1935 in Canada explained
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
- July 3 – Bill Reichart, ice hockey player (d. 2021 in the United States)
- July 11 – Bobbie Sparrow, politician
- July 17 – Donald Sutherland, actor (d. 2024)
- 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
- 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)[4]
- 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[5]
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"[6]
In current national crisis, Commons Clerk suggests constituent assembly replace British North America Act with modern constitution[7]
Prime Minister Bennett argues need to pass laws that courts will approve of[8]
"The trouble is [lack of] accommodation designed objectively for the low wage earner" - House committee calls for national housing policy[9]
In election broadcast, Bennett admits that at his age (65), "ambitions dim, the love of power dies"[10]
PM King and President Roosevelt support trade – "another word for increased employment, transportation and consumption"[11]
Secretary of State Hull says goal of U.S. foreign policy is to preserve peace of "friends," not of "inequality based on force"[12]
Statement of 330 international psychiatrists warns of "evident war-psychosis" in global mentality[13]
Tour of Flanders' grave-strewn fields, twenty years later[14]
Eyewitnesses tell inquiry about clashes involving police, residents and On-to-Ottawa trekkers in Regina[15]
Canadian Federation of the Blind founder explains to House committee need for pensions for blind people[16]
Columbia University student newspaper's review of Maria Chapdelaine movie[17]
Notes and References
- Web site: King George V The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 4 December 2022.
- http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/about/history/ Wheat Board history
- Web site: MCCANN, William Leonard Sean McCann - Canadian Obituaries.
- https://www.saanichnews.com/news/christopher-pratt-prominent-canadian-painter-and-printmaker-dies-at-86/ Christopher Pratt, prominent Canadian painter and printmaker, dies at 86
- Book: Lentz . Harris M. . Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 . 4 February 2014 . Routledge . 978-1-134-26490-2 . 144 . en.
- 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
- http://library2.usask.ca/sni/stories/con15.html "Eye-Witnesses Tell Dramatic Story Of Dominion Day Riots"
- https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1706_4_1/13?r=0&s=1 "Minutes of Evidence"
- 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)
