1935 in Canada

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Events from the year 1935 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Mary of Teck)

Federal government

Governor general – Vere Ponsonby (until November 2) then John Buchan (viceregal consort – Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough then Susan Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir)
Prime minister – Richard B. Bennett (until October 23) then William Lyon Mackenzie King

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Premier of Alberta – Richard Gavin Reid (until September 3) then William Aberhart
Premier of British Columbia – Duff Pattullo
Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
Premier of New Brunswick – Leonard Tilley (until July 16) then Allison Dysart
Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn
Premier of Prince Edward Island – William J. P. MacMillan (until August 15) then Walter Lea
Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner (until November 1) then William John Patterson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Vacant (Roy A. Gibson acting)

Events

January to June

January 2 - Prime Minister R. B. Bennett outlines his programme
March 11 - Bank of Canada established
March 11 - The Bank of Canada issued a $500 banknote with Sir John A. Macdonald's portrait and a C$1,000 note with Sir Wilfrid Laurier's portrait
May 7 - David Dunlap Observatory opens
May 25 - Cabot Monument unveiled, Montreal
June 5 - The On-to-Ottawa Trek begins
June 26 - "Regina Riot": Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire into unarmed crowd of unemployed marchers in Regina, Saskatchewan

July to December

July 5 - Canadian Wheat Board established^[1]
July 16 - Allison Dysart becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Leonard Tilley
August 15 - Walter Lea becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing W. J. P. MacMillan
August 22 - Alberta general election, 1935: William Aberhart's Social Credit Party (SoCreds) wins a majority, defeating Richard G. Reid's United Farmers of Alberta
September 3 - Aberhart becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Reid
October 14 - Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a majority, defeating Bennett's Conservatives
October 3 - After the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Canada refuses to support military intervention or even sanctions
October 23 - Mackenzie King becomes prime minister for the third time, replacing Bennett
November 1 - William Patterson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
November 1 - magnitude 6.2 Timiskaming earthquake occurs in western Quebec

Sport

December 7 - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers become the first western Canadian team to win the Grey Cup.

Births

January to June

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 29 - Christina McCall, political writer (d.2005)
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
March 24 - Mary Seeman, psychiatrist
April 16 - Ray Frenette, 28th Premier of New Brunswick
April 22 - Rita Johnston, politician, Canada's first female premier and 29th Premier of British Columbia
May 25 - W. P. Kinsella, novelist and short story writer
May 26 - Pat Carney, politician, Minister and Senator
June 2 - Carol Shields, author (d.2003)

July to December

Donald Sutherland at the Mill Valley Film Festival, 2005

July 17 - Donald Sutherland, actor
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 - Don Mazankowski, politician and Minister
July 29 - Pat Lowther, poet (d.1975)
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 17 - Audrey Thomas, novelist and short story writer
December 11 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian 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, 16th Premier of Manitoba and 22nd Governor General of Canada

Full date unknown

James Bourque, First Nations activist (d.1996)
Lionel Giroux, midget wrestler (d.1995)
J. Robert Janes, author
Alex Janvier, artist
Louise Laurin, educator and activist (d.2013)

Deaths

March 15 - James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1860)
March 16 - John James Richard Macleod, physician, physiologist and Nobel laureate (b.1876)
April 10 - Joseph 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.

References

↑ Wheat Board history

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