1927 in Canada

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Events from the year 1927 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[]

Premiers[]

  • Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
  • Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver (until August 17) then John Duncan MacLean (from August 20)
  • 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 – James D. Stewart (until August 12) then Albert Charles Saunders
  • Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner

Territorial governments[]

Commissioners[]

  • Gold Commissioner of Yukon – Percy Reid (until November 13) then George A. Jeckell
  • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events[]

  • January 5 – The National Museum of Canada is created.
  • January 9 – 76 people are killed when a fire breaks out at the Laurier Palace Theatre in Montreal.
  • March 1 – The location of the boundary between Labrador and Quebec is settled by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, accepting the Dominion of Newfoundland's claim rather than Canada's.
  • May 28 – The is introduced.
  • July 1 – Confederation celebration marked by the first cross country radio broadcast.
  • August 12 – Albert Saunders becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James D. Stewart.
  • August 17 – John Oliver, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
  • August 20 – John Duncan MacLean becomes premier of British Columbia.
  • September 21 – Ten Canadian Pacific Railway cars carrying a valuable cargo of silk goes off the rails near Yale, British Columbia. Five of the cars land in the Fraser River.
  • October 11 – Richard Bedford Bennett, becomes leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Arts and literature[]

  • Mazo de la Roche publishes Jalna
  • December 5 – The National Gallery of Canada opened an exhibit featuring the work of Emily Carr, bringing her out of obscurity.

Science and technology[]

  • Canadian anthropologist Davidson Black discovered a fossil molar of Peking Man in a cave near Beijing, China
  • Wallace Rupert Turnbull tested the second design of his variable-pitch propeller, a key development in aviation

Sport[]

  • February 14 – Conn Smythe takes control of the Toronto St. Patricks and renames them to the Toronto Maple Leafs
  • March 28 – Ontario Hockey Association's Owen Sound Greys win their second Memorial Cup by defeating Thunder Bay Junior Hockey League's 2 game to 0. All games were played at Arena Gardens in Toronto
  • April 13 – Ottawa Senators win their 11th and final Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 2 game to 0 (with 2 ties). The deciding game was played at the Ottawa Auditorium
  • November 26 – Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tigers 9 to 6 in the 15th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.

Births[]

January to March[]

  • January 1
    • Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2001)
    • Jean-Paul Mousseau, artist (d. 1991)
  • January 4 – Paul Desmarais, financier
  • January 6 – John W. Grace, first Privacy Commissioner of Canada (d. 2009)
  • January 10 – Gisele MacKenzie, singer (d. 2003)
  • January 17 – Stan Roberts, politician (d. 1990)
  • January 24 – Phyllis Lambert, architect and philanthropist
  • January 25 – Gildas Molgat, politician (d. 2001)
  • January 28 – Sheila Finestone, politician and Senator (d. 2009)
  • January 29 – Lewis Urry, chemical engineer and inventor (d. 2004)
  • January 30 – Sterling Lyon, politician and 17th Premier of Manitoba (d. 2010)
  • February 11 – Sinclair Stevens, politician
  • March 3 – William Kurelek, artist and writer (d. 1977)
  • March 9 – John Beckwith, composer, writer, pianist, teacher and administrator
  • March 25 – Bill Barilko, ice hockey player (d. 1951)
  • March 27 – Eugène Philippe LaRocque, Roman Catholic priest (d. 2018)
  • March 28 – Fernande Saint-Martin, art critic, museologist, semiologist, visual arts theorist and writer (d. 2019)

April to June[]

  • April 6
    • E. K. Turner, businessman and educator (d. 2018)
    • Dorothy Knowles, artist
  • April 8
    • Phyllis Webb, poet and broadcaster (d. 2021)
    • Lois Miriam Wilson, first female Moderator of the United Church of Canada and Senator
  • April 13 – Ronald Stewart, businessman and politician (d. 2022)
  • April 25 – Frances Hyland, actress (d. 2004)
  • May 2 – Budge Wilson, writer (d. 2021)
  • May 5 – Sylvia Fedoruk, scientist, curler and Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (d. 2012)
  • May 14 – Frank Miller, politician and 19th Premier of Ontario (d. 2000)
  • June 3 – George Hislop, gay activist (d. 2005)
  • June 17 – Jean Robert Beaulé, politician (d. 2005)
  • June 24 – Fernand Dumont, sociologist, philosopher, theologian and poet (d. 1997)
  • June 25 – Nora McDermott basketball player, volleyball player, coach and physical education teacher (d. 2013)
  • June 26 – Robert Kroetsch, novelist, poet and non-fiction writer (d. 2011)
  • June 29

