1932 in Canada

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Events from the year 1932 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

Federal government

• Governor general – Vere Ponsonby
• Prime minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
• Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
• Parliament – 17th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mulock (until November 1) then Herbert Alexander Bruce
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington
• Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner then Controller of Yukon – George Ian MacLean (until June 30) then George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt

Events

• February 17 – The "Mad Trapper" is killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the Yukon
• July 20 – The Ottawa Imperial Conference is held, it creates a zone of preferential trade within the Commonwealth
• August 1 – The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) is formed in Calgary[1]
• August 3 – Henri Bourassa leaves Le Devoir
• October 29 – The Dominion Drama Festival is founded

Full date unknown

• A seven-month miners strike occurs in Alberta's coal mines in Crowsnest Pass[2]
• The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.[3]

Arts and literature

New Books

• A Broken Journey – Morley Callaghan

Sport

• April 4 – Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Sudbury Cub Wolves won their First Memorial Cup by defeating Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs 2 game to 0. All games played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
• April 9 – 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 – Canada (represented by the Winnipeg Hockey Club) wins their Fourth hockey (consecutive) Gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics
• December 3 – Hamilton Tigers won 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 – Jean Little, author
• February 4 – Bob Dawson, football player (d. 2017)
• February 24 – John Vernon, actor (d.2005)
• February 28 – Don Francks, actor (d. 2016)
• March 1 – Donald Stovel Macdonald, politician and Minister
• March 2 – Jack Austin, politician and Senator
• March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, artist (d.2007)

April to June

• April 6 – Eugène Bellemare, politician
• April 12 – Dick Fowler, mayor, MLA (d.2012)
• April 22 – Ron Basford, politician and Minister (d.2005)
• April 26 – Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d.2000)
• May 7 – Jordi Bonet, artist (d. 1979)
• May 28 – John Savage, politician and 23rd Premier of Nova Scotia (d.2003)
• June 5 – Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, general and Chief of the Defence Staff (d.1998)
• June 10 – Hal Jackman, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• June 24 – Mel Hurtig, publisher, author and political activist
• June 24 – David McTaggart, environmentalist (d.2001)

July to September

• July 13 – Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist
• July 16 – Hédi Bouraoui, poet, novelist and academic
• July 22 – Doug Kyle, long-distance runner
• July 27 – George Ryga, playwright and novelist (d.1987)
• August 11 – Izzy Asper, tax lawyer and media magnate (d.2003)
• August 18 – Bill Bennett, politician and 27th Premier of British Columbia (d.2015)
• August 28 – Andy Bathgate, ice hockey player
• August 31 – Allan Fotheringham, newspaper and magazine journalist
• September 14 – Harry Sinden, ice hockey player, general manager and coach
• September 25 – Glenn Gould, pianist (d.1982)
• September 27 – Gabriel Loubier, politician

October to December

• October 16 – Lucien Paiement, politician, Mayor of Laval (d.2013)
• October 18 – Iona Campagnolo, politician, first female Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
• October 24 – Robert Mundell, professor of economics
• November 10 – Martin Hattersley, lawyer and politician
• November 13 – Marilyn Brooks, fashion designer
• November 29 – Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist
• December 6 – Hank Bassen, ice hockey player (d.2009)

Deaths

J. E. H. MacDonald

• March 6 – Joseph-Hormisdas Legris, politician and Senator (b.1850)
• July 22 – Reginald Fessenden, inventor and radio pioneer (b.1866)
• August 1 – Wellington Willoughby, politician and lawyer (b.1859)
• August 7 – Napoléon Belcourt, politician (b.1860)
• August 21 – Leonard Burnett, politician, farmer and teacher (b.1845)
• November 26 – J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven (b.1873)

Historical Documents

Federal budget broadly raises tax rates and restricts exemptions [4]

Liberals claim "blank cheque legislation" to aid unemployed allows government to bypass Parliament [5]

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation founded "to regulate production, distribution and exchange for supplying human needs" [6]

