1930 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1930 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – George V^[1]

Federal government

- Governor General – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King (until August 7) then Richard B. Bennett
Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
Parliament – 16th (until 30 May) then 17th (from 8 September)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

- - - - Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory (until November 19) then Frank Stanfield Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz (until November 19) then Charles Dalton Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

Premiers

- Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
  - Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken Premier of New Brunswick – John Baxter Premier of Nova Scotia – Edgar Nelson Rhodes (until August 11) then Gordon Sidney Harrington
    - Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson (until December 15) then George Stewart Henry Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders (until May 20) then Walter Lea Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

- Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George Ian MacLean Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events

February 15 – Cairine Wilson becomes Canada's first female senator
May 20 – Walter Lea becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Albert Saunders
June 19 – 1930 Alberta general election: Premier John Brownlee's United Farmers of Alberta win a third consecutive majority
June 22 – Statue of Jean Vauquelin unveiled in Montreal's Vauquelin Square
June 29 – Eight Jesuit martyrs become the first Canadian saints
July 1 – The Seigniory Club, later to become the Château Montebello hotel, opens in Montebello, Quebec
June 26 – John B. King Explosion
July 28 – Federal election: R.B. Bennett's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Mackenzie King's Liberals
August 7 – R.B. Bennett becomes Prime Minister, replacing Mackenzie King
August 11 – Gordon Harrington becomes Premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Edgar Rhodes
October 18 – Robert Burns Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
November 12 – Norway relinquishes its claim to the Sverdrup Islands.
December 15 – George Henry becomes Premier of Ontario, replacing Howard Ferguson

Arts and literature

January 6 – An early literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.

Sport

March 29 – The South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats win their third Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's West Toronto Nationals 2 games to 0. All games were played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
April 3 – The Montreal Canadiens win their third Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 2 games to 0. The deciding game was played at the Montreal Forum
May 14 – Winnipeg Rugby Club (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) are established
August 16–23 – The British Empire Games take place in Hamilton.^[2]
December 6 – The Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers win their second Grey Cup, defeating the Regina Roughriders 11 to 6 in the 18th Grey Cup, played at Varsity Stadium

Births

January to March

January 4 – Herbert O. Sparrow, politician (d. 2012)
January 7 – Clement Bowman, chemical engineer (d. 2021)
January 11 – Harold Greenberg, film producer (d. 1996)
January 12 – Tim Horton, ice hockey player and businessman (d. 1974)
January 14 – Kenny Wheeler, composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
January 23 – Georges Massicotte, politician (d. 2020)^[3]
January 24 – Felix Cappella, race walker (d. 2011)
February 6 – Allan King, film director (d. 2009)
February 12 – Daniel Hyatt, actor (d. 2015)
March 11 – Claude Jutra, actor, film director and writer (d. 1986)
March 13 – Sue Johanson, Canadian sex educator and TV personality (d. 2023)

April to June

April 2 – Don Hall, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
April 24 – Étienne Gaboury, architect (d. 2022)
April 28 – Charles Caccia, politician (d. 2008)
April 29 – Ben Hanuschak, politician
April 30 – Jackie McLeod, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2022)
May 9 – Muriel Smith, politician
May 24 – Robert Bateman, naturalist and painter
May 26 – Lorne Ferguson, ice hockey player (d. 2008)
May 29 -
- Roy Bonisteel, journalist and television host
- Lawrence Heisey, businessman

June 17 – Rosemary Brown, politician (d. 2003)
June 19 – John Lynch-Staunton, Senator

July to December

July 6 – George Armstrong, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
July 10 – Bruce Boa, actor (d. 2004)
July 12 – Gordon Pinsent, actor (d. 2023)
July 14 – Arthur Irving, businessman (d. 2024)
July 15 – Richard Garneau, sports journalist (d. 2013)

July 22 – Dinny Flanagan, ice hockey player (d. 2018)
July 25 – Maureen Forrester, opera singer (d. 2010)
August 9
- Jacques Parizeau, economist, politician and 26th Premier of Quebec
- Larry Regan, ice hockey player, coach and manager (d.2009)
September 18 – John Tolos, wrestler and wrestling manager (d.2009)
September 21 – John Morgan, comedian (d.2004)
October 2 – Dave Barrett, politician and 26th Premier of British Columbia
October 24 – Micheline Beauchemin, textile artist and weaver
October 29 – André Bernier, politician
October 30 – Timothy Findley, novelist and playwright (d.2002)
December 1 – Jim Anderson, ice hockey player (Springfield Indians) and coach (Washington Capitals) (d.2013)

