Canada-related events during the year of 1936
Events from the year 1936 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
January 6 -
Barbara Hanley is elected
mayor of
Webbwood, Ontario , becoming the first female mayor in Canada
January 14 -
Thane Campbell becomes premier of
Prince Edward Island , replacing
Walter Lea
April 12 - The
Moose River Gold Mines collapse
June 11 -
Adélard Godbout becomes premier of
Quebec , replacing
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
August 26 -
Maurice Duplessis becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Adélard Godbout
September -
Earl Bascom of
Raymond, Alberta , designs and directs the construction of the first rodeo arena and grandstands in the state of Mississippi
November 2 - The
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation replaces the
Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
November 18 - The
Toronto Globe and the
Mail and Empire merge to form
The Globe and Mail
December 11 - The
British Parliament , with the consent of the Canadian government, passes
His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 which legislates the
abdication of King Edward VIII .
The
Spanish Civil War begins. Eventually, 1135 Canadians will serve in the
International Brigades of the Republican forces
Quebec Premier
Maurice Duplessis hangs a
crucifix in the
Legislative Assembly Chamber. It hung there for 83 years, until it was removed on 10 July 2019
[5]
Sport
Births
January to March
April to June
April 17 -
Peter Adams , politician
April 19 -
Sharon Pollock , playwright, actress, and director (d.
2021 )
May 14
May 15 -
Milan Kymlicka , arranger, composer and conductor (d.
2008 )
May 31 -
Tony Pajaczkowski , football player (d.
2022 )
June 21 -
Joseph Gosnell , Nisga'a statesman
June 26
June 30 -
Alan Hamel , entertainer, producer and television host
July to December
July 3 -
Larry Condon , politician (d.
1991 )
July 9 -
André Pronovost , ice hockey player
July 13 -
Sandor Stern , writer, director and film producer
July 18 –
Ted Harris , ice hockey player
July 25 -
August Schellenberg , actor (d.
2013 )
July 28 -
Russ Jackson , football player
August 20 -
David MacDonald , politician and author
September 7 -
Bruce Gray , Puerto Rican/Canadian actor (d.
2017 )
September 26 -
Lowell Murray , Senator
October 9 –
Don Wittman , sportscaster (d.
2008 )
October 27 -
Suzanne Paradis , writer
November 7 -
Audrey McLaughlin , politician
December 16 -
Karleen Bradford , children's author
Full date unknown
Deaths
January 8 -
John Augustus Barron , politician and lawyer (b.
1850 )
January 10 -
Walter Lea , politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island (b.
1874 )
January 20 -
George V , King of Canada (b.
1865 )
January 22 -
Noah Timmins , mining developer and executive (b.
1867 )
February 26 -
Frederick C. Alderdice , businessman, politician and last Prime Minister of
Newfoundland (b.
1871 )
May 7 -
Isidore-Noël Belleau , politician and lawyer (b.
1848 )
May 30 -
Homer Watson , artist (b.
1855 )
June 18 -
Edith Jane Miller , concert contralto singer (b.
1875 )
July 6 -
Peter Veniot , businessman, newspaper owner, politician and 17th
Premier of New Brunswick (b.
1863 )
October 3 -
William Parks , geologist and paleontologist (b.
1868 )
October 29 -
Tobias Norris , politician and 10th
Premier of Manitoba (b.
1861 )
See also
Historical documents
Saying "I hate war," President Roosevelt seeks foreign and economic policies that will encourage peace
[6]
Threatening embargo on Canadian liquor, U.S.A. demands back taxes and customs duties for liquor
smuggled during Prohibition
[7]
"Taxes are urgently needed" - Alberta's
Two Rivers School District board cajoles ratepayers in arrears
[8]
Seventy-year-old woman talks to enough of
Yukon 's 1,805 voters to be elected to House of Commons
[9]
"
Sterilization is proposed[...]as logical humane procedure to limit the reproduction of the mentally defective."
