1933 in Canada

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.
Arts and literature
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 - 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
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
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)
George Stulac, basketball player and decathlete
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)
See also
List of Canadian films
Historical documents
Montreal Gazette report finds that, after bad start, 1933 has brought industrial expansion and "a general revival of confidence"
"With a cheery, optimistic feeling prevailing," grain markets in Winnipeg, Chicago and Liverpool raise price of wheat
In what "has been a very bad year," federal budget raises taxes and creates support fund for agricultural exporters
"Heavy obligations" from resource and production investment call for debt conversion, budget balancing and international agreement
Most first ministers back re-employment through shortening of everyone's work day (but unemployment insurance scheme doubtful)
Hitler sworn in as German chancellor, but "surrounded with conservatives" in cabinet
With Nazi plurality, German parliament will allow Hitler to suspend its powers and constitution temporarily
Appeals to Jewish community and Christians to relieve oppression of German Jews
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation rejects capitalism and "its inherent injustice and inhumanity" in Regina Manifesto
Marxist delegate to CCF's Regina convention calls it "middle class" and "reformist"
Rejected in Saskatchewan by-election, Farmer-Labor (CCF) candidates and campaign managers receive advice from their president
Spinning wheel and Bennett buggy: how Prairie farmers are coping in Great Depression
Poor woman asks Prime Minister Bennett to send underwear for her husband (and request is fulfilled)
Memorial plaque unveiled at University of Saskatchewan for 46th Battalion
Mackenzie King yields to temptation, being "disobedient to the heavenly vision as I have held it in my heart"
Flyer for opening of Harlem-style nightclub in Montreal (note: blackface depicted)
References
Years of the 20th century in Canada
Canada
1933 in North America
1930s in Canada