Canada-related events during the year of 1935
Events from the year 1935 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
January to June
July to December
Sport
Births
January to June
January 6 –
Joseph Rotman , Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d.
2015 )
January 7 –
Rey Pagtakhan , physician, professor, politician and Minister
January 10 –
Ronnie Hawkins , pioneering rock and roll musician
January 14 –
Lucille Wheeler , alpine skier, Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion
January 18 –
Albert Millaire , actor and theatre director (d.
2018 )
January 21 –
Jack Tunney , professional wrestling promoter (d.
2004 )
January 29 –
Christina McCall , political writer (d.
2005 )
February 9 –
Ron Attwell , ice hockey player (d.
2017 )
February 14
February 21 –
Jean Pelletier , politician and Mayor of
Quebec City (d.
2009 )
March 2 –
Al Waxman , actor and director (d.
2001 )
March 15 –
Mary Pratt , painter (d.
2018 )
March 24 –
Mary Seeman , psychiatrist
April 16 –
Ray Frenette , 28th
Premier of New Brunswick (d.
2018 )
April 22 –
Rita Johnston , politician, Canada's first female premier and 29th
Premier of British Columbia
April 28 –
Murray McBride , politician
May 5 –
Billy Two Rivers , wrestler (d.
2023 )
May 7 –
Isobel Warren , author
May 25 –
W. P. Kinsella , novelist and short story writer (d.
2016 )
May 26 –
Pat Carney , politician, minister and senator
May 30 –
Ruta Lee , actress
June 2 –
Carol Shields , author (d.
2003 )
June 28 –
Bob Hobert , football player
July to December
Donald Sutherland at the
London premiere of
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 in 2014
July 3 –
Bill Reichart , ice hockey player
July 11 –
Bobbie Sparrow , politician
July 17 –
Donald Sutherland , actor
July 23 –
Danièle Dorice , singer and teacher (d.
2018 )
July 24 –
Bob McAdorey , television and radio broadcaster (d.
2005 )
July 25 –
Gilbert Parent , politician and 33rd
Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.
2009 )
July 27
July 29 –
Pat Lowther , poet (d.
1975 )
August 30 –
Daniel L. Norris ,
Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (d.
2008 )
September 24 –
Sean McCann , actor (d.
2019 )
[3]
September 27 –
Al MacNeil , ice hockey player and coach
October 3 –
Floyd Laughren , politician
October 15 –
Willie O'Ree , ice hockey player, first
Black Canadian player in the
National Hockey League
[4]
October 20 –
Russell Doern , politician (d.
1987 )
November 15 –
Bill Graham , Canadian football player (d.
2020 )
November 17 –
Audrey Thomas , novelist and short story writer
December 9 –
Christopher Pratt , painter and printmaker (d.
2022 )
[5]
December 11 –
Elmer Vasko , ice hockey player (d.
1998 )
December 12 –
John Wise , politician, MP for
Elgin (1972–1988);
Minister of Agriculture (1979–1980; 1984–1988) (d.
2013 )
December 13 –
Raymond Speaker , politician
December 21 –
Edward Schreyer , politician,
Premier of Manitoba and
Governor General of Canada
[6]
Full date unknown
Deaths
March 15 –
James Duncan McGregor , agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of
Manitoba (b.
1860 )
March 16 –
John Macleod , physician, physiologist and Nobel laureate (b.
1876 )
April 10 –
Charles-Émile Trudeau , entrepreneur and father of
Pierre Trudeau , who would later become
Prime Minister of Canada (b.
1887 )
April 19 –
Willis Keith Baldwin , politician (b.
1857 )
July 18 –
George Clift King , politician and 2nd Mayor of
Calgary (b.
1848 )
September 30 –
J. J. Kelso , journalist and social activist (b.
1864 )
October 24 –
Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris , politician and 2nd Prime Minister of
Newfoundland (b.
1859 )
October 29 –
Del Fontaine , Canadian middleweight boxing champion, executed for murder in the U.K.
