1928 in Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Events from the year 1928 in Canada.
.svg)
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta â William Egbert
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â Robert Randolph Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba â Theodore Arthur Burrows
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â William Frederick Todd (until December 28) then Hugh Havelock McLean
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â James Cranswick Tory
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â William Donald Ross
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â Frank Richard Heartz
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â Narcisse Pérodeau (until December 31) then Lomer Gouin
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan â Henry William Newlands
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta â John Edward Brownlee
- Premier of British Columbia â John Duncan MacLean (until August 21) then Simon Fraser Tolmie
- Premier of Manitoba â John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick â John Baxter
- Premier of Nova Scotia â Edgar Nelson Rhodes
- Premier of Ontario â George Howard Ferguson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â Albert Charles Saunders
- Premier of Quebec â Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan â James Garfield Gardiner
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Gold Commissioner of Yukon â George A. Jeckell (until April 1) then George Ian MacLean
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories â William Wallace Cory
Events
- April 2 â Camillien Houde elected mayor of Montreal
- April 24 â The Supreme Court of Canada rules that women are not persons who can hold office according to the British North America Act, 1867âreversed a year later by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain
- May 7 â The St. Roch is launched. It would become the first ship to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east and to circumnavigate North America.
- May 31 â The Legislative Council of Nova Scotia is abolished
- July 4 â Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball.
- August 20 â John Duncan MacLean resigns as premier of British Columbia
- August 21 â Simon Fraser Tolmie becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing John Duncan MacLean
- August 25 â Canada's first major air disaster occurred when bad weather caused a BC Airways Ford Trimotor plane to crash in Puget Sound, Washington[2]
Science and technology
- Frank Morse Robb of Ontario obtains a patent for the first Electronic Organ, the Robb Wave Organ.
Sports
- The Winter Olympics take place in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The University of Toronto Grads won a gold medal in ice hockey.
- The Summer Olympics take place in Amsterdam. Percy Williams and Ethel Catherwood won gold medals for Canada.
- March 26 â The South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Ottawa City Junior Hockey League's Ottawa Gunners 2 game to 1. The deciding Game 3 was played Arenas Garden in Toronto
- December 1 â The Hamilton Tigers win their third Grey cup by shutting out the Regina Roughriders 30 to 0 in the 16th Grey Cup played at A.A.A Grounds in Hamilton
Births
January to March
- January 2
- Avie Bennett, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2017)
- Allen Sapp, painter (d. 2015)
- January 7 â Benny Woit, ice hockey player (d. 2016)
- January 20 â Peter Donat, actor (d. 2018)
- January 25 â Jérôme Choquette, lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
- February 8 â Gene Lees, biographer and lyricist (d. 2010)
- February 13 â Gerald Regan, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2019)
- February 16 â Les Costello, ice hockey player and Catholic priest (d. 2002)
- February 26 â Donald Davis, actor (d. 1998)
- March 3 â Diane Foster, athlete (d. 1999)
- March 9 â Gerald Bull, engineer and artillery designer (d. 1990)
- March 10 â Robert Coates, politician and minister (d. 2016)
- March 12 â Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, politician and senator (d. 2009)
- March 13 â Douglas Rain, actor and narrator (d. 2018)
- March 17
- André Chagnon, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2022)
- William John McKeag, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d. 2007)
- March 20 â James K. Irving, businessman (d. 2024)
- March 31 â Gordie Howe, ice hockey player (d. 2016)
April to June
- April 10
- Kenneth Earl Hurlburt, politician (d. 2016)
- Fraser MacPherson, jazz musician (d. 1993)
- April 17 â Fabien Roy, politician
- April 28 â Zbigniew Basinski, physicist
- April 30 â Hugh Hood, novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor (d. 2000)
- May 4 â Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpet player and bandleader (d. 2006)
- May 7 â Bruno Gerussi, actor and television presenter (d. 1995)
- May 9 â Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (d. 2012)
- May 23
- Pauline Julien, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist (d. 1998)[3]
- Sidney Spivak, politician and Minister (d. 2002)
- June 1 â Larry Zeidel, Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
- June 2 â George Wearring, basketball player (d. 2013)
- June 13 â Renée Morisset, pianist (d. 2009)
- June 25 â Michel Brault, cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
- June 26 â Samuel Belzberg, businessman, philanthropist (d. 2018)
July to December
- July 3 â Raymond Setlakwe, entrepreneur, lawyer and politician (d. 2021)
- July 7 â Tom Chambers, politician (d. 2018)
- July 12 â Paul Ronty, ice hockey centre (d. 2020)
- July 17 â Robert Nixon, politician
- July 21 â Anne Harris, sculptor
- July 22 â Hugh Edighoffer, politician (d. 2019)
- July 23 â Irving Grundman, ice hockey executive and politician (d. 2021)
- July 26 â Peter Lougheed, lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
- July 28 â Ann Sloat, politician (d. 2017)
- July 31 â Gilles Carle, film director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- August 7 â James Randi, stage magician and scientific skeptic (d. 2020 in the United States)
- September 10
- Roch Bolduc, civil servant, politician
- Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche (d. 2019)
- September 20 â Jacqueline Desmarais, billionaire philanthropist (d. 2018)[4]
- October 1 â Jim Pattison, businessman
- October 7 â Raymond Lévesque, singer-songwriter (d. 2021)
- October 9 â Clare Drake, ice hockey coach (d. 2018)
- October 27 â Gilles Vigneault, poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
- November 3 â Gary Lautens, humorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1992)
- November 16 â David Adams, ballet dancer (d. 2007)
- November 20 â Toni Onley, painter (d. 2004)
- November 28 â Floyd Crawford, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
- December 10 â Michael Snow, artist (d. 2023)
- December 12 â Lionel Blair, dancer and entertainer (d. 2021 in the United Kingdom)
- December 16 â Roy Bailey, politician (d. 2018)
- December 21 â Clayton Kenny, boxer (d. 2015)
- December 24 â Adam Exner, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2023)[5]
- December 28 â Moe Koffman, flautist and saxophonist (d. 2001)
- December 29
- Robert Hylton Brisco, politician (d. 2004)
- Norman Cafik, politician (d. 2016)
Full date unknown
- Peter Bronfman, businessman (d. 1996)
Deaths
- April 6 â Godfroy Langlois, politician, journalist and lawyer (b. 1866)
- April 28 â George Gerald King, politician (b. 1836)