1926 in Canada

Events from the year 1926 in Canada.

Events

• February 24 – Robert Randolph Bruce becomes British Columbia's 13th Lieutenant Governor
• February 26 – James Garfield Gardiner becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Charles Dunning
• June 28 – The King-Byng Affair climaxes as William Lyon Mackenzie King resigns as prime minister. Arthur Meighen becomes prime minister for the second time, but an election is forced when Meighen fails to win the confidence of the House.
• June 24 – Monument aux Patriotes, Montreal unveiled
• June 28 – Alberta general election, 1926: John Brownlee's United Farmers of Alberta win a second consecutive majority
• July 1 – Canada moves back onto the gold standard
• September 14 – Federal election: the coalition of Mackenzie King's Liberals and the Liberal-Progressives win a majority, defeating Arthur Meighen's Conservatives
• September 25 – Mackenzie King becomes prime minister for the second time, replacing Arthur Meighen
• November 18 – British dominions given official autonomy in the Balfour Report
• December 1 – Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority

Full date unknown

• Les petits Baigneurs unveiled
• The RCMP establish a base on Ellesmere Island as a proof of Canadian sovereignty.
• The Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association almalgamates with the Farmers' Union of Canada to create the United Farmers of Canada.

Births

Leslie Nielsen in 2009 at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

January to June

• January 4 – Betty Kennedy, broadcaster, journalist, author, Senator and gameshow panelist
• February 6 – Ray Perrault, politician (d.2008)
• February 11 – Leslie Nielsen, comedian and actor (d.2010)
• February 20 – Jean Boucher, politician
• April 17 – Gerry McNeil, ice hockey player (d.2004)
• April 21 – HRH Princess Elizabeth of York (now Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, of the United Kingdom and of 14 other Commonwealth realms)
• April 28 – Alex Oakley, race walker
• May 19 – Francis Sparshott, scholar
• May 20 – Allan McEachern, lawyer, judge and university chancellor (d.2008)
• May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb, science fiction novelist and poet
• June 3 – Flora MacDonald, politician

July to December

• July 18 – Margaret Laurence, novelist and short story writer (d.1987)
• July 21 – Norman Jewison, film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre
• July 22 – Paul Collins, long-distance runner (d.1995)
• August 13 – Dalton McGuinty Senior, politician and father of premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty and the politician David McGuinty (d.1990)
• September 1 – James Reaney, poet, playwright and literary critic (d.2008)
• September 27 – Jack Duffy, actor and comedian (d.2008)
• October 1 – Ben Wicks, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author (d.2000)
• October 26 – George Crum, conductor, pianist, vocal coach and musical arranger (d.2007)
• November 9 – Mary Morrison, soprano

Full date unknown

• Gordon Donaldson, author and journalist (d.2001)

Deaths

Nérée Le Noblet Duplessis

• January 31 – Paul Tourigny, politician (b.1852)
• February 2 – John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong, politician (b.1877)
• February 20 – Paul-Eugène Roy, Roman Catholic priest, and Archbishop of Quebec (b.1859)
• March 27 – Georges Vézina, ice hockey player (b.1887)
• June 23 – Nérée Le Noblet Duplessis, politician, 19th Mayor of Trois-Rivières and father of 16th Premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis (b.1855)
• August 24 – Laurent-Olivier David, journalist, lawyer, and politician (b.1840)