Canada-related events during the year of 1933
Events from the year 1933 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
January to March
January 24 -
Claude Préfontaine , actor (d.
2013 )
January 25
January 31 -
Camille Henry , ice hockey player (d.
1997 )
February 13 -
Michael Cook , playwright (d.
1994 )
February 16 –
Tom Hickey , Canadian politician (d.
2020 )
February 18 -
Frank Moores , businessman, politician and 2nd
Premier of Newfoundland (d.
2005 )
February 24 -
Gustavo Da Roza , architect
March 2 -
Simonie Michael , Inuk politician (d.
2008 )
March 4 -
James Jerome , jurist, politician and
Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d.
2005 )
March 9 -
Mel Lastman , businessman, politician and Mayor of
Toronto (d.
2021 )
March 19
March 23 -
Thomas R. Berger , politician and jurist (d.
2021 )
March 29 -
Jacques Brault , poet and translator (d.
2022 )
April to June
July to September
July 2 –
Kenny Wharram , ice hockey player (d.
2017 )
July 8 -
Antonio Lamer , lawyer, jurist and 16th
Chief Justice of Canada (d.
2007 )
July 13 -
Scott Symons , writer (d.
2009 )
July 14 -
Robert Bourassa , politician and 22nd
Premier of Quebec (d.
1996 )
July 16 -
Julian Klymkiw , ice hockey goaltender (d.
2022 )
July 17 -
Mimi Hines , singer and comedian
July 28
August 13 -
Ted Godwin , artist (d.
2013 )
August 24 -
John Alan Lee , sociologist (d.
2013 )
August 30 -
Don Getty , politician and 11th
Premier of Alberta (d.
2016 )
September 8 -
Maurice Foster , politician,
MP for
Algoma (1968–1993) (d.
2010 )
September 19 -
Gilles Archambault , novelist
October to December
October 12 -
Guido Molinari , artist (d.
2004 )
October 22 -
David Bromige , poet (d.
2009 )
November 16 -
Leonard Marchand , politician (d.
2016 )
November 26 -
Robert Goulet , singer and actor (d.
2007 )
November 27 -
Jacques Godbout , novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet
December 1 -
Alex Campbell , politician and
Premier of Prince Edward Island
December 12 -
Joe Borowski , politician and activist (d.
1996 )
December 25 -
Fred Sasakamoose , ice hockey player (d.
2020 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
January 3 -
Jack Pickford , actor (b.
1896 )
April 14 -
Daniel Hunter McMillan , politician and Lieutenant-Governor of
Manitoba (b.
1846 )
October 10 -
James David Stewart , educator, lawyer, politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island (b.
1874 )
October 17 -
Emily Murphy , women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the
British Empire (b.
1868 )
October 25 -
William John Bowser , politician and Premier of
British Columbia (b.
1867 )
November 30 -
Arthur Currie ,
World War I general (b.
1875 )
See also
Historical documents
Montreal Gazette report finds that, after bad start, 1933 has brought industrial expansion and "a general revival of confidence"
[2]
"With a cheery, optimistic feeling prevailing,"
grain markets in
Winnipeg , Chicago and Liverpool raise
price of wheat
[3]
In what "has been a very bad year," federal budget raises taxes and creates support fund for agricultural exporters
[4]
"Heavy obligations" from resource and production investment call for debt conversion,
budget balancing and
international agreement
[5]
Most first ministers back
re-employment through shortening of everyone's work day (but
unemployment insurance scheme doubtful)
[6]
Hitler sworn in as German chancellor , but "surrounded with conservatives" in
cabinet
[7]
With Nazi plurality ,
German parliament will allow Hitler to
suspend its powers and constitution temporarily
[8]
Appeals to
Jewish community and Christians to relieve
oppression of German Jews
[9]
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation rejects
capitalism and "its inherent injustice and inhumanity" in
Regina Manifesto
[10]
Marxist delegate to
CCF's Regina convention calls it "middle class" and "reformist"
[11]
Rejected in
Saskatchewan by-election , Farmer-Labor (CCF) candidates and campaign managers receive advice from their
president
[12]
Spinning wheel and
Bennett buggy : how Prairie farmers are coping in Great Depression
[13]
Poor woman asks Prime Minister Bennett to send underwear for her husband (and request is fulfilled)
[14]
Memorial plaque unveiled at University of Saskatchewan for
46th Battalion
[15]
Mackenzie King yields to temptation, being "disobedient to the heavenly vision as I have held it in my heart"
[16]
Flyer for opening of
Harlem-style nightclub in
Montreal (note:
blackface depicted)
[17]
References
^
"King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .
^ Canadian Press, "Many Evidences Of Improvement,"
The Charlottetown Guardian (January 4, 1934) pg. 1. Accessed 5 June 2020
^ "Wheat Closes More Than Two Cents Higher,"
The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 64 (March 16, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 4, 2020
^ Charles Bishop, "Income Levy Raised, Tax Put on Sugar To Increase Revenue," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 69 (March 22, 1933),
pgs. 1, 4 Accessed June 4, 2020
^ "Reports of the Committee; Sixth Report; General," [House] Select Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce (1933),
pg. 208 Accessed 23 October 2020
^ "To Reduce Working Day?; Indications Point to Agreement on Scheme at Parley in Ottawa (Special to The Star-Phoenix),"
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 153 (January 19, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 3, 2020
^ Associated Press, "Hitler Wins Power; Europe Stirred,"
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 162 (January 30, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 3, 2020
^ Associated Press, "Republic of Germany Is on Its Last Legs; Reichstag Expected to Create Four Years' Dictatorship For Hitler,"
The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 69 (March 22, 1933), pgs. 1. Accessed June 4, 2020
^ Maurice N. Eisendrath, "Can the New Year Be Happy" and "Where Are the Christian Champions of the Jew?," Canadian Jewish Review, Vol. XV, No. 49 (September 22, 1933),
pg. 3 Accessed 10 December 2019 (See also
internal government letter noting opposition to admitting German Jews)
^ Co-operative Commonwealth Federation,
"The Regina Manifesto" (July 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020
^ W. (William) Moriarty,
"The Regina Convention of the C.C.F." Workers' Age (September 15, 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020
^
Letter of G.H. Williams (Saskatoon, October 28, 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020
^
"1933 Conditions in the Canadian West During the Depression" (no source). Accessed June 3, 2020
^
Letter of Mrs. Thomas Hodgins (Perdue, Sask., September 28, 1933; with replies). Accessed June 3, 2020
^ "Plaque Unveiled To Members Of 46th Battalion," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (November 13, 1933), pg. 5. Accessed June 3, 2020
http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/war/memorials.html (scroll down to 167)
^ Entries of January 14 and 15, Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1933,
pgs. 17-18 Accessed June 3, 2020
^
"Connies Inn (formerly The Frolics)" Accessed June 3, 2020
1933 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories