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Canada-related events during the year of 1929
Events from the year 1929 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Arts and literature
Science and technology
Sport
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
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
June 8 –
Louise Maheux-Forcier , author
June 9
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 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 )
[3]
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 )
[4]
[5]
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 )
[6]
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 )
[7]
December 13 –
Christopher Plummer , actor (d.
2021 )
[8]
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
Deaths
January to March
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
Historical documents
British Privy Council members decide "that women are eligible to be summoned to and become members of the Senate of Canada"
[9]
"Crest of the
flood of selling " passes on
New York Stock Exchange
[10]
Charlotte Whitton warns
family allowance would reduce mothers to economic slavery and government parental role would undermine
family
[11]
Residential school principal objects to farm training because land limited, students are not labourers, and hired hands would not obey her
[12]
Calgary Board of Trade report on
Turner Valley oil field
[13]
At
Walkerville, Ont.
General Motors plant, it is "very dangerous" to work exposed pulleys late in 12-hour
night shift
[14]
Killing of Americans by U.S. border guards
enforcing prohibition regulations draws outrage
[15]
Lord Beaverbrook on overcoming "the great general division between farmers and industrialists" to establish
imperial free trade
[16]
Hunter-conservationist
Jack Miner calls for extermination of
wolves in Ontario
[17]
Mackenzie King "wholly convinced in the
reality of the spiritual world " after
medium contacts his dead family members
[18]
References
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"King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .
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"Antonine Maillet | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 18 May 2020 .
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"Marc Lalonde | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 8 May 2023 .
^ Hammond, Margaret A.
"Story, Gertrude (1929–)" . The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan . Retrieved July 15, 2021 .
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"Gertrude Story" .
The StarPhoenix . January 18, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2021 – via Postmedia Obituaries.
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"Hamilton philanthropist Charles Juravinski dead at 92 - Hamilton | Globalnews.ca" .
Global News .
Archived from the original on 2023-07-09.
^
Stampeders mourn death of 'Ironman' Harry Langford
^ Weber, Bruce (5 February 2021).
"Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to 'The Sound of Music,' Dies at 91" . The New York Times . Retrieved 6 February 2021 .
^
"Privy Council Appeal No. 121 of 1928. In the matter of a Reference as to the meaning of the word 'persons' in Section 24 of The British North America Act, 1867; Judgement of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council" (October 18, 1929), pgs. 2, 5, 7-8, 9, 11-13, 14. Accessed 19 May 2020
^ Associated Press (New York, October 29),
"Bankers Again Halt Big Flood of Liquidation" The (Montreal) Gazette, Vol. CLVIII, No. 260 (October 30, 1929), pg. 1. Accessed 19 May 2020
^
Testimony of Charlotte Whitton (April 30, 1929), [House] Select Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations; [on] granting Family Allowances, pgs. 55-8. Accessed 21 October 2020
^
Letter of Sister Saint Simon to Duncan Scott (June 24, 1929). Accessed 24 June 2021
^
"A Trip through Turner Valley; with the Young Men's Section of the Calgary Board of Trade" (September 12, 1929). Accessed 19 May 2020
^ "From a Member of the G.M.C. 'Happy Family' in Walkerville," Auto Workers' Life (1929). Accessed 12 August 2020
https://projects.windsorpubliclibrary.com/digi/sar/part3.htm (scroll down to Excerpt from Auto Workers's Life)
^ [U.S.] Association Against the Prohibition Amendment,
"Outrages on the Border" Canada Liquor Crossing the Border (1929), pgs. 18-21. Accessed 19 May 2020
^ Max Aitken,
"Empire Free Trade;...A Manifesto by Lord Beaverbrook." Accessed 10 April 2020
^ Jack Miner,
"Deer and Wolves" Jack Miner on Current Topics (copyright 1929), pgs. 61-9. Accessed 27 January 2020
^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1929,
pg. 7 . Accessed 19 May 2020
1929 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories