1933 in Canada

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Events from the year 1933 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

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
• 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 – Charles Dalton (until December 9) then George Des Brisay de Blois (from December 28)
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie (until November 15) then Duff Pattullo
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards (until June 1) then Leonard Tilley
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington (until September 5) then Angus Lewis Macdonald
• Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart (until October 10) then William J. P. MacMillan (from October 14)
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt

Events

• April 7 - Raymond Paley becomes the first known skiing fatality in the Canadian Rockies on Fossil Mountain.
• June 1 - Leonard Tilley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Charles Richards
• August 16 - A race riot occurs at Christie Pits in Toronto.
• September 5 - Angus Macdonald becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Gordon Harrington
• October 14 - W. J. P. MacMillan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James D. Stewart
• November 11 - The magnitude 7.3 Baffin Bay earthquake occurs at Baffin Bay, Nunavut.
• November 15 - Thomas Pattullo becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Simon Fraser Tolmie
• December 2 - Newfoundland's independence is revoked due to its financial difficulties.

Births

January to March

• January 24 - Claude Préfontaine, actor (d.2013)
• January 25 - Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, playwright and journalist (d.1983)
• January 31 - Camille Henry, ice hockey player (d.1997)
• January 31 - John Snow, Native leader
• February 13 - Michael Cook, playwright (d.1994)
• February 18 - Frank Moores, businessman, politician and 2nd Premier of Newfoundland (d.2005)
• February 24 - Gustavo Da Roza, architect
• March 4 - James Jerome, jurist, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.2005)
• March 9 - Mel Lastman, businessman, politician and Mayor of Toronto
• March 19 - John Sopinka, lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1997)
• March 29 - Jacques Brault, poet and translator

April to June

• April 5 - Joe Comuzzi, politician
• April 19 - Peter Demeter, murder
• April 24 - Alan Eagleson, disbarred lawyer, convicted felon, former politician, hockey agent and promoter
• May 24 - Marian Engel, novelist (d.1985)
• May 29 - Marc Carbonneau, taxi driver and convicted kidnapper
• June 28 - George Stulac, basketball player and decathlete

July to September

• July 8 - Antonio Lamer, lawyer, jurist and 16th Chief Justice of Canada (d.2007)
• July 13 - Scott Symons, writer (d.2009)
• July 14 - Robert Bourassa, politician and 22nd Premier of Quebec (d.1996)
• July 28 - David Ahenakew, politician (d.2010)
• August 13 - Ted Godwin, artist (d.2013)
• August 24 - John Alan Lee, sociologist (d. 2013)
• August 30 - Don Getty, politician and 11th Premier of Alberta
• September 8 - Maurice Foster, politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993) (d. 2010)
• September 19 - Gilles Archambault, novelist

October to December

• October 12 - Guido Molinari, artist (d.2004)
• October 22 - David Bromige, poet (d.2009)
• November 16 - Leonard Marchand, politician
• November 26 - Robert Goulet, singer and actor (d.2007)
• November 27 - Jacques Godbout, novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet
• December 1 - Alex Campbell, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• December 12 - Joe Borowski, politician and activist (d.1996)

Full date unknown

• Harry Flemming, journalist (d.2008)
• Doreen Kimura, psychologist who was professor at Simon Fraser University (d.2013)

Deaths

• January 3 - Jack Pickford, actor (b.1896)
• April 14 - Daniel Hunter McMillan, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1846)
• October 10 - James David Stewart, educator, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1874)
• October 17 - Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire (b.1868)
• October 25 - William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1867)
• November 30 - Arthur Currie, World War I general (b.1875)