[10]
Vancouver
business groups testify that limiting employment of "orientals" on
Canadian ships may curtail or cancel service
[11]
Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir expresses his deep regret to King Edward VIII on his
abdication
[12]
"A commission of three cannot[...]execute policies" - House committee calls for
corporation to
replace Canadian Radio Commission
[13]
"We in Canada are sound asleep in
flying matters ," says
Air Vice-Marshall
Billy Bishop
[14]
Canadian Tuberculosis Association urges more clinics for
Indigenous people , who suffer 30% of TB deaths in western Canada
[15]
Youth organizations ranging from church groups to Young Communist League unite for reform at 1936
Youth Congress
[16]
Stephen Leacock 's views of
travel writing and
Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ont.
[17]
Ralph J. Gleason praises Canadian hockey while covering college tournament for
Columbia University student newspaper
[18]
Setting new record for one-mile event, Canadian
race walker wins in New York City
[19]
Cover photograph: Menu from
Canadian Pacific Railway train
[20]
References
^
"King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .
^ Edward VIII,
Broadcast after his abdication, 11 December 1936 (PDF) , Official website of the British monarchy, archived from
the original (PDF) on 12 May 2012, retrieved 1 May 2010
^
"King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .
^
"John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland" . www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk . Retrieved 29 January 2021 .
^
"Crucifix removed from National Assembly's Blue Room" . CBC News . July 9, 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-14 .
^ Franklin Roosevelt, "Address at Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936," Development of United States Foreign Policy; Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942),
pgs. 11-15 Accessed 13 June 2020
^ United States Department of State,
"Protests of the Canadian Government Against Certain Provisions of the Liquor Tax Bill; Settlement of United States Claims Against Canadian Distillers" Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1936; Volume I, General, The British Commonwealth, pgs. 796-825. Accessed 11 June 2022
^
Two Rivers School District 3497 Minutes, 1936 pgs. 70, 71, 73, 75, 76. Accessed 11 June 2020
^ Martha Louise (Mrs. George) Black (as told to Elizabeth Bailey Price),
"The Life I've Lived" Chatelaine (January 1936), pg. 14. Accessed 13 June 2020
^ William Hutton,
"A Brief for Sterilization of the Feeble-Minded" (Second Edition, June 1936). Accessed 13 June 2020
^ "Minutes of Evidence" (March 13, 1936), [House] Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations,
pg. 8 Accessed 26 October 2020
^
Note of John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, to Private Secretary, Buckingham Palace (December 10, 1936). Accessed 13 June 2020
^ "Third and Final Report" (May 26, 1936), Special Committee on the Canadian Radio Commission,
pg. 784 Accessed 26 October 2020
^ W.A. Bishop,
"What Aviation Means to Canada" (February 13, 1936), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 235-52. Accessed 13 June 2020
^ Canadian Press, "Aids Tubercular Indians; Canada Plans Traveling Clinics in Effort to Stem High Death Rate," New York Times (June 30, 1936). Accessed 14 June 2020
https://searchit.libraries.wsu.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=WSU_CDM5clipping%2F8680&context=L&vid=WSU (click on Link to Resource)
^ Tim Buck, "Chapter Nine; Canada's Youth Comes of Age," Thirty Years; 1922-1952; The Story of the Communist Movement in Canada (1952). Accessed 20 May 2020
http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/compoundobject/collection/radical/id/81602/rec/15 (scroll to Page 131)
^ Stephen Leacock,
My Discovery of the West; A Discussion of East and West in Canada (1937), pgs. 1-14. Accessed 14 June 2020
^ Ralph J. Gleason,
"Christmas Opportunity Hockey Has Everything; Look, Boys, at Canada" Columbia Daily Spectator, Vol. LIX, No. 59 (January 6, 1936), pg. 3. Accessed 14 June 2020
^ Daniel M. Friedman,
"Let's Take a Walk; A Canadian Wizard; Venzke's Stock Booms" Columbia Daily Spectator, Vol. LIX, No. 73 (February 11, 1936), pg. 3. Accessed 14 June 2020
^
"Dinner menu from the Dominion train from 1936" The Chung Collection, University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 21 April 2024
1936 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories