1928 in Canada

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Events from the year 1928 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 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

Territorial governments[]

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 Ford Trimotor plane to crash in Puget Sound, Washington[1]

Science and technology[]

  • 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 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 2 game to 1. The deciding Game 3 was played 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[]

  • January 2
    • Avie Bennett, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2017)
    • Allen Sapp, painter (d. 2015)
  • 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 (d. 2019)
  • February 16 – Les Costello, ice hockey player and Catholic priest (d. 2002)
  • February 26 – Donald Davis, actor (d. 1998)
  • March 3 – Diane Foster, athlete (d. 1999)
  • 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 – , 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, 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 (d. 2021)
  • July 7 – Tom Chambers, politician (d. 2018)
  • July 12 – Paul Ronty, ice hockey centre (d. 2020)
  • July 17 – Robert Nixon, politician
  • July 21 – Anne Harris, sculptor
  • July 22 – Hugh Edighoffer, politician (d. 2019)
  • July 23 – Irving Grundman, ice hockey executive and politician (d. 2021)
  • July 26 – Peter Lougheed, lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
  • July 28 – Ann Sloat, politician (d. 2017)
  • 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, civil servant, politician
    • Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche (d. 2019)
  • October 1 – Jim Pattison, businessman
  • October 7 – Raymond Lévesque, singer-songwriter (d. 2021)
  • 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 12 – Lionel Blair, dancer and entertainer (d. 2021 in the United Kingdom)
  • December 16 – Roy Bailey, politician (d. 2018)
  • December 21 – Clayton Kenny, boxer (d. 2015)
  • December 28 – Moe Koffman, flautist and saxophonist (d. 2001)
  • December 29
    • Robert Hylton Brisco, politician (d. 2004)
    • Norman Cafik, politician (d. 2016)

Full date unknown[]

  • Peter Bronfman, businessman (d. 1996)

Deaths[]

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[]

  1. ^ "Canadian aviation history". Canadian Geographic. Sep–Oct 2000. Archived from the original on 2010-08-06. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  2. ^ Herstory 2012. Coteau Books. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-55050-454-5.
  3. ^ "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
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ 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/
  6. ^ Agnes Campbell Macphail, "Proposal for International Peace Department" (excerpt from Hansard). Accessed 13 May 2020 http://images.ourontario.ca/Macphail/details.asp?ID=24786
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ "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
  10. ^ "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
  11. ^ 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
  12. ^ "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
  13. ^ 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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