Jump to content

1937 in Canada: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
GreenC bot (talk | contribs)
Rescued 2 archive links. Wayback Medic 2.5
Line 50: Line 50:
*August 15 – The [[Rowell-Sirois Commission]] is formed<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/medicare/medic-2g03e.shtml|title=Civilization.ca - History of Canadian Medicare – 1930–1939 - Royal Commission on Dominion Provincial Relations|website=www.historymuseum.ca|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
*August 15 – The [[Rowell-Sirois Commission]] is formed<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/medicare/medic-2g03e.shtml|title=Civilization.ca - History of Canadian Medicare – 1930–1939 - Royal Commission on Dominion Provincial Relations|website=www.historymuseum.ca|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
*September 1 – Regular flights of [[Trans-Canada Air Lines]] begin<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trans-canada-airlines/|title=Trans-Canada Airlines|last=Marsh|first=James H.|newspaper=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
*September 1 – Regular flights of [[Trans-Canada Air Lines]] begin<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trans-canada-airlines/|title=Trans-Canada Airlines|last=Marsh|first=James H.|newspaper=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
*October 6 – [[Ontario]] election: [[Mitchell Hepburn]]'s Liberals win a second consecutive majority<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_detail.do?locale=en&ID=456|title=Legislative Assembly of Ontario {{!}} Members (MPPs) {{!}} Past & Present MPPs {{!}} Mitchell Frederick Hepburn, MPP|website=www.ontla.on.ca|access-date=2016-12-30}}{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*October 6 – [[Ontario]] election: [[Mitchell Hepburn]]'s Liberals win a second consecutive majority<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_detail.do?locale=en&ID=456|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130628100038/http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_detail.do?locale=en&ID=456|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 28, 2013|title=Legislative Assembly of Ontario {{!}} Members (MPPs) {{!}} Past & Present MPPs {{!}} Mitchell Frederick Hepburn, MPP|website=www.ontla.on.ca|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
*November 24 – The first [[Governor General's Awards]] are given.
*November 24 – The first [[Governor General's Awards]] are given.
*First ascent of [[Mount Lucania]] (5,226 m), third highest mountain in Canada.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mount-lucania/|title=Mount Lucania|last=Boles|first=Glen|newspaper=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
*First ascent of [[Mount Lucania]] (5,226 m), third highest mountain in Canada.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mount-lucania/|title=Mount Lucania|last=Boles|first=Glen|newspaper=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
Line 71: Line 71:
*January 31 – [[Andrée Boucher]], politician and 39th Mayor of [[Quebec City]] (d. [[2007 in Canada|2007]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070824/CPACTUALITES/70824104/6488/CPACTUALITES |title=Andrée Boucher est décédée {{!}} Actualités {{!}} Cyberpresse |date=2007-08-27 |access-date=2016-12-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827100836/http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070824/CPACTUALITES/70824104/6488/CPACTUALITES |archive-date=2007-08-27 }}</ref>
*January 31 – [[Andrée Boucher]], politician and 39th Mayor of [[Quebec City]] (d. [[2007 in Canada|2007]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070824/CPACTUALITES/70824104/6488/CPACTUALITES |title=Andrée Boucher est décédée {{!}} Actualités {{!}} Cyberpresse |date=2007-08-27 |access-date=2016-12-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827100836/http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070824/CPACTUALITES/70824104/6488/CPACTUALITES |archive-date=2007-08-27 }}</ref>
*February 10 – [[Roy Megarry|Archibald Roy Megarry]], publisher<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/archibald-roy-megarry/|title=Archibald Roy Megarry|last=Granatstein |first=J.L.|newspaper=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
*February 10 – [[Roy Megarry|Archibald Roy Megarry]], publisher<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/archibald-roy-megarry/|title=Archibald Roy Megarry|last=Granatstein |first=J.L.|newspaper=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
*February 26 – [[Hagood Hardy]], composer, pianist and vibraphonist (d. [[1997 in Canada|1997]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.canadianjazzarchive.org/en/musicians/hagood-hardy.html|title=Hagood Hardy Musician Biography {{!}} Canadian Jazz Archive Online|last=Archive|first=Canadian Jazz|date=2016-12-30|website=www.canadianjazzarchive.org|language=en|access-date=2016-12-30}}{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*February 26 – [[Hagood Hardy]], composer, pianist and vibraphonist (d. [[1997 in Canada|1997]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.canadianjazzarchive.org/en/musicians/hagood-hardy.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231075852/http://www.canadianjazzarchive.org/en/musicians/hagood-hardy.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 31, 2016|title=Hagood Hardy Musician Biography {{!}} Canadian Jazz Archive Online|last=Archive|first=Canadian Jazz|date=2016-12-30|website=www.canadianjazzarchive.org|language=en|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
*March 2 – [[Joseph B. MacInnis]], diver<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/heirloom_series/volume5/50-51.htm|title=Disclaimer - Electronic Collection|website=epe.lac-bac.gc.ca|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
*March 2 – [[Joseph B. MacInnis]], diver<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/heirloom_series/volume5/50-51.htm|title=Disclaimer - Electronic Collection|website=epe.lac-bac.gc.ca|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref>
*March 9
*March 9

