1936 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown
  • Monarch – George V (until January 20) then Edward VIII (January 20 to December 11) then George VI

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Events

Sport

Births

January to March

April to June

July to December

Full date unknown

Deaths
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See also

Historical Documents

Saying "I hate war," President Roosevelt seeks foreign and economic policies that will encourage peace [1]

With end of war between Bolivia and Paraguay, President Roosevelt suggests inter-American peace conference [2]

Threatening embargo on Canadian liquor, U.S.A. demands back taxes and customs duties for liquor smuggled during Prohibition [3]

"Taxes are urgently needed" - Alberta's Two Rivers School District board cajoles ratepayers in arrears [4]

Seventy-year-old woman talks to enough of Yukon's 1,805 voters to be elected to House of Commons [5]

"Sterilization is proposed[...]as logical humane procedure to limit the reproduction of the mentally defective." [6]

Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir expresses his deep regret to King Edward VIII on his abdication [7]

"We in Canada are sound asleep in flying matters," says Air Vice-Marshall Billy Bishop [8]

Canadian Tuberculosis Association urges more clinics for Indigenous people, who suffer 30% of TB deaths in western Canada [9]

Youth organizations ranging from church groups to Young Communist League unite for reform at 1936 Youth Congress [10]

Stephen Leacock's views of travel writing and Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ont. [11]

Ralph J. Gleason praises Canadian hockey while covering college tournament for Columbia University student newspaper [12]

Setting new record for one-mile event, Canadian race walker wins in New York City [13]

References
  1. Franklin Roosevelt, "Address at Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936," Development of United States Foreign Policy; Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942), pgs. 11-15. Accessed 13 June 2020 http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/7-2-188/188-05.html
  2. "The President Suggests to All the American Republics an Inter-American Conference at Buenos Aires to Advance the Cause of American and World Peace. January 30, 1936," The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volume Five, The People Approve, 1936, pg. 72-3. Accessed 13 June 2020 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/ppotpus/4925988.1936.001/104
  3. United States Department of State, "Protests of the Canadian Government Against Certain Provisions of the Liquor Tax Bill; Settlement of United States Claims Against Canadian Distillers," Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1936; Volume I, General, The British Commonwealth, pgs. 796-825. Accessed 13 June 2020 http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS1936v01.p0876&id=FRUS.FRUS1936v01
  4. Two Rivers School District 3497 Minutes, 1936, pgs. 70, 71, 73, 75, 76. Accessed 11 June 2020 https://albertaonrecord.ca/two-rivers-school-district-3497-minutes-1935-1937
  5. Martha Louise (Mrs. George) Black (as told to Elizabeth Bailey Price), "The Life I've Lived," Chatelaine (January 1936), pg. 14. Accessed 13 June 2020 http://digital.library.uwaterloo.ca/uwdl-3bba5472-e52d-40ee-85bb-9592da641696/life-ive-lived#page/1/mode/1up
  6. William Hutton, "A Brief for Sterilization of the Feeble-Minded" (Second Edition, June 1936). Accessed 13 June 2020 http://digital.library.uwaterloo.ca/uwdl-a9ac3abb-c8a9-470a-994e-6fc90c4f8a5f/03-brief-sterilization-feeble-minded#page/1/mode/1up
  7. Note of John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, to Private Seretary, Buckingham Palace (December 10, 1936). Accessed 13 June 2020 https://archives.queensu.ca/exhibits/buchan/governor-general https://archives.queensu.ca/sites/webpublish.queensu.ca.archwww/files/images/Exhibits/JB_Abdication.jpg
  8. W.A. Bishop, "What Aviation Means to Canada" (February 13, 1936), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 235-52. Accessed 13 June 2020 http://speeches.empireclub.org/61314/data?n=11
  9. Canadian Press, "Aids Tubercular Indians; Canada Plans Traveling Clinics in Effort to Stem High Death Rate," New York Times (June 30, 1936). Accessed 14 June 2020 https://searchit.libraries.wsu.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=WSU_CDM5clipping%2F8680&context=L&vid=WSU (click on Link to Resource)
  10. Tim Buck, "Chapter Nine; Canada's Youth Comes of Age," Thirty Years; 1922-1952; The Story of the Communist Movement in Canada (1952). Accessed 20 May 2020 http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/compoundobject/collection/radical/id/81602/rec/15 (scroll to Page 131)
  11. Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West; A Discussion of East and West in Canada (1937), pgs. 1-14. Accessed 14 June 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/6099/13.html
  12. Ralph J. Gleason, "Christmas Opportunity Hockey Has Everything; Look, Boys, at Canada," Columbia Daily Spectator, Vol. LIX, No. 59 (January 6, 1936), pg. 3. Accessed 14 June 2020 http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19360106-01.2.16&srpos=526
  13. Daniel M. Friedman, "Let's Take a Walk; A Canadian Wizard; Venzke's Stock Booms," Columbia Daily Spectator, Vol. LIX, No. 73 (February 11, 1936), pg. 3. Accessed 14 June 2020 http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19360211-01.2.22&srpos=529
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