# 1937 in Canada

Events from the year 1937 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – George VI

### Federal government

* Governor General – John Buchan
* Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
* Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
* Parliament – 18th

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Philip Primrose (until March 17) then John C. Bowen (from March 23)
* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Eric Hamber
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William Johnston Tupper
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Murray MacLaren
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert (until April 7) then Robert Irwin
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Herbert Alexander Bruce (until November 23) then Albert Edward Matthews
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George Des Brisay de Blois
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Esioff-Léon Patenaude
* Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Archibald Peter McNab

#### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta – William Aberhart
* Premier of British Columbia – Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
* Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
* Premier of New Brunswick – Allison Dysart
* Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
* Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn
* Premier of Prince Edward Island – Thane Campbell
* Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
* Premier of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

### Territorial governments
#### Commissioners

* Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell

## Events

* April – A Crucifix was hung in the Montreal city council at the initiative of Joseph-Émile Dubreuil. The crucifix would hung there until 2019.
* April 10 – Trans-Canada Airlines, the predecessor of Air Canada, was created as a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway
* July 5 – Midale and Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, record the highest temperature ever in Canada, with a record high of 45 °C (113 °F).
* August 15 – The Rowell-Sirois Commission is formed
* September 1 – Regular flights of Trans-Canada Air Lines begin
* October 6 – Ontario election: Mitchell Hepburn's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
* November 24 – The first Governor General's Awards are given.
* First ascent of Mount Lucania (5,226 m), third highest mountain in Canada.

## Sport

* April 17 – The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Copper Cliff Redmen 3 games to 1. The deciding Game 4 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
* December 11 – Toronto Argonauts win their fourth Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 4 to 3 in the 25th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

## Births
### January to June

* January 5 – Richard Cashin, lawyer, politician and trade union leader
* January 21 – Jim Unger, cartoonist (d. 2012)
* January 24 – Suzanne Tremblay, politician
* January 26 – Maureen Hemphill, politician
* January 29 – Frank Iacobucci, jurist and Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
* January 31 – Andrée Boucher, politician and 39th Mayor of Quebec City (d. 2007)
* February 5 – Larry Hillman, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2022)
* February 10 – Roy Megarry, publisher
* February 26 – Hagood Hardy, composer, pianist and vibraphonist (d. 1997)
* March 2 – Joseph B. MacInnis, diver
* March 9
** Bernard Landry, lawyer, teacher, politician and 28th Premier of Quebec
** Harry Neale, ice hockey coach and broadcaster
* March 10 – Tommy Hunter, country music singer
* March 16 – Brian Browne, jazz pianist and composer (d. 2018)
* March 26 – James Lee, politician and 28th Premier of Prince Edward Island
* March 30 – Maria Rika Maniates, musicologist (d. 2011)
* April 13 – Stan Stasiak, pro wrestler
* April 29 – Jean Gauthier, ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins) (d. 2013)
* May 9 – Jim Walding, politician (d. 2007)
* May 13 – Roch Carrier, novelist
* June 15 – Toby Tarnow, actress

### July to December

* July 12 – Michel Louvain, singer (d. 2021)
* July 30 – John de Chastelain, general, diplomat and Chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (in Northern Ireland)
* August 2 – Garth Hudson, musician
* August 16 – David Anderson, politician and Minister
* August 16 – Ian Deans, politician (d. 2016)
* August 25 – John G. Bryden, lawyer, public servant, businessman and Senator
* September 2 – Len Carlson, voice actor (d. 2006)
* September 3 – Gerry Brisson, ice hockey player (d. 2013)
* September 5 – John Dahmer, politician (d. 1988)
* September 8 – Barbara Frum, radio and television journalist (d. 1992)
* September 9 – Jean Augustine, politician
* September 12 – George Chuvalo, boxer
* September 19 – Neil Gaudry, politician (d. 1999)
* September 23 – Jacques Poulin, novelist
* September 27 – Guido Basso, jazz musician (d. 2023)
* October 19 – Marilyn Bell, long-distance swimmer, first person to swim across Lake Ontario
* October 19 – Stanley Faulder, murderer and first Canadian citizen to be executed in the United States since 1952 (d. 1999)
* November 4 – Michael Wilson, politician and diplomat (d. 2019)
* November 6 – Gerry St. Germain, politician
* November 11 – Stephen Lewis, politician, broadcaster and diplomat
* November 12
** Barbara McDougall, politician and Minister
** Glen Shortliffe, Clerk of the Privy Council (d. 2010)
* December 4 – Donnelly Rhodes, actor (d. 2018)
* December 19 – Wayne Maunder, Canadian-born American actor (d. 2018)

### Date unknown

* Élise Paré-Tousignant, music administrator and pedagogue (d. 2018)

## Deaths
### January to June

* January 21 – Marie Prevost, actress (b. 1896)
* January 29 – Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (b. 1869)
* February 16 – Rodmond Roblin, businessman, politician and 9th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1853)
* March 8 – Howie Morenz, ice hockey player (b. 1902)
* June 10 – Robert Borden, lawyer, politician and 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)

### July to December

* July 25 – Charles E. Saunders, agronomist (b. 1867)
* October 13 – Simon Fraser Tolmie, politician and 21st Premier of British Columbia (b. 1867)
* November 21 – Matthew Robert Blake, politician (b. 1876)
* December 27 – John Douglas Hazen, politician and 12th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1860)