Canada-related events during the year of 1938
Events from the year 1938 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Full date unknown
Sport
Births
January to June
- January 9 -
Claudette Boyer, politician, member of the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario for
Ottawa—Vanier (1999–2003) (d.
2013)
- January 10 -
Frank Mahovlich, ice hockey player and Senator
- January 13 -
William B. Davis, actor
- January 16 -
Lou Angotti, ice hockey player and coach (d.
2021)
- February 9 -
Jovette Marchessault, writer and artist (d.
2012)
- February 17 -
Martha Henry, actress
- February 22 -
Pierre Vallières, journalist and writer (d.
1998)
- April 5 -
David Helwig, poet, novelist, and essayist (d.
2018)
- April 8 -
John Hamm, physician, politician and 32nd
Premier of Nova Scotia
- April 12 -
Roger Caron, author
- May 13 -
Lucille Starr, singer, songwriter and yodeler
- May 16 -
Jim Coutts, political advisor (d.
2013)
- May 24 -
Tommy Chong, comedian, actor and musician
- May 26 -
Teresa Stratas, operatic soprano
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- May 30 -
Eugene Belliveau, Canadian football defensive lineman
- June 4 -
John Harvard, journalist, politician and 23rd
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
- June 13 -
John Newlove, poet (d.
2013)
- June 19
- June 26 -
Ken Monteith, politician
July to September
October to December
- October 8 -
Walter Gretzky, ice hockey player and coach (d.
2021)
- October 14 -
Ron Lancaster, Canadian football player and coach (d.
2008)
- October 27 -
Tim Ralfe, journalist (d.
2000)
- October 28 -
Gary Cowan, golfer
- November 3 -
Yvon Cormier, wrestler (d.
2009)
- November 4 -
LeRoy Fjordbotten, politician (d.
2017)
- November 13 -
Gérald Godin, poet and politician (d.
1994)
- November 15 -
Denis DeJordy, ice hockey player and coach
- November 17 -
Gordon Lightfoot, singer and songwriter (d.
2023)
- November 18 –
Annon Lee Silver, lyric soprano (d.
1971)
- November 26 -
Rich Little, impressionist and voice actor
- December 16 -
John Allan Cameron, folk singer (d.
2006)
- December 22 -
Lucien Bouchard, lawyer, diplomat, politician and Minister
Undated
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Roland Doré, educator, President of the Canadian Space Agency
Deaths
- January 4 -
George Halsey Perley, politician and diplomat (b.
1857)
- January 8 -
Aimé Bénard, politician (b.
1873)
- January 28 -
Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher (b.
1848)
- February 20 -
William Alves Boys, politician and barrister (b.
1868)
- March 23 -
Thomas Walter Scott, politician and first Premier of
Saskatchewan (b.
1867)
- April 13 -
Grey Owl, writer and conservationist (b.
1888)
- April 24 -
John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, artist (b.
1850)
- May 6 -
Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, politician and 11th Governor General of Canada (b.
1868)
- May 7 -
Frederick Cronyn Betts, politician (b.
1896)
- July 25 -
Francis Haszard, jurist, politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island (b.
1849)
- December 26 -
Pierre-Ernest Boivin, politician and businessman (b.
1872)
See also
Historical Documents
Prime Minister Chamberlain defends
Munich Agreement in "peace for our time" speech in British House of Commons
[4]
President Roosevelt requests increased defence appropriations from Congress
[5]
President Roosevelt says "we[...]are no longer a far away continent" in
address at Queen's University at Kingston
[6]
Vancouverites fail in plot to bomb
Japanese ocean liner Hiye Maru
[7]
Jewish
Anti-Defamation League member says act on "passion for democracy" in face of world events
[8]
Jewish columnist sets radio host straight on his
"joke" about Jews
[9]
Al Rashid Mosque, Canada's first, opened in Edmonton with Indian statesman and Hanna, Alta. mayor present
[10]
With prices for necessities and product sold dictated to them, Alberta farmers form
United Farmers of Canada branch
[11]
Manitoba premier comments on globally higher production, lower demand and drastically lower prices for wheat
[12]
Development of huge
Turner Valley oil field and its significance to Canada and Empire (especially
British Navy)
[13]
Nellie McClung praises
cooperation as solution to poverty resulting from "profit system divorced from Christian ethics"
[14]
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Franco-American mill worker and his family survive another layoff during Depression
[15]
Trans-Canada Air Lines will be part of multi-day
international flights linking Britain with New Zealand and Australia
[16]
Tides and trees, gardens and
exiles are subjects of
Nellie McClung's Nova Scotia travel article
[17]
New wing of Kitchener-Waterloo YWCA hosts Saturday morning games, stories and handwork for girls
[18]
18th century
Kanien’kéhà:ka-British alliance seen as "administration" of Indigenous people versus French "encroachments"
[19]
References
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"King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
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"John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
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^ Randel, Don Michael (30 October 2002).
The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Harvard University Press. p. 866.
ISBN
978-0-674-25572-2.
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^ Great Britain, Parliamentary Debates; Commons; Vol. 339 (
October 3, 1938). Accessed 18 June 2020
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"Paper VIII; Message to the Congress recommending increased armament for national defense, January 28, 1938" Development of United States Foreign Policy; Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942), pgs. 25-6. Accessed 18 June 2020
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"Paper IX; Address at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 18, 1938" Development of United States Foreign Policy; Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942), pgs. 27-9. Audio:
"President Franklin Roosevelt Receiving Honorary Degree at Queens University in Ontario, Canada" Accessed 18 June 2020
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"One Seized, One Dead at Seattle; Vancouver Man Admits They Were in Pay of 'Oriental Nation'" (Seattle, January 20, 1938). Accessed 18 June 2020
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^ Richard E. Gutstadt, in
"B'nai B'rith and A.Z.A. 1938; Second Annual Conference; Western Canadian Council" (September 1938; unpaginated). Accessed 18 June 2020
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^ Al Segal,
"Plain Talk; Suppose it were the Scotch" Jewish Western Bulletin, Vol. VIII, No. 43 (May 13, 1938), pg. 1. Accessed 18 June 2020
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"City's Mosque Will Be Opened Sunday Night" Edmonton Journal (December 9, 1938). Accessed 13 June 2021
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"Manifesto and Constitution of United Farmers of Canada (Alberta Section) Third Revised Edition. Accessed 18 June 2020
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"Radio Address by Honourable John Bracken; December 18, 1938" Proceedings of the Conference on Markets for Western Farm Products, pgs. 325-8. Accessed 18 June 2020
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^ Walter S. Campbell,
"Turner Valley - Its Resources and Possibilities" (February 10, 1938), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 227-44. Accessed 18 June 2020
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^ Nellie L. McClung,
"Co-operation in Nova Scotia" The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (September 7, 1938). Accessed 18 June 2020
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^ Mr. Guilfoyle,
"French Canadian Textile Worker" (interview with Henry Boucher, January 12, 1939), pgs. 18-23. Accessed 18 June 2020
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"Across Canada by Air" The (Wellington, N.Z.) Evening Post, Vol. CXXV, No. 94 (April 22, 1938), pg. 8. Accessed 18 June 2020
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^ Nellie L. McClung,
"The Flavour of Nova Scotia" The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (August 3, 1938), pgs. 1, 3. Accessed 18 June 2020
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"Saturday Morning Play Hour Big Attraction at Y.W.C.A." Kitchener Daily Record (March 21, 1938). Accessed 18 June 2020
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^ John Wolfe Lydekker,
"Introduction" (excerpt), The Faithful Mohawks (1938). Accessed 8 February 2021
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