Revision as of 21:06, 14 May 2022

Years in Canada: 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940

Events from the year 1937 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Events

Arts and literature

Sport

Births

January to June

July to December

Deaths

January to June

Robert Borden

July to December

See also

Historical Documents

With graphic descriptions of slaughter, United Church moderator expresses outrage at atrocities in Spain and China [49]

Peace league calls national congress because "Human life, Liberty, Social Culture and the Arts hang in terrible jeopardy" [50]

Ontario Lieutenant-Governor endorses Youth Crusade for Peace: "Youth of the world should have a decisive voice" [51]

On committee studying death penalty, MP Agnes Macphail argues criminally insane murderers should suffer death like other killers[52]

Commons debates Trans-Canada Air Lines (when planes went through mountain passes on 16-hour Winnipeg-Vancouver flights) [53]

Call for more British immigrants to allow West "to develop a race of people that is strong, sturdy and self-reliant" [54]

"The danger is that the Chinese or Japanese by inter-marriage would absorb our own race" - race fear in denying vote to "oriental"[55]

Alberta Social Credit government's "accurate news" bill amended in face of "almost[...]Fascism" and "dictatorship" criticism [56]

Britain's debt to Newfoundland, in its history of exploiting and leaving it underdeveloped, balances assuming its liabilities currently [57]

Calling him "sly" and "delightful," newspaper profiles judge representing Canada on Trail, B.C. fumes tribunal [58]

Canadian studying at Harvard writes about friends fighting in Spain and his fervour for communism [59]

Report of cooperative Canadian and U.S. work done on site of Champlain's Habitation of Port Royal in Nova Scotia [60]

Advertisement for Westinghouse World Cruiser Radio - "Tonal Fidelity Reflects the Living Image of Each Broadcast Note" [61]

Two Canadian Pacific Railway dining car menus [62]

