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Events from the year 1929 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – George V

Federal government

  • Governor General – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
  • Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
  • Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
  • Parliament – 16th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Theodore Arthur Burrows (until January 18) then James Duncan McGregor (from January 28)
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Lomer Gouin (until March 28) then Henry George Carroll (from April 2)
  • Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
  • Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
  • Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
  • Premier of New Brunswick – John Baxter
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – Edgar Nelson Rhodes
  • Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders
  • Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner (until September 9) then James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George Ian MacLean
  • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events

  • January 10 – Lomer Gouin becomes Quebec's 15th lieutenant governor, serving until his death on March 28, 1929.
  • March 22 – The Canadian schooner and rum-runner I'm Alone is sunk by the US Coast Guard's .
  • April 4 – Henry George Carroll becomes Quebec's 16th lieutenant governor.
  • June 6 – 1929 Saskatchewan election: James Garfield Gardiner's Liberals win a plurality, but the other parties, led by James T.M. Anderson's Conservatives, will form a coalition against Gardiner, forcing him to resign as premier
  • May 29 – A series of explosions rips through Ottawa's sewer system.
  • September 9 – James Anderson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
  • September 10 – The Hudson Bay Railway opens for traffic to Churchill, Manitoba
  • October 18 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rules in the Persons Case that women are eligible to be senators.
  • October 29 – The crash of the New York Stock Exchange marks the beginning of the Great Depression
  • October 30 – Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority
  • November 13 – A second stock market crash hits Canada.

Arts and literature

  • January 6 – Regina's Darke Hall auditorium opened.

Science and technology

  • Wop May and Vic Horner brave poor visibility and −30&nbsp;°C temperatures in an open cockpit to rush diphtheria anti-toxin to Fort Vermilion.
  • Frozen fish fillets are introduced by the Biological Board of Canada developed by Archibald Huntsman.

Sport

  • March 30The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Elmwood Millionaires 2 games to 0. The deciding Game 2 was played at Mutual Street Arena in Toronto
  • September 12The first legal forward pass in Canadian football is completed.
  • November 30The Hamilton Tigers win their fourth Grey Cup, defeating the Regina Roughriders 14 to 3 in the 17th Grey Cup played at A.A.A. Grounds in Hamilton

Births

January to March

  • January 17 – Jacques Plante, ice hockey player (d. 1986)
  • January 20 – Pat Mahoney, businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South (1968–1972), General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders (1965) (d. 2012)
  • January 21 – Bill Norrie, politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992), Chancellor of the University of Manitoba (2001–2009), respiratory failure. (d. 2012)
  • January 23 – John Polanyi, chemist and 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry joint laureate
  • January 25 – Brian O'Neill, ice hockey executive (d. 2023)
  • February 12 – Philip Kives, businessman
  • February 28 – Frank Gehry, architect (d. 2025)
  • March 20 – William Andrew MacKay, academic, President of Dalhousie University (19801986) (d. 2013)

April to June

thumb|right|150px|John Turner in September 2009

  • April 8 – Garnet Bloomfield, politician (d. 2018)
  • April 11 – Eric Luoma, cross-country skier (d. 2018)
  • May 8 – Claude Castonguay, banker and politician (d. 2020)
  • May 10
  • Antonine Maillet, novelist, playwright and scholar
  • Peter C. Newman, journalist (d. 2023)
  • May 12 – Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
  • May 13 – Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author (d. 1996)
  • May 14 – Gump Worsley, ice hockey player (d. 2007)
  • May 16 – Claude Morin, politician
  • May 18 – Walter Pitman, educator and politician
  • May 28- Shane Rimmer, actor (d. 2019 in the United Kingdom)
  • June 7
  • John Turner, lawyer, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Canada
  • Walter Weir, politician and 15th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1985)
  • June 8 – Louise Maheux-Forcier, author
  • June 9
  • Jean Rougeau, professional wrestler and bodyguard of Quebec Premier René Lévesque (d. 1983)
  • Harold R. Steele, businessman (d. 2022)
  • June 10 – Pearl McGonigal, politician
  • June 20 – Edgar Bronfman, Sr., businessman
  • June 27 – H. Ian Macdonald, economist

July to September

  • July 2 – Anna-Marie Globenski, pianist and teacher (d. 2008)
  • July 3 – Béatrice Picard, actress (d. 2025)
  • July 4 – Walt Konarski, Canadian football player
  • July 10 – Moe Norman, golfer (d. 2004)
  • July 18 – Roy Killin, footballer
  • July 19 – Ronald Melzack, psychologist (d. 2019)
  • July 26 – Marc Lalonde, politician and Minister (d. 2023)
  • July 30 – Bill Davis, politician and 18th Premier of Ontario
  • August 1 – Sidney Green, politician
  • August 3 – Peter Salmon, swimmer (d. 2003)
  • August 9 – George Scott Wallace, British Columbia physician and politician (d. 2011)
  • August 19 – Leonard Evans, politician
  • August 27 – George Scott, professional wrestler and promoter (d. 2014)
  • September 14 – Dimitri Dimakopoulos, architect
  • September 19 – Gertrude Story, writer and broadcaster (d. 2014)
  • September 24 -Edward M. Lawson, trade unionist, politician and Senator

October to December

  • October 7 – Graeme Ferguson, filmmaker and inventor who co-invented IMAX (d. 2021)
  • November 1 – Charles Juravinski, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2022)
  • November 2 – Richard E. Taylor, physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics joint laureate (d. 2018)
  • November 21 – Laurier LaPierre, broadcaster, journalist, author and senator (d. 2012)
  • November 24 – Harry Oliver Bradley, politician
  • December 6 – Harry Langford, footballer (d. 2022)
  • December 13 – Christopher Plummer, actor (d. 2021)
  • December 15 – Emery Barnes, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1998)
  • December 23 – Patrick Watson, broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director (d. 2022)
  • December 28 – Terry Sawchuk, ice hockey player (d. 1970)

Full date unknown

  • Ken Adachi, writer and literary critic (d. 1989)

Deaths

January to March

  • January 6 – George Henry Murray, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1861)
  • January 14 – Alexander Warburton, politician, jurist, author and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1852)
  • January 18 – Theodore Arthur Burrows, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1857)

thumb|right|100px|Lomer Gouin

  • January 19 – Edward Charles Bowers, politician (b. 1845)
  • January 29 – John Howatt Bell, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1846)
  • February – Richard Gardiner Willis, politician (b. 1865)
  • February 17 – James Colebrooke Patterson, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1839)
  • March 1 – James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1851)
  • March 28 – Lomer Gouin, politician and 13th Premier of Quebec (d. 1861)
  • March 29 – Hugh John Macdonald, politician, Minister and 8th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1850)

April to December

  • April 17 – Clifford Sifton, politician and Minister (b. 1861)
  • May 6 – William Dillon Otter, soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff (b. 1843)
  • June 3 – John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1842)
  • June 8 – Bliss Carman, poet (b. 1861)
  • June 23 – William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1848)
  • July 30 – Antonin Nantel, priest, teacher, school administrator, and author (b. 1839)
  • October 10 – Elijah McCoy, inventor and engineer (b. 1843)

See also

  • List of Canadian films

References