gov. Franklin Roosevelt says New York's residential hydro rates much higher than Ontario's because of private ownership of power supply [6]

School's history pageant praised for its "costumes, stage settings, music, character portrayal and general effectiveness" [7]

Young people's "Shan-a-mac" guide has romanticized stories and knowledge imitating Indigenous culture (and thus misappropriation) [8]

New to Canada, starlings inhabit barns and sing "wheezy bumptious versatile essays to the belles of the roof" [9]

Cartoon: influenza returns with "complications and accompanying ills" [10]

Photo: annual Procession of St. Anne, Chapel Island, Nova Scotia [11]

Photo: Chris and Mary Josephine Morris putting birchbark on Mi'kmaq wigwam frame [12]

Photo: Louisiana group at White House, en route to Grand-Pré for 175th anniversary of Acadian deportation [13]

Photo: blimp and bike we know you'll like [14]

References

  1. Constitution Act, 1930 (July 10, 1930). Accessed 21 May 2020 https://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1930.html
  2. Alan Webster Neill, Unemployment Relief (September 11, 1930), House of Commons Debates, 17th Parliament, 1st Session: Vol. 1, pgs. 121-2. Accessed 20 May 2020 http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC1701_01/131?r=0&s=1
  3. "Constitution and By-Laws of the Winnipeg Central Labor Council; One Big Union; Preamble" (December 16, 1930). Accessed 22 May 2020 https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2693573#page/1/mode/1up/
  4. Tim Buck, "Report to the Comintern" (excerpts; January 23, 1930). Accessed 20 May 2020 http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/StalBirth/BuckComintern1930.htm (scroll down to "general fight")
  5. Letter of R.O. Davison to Minister of Health F.D. Munroe (December 31, 1930). Accessed 22 May 2020 http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/gallery/medicare/en_display.php?ref=en_cancer&max=13&dir=cancer&img=13
  6. Franklin Roosevelt, Campaign Address (Excerpts), Syracuse, N.Y. (October 22, 1930), The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Volume One, pgs. 419-23. Accessed 20 May 2020 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?cc=ppotpus;idno=4925052.1928.001;seq=471
  7. "Canadian History Pageant Very Effectively Presented," The (Timmins, Ont.) Porcupine Advance, Vol XV, No. 10 (March 6, 1930), pg. 1. Accessed 22 May 2020 http://news.ourontario.ca/timmins/3456934/page/2
  8. "Follow the Trail; For Young Folks of all ages[....] (copyright 1930, Manitoba Co-operative Conference). Accessed 22 May 2020 http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/24689
  9. Adams-Biology Ed. [sic], "The New Blackbird; What Is to Be Our Attitude Toward the Starling?," The O.A.C. Review, Vol. XLII, No. 8 (Guelph, Ont., April 1930), pgs. 466-7, 504. Accessed 22 May 2020 https://archive.org/details/oacreviewvol42iss08/page/466/mode/2up
  10. Arthur George Racey, "The Periodical Visit, We Have With Us Again." Accessed 22 May 2020 http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M2005.23.14
  11. Frederick Johnson, "Procession of Saint Anne on Chapel Island" (1930). Accessed 24 May 2020 https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/ead_component:sova-nmai-ac-001-038-ref599
  12. Frederick Johnson, "Construction of a Mi'kmaq (Micmac) Wigwam" (1930), Eskasoni Reserve, Nova Scotia. Accessed 24 May 2020 https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/ead_component:sova-nmai-ac-001-038-ref646
  13. Schutz [sic], "Pilgrimage of Louisianians to Grand-Pré 1930" (August 16, 1930). Accessed 22 May 2020 http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/79-24-39
  14. Nelson Newbergher, "G. Newbergher on Motorcycle and R-100 Dirigible, St. Hubert, 1930." Accessed 22 May 2020 http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/MP-1973.36.32
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