1928 in Canada

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Events from the year 1928 in Canada.

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April 2 - Camillien Houde elected mayor of Montreal
April 24 - The Supreme Court of Canada rules that women are not persons who can hold office according to the British North America Act—reversed a year later by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain
May 7 - The St. Roch is launched. It would become the first ship to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east and to circumnavigate North America.
May 31 - The Legislative Council of Nova Scotia is abolished
August 20 - John Duncan MacLean resigns as premier of British Columbia
August 21 - Simon Fraser Tolmie becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing John Duncan MacLean
August 25 - Canada's first major air disaster occurred when bad weather caused a BC Airways Ford Trimotor plane to crash in Puget Sound, Washington^[1]

Allen Sapp

January 2 -
- Avie Bennett, businessman and philanthropist
- Allen Sapp, painter
February 13 - Gerald Regan, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia
February 16 - Les Costello, ice hockey player and Catholic priest (d.2002)
February 26 - Donald Davis, actor (d.1998)
March 9 - Gerald Bull, engineer and artillery designer (d.1990)
March 10 - Robert Coates, politician and Minister
March 12 - Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, politician and Senator (d.2009)
March 17 - William John McKeag, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.2007)
March 31 - Gordie Howe, ice hockey player

April 10 - Fraser MacPherson, jazz musician (d.1993)
April 17 - Fabien Roy, politician
April 28 - Zbigniew Basinski, physicist
April 30 - Hugh Hood, novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor (d.2000)
May 4 - Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpet player and bandleader (d.2006)
May 7 - Bruno Gerussi, actor and television presenter (d.1995)
May 9 - Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater and Olympic gold medalist
May 23 -
- Pauline Julien, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist (d.1998)
- Sidney Spivak, politician and Minister (d.2002)
June 13 - Renée Morisset, pianist (d.2009)

July 26 - Peter Lougheed, lawyer and politician
September 10 - Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche
October 1 - Jim Pattison, businessman
October 27 - Gilles Vigneault, poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
November 3 - Gary Lautens, humorist and newspaper columnist (d.1992)
November 16 - David Adams, ballet dancer (d.2007)
November 20 - Toni Onley, painter (d.2004)
December 16 - Roy Bailey, politician
December 21 - Clayton Kenny, boxer
December 28 - Moe Koffman, flautist and saxophonist (d.2001)
December 29 -
- Robert Hylton Brisco, politician (d.2004)
- Norman Cafik, politician