1929 in Canada
Events from the year 1929 in Canada. Historical Documents. British Privy Council members decide "that women are eligible to be summoned to and become members of the Senate of Canada" "Crest of the flood of selling" passes on New York Stock Exchange Charlotte Whitton warns family allowance would reduce mothers to economic slavery and government parental role would undermine family Residential school principal objects to farm training because land limited, students are not labourers, and hired hands would not obey her Calgary Board of Trade report on Turner Valley oil field At Walkerville, Ont. General Motors plant , it is "very dangerous" to work exposed pulleys late in 12-hour night shift Killing of Americans by U.S. border guards enforcing prohibition regulations draws outrage Lord Beaverbrook on overcoming "the great general division between farmers and industrialists" to establish imperial free trade Hunter-conservationist Jack Miner calls for extermination of wolves in Ontario Mackenzie King "wholly convinced in the reality of the spiritual world" after medium contacts his dead family members