1934 in Canada
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Events from the year 1934 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Mary of Teck)
Federal government
- Governor general – Vere Ponsonby (viceregal consort – Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough)
- Prime minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
- Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
- Parliament – 17th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor (until December 1) then William Johnston Tupper
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Herbert Alexander Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George Des Brisay de Blois
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll (until April 29) then Esioff-Léon Patenaude
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee (until July 10) then Richard Gavin Reid
- Premier of British Columbia – Duff Pattullo
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick – Leonard Tilley
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
- Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry (until July 10) then Mitchell Hepburn
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – William J. P. MacMillan
- Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson (until July 19) then James Garfield Gardiner
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt (until April 30) then Vacant (Roy A. Gibson acting)
Events
- March 9 - New Brunswick women win the right to hold office
- June 19 - Ontario election: Mitchell Hepburn's Liberals win a majority, defeating George S. Henry's Conservatives
- June 19 - Saskatchewan election: James Garfield Gardiner's Liberals win a majority, defeating James T.M. Anderson's Conservative-led coalition government
- July 3 - The Bank of Canada is formed
- July 10 - Mitchell Hepburn becomes premier of Ontario, replacing George Henry
- July 10 - Richard G. Reid becomes premier of Alberta, replacing John Brownlee
- July 19 - James Gardiner becomes premier of Saskatchewan for the second time, replacing James Anderson
- August 14 - John Sackville Labatt kidnapped
- October 26 - Reconstruction Party of Canada formed
Arts and literature
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Births
January to March
- January 3 - Yves Gaucher, artist
- January 11 - Jean Chrétien, politician and 20th Prime Minister of Canada
- January 16 - Judy Erola, broadcaster and politician
- January 19 - Lloyd Robertson, television news anchor and senior editor
- January 23 - Pierre Bourgault, politician and essayist (d.2003)
- February 5 - Don Cherry, ice hockey player, coach and commentator
- February 8 - Philip Seeman, schizophrenia researcher and neuropharmacologist
- March 7 - Douglas Cardinal, architect
- March 9 - Marlene Streit, golfer
- March 16 - Ray Hnatyshyn, politician and 24th Governor General of Canada (d.2002)
- March 24 - Alice Whitty, high jumper
April to June
- May 17 - George Karpati, neurologist and neuroscientist (d.2009)
- May 28 - Dionne quintuplets, first quintuplets known to survive their infancy
- June 7 - David Strangway, Canadian geophysicist and academic
- June 16 - Roger Neilson, ice hockey coach (d.2003)
- June 22 - Willie Adams, politician and Senator
- June 25 - Théodore Jean Arcand, diplomat
- June 27 - Norman Atkins, businessman and Senator
July to September
- July 13 - Peter Gzowski, broadcaster, writer and reporter (d.2002)
- July 19 - Larry Zolf, journalist (d. 2011)
- July 27 - Jim Elder, horse rider and Olympic gold medalist
- August 11 - Abrams twins, Lillian and Dorothy
- August 31 - Herb Epp, politician, MPP of the Ontario Legislature for Waterloo North (1977–1990) (d. 2013)
- September 21 - Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and artist (d. 2016 in the United States)
October to December
- October 1 - Margaret McCain, philanthropist and first female Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
- October 4 - Rudy Wiebe, author and professor
- October 5 - Ken Taylor, diplomat involved in the Iran hostage crisis
- November 21 - Howard Pawley, politician, professor and 18th Premier of Manitoba
- November 26 - Conrad Santos, politician
- November 30 - Marcel Prud'homme, politician and Senator
Deaths
- March 7 - John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Governor General of Canada (b.1847)
- March 15 - Davidson Black, paleoanthropologist (b.1884)
- April 17 - Frank S. Cahill, politician (b.1876)
- July 28 - Marie Dressler, actress (b.1868)
- October 4 - Henry Sproatt, architect (b.1866)
- November 10 - Donald Mann, railway contractor and entrepreneur (b.1853)
References
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