1932 in Canada

1932 in Canada
Events from the year 1932 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)
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 – William Mulock (until November 1) then Herbert Alexander Bruce
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton
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
Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards
Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington
Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart
Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Gold Commissioner then Controller of Yukon – George Ian MacLean (until June 30) then George A. Jeckell
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt
Events
February 17 – The "Mad Trapper" is killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the Yukon
July 20 – The Ottawa Imperial Conference is held, it creates a zone of preferential trade within the Commonwealth
August 1 – The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) is formed in Calgary
August 3 – Henri Bourassa leaves Le Devoir
October 29 – The Dominion Drama Festival is founded
Full date unknown
A seven-month miners strike occurs in Alberta's coal mines in Crowsnest Pass
The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.
Arts and literature
New Books
A Broken Journey – Morley Callaghan
Sport
April 4 – The Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Sudbury Cub Wolves win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs 2 games to 0. All games played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
April 9 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their third Stanley Cup by defeating the New York Rangers 3 game to 0. The deciding game was played at the newly opened Maple Leaf Gardens
February 13 – Canada (represented by the Winnipeg Hockey Club) wins their fourth (consecutive) hockey gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics
December 3 – The Hamilton Tigers win their fifth and final Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Roughriders 25 to 6 in the 20th Grey Cup played at Hamilton's Civic Stadium
Births
January to March
January 2 – Jean Little, author
January 11 – Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk, nurse (d. 2021)
February 4 – Bob Dawson, football player (d. 2017)
February 24 – John Vernon, actor (d. 2005)
February 28 – Don Francks, actor (d. 2016)
March 1 – Donald Stovel Macdonald, politician and Minister
March 2 – Jack Austin, politician and Senator
March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, artist (d. 2007)
April to June
April 3 – Jean-Claude Corbeil, linguist and lexicographer (d. 2022)
April 6 – Eugène Bellemare, politician
April 12 – Dick Fowler, mayor, MLA (d. 2012)
April 14 – Bill Bennett, politician and 27th Premier of British Columbia (d. 2015)
April 22 – Ron Basford, politician and Minister (d. 2005)
April 26 – Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2000)
May 7 – Jordi Bonet, artist (d. 1979)
May 28 – John Savage, politician and 23rd Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
June 5 – Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, general and Chief of the Defence Staff (d. 1998)
June 10 – Hal Jackman, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
June 24
Mel Hurtig, publisher, author and political activist
David McTaggart, environmentalist (d. 2001)
July to September
July 11 – Jean-Guy Talbot, ice hockey defenceman and coach
July 13 – Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist
July 16 – Hédi Bouraoui, poet, novelist and academic
July 22 – Doug Kyle, long-distance runner
July 27 – George Ryga, playwright and novelist (d. 1987)
August 2 – Leo Boivin, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
August 11 – Izzy Asper, tax lawyer and media magnate (d. 2003)
August 28 – Andy Bathgate, ice hockey player
August 31 – Allan Fotheringham, newspaper and magazine journalist
September 14 – Harry Sinden, ice hockey player, general manager and coach
September 25 – Glenn Gould, pianist (d. 1982)
September 27 – Gabriel Loubier, politician
October to December
October 16 – Lucien Paiement, politician, Mayor of Laval (d. 2013)
October 18 – Iona Campagnolo, politician, first female Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
October 24 – Robert Mundell, professor of economics (d. 2021)
November 10 – Martin Hattersley, lawyer and politician
November 13 – Marilyn Brooks, fashion designer
November 29 – Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist
December 6 – Hank Bassen, ice hockey player (d. 2009)
Deaths
March 6 – Joseph-Hormisdas Legris, politician and Senator (b. 1850)
July 22 – Reginald Fessenden, inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
August 1 – Wellington Willoughby, politician and lawyer (b. 1859)
August 7 – Napoléon Belcourt, politician (b. 1860)
August 21 – Leonard Burnett, politician, farmer and teacher (b. 1845)
November 11 – Georgina Fraser Newhall, author and the bardess of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada (b. 1860)
November 26 – J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven (b. 1873)
Historical documents
Federal budget broadly raises tax rates and restricts exemptions
Liberals claim "blank cheque legislation" to aid unemployed allows government to bypass Parliament
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation founded "to regulate production, distribution and exchange for supplying human needs"
At average 35 cents per bushel, prices for wheat farmers about one-third what they were in 1929
United Farmers of Alberta convention's calls to nationalize credit and monetary system, and make wheat certificates legal tender
Mass meeting denounces maladministration by Newfoundland government of Richard Squires
German politics "a fight between philosophies of life[...]as violent and as irreconcilable as you will never be able to believe"
Place held by Jews of western Canada in professions, business and agriculture
House of Commons debates deportation procedures and rights of residents
Women's Institutes are for radio for Canadians and against "weariness of advertisement before and after every item of music or speech"
Edward Johnson on importance of music to mind and spirit
CBC interview with member of aircrew who joined "Mad Trapper" manhunt for Albert Johnson in Northwest Territories
Thunder Bay (Ont.) area farmers set local record for construction
Letter-to-editor profiles Watson Duchemin, inventor of brass roller bearing block
References
Years of the 20th century in Canada
Canada
1932 in North America