Full date unknown

Ben Kerr, street performer, author, broadcaster, musician and perennial candidate (d.2005)

Deaths

February – Levi Addison Ault, businessman and naturalist (b.1851)
February 28 – George Boyce, politician (b.1848)
April 3 – Emma Albani, soprano (b.1847)
July 19 – David Bonis, politician
August 3 – James Alexander Anderson, politician
November 16 – William James Topley, photographer (b.1845)
December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, painter (b.1860)
November 21 – Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, Canadian writer, linguist and Catholic priest (born 1855)

Historical documents

Constitutional amendment affects natural resources control, Indigenous peoples, parks etc. in Prairie provinces^[4]

To reduce unemployment, B.C. MP wants limits on number of Japanese immigrants that are equal to those set for Europeans^[5]

One Big Union organizes industrial wage workers in struggle with "those who possess and do not produce"^[6]

Communist Party of Canada challenged by influence of ethnic "foreign language" organizations in its membership^[7]

New Saskatchewan cancer commission will oversee education, diagnosis and treatment (with radiotherapy)^[8]

Gov. Franklin Roosevelt says New York's residential hydro rates much higher than Ontario's because of private ownership of power supply^[9]

School's history pageant praised for its "costumes, stage settings, music, character portrayal and general effectiveness"^[10]

Young people's "Shan-a-mac" guide has romanticized stories and knowledge imitating Indigenous culture (and thus misappropriation)^[11]

New to Canada, starlings inhabit barns and sing "wheezy bumptious versatile essays to the belles of the roof"^[12]

Cartoon: Influenza returns with "complications and accompanying ills"^[13]

Photo: annual Procession of St. Anne, Chapel Island, Nova Scotia^[14]

Photo: Chris and Mary Josephine Morris putting birchbark on Mi'kmaw wigwam frame^[15]

Photo: Louisiana group at White House, en route to Grand-Pré for 175th anniversary of Acadian deportation^[16]

Photo: blimp and bike we know you'll like^[17]

Notes and References

Web site: King George V The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 4 December 2022.
Book: Bell . Daniel . Encyclopedia of international games . 2003 . McFarland & Co . Jefferson, N.C. . 0-7864-1026-4 . 474.
Web site: Georges Massicotte - Assemblée nationale du Québec . 2024-11-27 . www.assnat.qc.ca . fr.
https://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1930.html Constitution Act, 1930
Alan Webster Neill, Unemployment Relief (September 11, 1930), House of Commons Debates, 17th Parliament, 1st Session: Vol. 1, pgs. 121-2 Accessed 20 May 2020
https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2693573#page/1/mode/1up/ "Constitution and By-Laws of the Winnipeg Central Labor Council; One Big Union; Preamble"
Tim Buck, "Report to the Comintern" (excerpts; January 23, 1930). Accessed 20 May 2020 http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/StalBirth/BuckComintern1930.htm (scroll down to "general fight")
http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/gallery/medicare/en_display.php?ref=en_cancer&max=13&dir=cancer&img=13 Letter of R.O. Davison to Minister of Health F.D. Munroe
Franklin Roosevelt, Campaign Address (Excerpts), Syracuse, N.Y. (October 22, 1930), The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Volume One, pgs. 419-23. Accessed 20 May 20201
http://news.ourontario.ca/timmins/3456934/page/2 "Canadian History Pageant Very Effectively Presented"
http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/24689 "Follow the Trail; For Young Folks of all ages(....)"
Adams-Biology Ed. [sic], "The New Blackbird; What Is to Be Our Attitude Toward the Starling?," The O.A.C. Review, Vol. XLII, No. 8 (Guelph, Ont., April 1930), pgs. 466-7, 504 Accessed 22 May 2020
Arthur George Racey, "The Periodical Visit, We Have With Us Again" Accessed 22 May 2020
Frederick Johnson, "Procession of Saint Anne on Chapel Island" (1930). Accessed 24 May 2020
Frederick Johnson, "Construction of a Mi'kmaq (Micmac) Wigwam" (1930), Eskasoni Reserve, Nova Scotia. Accessed 24 May 2020
Schutz [sic], "Pilgrimage of Louisianians to Grand-Pré 1930" (August 16, 1930). Accessed 22 May 2020
Nelson Newbergher, "G. Newbergher on Motorcycle and R-100 Dirigible, St. Hubert, 1930" Accessed 22 May 2020