1929 in Canada

Events from the year 1929 in Canada.

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Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	History of Canada Timeline of Canadian history List of years in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

Federal government

• Governor General – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
• Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
• Parliament – 16th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Theodore Arthur Burrows (until January 18) then James Duncan McGregor (from January 28)
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – 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 – Lomer Gouin (until March 28) then Henry George Carroll (from April 2)
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – 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 (until September 9) then James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George Ian MacLean
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events

• January 10 – Lomer Gouin becomes Quebec's 15th lieutenant governor, serving until his death on March 28, 1929.
• March 22 – The Canadian schooner and rum-runner I'm Alone is sunk by the US Coast Guard's USCGC Dexter.
• April 4 – Henry George Carroll becomes Quebec's 16th lieutenant governor.
• June 6 – 1929 Saskatchewan election: James Garfield Gardiner's Liberals win a plurality, but the other parties, led by James T.M. Anderson's Conservatives, will form a coalition against Gardiner, forcing him to resign as premier
• May 29 – A series of explosions rips through Ottawa's sewer system.
• September 9 – James Anderson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
• September 10 – The Hudson Bay Railway opens for traffic to Churchill, Manitoba
• October 18 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rules in the Persons Case that women are eligible to be senators.
• October 29 – The crash of the New York Stock Exchange marks the beginning of the Great Depression
• October 30 – Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority
• November 13 – A second stock market crash hits Canada.

Arts and literature

• January 6 – Regina's Darke Hall auditorium opened.

Science and technology

• Wop May and Vic Horner brave poor visibility and −30 °C temperatures in an open cockpit to rush diphtheria anti-toxin to Fort Vermilion.
• Frozen fish fillets are introduced by the Biological Board of Canada developed by Archibald Huntsman.

Sport

• March 30 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Elmwood Millionaires 2 games to 0. The deciding Game 2 was played at Mutual Street Arena in Toronto
• September 12 – The first legal forward pass in Canadian football is completed.
• November 30 – The Hamilton Tigers win their fourth Grey Cup, defeating the Regina Roughriders 14 to 3 in the 17th Grey Cup played at A.A.A. Grounds in Hamilton

Births

January to March

• January 17 – Jacques Plante, ice hockey player (d. 1986)
• January 20 – Pat Mahoney, businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South (1968–1972), General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders (1965) (d. 2012)
• January 21 – Bill Norrie, politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992), Chancellor of the University of Manitoba (2001–2009), respiratory failure. (d. 2012)
• January 23 – John Polanyi, chemist and 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry joint laureate
• January 25 – Brian O'Neill, ice hockey executive (d. 2023)
• February 12 – Philip Kives, businessman
• February 28 – Frank Gehry, architect
• March 20 – William Andrew MacKay, academic, President of Dalhousie University (1980–1986) (d. 2013)

April to June

John Turner in September 2009

• April 8 – Garnet Bloomfield, politician (d. 2018)
• April 11 – Eric Luoma, cross-country skier (d. 2018)
• May 8 – Claude Castonguay, banker and politician (d. 2020)
• May 10
  • Antonine Maillet, novelist, playwright and scholar
  • Peter C. Newman, journalist (d. 2023)
• May 12 – Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
• May 13 – Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author (d. 1996)
• May 14 – Gump Worsley, ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• May 16 – Claude Morin, politician
• May 18 – Walter Pitman, educator and politician
• June 7
  • John Turner, lawyer, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Canada
  • Walter Weir, politician and 15th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1985)
• June 8 – Louise Maheux-Forcier, author
• June 9
  • Jean Rougeau, professional wrestler and bodyguard of Quebec Premier René Lévesque (d. 1983)
  • Harold R. Steele, businessman (d. 2022)
• June 10 – Pearl McGonigal, politician
• June 20 – Edgar Bronfman, Sr., businessman
• June 27 – H. Ian Macdonald, economist

July to September

• July 2 – Anna-Marie Globenski, pianist and teacher (d. 2008)
• July 3 – Béatrice Picard, actress
• July 4 – Walt Konarski, Canadian football player
• July 10 – Moe Norman, golfer (d. 2004)
• July 18 – Roy Killin, footballer
• July 19 – Ronald Melzack, psychologist (d. 2019)
• July 26 – Marc Lalonde, politician and Minister (d. 2023)
• July 30 – Bill Davis, politician and 18th Premier of Ontario
• August 1 – Sidney Green, politician
• August 3 – Peter Salmon, swimmer (d. 2003)
• August 9 – George Scott Wallace, British Columbia physician and politician (d. 2011)
• August 19 – Leonard Evans, politician
• August 27 – George Scott, professional wrestler and promoter (d. 2014)
• September 14 – Dimitri Dimakopoulos, architect
• September 19 – Gertrude Story, writer and broadcaster (d. 2014)
• September 24 -Edward M. Lawson, trade unionist, politician and Senator

October to December

• October 7 – Graeme Ferguson, filmmaker and inventor who co-invented IMAX (d. 2021)
• November 1 – Charles Juravinski, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2022)
• November 2 – Richard E. Taylor, physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics joint laureate (d. 2018)
• November 21 – Laurier LaPierre, broadcaster, journalist, author and senator (d. 2012)
• November 24 – Harry Oliver Bradley, politician
• December 6 – Harry Langford, footballer (d. 2022)
• December 13 – Christopher Plummer, actor (d. 2021)
• December 15 – Emery Barnes, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1998)
• December 23 – Patrick Watson, broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director (d. 2022)
• December 28 – Terry Sawchuk, ice hockey player (d. 1970)

Full date unknown

• Ken Adachi, writer and literary critic (d. 1989)

Deaths

January to March

• January 6 – George Henry Murray, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1861)
• January 14 – Alexander Warburton, politician, jurist, author and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1852)
• January 18 – Theodore Arthur Burrows, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1857)

Lomer Gouin

• January 19 – Edward Charles Bowers, politician (b. 1845)
• January 29 – John Howatt Bell, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1846)
• February – Richard Gardiner Willis, politician (b. 1865)
• February 17 – James Colebrooke Patterson, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1839)
• March 1 – James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1851)
• March 28 – Lomer Gouin, politician and 13th Premier of Quebec (d. 1861)
• March 29 – Hugh John Macdonald, politician, Minister and 8th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1850)

April to December

• April 17 – Clifford Sifton, politician and Minister (b. 1861)
• May 6 – William Dillon Otter, soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff (b. 1843)
• June 3 – John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1842)
• June 8 – Bliss Carman, poet (b. 1861)
• June 23 – William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1848)
• July 30 – Antonin Nantel, priest, teacher, school administrator, and author (b. 1839)
• October 10 – Elijah McCoy, inventor and engineer (b. 1843)

See also

• List of Canadian films

Historical documents

British Privy Council members decide "that women are eligible to be summoned to and become members of the Senate of Canada"

"Crest of the flood of selling" passes on New York Stock Exchange

Charlotte Whitton warns family allowance would reduce mothers to economic slavery and government parental role would undermine family

Residential school principal objects to farm training because land limited, students are not labourers, and hired hands would not obey her

Calgary Board of Trade report on Turner Valley oil field

At Walkerville, Ont. General Motors plant, it is "very dangerous" to work exposed pulleys late in 12-hour night shift

Killing of Americans by U.S. border guards enforcing prohibition regulations draws outrage

Lord Beaverbrook on overcoming "the great general division between farmers and industrialists" to establish imperial free trade

Hunter-conservationist Jack Miner calls for extermination of wolves in Ontario

Mackenzie King "wholly convinced in the reality of the spiritual world" after medium contacts his dead family members