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Events from the year 1936 in Canada.
Incumbents
[edit]Crown
[edit]- Monarch – George V (until January 20)[1] then Edward VIII (January 20 to December 11)[2] then George VI[3]
Federal government
[edit]- Governor General – John Buchan[4]
- Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
- Parliament – 18th (from 6 February)
Provincial governments
[edit]Lieutenant governors
[edit]- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh (until October 1) then Philip Primrose
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John W.F. Johnson (until May 1) then Eric Hamber
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William Johnston Tupper
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Murray MacLaren
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Herbert Alexander Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George Des Brisay de Blois
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Esioff-Léon Patenaude
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe (until September 10) then Archibald Peter McNab
Premiers
[edit]- Premier of Alberta – William Aberhart
- Premier of British Columbia – Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick – Allison Dysart
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
- Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Walter Lea (until January 10) then Thane Campbell (from January 14)
- Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (until June 11) then Adélard Godbout (June 11 to August 26) then Maurice Duplessis
- Premier of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson
Territorial governments
[edit]Commissioners
[edit]- Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Vacant (Roy A. Gibson acting) (until December 3) then Charles Camsell
Events
[edit]- January 6 - Barbara Hanley is elected mayor of Webbwood, Ontario, becoming the first female mayor in Canada
- January 14 - Thane Campbell becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Walter Lea
- April 12 - The Moose River Gold Mines collapse
- June 11 - Adélard Godbout becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- August 26 - Maurice Duplessis becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Adélard Godbout
- September - Earl Bascom of Raymond, Alberta, designs and directs the construction of the first rodeo arena and grandstands in the state of Mississippi
- November 2 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation replaces the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
- November 18 - The Toronto Globe and the Mail and Empire merge to form The Globe and Mail
- December 11 - The British Parliament, with the consent of the Canadian government, passes His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 which legislates the abdication of King Edward VIII.
- The Spanish Civil War begins. Eventually, 1135 Canadians will serve in the International Brigades of the Republican forces
- Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis hangs a crucifix in the Legislative Assembly Chamber. It hung there for 83 years, until it was removed on 10 July 2019[5]
Sport
[edit]- April 13 - The Ontario Hockey Association's West Toronto Nationals win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Saskatoon Wesleys 2 games to 0
- August 8 - Frank Amyot wins a gold medal in canoeing, Men's C-1 1000 m at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin
- December 5 - The Sarnia Imperials win their second and final Grey Cup by defeating the Ottawa Rough Riders 26 to 20 in the 24th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium
Births
[edit]January to March
[edit]- January 18 - Albert Driedger, politician
- February 6 - Kent Douglas, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2009)
- February 9 - Stompin' Tom Connors, folk singer (d. 2013)
- February 18 - Ab McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2018)
- February 29 - Henri Richard, ice hockey player
- March 1 - Monique Bégin, academic, politician and minister (d. 2023)
- March 21 - Ed Broadbent, politician and political scientist (d. 2024)
- March 24 - David Suzuki, science broadcaster and environmental activist
April to June
[edit]- April 17 - Peter Adams, politician
- April 19 - Sharon Pollock, playwright, actress, and director (d. 2021)
- May 14
- Aline Chrétien, wife of Jean Chrétien (d. 2020)
- Richard John Neuhaus, churchman and author (d. 2009)
- May 15 - Milan Kymlicka, arranger, composer and conductor (d. 2008)
- May 31 - Tony Pajaczkowski, football player (d. 2022)
- June 21 - Joseph Gosnell, Nisga'a statesman
- June 26
- Herbert Obst, fencer
- Jean-Claude Turcotte, cardinal (d. 2015)
- June 30 - Alan Hamel, entertainer, producer and television host
July to December
[edit]- July 3 - Larry Condon, politician (d. 1991)
- July 9 - André Pronovost, ice hockey player
- July 13 - Sandor Stern, writer, director and film producer
- July 18 – Ted Harris, ice hockey player
- July 25 - August Schellenberg, actor (d. 2013)
- July 28 - Russ Jackson, football player
- August 20 - David MacDonald, politician and author
- September 7 - Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican/Canadian actor (d. 2017)
- September 26 - Lowell Murray, Senator
- October 9 – Don Wittman, sportscaster (d. 2008)
- October 27 - Suzanne Paradis, writer