References

  1. ^ "John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b Marsh, James H. "Trans-Canada Airlines". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  3. ^ "Hottest Place in Canada - Current Results". www.currentresults.com. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  4. ^ "Civilization.ca - History of Canadian Medicare – 1930–1939 - Royal Commission on Dominion Provincial Relations". www.historymuseum.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  5. ^ "Legislative Assembly of Ontario | Members (MPPs) | Past & Present MPPs | Mitchell Frederick Hepburn, MPP". www.ontla.on.ca. Archived from the original on June 28, 2013. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  6. ^ Boles, Glen. "Mount Lucania". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  7. ^ Kealey, Gregory S. "Richard Cashin". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  8. ^ "Herman creator Jim Unger dies in his sleep | Toronto Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  9. ^ "Celebrating Women's Achievements". www.collectionscanada.gc.ca. Library and Archives Canada. 2000-10-02. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  10. ^ Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. "MLA Biographies- Living". www.gov.mb.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  11. ^ Supreme Court of Canada (2001-01-01). "Supreme Court of Canada - Biography - Frank Iacobucci". Archived from the original on 2017-03-04. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  12. ^ "Andrée Boucher est décédée | Actualités | Cyberpresse". 2007-08-27. Archived from the original on 2007-08-27. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  13. ^ Granatstein, J.L. "Archibald Roy Megarry". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  14. ^ Archive, Canadian Jazz (2016-12-30). "Hagood Hardy Musician Biography | Canadian Jazz Archive Online". www.canadianjazzarchive.org. Archived from the original on December 31, 2016. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  15. ^ "Disclaimer - Electronic Collection". epe.lac-bac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  16. ^ "Bernard Landry – National Assembly of Quebec". www.assnat.qc.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  17. ^ Green, Richard. "Tommy Hunter". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  18. ^ Canada, Province of Prince Edward Island. "Premiers Gallery: Premiers Gallery". www.gov.pe.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  19. ^ "Jean Gauthier Stats | Hockey-Reference.com". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  20. ^ "Political wild card Jim Walding dies in B.C." CBC News. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  21. ^ Snyder, Lorraine. "Roch Carrier". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  22. ^ "Toby Tarnow". IMDb. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  23. ^ Bonikowsky, Laura Neilson. "John de Chastelain". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  24. ^ "Google". www.google.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  25. ^ "Ian Deans (1937-2016): NDP firebrand went on to head Public Service Staff Relations Board". Ottawa Citizen. 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  26. ^ "PARLINFO - Parliamentarian File - Federal Experience - BRYDEN, The Hon. John G., B.A., LL.B." Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  27. ^ "BRISSON GERALD - Obituaries - Winnipeg Free Press Passages". passages.winnipegfreepress.com. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  28. ^ "PARLINFO - Parliamentarian File - Federal Experience - DAHMER, John". Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  29. ^ "Obit: Barbara Frum, CBC broadcaster (1937-1992) | BillGladstone.ca". www.billgladstone.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  30. ^ McLeod, Susanna. "Jean Augustine". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  31. ^ YOUNG. "George Chuvalo". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  32. ^ Goldsborough, Gordon. "Memorable Manitobans: Neil Gaudry (1937-1999)". www.mhs.mb.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  33. ^ Rochon, François. "Jacques Poulin". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  34. ^ CALLWOOD, JUNE. "Marilyn Bell". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  35. ^ "Faulder executed in Texas". CBC News. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  36. ^ "PARLINFO - Parliamentarian File - Federal Experience - ST. GERMAIN, The Hon. Gerry, P.C." Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  37. ^ Whitehorn, Alan. "Stephen Henry Lewis". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  38. ^ "PARLINFO - Parliamentarian File - Complete File - MCDOUGALL, The Hon. Barbara Jean, P.C., O.C., B.A., LL.D., C.F.A." Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  39. ^ "Glen Shortliffe's Obituary on Ottawa Citizen". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  40. ^ "Marie Prevost". IMDb. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  41. ^ "Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  42. ^ "Biography – ROBLIN, SIR RODMOND PALEN – Volume XVI (1931-1940) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  43. ^ "Howie Morenz - Bio, pictures, stats and more | Historical Website of the Montreal Canadiens". ourhistory.canadiens.com. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  44. ^ "ARCHIVED - Borden-Biography-First Among Equals". www.collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  45. ^ "Sir Charles Edward Saunders Facts". biography.yourdictionary.com. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  46. ^ Roy, Patricia E. "Simon Fraser Tolmie". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  47. ^ "PARLINFO - Parliamentarian File - Complete File - BLAKE, Matthew Robert, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P." Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  48. ^ "Sir John Douglas Hazen". My New Brunswick. 2014-04-19. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  49. ^ Peter Bryce, "I Can No Longer Be Silent" (August 24, 1937). Accessed 16 June 2020 http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/bryce-peter-united-church-canada-leaflet-24-august-1937
  50. ^ Canadian League for Peace and Democracy, "Call to Action; Canadian Congress for Peace and Democracy" (1937). Accessed 16 June 2020 http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/canadian-league-peace-and-democracy-leaflet-19-21-november-1937 Links to entire congress brochure: http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000671.jpg http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000671-2.jpg http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000671-3.jpg http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000671-4.jpg http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000671-5.jpg
  51. ^ Letter of Herbert A. Bruce (Government House, Toronto, October 12, 1937). Accessed 16 June 2020 http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/bruce-herbert-alexander-lieutenant-governor-ontario-leaflet-12-october-1937
  52. ^ Testimony of M.F. Gallagher (February 23, 1937), Special Committee on the Criminal Code (Death Penalty), pgs. 36-7. Accessed 27 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1802_2_1/58?r=0&s=1
  53. ^ "Trans-Canada Air Lines; Arrangement with Corporation Respecting Lines and Services for Transport of Passengers, Goods and Mails" (April 1, 1937), House Of Commons Debates, 18th Parliament, 2nd Session: Vol. 3, pgs. 2443-61. Accessed 16 June 2020 http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC1802_03/397?r=0&s=1
  54. ^ Garnet Neff, "Can Canada Remain British" (February 4, 1937), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 194-208. Accessed 16 June 2020 http://speeches.empireclub.org/60783/data?n=173
  55. ^ Testimony of Thomas Reid, MP: "Assimilability of the Oriental" (March 11, 1937), [House] Special Committee on Elections and Franchise Acts, pgs. 209-10. Accessed 27 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1802_3_1/245?r=0&s=1
  56. ^ B.T. Richardson, "Yields to Pressure; Alta. Government Amends Vigorously-Criticized Newspaper Bill," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LXV, No. 29 (October 5, 1937), pgs. 1, 8. Accessed 16 June 2020 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19371005&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
  57. ^ J.A. Cochrane, "Mother Country's Debt to Newfoundland" (February 22, 1937), Dr. Cluny Macpherson Notebook 1, pgs. 59-65a. Accessed 17 June 2020 http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cluny/id/1463
  58. ^ A.C.L. Jr., "Canadian Fume Member Charms; Chief Justice Greenshields of Tribune [sic] Has Keen Sense of Humor," (Spokane, Wash.) Spokesman-Review (July 24, 1937). Accessed 17 June 2020 https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/collection/clipping/id/6485
  59. ^ Letter of Herbert Norman (March 3, 1937). Accessed 17 June 2020 http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/norman/archives/privateletter/5581en.html
  60. ^ Harriet Taber (Mrs. Frederick A.) Richardson, "A Report on the Work Accomplished for Rebuilding the Habitation of Port Royal, New France, at Lower Granville, Nova Scotia" (July 22, 1937). Accessed 17 June 2020 https://novascotia.ca/archives/Habitation/archives.asp?ID=11
  61. ^ Canadian Westinghouse Co. Limited, "Fidelity," Canadian Home Journal (1937). Accessed 16 June 2020 https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r41j97r3h
  62. ^ Canadian Pacific, "The Chateau Frontenac; In Old Quebec" and "Evangeline at the Well; Grand Pré, Nova Scotia" (April 3, 1937). Accessed 17 June 2020 http://menus.nypl.org/menus/30593 http://menus.nypl.org/menus/30594/