At average 35 cents per bushel, prices for wheat farmers about one-third what they were in 1929 [7]

United Farmers of Alberta convention's calls to nationalize credit and monetary system, and make wheat certificates legal tender [8]

Mass meeting denounces maladministration by Newfoundland government of Richard Squires [9]

German politics "a fight between philosophies of life[...]as violent and as irreconcilable as you will never be able to believe" [10]

Place held by Jews of western Canada in professions, business and agriculture [11]

House of Commons debates deportation procedures and rights of residents [12]

Edward Johnson on importance of music to mind and spirit [13]

CBC interview with member of aircrew who joined "Mad Trapper" manhunt for Albert Johnson in Northwest Territories [14]

Thunder Bay (Ont.) area farmers set local record for construction [15]

Letter-to-editor profiles Watson Duchemin, inventor of brass roller bearing block [16]

References

1. Canadian Press, "J.S. Woodsworth Heads New Political Group; Would Alter System," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 11 (August 2, 1932), pg. 2. Accessed 1 June 2020 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19320802&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
2. Start: January 1932, The Canadian Encyclopedia
3. Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. http://criaw-icref.ca/millenium Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
4. Canadian Press, "Sales Tax Six Per Cent," The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LIX, No. 212 (April 6, 1932), pg. 1. Accessed 1 June 2020 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19320406&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
5. Canadian Press, "Relief Measure Amendment Lost[...]; Liberals Lay Down Concentrated Attack on Unemployment Proposals as Closure Is Applied; Tempers Frayed," The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LIX, No. 206 (March 30, 1932), pgs. 1-2. Accessed 1 June 2020 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19320330&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
6. Canadian Press, "J.S. Woodsworth Heads New Political Group; Would Alter System," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 11 (August 2, 1932), pg. 2. Accessed 1 June 2020 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19320802&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
7. "Reduced Income of Farmer Due to Financial Depression and Crop Failure," Report on Rural Relief Due to Drought Conditions and Crop Failures in Western Canada; 1930-1937, pgs. 25-6. Accessed 1 June 2020 https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2405364657/view
8. Canadian Press, "U.F.A. Urges National Credit Plan; Financial System Is Denounced," The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LIX, No. 148 (January 21, 1932), pgs. 1-2. Accessed 1 June 2020 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19320121&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
9. "The People Demand Justice and Truth; Monster Gathering in Majestic Theatre Protests[...] - Citizens Decide to Go En Masse to House of Assembly," The (St. John's) Evening Telegram (April 5, 1932). Accessed 1 June 2020 http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/meetings_apr04.html (scroll down to "Telegram")
10. Count Von Luckner and Victor Lange, "The New Germany" (November 29, 1932), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 316-31. Accessed 1 June 2020 http://speeches.empireclub.org/62448/data?n=6
11. H.E. Wilder (ed.),The 100th Anniversary Souvenir of Jewish Emancipation in Canada and the 50th Anniversary of the Jew in the West (1932), pgs. 38, 54-8. Accessed 1 June 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/5654/41.html http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/5654/57.html
12. "Deportation Cases" (May 6, 1932), House of Commons Debates, 17th Parliament, 3rd Session: Vol. 3, pgs. 2658-9. Accessed 1 June 2020 http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC1703_03/300?r=0&s=1
13. Edward Johnson, "Music In A Disordered World" (December 29, 1932), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 350-5. Accessed 1 June 2020 http://speeches.empireclub.org/60538/data?n=4
14. "1932: 'Mad Trapper' killed by RCMP after lengthy manhunt" (July 26, 1979), CBC Digital Archives. Accessed 1 June 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/the-rcmp-get-their-man-thanks-to-a-bush-pilot
15. Arnott A. Toole, "1932 Farm Building Activities Set New Record for District," The Fort William Daily Times-Journal (December 10, 1932). Accessed 1 June 2020 http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/new1932.htm
16. "Watson Duchemin, Inventor," Charlottetown Guardian (March 2, 1932). Accessed 1 June 2020 http://islandregister.com/letters/wduchemin.html