1932 in Canada
| 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
Federal government
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
Commissioners
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[1]
- 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[2]
- The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.[3]
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
- February 4 – Bob Dawson, football player (d. 2017)
- 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 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 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
- 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
J. E. H. MacDonald
- 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)
Historical Documents
Federal budget broadly raises tax rates and restricts exemptions [4]
Liberals claim "blank cheque legislation" to aid unemployed allows government to bypass Parliament [5]
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation founded "to regulate production, distribution and exchange for supplying human needs" [6]
At average 35 cents per bushel, prices for wheat farmers about one-third what they were in 1929 [7]
United Farmers of Alberta convention's calls to nationalize credit and monetary system, and make wheat certificates legal tender [8]
Mass meeting denounces maladministration by Newfoundland government of Richard Squires [9]
German politics "a fight between philosophies of life[...]as violent and as irreconcilable as you will never be able to believe" [10]
Place held by Jews of western Canada in professions, business and agriculture [11]
House of Commons debates deportation procedures and rights of residents [12]
Women's Institutes are for radio for Canadians and against "weariness of advertisement before and after every item of music or speech"[13]
Edward Johnson on importance of music to mind and spirit [14]
CBC interview with member of aircrew who joined "Mad Trapper" manhunt for Albert Johnson in Northwest Territories [15]
Thunder Bay (Ont.) area farmers set local record for construction [16]
Letter-to-editor profiles Watson Duchemin, inventor of brass roller bearing block [17]
References
- 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 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19320406&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
- 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 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19320330&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
- 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
- "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 https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2405364657/view
- 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 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19320121&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
- "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 http://speeches.empireclub.org/62448/data?n=6
- 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, 54-8. Accessed 1 June 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/5654/41.html http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/5654/57.html
- "Deportation Cases" (May 6, 1932), House of Commons Debates, 17th Parliament, 3rd Session: Vol. 3, pgs. 2658-9. Accessed 1 June 2020 http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC1703_03/300?r=0&s=1
- "Appendix No. 38; The Canadian Radio League; Evidences of Public Support," [House] Special Committee on Radio Broadcasting, pgs. 292-3. Accessed 22 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1703_7_1/336?r=0&s=1
- Edward Johnson, "Music In A Disordered World" (December 29, 1932), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 350-5. Accessed 1 June 2020 http://speeches.empireclub.org/60538/data?n=4
- "1932: 'Mad Trapper' killed by RCMP after lengthy manhunt" (July 26, 1979), CBC Digital Archives. Accessed 1 June 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/the-rcmp-get-their-man-thanks-to-a-bush-pilot
- 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 http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/new1932.htm
- "Watson Duchemin, Inventor," Charlottetown Guardian (March 2, 1932). Accessed 1 June 2020 http://islandregister.com/letters/wduchemin.html
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