1929 in Canada

Crown

• Monarch – George V^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
• Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
• Parliament – 16th

Provincial governments

Territorial governments

January to March

• January 17 – Jacques Plante, ice hockey player (d. 1986)
• January 20 – Pat Mahoney, businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South (1968–1972), General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders (1965) (d. 2012)
• January 21 – Bill Norrie, politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992), Chancellor of the University of Manitoba (2001–2009), respiratory failure. (d. 2012)
• January 23 – John Polanyi, chemist and 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry joint laureate
• January 25 – Brian O'Neill, ice hockey executive (d. 2023)
• February 12 – Philip Kives, businessman
• February 28 – Frank Gehry, architect (d. 2025)
• March 20 – William Andrew MacKay, academic, President of Dalhousie University (1980–1986) (d. 2013)

April to June

• April 8 – Garnet Bloomfield, politician (d. 2018)
• April 11 – Eric Luoma, cross-country skier (d. 2018)
• May 8 – Claude Castonguay, banker and politician (d. 2020)
• May 10
  • Antonine Maillet, novelist, playwright and scholar^[2]
  • Peter C. Newman, journalist (d. 2023)
• May 12 – Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
• May 13 – Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author (d. 1996)
• May 14 – Gump Worsley, ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• May 16 – Claude Morin, politician
• May 18 – Walter Pitman, educator and politician
• May 28- Shane Rimmer, actor (d. 2019 in the United Kingdom)
• June 7
  • John Turner, lawyer, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Canada
  • Walter Weir, politician and 15th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1985)
• June 8 – Louise Maheux-Forcier, author
• June 9
  • Jean Rougeau, professional wrestler and bodyguard of Quebec Premier René Lévesque (d. 1983)
  • Harold R. Steele, businessman (d. 2022)
• June 10 – Pearl McGonigal, politician
• June 20 – Edgar Bronfman, Sr., businessman
• June 27 – H. Ian Macdonald, economist

July to September

• July 2 – Anna-Marie Globenski, pianist and teacher (d. 2008)
• July 3 – Béatrice Picard, actress (d. 2025)
• July 4 – Walt Konarski, Canadian football player
• July 10 – Moe Norman, golfer (d. 2004)
• July 18 – Roy Killin, footballer
• July 19 – Ronald Melzack, psychologist (d. 2019)
• July 26 – Marc Lalonde, politician and Minister (d. 2023)^[3]
• July 30 – Bill Davis, politician and 18th Premier of Ontario
• August 1 – Sidney Green, politician
• August 3 – Peter Salmon, swimmer (d. 2003)
• August 9 – George Scott Wallace, British Columbia physician and politician (d. 2011)
• August 19 – Leonard Evans, politician
• August 27 – George Scott, professional wrestler and promoter (d. 2014)
• September 14 – Dimitri Dimakopoulos, architect
• September 19 – Gertrude Story, writer and broadcaster (d. 2014)^[4][5]
• September 24 -Edward M. Lawson, trade unionist, politician and Senator

October to December

• October 7 – Graeme Ferguson, filmmaker and inventor who co-invented IMAX (d. 2021)
• November 1 – Charles Juravinski, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2022)^[6]
• November 2 – Richard E. Taylor, physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics joint laureate (d. 2018)
• November 21 – Laurier LaPierre, broadcaster, journalist, author and senator (d. 2012)
• November 24 – Harry Oliver Bradley, politician
• December 6 – Harry Langford, footballer (d. 2022)^[7]
• December 13 – Christopher Plummer, actor (d. 2021)^[8]
• December 15 – Emery Barnes, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1998)
• December 23 – Patrick Watson, broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director (d. 2022)
• December 28 – Terry Sawchuk, ice hockey player (d. 1970)

Full date unknown

• Ken Adachi, writer and literary critic (d. 1989)

January to March

• January 6 – George Henry Murray, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1861)
• January 14 – Alexander Warburton, politician, jurist, author and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1852)
• January 18 – Theodore Arthur Burrows, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1857)

• January 19 – Edward Charles Bowers, politician (b. 1845)
• January 29 – John Howatt Bell, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1846)
• February – Richard Gardiner Willis, politician (b. 1865)
• February 17 – James Colebrooke Patterson, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1839)
• March 1 – James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1851)
• March 28 – Lomer Gouin, politician and 13th Premier of Quebec (d. 1861)
• March 29 – Hugh John Macdonald, politician, Minister and 8th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1850)

April to December

• April 17 – Clifford Sifton, politician and Minister (b. 1861)
• May 6 – William Dillon Otter, soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff (b. 1843)
• June 3 – John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1842)
• June 8 – Bliss Carman, poet (b. 1861)
• June 23 – William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1848)
• July 30 – Antonin Nantel, priest, teacher, school administrator, and author (b. 1839)
• October 10 – Elijah McCoy, inventor and engineer (b. 1843)