1933 in Canada explained
Events from the year 1933 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Arts and literature
See main article: 1933 in art and 1933 in literature.
Sport
Births
January to March
- January 24 - Claude Préfontaine, actor (d. 2013)
- January 25
- January 31 - Camille Henry, ice hockey player (d. 1997)
- February 13 - Michael Cook, playwright (d. 1994)
- February 16 – Tom Hickey, Canadian politician (d. 2020)
- February 18 - Frank Moores, businessman, politician and 2nd Premier of Newfoundland (d. 2005)
- February 24 - Gustavo Da Roza, architect
- March 2 - Simonie Michael, Inuk politician (d. 2008)
- March 4 - James Jerome, jurist, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2005)
- March 9 - Mel Lastman, businessman, politician and Mayor of Toronto (d. 2021)
- March 19
- March 23 - Thomas R. Berger, politician and jurist (d. 2021)
- March 29 - Jacques Brault, poet and translator (d. 2022)
April to June
July to September
- July 2 – Kenny Wharram, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
- July 8 - Antonio Lamer, lawyer, jurist and 16th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 2007)
- July 13 - Scott Symons, writer (d. 2009)
- July 14 - Robert Bourassa, politician and 22nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1996)
- July 16 - Julian Klymkiw, ice hockey goaltender (d. 2022)
- July 17 - Mimi Hines, singer and comedian
- July 28
- August 13 - Ted Godwin, artist (d. 2013)
- August 24 - John Alan Lee, sociologist (d. 2013)
- August 30 - Don Getty, politician and 11th Premier of Alberta (d. 2016)
- September 8 - Maurice Foster, politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993) (d. 2010)
- September 19 - Gilles Archambault, novelist
October to December
- October 12 - Guido Molinari, artist (d. 2004)
- October 22 - David Bromige, poet (d. 2009)
- November 16 - Leonard Marchand, politician (d. 2016)
- November 26 - Robert Goulet, singer and actor (d. 2007)
- November 27 - Jacques Godbout, novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet
- December 1 - Alex Campbell, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
- December 12 - Joe Borowski, politician and activist (d. 1996)
- December 25 - Fred Sasakamoose, ice hockey player (d. 2020)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 3 - Jack Pickford, actor (b. 1896)
- April 14 - Daniel Hunter McMillan, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1846)
- October 10 - James David Stewart, educator, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1874)
- October 17 - Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire (b. 1868)
- October 25 - William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b. 1867)
- November 30 - Arthur Currie, World War I general (b. 1875)
See also
Historical documents
Montreal Gazette report finds that, after bad start, 1933 has brought industrial expansion and "a general revival of confidence"[2]
"With a cheery, optimistic feeling prevailing," grain markets in Winnipeg, Chicago and Liverpool raise price of wheat[3]
In what "has been a very bad year," federal budget raises taxes and creates support fund for agricultural exporters[4]
"Heavy obligations" from resource and production investment call for debt conversion, budget balancing and international agreement[5]
Most first ministers back re-employment through shortening of everyone's work day (but unemployment insurance scheme doubtful)[6]
Hitler sworn in as German chancellor, but "surrounded with conservatives" in cabinet[7]
With Nazi plurality, German parliament will allow Hitler to suspend its powers and constitution temporarily[8]
Appeals to Jewish community and Christians to relieve oppression of German Jews[9]
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation rejects capitalism and "its inherent injustice and inhumanity" in Regina Manifesto[10]
Marxist delegate to CCF's Regina convention calls it "middle class" and "reformist"[11]
Rejected in Saskatchewan by-election, Farmer-Labor (CCF) candidates and campaign managers receive advice from their president[12]
Spinning wheel and Bennett buggy: how Prairie farmers are coping in Great Depression[13]
Poor woman asks Prime Minister Bennett to send underwear for her husband (and request is fulfilled)[14]
Memorial plaque unveiled at University of Saskatchewan for 46th Battalion[15]
Mackenzie King yields to temptation, being "disobedient to the heavenly vision as I have held it in my heart"[16]
Flyer for opening of Harlem-style nightclub in Montreal (note: blackface depicted)[17]
Notes and References
- Web site: King George V The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 4 December 2022.
- Canadian Press, "Many Evidences Of Improvement," The Charlottetown Guardian (January 4, 1934) pg. 1. Accessed 5 June 2020
- "Wheat Closes More Than Two Cents Higher," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 64 (March 16, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 4, 2020
- Charles Bishop, "Income Levy Raised, Tax Put on Sugar To Increase Revenue," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 69 (March 22, 1933), pgs. 1, 4 Accessed June 4, 2020
- "Reports of the Committee; Sixth Report; General," [House] Select Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce (1933), pg. 208 Accessed 23 October 2020
- "To Reduce Working Day?; Indications Point to Agreement on Scheme at Parley in Ottawa (Special to The Star-Phoenix)," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 153 (January 19, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 3, 2020
- Associated Press, "Hitler Wins Power; Europe Stirred," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 162 (January 30, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 3, 2020
- Associated Press, "Republic of Germany Is on Its Last Legs; Reichstag Expected to Create Four Years' Dictatorship For Hitler," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 69 (March 22, 1933), pgs. 1. Accessed June 4, 2020
- Maurice N. Eisendrath, "Can the New Year Be Happy" and "Where Are the Christian Champions of the Jew?," Canadian Jewish Review, Vol. XV, No. 49 (September 22, 1933), pg. 3 Accessed 10 December 2019 (See also internal government letter noting opposition to admitting German Jews)
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, "The Regina Manifesto" (July 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020
- W. (William) Moriarty, "The Regina Convention of the C.C.F." Workers' Age (September 15, 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020
- http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/election/en/view_image.php?image=66 Letter of G.H. Williams
- http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/frontier/depressionwest.html "1933 Conditions in the Canadian West During the Depression"
- http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/4/h4-2226.1-e.html Letter of Mrs. Thomas Hodgins
- "Plaque Unveiled To Members Of 46th Battalion," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (November 13, 1933), pg. 5. Accessed June 3, 2020 http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/war/memorials.html (scroll down to 167)
- Entries of January 14 and 15, Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1933, pgs. 17-18 Accessed June 3, 2020
- http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/500ans/portail_archives_en/rep_chapitre10/chap10_theme2_doc25_page1.html "Connies Inn (formerly The Frolics)"
