Canada-related events during the year of 1937
Events from the year 1937 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Sport
Births
January to June
January 5 –
Richard Cashin , lawyer, politician and trade union leader
[8]
January 21 –
Jim Unger , cartoonist (d.
2012 )
[9]
January 24 –
Suzanne Tremblay , politician
[10]
January 26 –
Maureen Hemphill , politician
[11]
January 29 –
Frank Iacobucci , jurist and
Puisne Justice on the
Supreme Court of Canada
[12]
January 31 –
Andrée Boucher , politician and 39th Mayor of
Quebec City (d.
2007 )
[13]
February 5 –
Larry Hillman , ice hockey player and coach (d.
2022 )
[14]
February 10 –
Roy Megarry , publisher
[15]
February 26 –
Hagood Hardy , composer, pianist and vibraphonist (d.
1997 )
[16]
March 2 –
Joseph B. MacInnis , diver
[17]
March 9
March 10 –
Tommy Hunter , country music singer
[19]
March 16 –
Brian Browne , jazz pianist and composer (d.
2018 )
March 26 –
James Lee , politician and 28th
Premier of Prince Edward Island
[20]
March 30 –
Maria Rika Maniates , musicologist (d.
2011 )[
citation needed ]
April 13 –
Stan Stasiak , pro wrestler[
citation needed ]
April 29 –
Jean Gauthier , ice hockey player (
Montreal Canadiens ,
Philadelphia Flyers ,
Boston Bruins ) (d.
2013 )
[21]
May 9 –
Jim Walding , politician (d.
2007 )
[22]
May 13 –
Roch Carrier , novelist
[23]
June 15 –
Toby Tarnow , actress
[24]
July to December
July 12 –
Michel Louvain , singer (d. 2021)[
citation needed ]
July 30 –
John de Chastelain , general, diplomat and Chairman of the
Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (in
Northern Ireland )
[25]
August 2 –
Garth Hudson , musician
[26]
August 16 –
David Anderson , politician and Minister
[27]
August 16 –
Ian Deans , politician (d.
2016 )
[28]
August 25 –
John G. Bryden , lawyer, public servant, businessman and Senator
[29]
September 2 –
Len Carlson , voice actor (d.
2006 )
September 3 –
Gerry Brisson , ice hockey player (d.
2013 )
[30]
September 5 –
John Dahmer , politician (d.
1988 )
[31]
September 8 –
Barbara Frum , radio and television journalist (d.
1992 )
[32]
September 9 –
Jean Augustine , politician
[33]
September 12 –
George Chuvalo , boxer
[34]
September 19 –
Neil Gaudry , politician (d.
1999 )
[35]
September 23 –
Jacques Poulin , novelist
[36]
September 27 –
Guido Basso , jazz musician (d.
2023 )
[37]
October 19 –
Marilyn Bell , long-distance swimmer, first person to swim across
Lake Ontario
[38]
October 19 –
Stanley Faulder , murderer and first Canadian citizen to be executed in the
United States since 1952 (d.
1999 )
[39]
November 4 –
Michael Wilson , politician and diplomat (d.
2019 )[
citation needed ]
November 6 –
Gerry St. Germain , politician
[40]
November 11 –
Stephen Lewis , politician, broadcaster and diplomat
[41]
November 12
December 4 –
Donnelly Rhodes , actor (d.
2018 )[
citation needed ]
December 19 –
Wayne Maunder , Canadian-born American actor (d.
2018 )[
citation needed ]
Date unknown
Deaths
January to June
Robert Borden
July to December
See also
Historical documents
With graphic descriptions of slaughter,
United Church moderator expresses outrage at atrocities in
Spain and
China
[54]
Peace league calls national congress because "Human life, Liberty, Social Culture and the Arts hang in terrible jeopardy"
[55]
Ontario Lieutenant-Governor endorses Youth Crusade for Peace: "Youth of the world should have a decisive voice"
[56]
J.W. Dafoe ,
J.S. Woodsworth ,
Sidney E. Smith and others lead weekly 1937 radio broadcast discussions on various Canadian
defence policies
[57]
On committee studying
death penalty , MP
Agnes Macphail argues
criminally insane murderers should suffer death like other killers
[58]
Commons debates
Trans-Canada Air Lines (when planes went through mountain passes on 16-hour Winnipeg-Vancouver flights)
[59]
Call for
more British immigrants to allow West "to develop a race of people that is strong, sturdy and self-reliant"
[60]
"The
danger is that the Chinese or Japanese by
inter-marriage would absorb our own race" -
race fear in
denying vote to "oriental"
[61]
Alberta Social Credit government's
"accurate news" bill amended in face of "almost[...]Fascism" and "dictatorship" criticism
[62]
Britain's debt to Newfoundland, in its
history of exploiting and leaving it underdeveloped, balances
assuming its liabilities currently
[63]
Calling him "sly" and "delightful," newspaper profiles
judge representing Canada on
Trail, B.C. fumes tribunal
[64]
Canadian studying at Harvard writes about friends fighting in Spain and his fervour for communism
[65]
Report of cooperative Canadian and U.S. work done on
site of Champlain's Habitation of Port Royal in Nova Scotia
[66]
Advertisement for Westinghouse World Cruiser
Radio - "Tonal Fidelity Reflects the Living Image of Each Broadcast Note"
[67]
Two
Canadian Pacific Railway
dining car menus
[68]
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Canadian League for Peace and Democracy ,
"Call to Action; Canadian Congress for Peace and Democracy" (1937). Accessed 16 June 2020
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Letter of Herbert A. Bruce (Government House, Toronto, October 12, 1937). Accessed 16 June 2020
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Canadian Defence; What We Have to Defend (1937). Accessed 17 May 2022
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pgs. 36-7 Accessed 27 October 2020
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^ J.A. Cochrane,
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^ A.C.L. Jr.,
"Canadian Fume Member Charms; Chief Justice Greenshields of Tribune (sic) Has Keen Sense of Humor" (Spokane, Wash.) Spokesman-Review (July 24, 1937). Accessed 17 June 2020
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Letter of Herbert Norman (March 3, 1937). Accessed 17 June 2020
^ Harriet Taber (Mrs. Frederick A.) Richardson,
"A Report on the Work Accomplished for Rebuilding the Habitation of Port Royal, New France, at Lower Granville, Nova Scotia" (July 22, 1937). Accessed 17 June 2020
^ Canadian Westinghouse Co. Limited,
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^ Canadian Pacific,
"The Chateau Frontenac; In Old Quebec" and
"Evangeline at the Well; Grand Pré, Nova Scotia" (April 3, 1937). Accessed 17 June 2020
1937 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories