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Events from the year 1929 in Canada.

## Incumbents

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### Crown

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* Monarch – George V[1]

### Federal government

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* 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

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#### Lieutenant governors

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* 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

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* 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

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#### Commissioners

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

## Events

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* 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 USCGC Dexter.
* 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

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

## Science and technology

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* Wop May and Vic Horner brave poor visibility and −30 °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

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* March 30 – The 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 12 – The first legal forward pass in Canadian football is completed.
* November 30 – The 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

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### January to March

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* 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
* March 20 – William Andrew MacKay, academic, President of Dalhousie University (1980–1986) (d. 2013)

### April to June

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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[2]
* 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

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* July 2 – Anna-Marie Globenski, pianist and teacher (d. 2008)
* July 3 – Béatrice Picard, actress
* 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)[3]
* 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)[4][5]
* September 24 -Edward M. Lawson, trade unionist, politician and Senator

### October to December

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* October 7 – Graeme Ferguson, filmmaker and inventor who co-invented IMAX (d. 2021)
* November 1 – Charles Juravinski, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2022)[6]
* 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)[7]
* December 13 – Christopher Plummer, actor (d. 2021)[8]
* 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

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

## Deaths

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### January to March

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* 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)

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

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* 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

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* List of Canadian films

## Historical documents

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British Privy Council members decide "that women are eligible to be summoned to and become members of the Senate of Canada"[9]

"Crest of the flood of selling" passes on New York Stock Exchange[10]

Charlotte Whitton warns family allowance would reduce mothers to economic slavery and government parental role would undermine family[11]

Residential school principal objects to farm training because land limited, students are not labourers, and hired hands would not obey her[12]

Calgary Board of Trade report on Turner Valley oil field[13]

At Walkerville, Ont. General Motors plant, it is "very dangerous" to work exposed pulleys late in 12-hour night shift[14]

Killing of Americans by U.S. border guards enforcing prohibition regulations draws outrage[15]

Lord Beaverbrook on overcoming "the great general division between farmers and industrialists" to establish imperial free trade [16]

Hunter-conservationist Jack Miner calls for extermination of wolves in Ontario[17]

Mackenzie King "wholly convinced in the reality of the spiritual world" after medium contacts his dead family members[18]

## References

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1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
2. ^ "Antonine Maillet | The Canadian Encyclopedia". thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
3. ^ "Marc Lalonde | The Canadian Encyclopedia". thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
4. ^ Hammond, Margaret A. "Story, Gertrude (1929–)". The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
5. ^ "Gertrude Story". The StarPhoenix. January 18, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2021 – via Postmedia Obituaries.
6. ^ "Hamilton philanthropist Charles Juravinski dead at 92 – Hamilton | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Archived from the original on 2023-07-09.
7. ^ Stampeders mourn death of 'Ironman' Harry Langford
8. ^ Weber, Bruce (5 February 2021). "Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to 'The Sound of Music,' Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
9. ^ "Privy Council Appeal No. 121 of 1928. In the matter of a Reference as to the meaning of the word 'persons' in Section 24 of The British North America Act, 1867; Judgement of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council" (October 18, 1929), pgs. 2, 5, 7-8, 9, 11-13, 14. Accessed 19 May 2020
10. ^ Associated Press (New York, October 29), "Bankers Again Halt Big Flood of Liquidation" The (Montreal) Gazette, Vol. CLVIII, No. 260 (October 30, 1929), pg. 1. Accessed 19 May 2020
11. ^ Testimony of Charlotte Whitton (April 30, 1929), [House] Select Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations; [on] granting Family Allowances, pgs. 55-8. Accessed 21 October 2020
12. ^ Letter of Sister Saint Simon to Duncan Scott (June 24, 1929). Accessed 24 June 2021
13. ^ "A Trip through Turner Valley; with the Young Men's Section of the Calgary Board of Trade" (September 12, 1929). Accessed 19 May 2020
14. ^ "From a Member of the G.M.C. 'Happy Family' in Walkerville," Auto Workers' Life (1929). Accessed 12 August 2020 https://projects.windsorpubliclibrary.com/digi/sar/part3.htm (scroll down to Excerpt from Auto Workers's Life)
15. ^ [U.S.] Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, "Outrages on the Border" Canada Liquor Crossing the Border (1929), pgs. 18-21. Accessed 19 May 2020
16. ^ Max Aitken, "Empire Free Trade;...A Manifesto by Lord Beaverbrook." Accessed 10 April 2020
17. ^ Jack Miner, "Deer and Wolves" Jack Miner on Current Topics (copyright 1929), pgs. 61-9. Accessed 27 January 2020
18. ^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1929, pg. 7. Accessed 19 May 2020

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