July to December[]

  • July 2 – Fern Villeneuve, aviator (d. 2019)
  • July 18 – Keith MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 2021)
  • July 20 – Jack Horner, politician and Minister (d. 2004)
  • July 21 – Hal Hatfield, football player
  • August 17 – John Alan Beesley, diplomat and civil servant (d. 2009)
  • September 1 – Chuck Dalton, basketball player, member of Olympic team (1952) (d. 2013)
  • September 7 – Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
  • October 3 – Kenojuak Ashevak, artist (d. 2013)
  • October 14 – Elmer Iseler, choir conductor and choral editor (d. 1998)
  • October 15 – Peter Pollen, politician (d. 2017)
  • November 3 – Harrison McCain, businessman (d. 2004)
  • November 8 – Peter Munk, businessman and philanthropist
  • November 10
    • Gerry Glaude, professional ice hockey defenceman (d. 2017)
    • Joyce Trimmer, politician and first female mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (d. 2008)
  • November 17 – Nicholas Taylor, geologist, businessman, politician and Senator (d. 2020)
  • November 18 – Knowlton Nash, journalist, author and television news anchor (d. 2014)
  • November 26 – Ernie Coombs, children's entertainer Mr. Dressup (d. 2001)
  • November 30 – Tod Sloan, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
  • December 6 – Marcel Pelletier, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
  • December 7 – Grant Strate, dancer, choreographer and academic
  • December 18 – Roméo LeBlanc, politician and 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009)
  • December 24 – Geoffrey Pearson, diplomat (d. 2008)

Deaths[]

January to June[]

  • January 24 – Agnes Maule Machar, author (b. 1837)
  • February 10 – James Kidd Flemming, businessman, politician and 13th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1868)
  • March 8 – James Fisher, politician (b. 1840)
  • March 16 – Robert Bond, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b. 1857)
  • March 30 – Charles Hibbert Tupper, politician (b. 1855)
  • June 3 – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
  • June 7 – Edmund James Flynn, politician and Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)

July to December[]

  • August 17 – John Oliver, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b. 1856)
  • November 2 – Charles Augustus Semlin, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b. 1836)
  • December 21 – Félix Gatineau, statesman (b. 1857)
  • December 31 – William Warren, lawyer, politician, judge and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b. 1879)

See also[]

Historical Documents[]

Popular infant care author writes government guide to raising babies, including growth, health, habits, and "character and disposition" [1]

Speaker delivers strongly anti-Catholic commentary at packed Ku Klux Klan meeting in Regina [2]

MP Agnes Macphail calls for government pension coverage for war veterans unable to work [3]

British privy council renders decision on long-disputed Labrador border between Newfoundland and Canada [4]

U.S. border restrictions force Canadian residents working in U.S.A. to qualify for immigration [5]

Hunter regrets killing one of Jack Miner's "noble" Canada geese [6]

Son of "dead" man who skippered schooner lost in Lake Ontario gale learns he started life anew in Oklahoma [7]

References[]

  1. ^ Helen MacMurchy, The Canadian Mother's Book (1927). Accessed 6 December 2019 https://archive.org/stream/b29932300/b29932300_djvu.txt
  2. ^ "Ku Klux Klan Not Dead Yet, Meeting Told," Regina Morning Leader (October 5, 1927), pg. 8. Accessed 12 May 2020 http://library.usask.ca/sni/stories/con12.html
  3. ^ "Old Age Pensions" (March 3, 1927), House of Commons Debates, 16th Parliament, 1st Session: Vol. 1, pg. 882. Accessed 7 March 2020 http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC1601_01/884?r=0&s=1
  4. ^ "Labrador; A Source of Wealth; The Boundary Dispute; Privy Council Decision," The (Wellington, N.Z.) Evening Post, Vol. CXIII, No. 94 (April 22, 1927), pg. 9. Accessed 12 May 2020 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19270422.2.72
  5. ^ "The Canadian Minister (Massey) to Secretary of State" (No. 149, June 8, 1927), Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1927, Volume 1, pgs. 502-6. Accessed 12 May 2020 http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS1927v01&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=502
  6. ^ Letter in "The Canada Goose as Canada's Emblem," Jack Miner on Current Topics, pgs. 48-50. Accessed 12 May 2020 https://archive.org/stream/jackmineroncurre00mine#page/48/mode/2up
  7. ^ "Ten Year Old Mystery of Wreck Expected to Be Cleared Up Now," The (Belleville, Ont.) Intelligencer (March 7, 1927). Accessed 12 May 2020 http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/details.asp?ID=4190
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