1924 in Canada

Crown

• Monarch – George V^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Julian Byng
• Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Louis Henry Davies (Prince Edward Island) (until 1 May) then Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
• Parliament – 14th

Provincial governments

Territorial governments

Basketball

• The Edmonton Grads win their first international basketball tournament held as part of the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. As it was only a demonstration sport, no medals were awarded. The Grads would dominate women's basketball tournaments from 1924 to 1936.^[3]

Hockey

• The Toronto Granite Club win the gold medal at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix. The Canadian team beat the American team 6–1 after a ferocious, injury-filled game.
• March 25 – the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens win their second Stanley Cup by defeating the Western Canada Hockey League's Calgary Tigers 2 games to 0. The deciding game was played in Ottawa's Ottawa Auditorium.
• March 26 and 28 – Ontario Hockey Association's Owen Sound Greys won their first Memorial Cup by defeating Calgary City Junior Hockey League's Calgary Canadians 7 to 5 in 2 game aggregate played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
• November 29 – The Montreal Forum opens

Football

• November 29 – Queen's University wins their third and final Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers 11–3 in the 12th Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

January to March

• January 5 – Gerry Plamondon, ice hockey player (d. 2019)
• January 10 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, ballet dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1996)
• January 29 – Marcelle Ferron, painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
• January 29 – Lois Marshall, soprano (d. 1997)
• February 3 – Martial Asselin, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2013)
• February 7 – Ivor Dent, politician and mayor of Edmonton (d. 2009)
• February 18 – Nicolo Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mobster (d. 2010)
• February 24
  • Remi De Roo, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2022)
  • Douglas Jung, politician and first Chinese Canadian MP in the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2002)
  • Erik Nielsen, politician (d. 2008)
• March 11 – Eva Von Gencsy, dancer (d. 2013)
• March 18 – Johnny Papalia, mobster (d. 1997)

April to June

• April 5 – Orville Howard Phillips, politician and Senator (d. 2009)
• April 20 – Guy Rocher, sociologist and academic (d. 2025)
• April 29 – Al Balding, golfer (d. 2006)
• May 26 – Nancy Bell, senator (d. 1989)
• May 28 – Paul Hébert, actor (d. 2017)
• June 2 – June Callwood, journalist, author and social activist (d. 2007)
• June 3 – Colleen Dewhurst, actress (d. 1991)
• June 22 – Larkin Kerwin, physicist, President of the Canadian Space Agency (d. 2004)
• June 14 – Arthur Erickson, architect and urban planner (d. 2009)
• June 21 – Wally Fawkes, Canadian-born jazz clarinettist and cartoonist (d. 2023 in the United Kingdom)

July to September

• July 11 – Eugene Whelan, politician and Minister (d. 2013)
• July 20 – Mort Garson, electronic musician (d. 2008)
• July 21 – Lynn R. Williams, labour leader (d. 2014)
• July 29 – Lloyd Bochner, actor (d. 2005)
• July 30 – Roland Penner, politician (d. 2018)
• September 13 – Léonel Beaudoin, politician (d. 2021)
• September 19 – Don Harron, comedian, actor, director, journalist, author and composer (d. 2015)

October to December

• October 18 – Buddy MacMaster, fiddle player (d. 2014)
• November 1 – Jean-Luc Pépin, academic, politician and Minister (d. 1995)
• November 10 – Danny Cameron, politician (d. c2009)
• November 11 – Evelyn Wawryshyn, baseball player
• November 24 – Lorne Munroe, Canadian-American cellist and educator (d. 2020)
• December 6 – Donald Jack, novelist and playwright (d. 2003)
• December 15 – Robert B. Salter, surgeon (d. 2010)
• December 19 – Doug Harvey, ice hockey player (d. 1989)
• December 20 – Judy LaMarsh, politician and Minister, lawyer, author and broadcaster (d. 1980)
• December 22 – A. Edison Stairs, businessman and politician, New Brunswick MLA (1960–1978) and Minister of Finance (1974–1976), natural causes (d. 2010)