- November 7 - Audrey McLaughlin, politician
- December 16 - Karleen Bradford, children's author
Full date unknown
[edit]- Greg Curnoe, painter (d. 1992)
- Sheldon Turcott, journalist (d. 2000)
Deaths
[edit]- January 8 - John Augustus Barron, politician and lawyer (b. 1850)
- January 10 - Walter Lea, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1874)
- January 20 - George V, King of Canada (b. 1865)
- January 22 - Noah Timmins, mining developer and executive (b. 1867)
- February 26 - Frederick C. Alderdice, businessman, politician and last Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b. 1871)
- May 7 - Isidore-Noël Belleau, politician and lawyer (b. 1848)
- May 30 - Homer Watson, artist (b. 1855)
- June 18 - Edith Jane Miller, concert contralto singer (b. 1875)
- July 6 - Peter Veniot, businessman, newspaper owner, politician and 17th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1863)
- October 3 - William Parks, geologist and paleontologist (b. 1868)
- October 29 - Tobias Norris, politician and 10th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1861)
See also
[edit]Historical documents
[edit]Saying "I hate war," President Roosevelt seeks foreign and economic policies that will encourage peace[6]
Threatening embargo on Canadian liquor, U.S.A. demands back taxes and customs duties for liquor smuggled during Prohibition[7]
"Taxes are urgently needed" - Alberta's Two Rivers School District board cajoles ratepayers in arrears[8]
Seventy-year-old woman talks to enough of Yukon's 1,805 voters to be elected to House of Commons[9]
"Sterilization is proposed[...]as logical humane procedure to limit the reproduction of the mentally defective."[10]
Vancouver business groups testify that limiting employment of "orientals" on Canadian ships may curtail or cancel service[11]
Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir expresses his deep regret to King Edward VIII on his abdication[12]
"A commission of three cannot[...]execute policies" - House committee calls for corporation to replace Canadian Radio Commission[13]
"We in Canada are sound asleep in flying matters," says Air Vice-Marshall Billy Bishop[14]
Canadian Tuberculosis Association urges more clinics for Indigenous people, who suffer 30% of TB deaths in western Canada[15]
"In terrible shape" - Government official reports cemetery at Dunbow residential school is trampled by cattle and crosses knocked down[16]
Youth organizations ranging from church groups to Young Communist League unite for reform at 1936 Youth Congress[17]
Stephen Leacock's views of travel writing and Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ont.[18]
"A Literary Map of Canada" includes insets "Some Books of the St. Lawrence Basin" and "The Land of Evangeline"[19]
Ralph J. Gleason praises Canadian hockey while covering college tournament for Columbia University student newspaper[20]
Setting new record for one-mile event, Canadian race walker wins in New York City[21]
Cover photograph: Menu from Canadian Pacific Railway train[22]
References
[edit]- ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ Edward VIII, Broadcast after his abdication, 11 December 1936 (PDF), Official website of the British monarchy, archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2012, retrieved 1 May 2010
- ^ "King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ "John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ "Crucifix removed from National Assembly's Blue Room". CBC News. July 9, 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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 11 June 2022
- ^ Two Rivers School District 3497 Minutes, 1936 pgs. 70, 71, 73, 75, 76. Accessed 11 June 2020
- ^ 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
- ^ William Hutton, "A Brief for Sterilization of the Feeble-Minded" (Second Edition, June 1936). Accessed 13 June 2020
- ^ "Minutes of Evidence" (March 13, 1936), [House] Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations, pg. 8 Accessed 26 October 2020
- ^ Note of John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, to Private Secretary, Buckingham Palace (December 10, 1936). Accessed 13 June 2020
- ^ "Third and Final Report" (May 26, 1936), Special Committee on the Canadian Radio Commission, pg. 784 Accessed 26 October 2020
- ^ W.A. Bishop, "What Aviation Means to Canada" (February 13, 1936), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 235-52. Accessed 13 June 2020
- ^ 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)
- ^ Letter of Inspector of Indian Agencies (Alberta) to Secretary of Department of Indian Affairs (July 14, 1936), Sarcee Agency - General Correspondence Relating to the St. Joseph's (Dunbow) Industrial School Image 211, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 29 November 2024
- ^ 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)
- ^ Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West; A Discussion of East and West in Canada (1937), pgs. 1-14. Accessed 14 June 2020
- ^ "A literary map of Canada" (1936), McMaster University Digital Archive. Accessed 26 May 2024
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ "Dinner menu from the Dominion train from 1936" The Chung Collection, University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 21 April 2024
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