# 1928 in Canada

Events from the year 1928 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – George V

### Federal government

* 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
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Theodore Arthur Burrows
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Frederick Todd (until December 28) then 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 – Narcisse Pérodeau (until December 31) then Lomer Gouin
* Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

#### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
* Premier of British Columbia – John Duncan MacLean (until August 21) then 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

### Territorial governments
#### Commissioners

* Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George A. Jeckell (until April 1) then George Ian MacLean
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

## Events

* 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, 1867—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
* July 4 – Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball.
* 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

## Science and technology

* Frank Morse Robb of Ontario obtains a patent for the first Electronic Organ, the Robb Wave Organ.

## Sports

* The Winter Olympics take place in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The University of Toronto Grads won a gold medal in ice hockey.
* The Summer Olympics take place in Amsterdam. Percy Williams and Ethel Catherwood won gold medals for Canada.
* March 26 – The South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Ottawa City Junior Hockey League's Ottawa Gunners 2 game to 1. The deciding Game 3 was played Arenas Garden in Toronto
* December 1 – The Hamilton Tigers win their third Grey cup by shutting out the Regina Roughriders 30 to 0 in the 16th Grey Cup played at A.A.A Grounds in Hamilton

## Births
### January to March

* January 2
** Avie Bennett, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2017)
** Allen Sapp, painter (d. 2015)
* January 7 – Benny Woit, ice hockey player (d. 2016)
* January 20 – Peter Donat, actor (d. 2018)
* January 25 – Jérôme Choquette, lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
* February 8 – Gene Lees, biographer and lyricist (d. 2010)
* February 13 – Gerald Regan, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2019)
* February 16 – Les Costello, ice hockey player and Catholic priest (d. 2002)
* February 26 – Donald Davis, actor (d. 1998)
* March 3 – Diane Foster, athlete (d. 1999)
* March 9 – Gerald Bull, engineer and artillery designer (d. 1990)
* March 10 – Robert Coates, politician and minister (d. 2016)
* March 12 – Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, politician and senator (d. 2009)
* March 13 – Douglas Rain, actor and narrator (d. 2018)
* March 17
** André Chagnon, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2022)
** William John McKeag, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d. 2007)
* March 20 – James K. Irving, businessman (d. 2024)
* March 31 – Gordie Howe, ice hockey player (d. 2016)

### April to June

* April 10
** Kenneth Earl Hurlburt, politician (d. 2016)
** 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 (d. 2012)
* May 23
** Pauline Julien, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist (d. 1998)
** Sidney Spivak, politician and Minister (d. 2002)
* June 1 – Larry Zeidel, Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
* June 2 – George Wearring, basketball player (d. 2013)
* June 13 – Renée Morisset, pianist (d. 2009)
* June 25 – Michel Brault, cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
* June 26 – Samuel Belzberg, businessman, philanthropist (d. 2018)

### July to December

* July 3 – Raymond Setlakwe, entrepreneur, lawyer and politician (d. 2021)
* July 7 – Tom Chambers, politician (d. 2018)
* July 12 – Paul Ronty, ice hockey centre (d. 2020)
* July 17 – Robert Nixon, politician
* July 21 – Anne Harris, sculptor
* July 22 – Hugh Edighoffer, politician (d. 2019)
* July 23 – Irving Grundman, ice hockey executive and politician (d. 2021)
* July 26 – Peter Lougheed, lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
* July 28 – Ann Sloat, politician (d. 2017)
* July 31 – Gilles Carle, film director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
* August 7 – James Randi, stage magician and scientific skeptic (d. 2020 in the United States)
* September 10
** Roch Bolduc, civil servant, politician
** Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche (d. 2019)
* September 20 – Jacqueline Desmarais, billionaire philanthropist (d. 2018)
* October 1 – Jim Pattison, businessman
* October 7 – Raymond Lévesque, singer-songwriter (d. 2021)
* October 9 – Clare Drake, ice hockey coach (d. 2018)
* 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)
* November 28 – Floyd Crawford, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
* December 10 – Michael Snow, artist (d. 2023)
* December 12 – Lionel Blair, dancer and entertainer (d. 2021 in the United Kingdom)
* December 16 – Roy Bailey, politician (d. 2018)
* December 21 – Clayton Kenny, boxer (d. 2015)
* December 24 – Adam Exner, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2023)
* December 28 – Moe Koffman, flautist and saxophonist (d. 2001)
* December 29
** Robert Hylton Brisco, politician (d. 2004)
** Norman Cafik, politician (d. 2016)

### Full date unknown

* Peter Bronfman, businessman (d. 1996)

## Deaths

* April 6 – Godfroy Langlois, politician, journalist and lawyer (b. 1866)
* April 28 – George Gerald King, politician (b. 1836)