Canada-related events during the year of 1927
Events from the year 1927 in Canada.
Incumbents[edit]
Federal government[edit]
Provincial governments[edit]
Lieutenant governors[edit]
Premiers[edit]
Territorial governments[edit]
Commissioners[edit]
Arts and literature[edit]
Science and technology[edit]
January to March[edit]
- January 1
- January 4 – Paul Desmarais, financier
- January 6 – John W. Grace, first Privacy Commissioner of Canada (d. 2009)
- January 10 – Gisele MacKenzie, singer (d. 2003)
- January 17 – Stan Roberts, politician (d. 1990)
- January 24 – Phyllis Lambert, architect and philanthropist
- January 25 – Gildas Molgat, politician (d. 2001)
- January 28 – Sheila Finestone, politician and Senator (d. 2009)
- January 29 – Lewis Urry, chemical engineer and inventor (d. 2004)
- January 30 – Sterling Lyon, politician and 17th Premier of Manitoba (d. 2010)
- February 11 – Sinclair Stevens, politician
- March 3 – William Kurelek, artist and writer (d. 1977)
- March 9 – John Beckwith, composer, writer, pianist, teacher and administrator
- March 25 – Bill Barilko, ice hockey player (d. 1951)
- March 27 – Eugène Philippe LaRocque, Roman Catholic priest (d. 2018)
- March 28 – Fernande Saint-Martin, art critic, museologist, semiologist, visual arts theorist and writer (d. 2019)
April to June[edit]
- April 6
- April 8
- April 13 – Ronald Stewart, businessman and politician (d. 2022)
- April 25 – Frances Hyland, actress (d. 2004)
- May 2 – Budge Wilson, writer (d. 2021)
- May 5 – Sylvia Fedoruk, scientist, curler and Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (d. 2012)
- May 14 – Frank Miller, politician and 19th Premier of Ontario (d. 2000)
- June 3 – George Hislop, gay activist (d. 2005)
- June 17 – Jean Robert Beaulé, politician (d. 2005)
- June 24 – Fernand Dumont, sociologist, philosopher, theologian and poet (d. 1997)
- June 25 – Nora McDermott basketball player, volleyball player, coach and physical education teacher (d. 2013)
- June 26 – Robert Kroetsch, novelist, poet and non-fiction writer (d. 2011)
- June 29
July to December[edit]
- July 2 – Fern Villeneuve, aviator (d. 2019)
- July 18 – Keith MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 2021)
- July 20 – Jack Horner, politician and Minister (d. 2004)
- July 21 – Hal Hatfield, football player
- August 17 – John Alan Beesley, diplomat and civil servant (d. 2009)
- September 1 – Chuck Dalton, basketball player, member of Olympic team (1952) (d. 2013)
- September 7 – Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- October 3 – Kenojuak Ashevak, artist (d. 2013)
- October 14 – Elmer Iseler, choir conductor and choral editor (d. 1998)
- October 15 – Peter Pollen, politician (d. 2017)
- November 3 – Harrison McCain, businessman (d. 2004)
- November 8 – Peter Munk, businessman and philanthropist
- November 10
- November 17 – Nicholas Taylor, geologist, businessman, politician and Senator (d. 2020)
- November 18 – Knowlton Nash, journalist, author and television news anchor (d. 2014)
- November 26 – Ernie Coombs, children's entertainer Mr. Dressup (d. 2001)
- November 30 – Tod Sloan, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
- December 6 – Marcel Pelletier, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
- December 7 – Grant Strate, dancer, choreographer and academic
- December 18 – Roméo LeBlanc, politician and 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009)
- December 24 – Geoffrey Pearson, diplomat (d. 2008)
January to June[edit]
July to December[edit]
See also[edit]
Historical documents[edit]
Popular infant care author writes government guide to raising babies, including growth, health, habits, and "character and disposition"[2]
Speaker delivers strongly anti-Catholic commentary at packed Ku Klux Klan meeting in Regina[3]
MP Agnes Macphail calls for government pension coverage for war veterans unable to work[4]
British privy council renders decision on long-disputed Labrador border between Newfoundland and Canada[5]
U.S. border restrictions force Canadian residents working in U.S.A. to qualify for immigration[6]
Illustration: A.Y. Jackson's painting of Mount Robson is among Group of Seven art in Canadian National Railway guide to Jasper National Park[7]
Hunter regrets killing one of Jack Miner's "noble" Canada geese[8]
Son of "dead" man who skippered schooner lost in Lake Ontario gale learns he started life anew in Oklahoma[9]
References[edit]
- ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ Helen MacMurchy, The Canadian Mother's Book (1927). Accessed 6 December 2019
- ^ "Ku Klux Klan Not Dead Yet, Meeting Told" Regina Morning Leader (October 5, 1927), pg. 8. Accessed 12 May 2020
- ^ "Old Age Pensions" (March 3, 1927), House of Commons Debates, 16th Parliament, 1st Session: Vol. 1, pg. 882 Accessed 7 March 2020
- ^ "Labrador; A Source of Wealth; The Boundary Dispute; Privy Council Decision" The (Wellington, N.Z.) Evening Post, Vol. CXIII, No. 94 (April 22, 1927), pg. 9. Accessed 12 May 2020
- ^ "The Canadian Minister (Massey) to Secretary of State" (No. 149, June 8, 1927), Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1927, Volume 1, pgs. 502-6. Accessed 12 May 2020
- ^ Scenic Guide - Jasper National Park - Canadian National Railways (1927), Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 3 April 2022
- ^ Letter in "The Canada Goose as Canada's Emblem," Jack Miner on Current Topics, pgs. 48-50 Accessed 12 May 2020
- ^ "Ten Year Old Mystery of Wreck Expected to Be Cleared Up Now" The (Belleville, Ont.) Intelligencer (March 7, 1927). Accessed 12 May 2020
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