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Events from the year 1932 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – George V

Federal government

  • Governor General – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
  • Prime Minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
  • Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
  • Parliament – 17th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mulock (until November 1) then Herbert Alexander Bruce
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll
  • Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
  • Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
  • Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington
  • Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart
  • Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Gold Commissioner then Controller of Yukon – George Ian MacLean (until June 30) then George A. Jeckell
  • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt

Events

  • February 17 – The "Mad Trapper" is killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the Yukon
  • July 20 – The Ottawa Imperial Conference is held, it creates a zone of preferential trade within the Commonwealth
  • August 1 – The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) is formed in Calgary
  • August 3 – Henri Bourassa leaves Le Devoir
  • October 29 – The Dominion Drama Festival is founded

Full date unknown

  • A seven-month miners strike occurs in Alberta's coal mines in Crowsnest Pass
  • The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.

Arts and literature

New Books

  • A Broken Journey – Morley Callaghan

Sport

  • April 4 – The Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Sudbury Cub Wolves win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs 2 games to 0. All games played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
  • April 9 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their third Stanley Cup by defeating the New York Rangers 3 game to 0. The deciding game was played at the newly opened Maple Leaf Gardens
  • February 13 – Canada (represented by the Winnipeg Hockey Club) wins their fourth (consecutive) hockey gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics
  • December 3 – The Hamilton Tigers win their fifth and final Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Roughriders 25 to 6 in the 20th Grey Cup played at Hamilton's Civic Stadium

Births

January to March

  • January 2 – Jean Little, author
  • January 11 – Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk, nurse (d. 2021)
  • February 4 – Bob Dawson, football player (d. 2017)
  • February 13 – Robert Fulford, journalist (d. 2024)
  • February 24 – John Vernon, actor (d. 2005)
  • February 28 – Don Francks, actor (d. 2016)
  • March 1 – Donald Stovel Macdonald, politician and minister
  • March 2 – Jack Austin, politician and Senator
  • March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, artist (d. 2007)

April to June

  • April 3 – Jean-Claude Corbeil, linguist and lexicographer (d. 2022)
  • April 6 – Eugène Bellemare, politician
  • April 8 – Al Boliska, radio and television broadcaster
  • April 12 – Dick Fowler, mayor, MLA (d. 2012)
  • April 14 – Bill Bennett, politician and 27th Premier of British Columbia (d. 2015)
  • April 22 – Ron Basford, politician and Minister (d. 2005)
  • April 26 – Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2000)
  • May 7 – Jordi Bonet, artist (d. 1979)
  • May 28 – John Savage, politician and 23rd Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
  • June 5 – Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, general and Chief of the Defence Staff (d. 1998)
  • June 10 – Hal Jackman, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
  • June 24
  • Mel Hurtig, publisher, author and political activist
  • David McTaggart, environmentalist (d. 2001)

July to September

  • July 11 – Jean-Guy Talbot, ice hockey defenceman and coach (d. 2024)
  • July 13 – Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist (d. 2023)
  • July 16 – Hédi Bouraoui, poet, novelist and academic
  • July 22 – Doug Kyle, long-distance runner
  • July 27 – George Ryga, playwright and novelist (d. 1987)
  • August 2 – Leo Boivin, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
  • August 11 – Izzy Asper, tax lawyer and media magnate (d. 2003)
  • August 28 – Andy Bathgate, ice hockey player
  • August 31 – Allan Fotheringham, newspaper and magazine journalist
  • September 14 – Harry Sinden, ice hockey player, general manager and coach
  • September 25 – Glenn Gould, pianist (d. 1982)
  • September 27 – Gabriel Loubier, politician (d. 2025)

October to December

  • October 16 – Lucien Paiement, politician, Mayor of Laval (d. 2013)
  • October 18 – Iona Campagnolo, politician, first female Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
  • October 24 – Robert Mundell, professor of economics (d. 2021)
  • November 10 – Martin Hattersley, lawyer and politician
  • November 3 – Punch McLean, ice hockey coach (d. 2026)
  • November 13 – Marilyn Brooks, fashion designer (d. 2009)
  • November 29 – Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist (d. 2019)
  • December 6 – Hank Bassen, ice hockey player (d. 2009)

Deaths

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  • March 6 – Joseph-Hormisdas Legris, politician and Senator (b. 1850)
  • July 22 – Reginald Fessenden, inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
  • August 1 – Wellington Willoughby, politician and lawyer (b. 1859)
  • August 7 – Napoléon Belcourt, politician (b. 1860)
  • August 21 – Leonard Burnett, politician, farmer and teacher (b. 1845)
  • November 11 – Georgina Fraser Newhall, author and the bardess of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada (b. 1860)
  • November 26 – J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven (b. 1873)

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