1932 in Canada
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Events from the year 1932 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta â William Legh Walsh
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â John William Fordham Johnson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba â James Duncan McGregor
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â Hugh Havelock McLean
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â Walter Harold Covert
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â William Mulock (until November 1) then Herbert Alexander Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â Charles Dalton
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â Henry George Carroll
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan â Hugh Edwin Munroe
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta â John Edward Brownlee
- Premier of British Columbia â Simon Fraser Tolmie
- Premier of Manitoba â John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick â Charles Dow Richards
- Premier of Nova Scotia â Gordon Sidney Harrington
- Premier of Ontario â George Stewart Henry
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â James D. Stewart
- Premier of Quebec â Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan â James Thomas Milton Anderson
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Gold Commissioner then Controller of Yukon â George Ian MacLean (until June 30) then George A. Jeckell
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories â Hugh Rowatt
Events
- February 17 â The "Mad Trapper" is killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the Yukon
- July 20 â The Ottawa Imperial Conference is held, it creates a zone of preferential trade within the Commonwealth
- August 1 â The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) is formed in Calgary[2]
- August 3 â Henri Bourassa leaves Le Devoir
- October 29 â The Dominion Drama Festival is founded
Full date unknown
- A seven-month miners strike occurs in Alberta's coal mines in Crowsnest Pass[3]
- The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.[4]
Arts and literature
New Books
- A Broken Journey â Morley Callaghan
Sport
- April 4 â 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 â 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 â Canada (represented by the Winnipeg Hockey Club) wins their fourth (consecutive) hockey gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- December 3 â 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 â Jean Little, author
- January 11 â Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk, nurse (d. 2021)
- February 4 â Bob Dawson, football player (d. 2017)
- February 13 â Robert Fulford, journalist (d. 2024)
- February 24 â John Vernon, actor (d. 2005)
- February 28 â Don Francks, actor (d. 2016)
- March 1 â Donald Stovel Macdonald, politician and minister
- March 2 â Jack Austin, politician and Senator
- March 14 â Norval Morrisseau, artist (d. 2007)
April to June
- April 3 â Jean-Claude Corbeil, linguist and lexicographer (d. 2022)
- April 6 â Eugène Bellemare, politician
- April 8 â Al Boliska, radio and television broadcaster
- April 12 â Dick Fowler, mayor, MLA (d. 2012)
- April 14 â Bill Bennett, politician and 27th Premier of British Columbia (d. 2015)
- April 22 â Ron Basford, politician and Minister (d. 2005)
- April 26 â Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2000)
- May 7 â Jordi Bonet, artist (d. 1979)
- May 28 â John Savage, politician and 23rd Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
- June 5 â Gérard Charles Ãdouard Thériault, general and Chief of the Defence Staff (d. 1998)
- June 10 â 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 â Jean-Guy Talbot, ice hockey defenceman and coach (d. 2024)
- July 13 â Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist (d. 2023)
- July 16 â Hédi Bouraoui, poet, novelist and academic
- July 22 â Doug Kyle, long-distance runner
- July 27 â George Ryga, playwright and novelist (d. 1987)
- August 2 â Leo Boivin, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
- August 11 â Izzy Asper, tax lawyer and media magnate (d. 2003)
- August 28 â Andy Bathgate, ice hockey player
- August 31 â Allan Fotheringham, newspaper and magazine journalist
- September 14 â Harry Sinden, ice hockey player, general manager and coach
- September 25 â Glenn Gould, pianist (d. 1982)
- September 27 â Gabriel Loubier, politician (d. 2025)
October to December
- October 16 â Lucien Paiement, politician, Mayor of Laval (d. 2013)
- October 18 â Iona Campagnolo, politician, first female Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
- October 24 â Robert Mundell, professor of economics (d. 2021)
- November 10 â Martin Hattersley, lawyer and politician
- November 13 â Marilyn Brooks, fashion designer
- November 29 â Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist
- December 6 â Hank Bassen, ice hockey player (d. 2009)
Deaths
- March 6 â Joseph-Hormisdas Legris, politician and Senator (b. 1850)
- July 22 â Reginald Fessenden, inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
- August 1 â Wellington Willoughby, politician and lawyer (b. 1859)
- August 7 â Napoléon Belcourt, politician (b. 1860)
- August 21 â Leonard Burnett, politician, farmer and teacher (b. 1845)
- November 11 â Georgina Fraser Newhall, author and the bardess of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada (b. 1860)
- November 26 â J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven (b. 1873)
