# 1933 in Canada

Events from the year 1933 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – George V

### Federal government

* Governor General – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
* Prime Minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
* Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario) (until 28 February) then 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
* 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 – The Christie Pits riot between Jews and Nazi sympathizers 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, Northwest Territories.
* 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.

## Sport

* April 6 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Newmarket Redmen win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 2 games to 0. All games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
* December 9 – The Toronto Argonauts win their third Grey Cup by defeating the Sarnia Imperials 4–3 at Sarnia's Davis Field

## Births
### January to March

* January 24 – Claude Préfontaine, actor (d. 2013)
* January 25
** Anne Innis Dagg, zoologist and feminist (d. 2024)
** Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, playwright and journalist (d. 1983)
* January 31 – Camille Henry, ice hockey player (d. 1997)
* February 13 – Michael Cook, playwright (d. 1994)
* February 16 – Tom Hickey, Canadian politician (d. 2020)
* February 18 – Frank Moores, businessman, politician and 2nd Premier of Newfoundland (d. 2005)
* February 24 – Gustavo Da Roza, architect
* March 2 – Simonie Michael, Inuk politician (d. 2008)
* March 4 – James Jerome, jurist, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2005)
* March 9 – Mel Lastman, businessman, politician and Mayor of Toronto (d. 2021)
* March 19
** John Sopinka, lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 1997)
** Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator (d. 2019)
* March 23 – Thomas R. Berger, politician and jurist (d. 2021)
* March 29 – Jacques Brault, poet and translator (d. 2022)

### April to June

* April 5 – Joe Comuzzi, politician (d. 2022)
* April 19
** Peter Demeter, murderer
** Garry Blaine, ice hockey player (d. 1998)
* 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 19 – Michael M. Ames, anthropologist and academic (d. 2006)
* June 24
** Bob Cole, sports television announcer (d. 2024)
** Bernard Grandmaître, politician
* June 26 – Gerry Weiner, politician
* June 28
** Antonio Flamand, politician
** Gisèle Lalonde, politician and community activist, mayor of Vanier, Ontario (1985–1992) (d. 2022)
* June 30
** Don Head, ice hockey player
** Orval Tessier, ice hockey centre and coach (d. 2022)

### July to September

* July 2 – Kenny Wharram, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
* 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 16 – Julian Klymkiw, ice hockey goaltender (d. 2022)
* July 17 – Mimi Hines, singer and comedian
* July 28
** David Ahenakew, politician (d. 2010)
** Charlie Hodge, ice hockey goaltender (d. 2016)
* 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 (d. 2016)
* 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 (d. 2016)
* 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)
* December 25 – Fred Sasakamoose, ice hockey player (d. 2020)

### 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)