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Events from the year 1933 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) (until 28 February) then Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
  • 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 – Herbert Alexander Bruce
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton (until December 9) then George Des Brisay de Blois (from December 28)
  • 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 (until November 15) then Duff Pattullo
  • Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards (until June 1) then Leonard Tilley
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington (until September 5) then Angus Lewis Macdonald
  • Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart (until October 10) then William J. P. MacMillan (from October 14)
  • Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
  • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt

Events

  • April 7 – Raymond Paley becomes the first known skiing fatality in the Canadian Rockies on Fossil Mountain.
  • June 1 – Leonard Tilley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Charles Richards
  • August 16 – The Christie Pits riot between Jews and Nazi sympathizers in Toronto.
  • September 5 – Angus Macdonald becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Gordon Harrington
  • October 14 – W. J. P. MacMillan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James D. Stewart
  • November 11 – The magnitude 7.3 Baffin Bay earthquake occurs at Baffin Bay, Northwest Territories.
  • November 15 – Thomas Pattullo becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Simon Fraser Tolmie
  • December 2 – Newfoundland's independence is revoked due to its financial difficulties.

Arts and literature

Sport

  • April 6 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Newmarket Redmen win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 2 games to 0. All games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
  • December 9 – The Toronto Argonauts win their third Grey Cup by defeating the Sarnia Imperials 4–3 at Sarnia's Davis Field
  • December 12 – Eddie Shore of the Boston Bruins hits Ace Bailey of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Bailey lands head first, and severe head trauma ends his career. The Ace Bailey Benefit Game, a forerunner of the NHL All-Star Game, is played on February 14, 1934.

Births

January to March

  • January 24 – Claude Préfontaine, actor (d. 2013)
  • January 25
  • Anne Innis Dagg, zoologist and feminist (d. 2024)
  • Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, playwright and journalist (d. 1983)
  • January 31 – Camille Henry, ice hockey player (d. 1997)
  • February 13 – Michael Cook, playwright (d. 1994)
  • February 16 – Tom Hickey, Canadian politician (d. 2020)
  • February 18 – Frank Moores, businessman, politician and 2nd Premier of Newfoundland (d. 2005)
  • February 24 – Gustavo Da Roza, architect
  • March 2 – Simonie Michael, Inuk politician (d. 2008)
  • March 4 – James Jerome, jurist, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2005)
  • March 9 – Mel Lastman, businessman, politician and Mayor of Toronto (d. 2021)
  • March 19
  • John Sopinka, lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 1997)
  • Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator (d. 2019)
  • March 23 – Thomas R. Berger, politician and jurist (d. 2021)
  • March 29 – Jacques Brault, poet and translator (d. 2022)

April to June

  • April 5 – Joe Comuzzi, politician (d. 2022)
  • April 19
  • Peter Demeter, murderer
  • Garry Blaine, ice hockey player (d. 1998)
  • April 24 – Alan Eagleson, disbarred lawyer, convicted felon, former politician, hockey agent and promoter
  • May 24 – Marian Engel, novelist (d. 1985)
  • May 29 – Marc Carbonneau, taxi driver and convicted kidnapper
  • June 19 – Michael M. Ames, anthropologist and academic (d. 2006)
  • June 24
  • Bob Cole, sports television announcer (d. 2024)
  • Bernard Grandmaître, politician
  • June 26 – Gerry Weiner, politician
  • June 28
  • Antonio Flamand, politician
  • Gisèle Lalonde, politician and community activist, mayor of Vanier, Ontario (1985–1992) (d. 2022)
  • June 30
  • Don Head, ice hockey player
  • Orval Tessier, ice hockey centre and coach (d. 2022)

July to September

  • July 2 – Kenny Wharram, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
  • July 8 – Antonio Lamer, lawyer, jurist and 16th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 2007)
  • July 13 – Scott Symons, writer (d. 2009)
  • July 14 – Robert Bourassa, politician and 22nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1996)
  • July 16 – Julian Klymkiw, ice hockey goaltender (d. 2022)
  • July 17 – Mimi Hines, singer and comedian
  • July 28
  • David Ahenakew, politician (d. 2010)
  • Charlie Hodge, ice hockey goaltender (d. 2016)
  • August 13 – Ted Godwin, artist (d. 2013)
  • August 24 – John Alan Lee, sociologist (d. 2013)
  • August 30 – Don Getty, politician and 11th Premier of Alberta (d. 2016)
  • September 8 – Maurice Foster, politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993) (d. 2010)
  • September 19 – Gilles Archambault, novelist

October to December

  • October 12 – Guido Molinari, artist (d. 2004)
  • October 22 – David Bromige, poet (d. 2009)
  • November 16 – Leonard Marchand, politician (d. 2016)
  • November 26 – Robert Goulet, singer and actor (d. 2007)
  • November 27 – Jacques Godbout, novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet
  • December 1 – Alex Campbell, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
  • December 12 – Joe Borowski, politician and activist (d. 1996)
  • December 25 – Fred Sasakamoose, ice hockey player (d. 2020)

Full date unknown

  • Harry Flemming, journalist (d. 2008)
  • Doreen Kimura, psychologist who was professor at Simon Fraser University (d. 2013)

Deaths

  • January 3 – Jack Pickford, actor (b. 1896)
  • April 14 – Daniel Hunter McMillan, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1846)
  • October 10 – James David Stewart, educator, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1874)
  • October 17 – Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire (b. 1868)
  • October 25 – William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b. 1867)
  • November 30 – Arthur Currie, World War I general (b. 1875)

See also

  • List of Canadian films

References