See also
Historical documents
On radio,
PM Bennett declares "reform means Government intervention[,] control and regulation [and] the end of
laissez faire "
[7]
In current national crisis,
Commons Clerk suggests
constituent assembly replace
British North America Act with modern constitution
[8]
Prime Minister Bennett argues need to pass laws that
courts will
approve of
[9]
"The trouble is [lack of] accommodation designed objectively for the low wage earner" - House committee calls for
national housing policy
[10]
In election broadcast,
Bennett admits that at his age (65), "ambitions dim, the love of power dies"
[11]
PM King and President Roosevelt support
trade – "another word for increased employment, transportation and consumption"
[12]
Secretary of State Hull says goal of
U.S. foreign policy is to preserve peace of "
friends ," not of "inequality based on force"
[13]
Statement of 330 international psychiatrists warns of "evident
war-psychosis " in global mentality
[14]
Tour of Flanders'
grave-strewn fields, twenty years later
[15]
Eyewitnesses tell inquiry about clashes involving police, residents and
On-to-Ottawa trekkers in Regina
[16]
Canadian Federation of the Blind
founder explains to House committee need for pensions for blind people
[17]
Columbia University
student newspaper 's review of
Maria Chapdelaine movie
[18]
References
^
"King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .
^
Wheat Board history
Archived 2011-02-18 at the
Wayback Machine
^
"MCCANN, William Leonard Sean McCann - Canadian Obituaries" .
^ Biographical information and career statistics from
^
Christopher Pratt, prominent Canadian painter and printmaker, dies at 86
^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014).
Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 . Routledge. p. 144.
ISBN
978-1-134-26490-2 .
^ R.B. Bennett, The Premier Speaks to the People: The First Address[....] (January 2, 1935), pgs. 9-20. Accessed 10 June 2020
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/4/h4-4049-e.html
^ Testimony of Arthur Beauchesne (April 16, 1935), Special Committee on British North America Act,
pg. 126 Accessed 26 October 2020
^ "Trade Commission – Mr. Bennett" (June 19, 1935), House of Commons Debates, 17th Parliament, 6th Session: Vol. 4, pgs. 3809-11. Accessed 10 June 2020
http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC1706_04/561?r=0&s=1 (scroll down to second "Hear, hear")
^ "Third and Final Report" (April 16, 1935), Special Committee on Housing,
pgs. 364-6 Accessed 26 October 2020
^ Canadian Press, "'Ambitions Dim At My Age,'"
The (Vancouver) Sunday Sun, Vol. XCII, No. 306 (September 7, 1935), pg. 1. Accessed 10 June 2020
^ "Joint Statement by the President and Rt. Hon. W. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, on Trade Relations. November 9, 1935," The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volume Four, The Court Disapproves, 1935,
pg. 441 Accessed 11 June 2020
^ U.S. Department of State,
"Address Delivered by the Secretary of State(...), February 16, 1935" Peace and War: United States Foreign Policy, 1931-1941
(Publication 1983, 1943), pgs. 249-54. Accessed 10 June 2020
^ Science Service, "Science War Warning;[...]Man's Fierce Instincts," The Vancouver Sun, Vol. XCII (October 22, 1935),
pgs. 1, 3 Accessed 10 June 2020
^ R. Duder, "Flanders 1935,"
The Veteran Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 1 (December 1935), pgs. 50, 57. Accessed 12 June 2020
^
"Eye-Witnesses Tell Dramatic Story Of Dominion Day Riots" Regina Leader Post (December 11, 1935), pg. 10. Accessed 10 June 2020
^
"Minutes of Evidence" (February 21, 1935), Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations, pgs. 1-4. Accessed 26 October 2020
^ M.C., "A Canadian Idyll; Maria Chapdelaine. A French sound film, from the novel by Louise [sic ] Hemon," Columbia Daily Spectator, Vol. LIX, No. 9 (October 8, 1935), pg. 2. Accessed 10 June 2020
http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19351008-01.2.16&srpos=523 (click "Maximize" symbol at upper right)
1935 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories