1927 in Canada

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See also:	History of Canada Timeline of Canadian history List of years in Canada

Events from the year 1927 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
• Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
• Parliament – 16th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Theodore Arthur Burrows
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Frederick Todd
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry Cockshutt (until January 12) then William Donald Ross
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse Pérodeau
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver (until August 17) then John Duncan MacLean (from August 20)
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – John Baxter
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Edgar Nelson Rhodes
• Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart (until August 12) then Albert Charles Saunders
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – Percy Reid (until November 13) then George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events

• January 5 – The National Museum of Canada is created.
• January 9 – 76 people are killed when a fire breaks out at the Laurier Palace Theatre in Montreal.
• March 1 – The location of the boundary between Labrador and Quebec is settled by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, accepting the Dominion of Newfoundland's claim rather than Canada's.
• May 28 – The Old Age Pensions Act is introduced.
• July 1 – Confederation celebration marked by the first cross country radio broadcast.
• August 6 – Toronto Union Station is officially opened, by Prince Edward, Prince of Wales.
• August 12 – Albert Saunders becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James D. Stewart.
• August 17 – John Oliver, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
• August 20 – John Duncan MacLean becomes premier of British Columbia.
• September 21 – Ten Canadian Pacific Railway cars carrying a valuable cargo of silk goes off the rails near Yale, British Columbia. Five of the cars land in the Fraser River.
• October 4 – Worthington mine disaster occurs.
• October 11 – Richard Bedford Bennett, becomes leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Arts and literature

• Mazo de la Roche publishes Jalna
• December 5 – The National Gallery of Canada opened an exhibit featuring the work of Emily Carr, bringing her out of obscurity.

Science and technology

• Canadian anthropologist Davidson Black discovered a fossil molar of Peking Man in a cave near Beijing, China
• Wallace Rupert Turnbull tested the second design of his variable-pitch propeller, a key development in aviation

Sport

• February 14 – Conn Smythe takes control of the Toronto St. Patricks and renames them to the Toronto Maple Leafs
• March 28 – Ontario Hockey Association's Owen Sound Greys win their second Memorial Cup by defeating Thunder Bay Junior Hockey League's Port Arthur West Ends 2 game to 0. All games were played at Arena Gardens in Toronto
• April 13 – Ottawa Senators win their 11th and final Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 2 game to 0 (with 2 ties). The deciding game was played at the Ottawa Auditorium
• November 26 – Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tigers 9 to 6 in the 15th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.

Births

January to March

• January 1
  • Calum MacKay, ice hockey player (d. 2001)
  • Jean-Paul Mousseau, artist (d. 1991)
• January 4 – Paul Desmarais, financier (d. 2013)
• January 6 – John W. Grace, first Privacy Commissioner of Canada (d. 2009)
• January 10 – Gisele MacKenzie, singer (d. 2003)
• January 17 – Stan Roberts, politician (d. 1990)
• January 24 – Phyllis Lambert, architect and philanthropist
• January 25 – Gildas Molgat, politician (d. 2001)
• January 28 – Sheila Finestone, politician and Senator (d. 2009)
• January 29 – Lewis Urry, chemical engineer and inventor (d. 2004)
• January 30 – Sterling Lyon, politician and 17th Premier of Manitoba (d. 2010)
• February 11 – Sinclair Stevens, politician (d. 2016)
• March 3 – William Kurelek, artist and writer (d. 1977)
• March 9 – John Beckwith, composer, writer, pianist, teacher and administrator (d. 2022)
• March 25 – Bill Barilko, ice hockey player (d. 1951)
• March 27 – Eugène Philippe LaRocque, Roman Catholic priest (d. 2018)
• March 28 – Fernande Saint-Martin, art critic, museologist, semiologist, visual arts theorist and writer (d. 2019)

April to June

• April 6
  • E. K. Turner, businessman and educator (d. 2018)
  • Dorothy Knowles, artist (d. 2023)
• April 8
  • Phyllis Webb, poet and broadcaster (d. 2021)
  • Lois Miriam Wilson, first female Moderator of the United Church of Canada and Senator (d. 2024)
• April 13 – Ronald Stewart, businessman and politician (d. 2022)
• April 25 – Frances Hyland, actress (d. 2004)
• May 2 – Budge Wilson, writer (d. 2021)
• May 5 – Sylvia Fedoruk, scientist, curler and Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (d. 2012)
• May 14 – Frank Miller, politician and 19th Premier of Ontario (d. 2000)
• June 3 – George Hislop, gay activist (d. 2005)
• June 17 – Jean Robert Beaulé, politician (d. 2005)
• June 24 – Fernand Dumont, sociologist, philosopher, theologian and poet (d. 1997)
• June 25 – Nora McDermott basketball player, volleyball player, coach and physical education teacher (d. 2013)
• June 26 – Robert Kroetsch, novelist, poet and non-fiction writer (d. 2011)
• June 29
  • Marie Thérèse Killens, politician
  • Viola Myers, sprinter (d. 1993)
  • Pierre Savard, politician

July to December

• July 2 – Fern Villeneuve, aviator (d. 2019)
• July 18 – Keith MacDonald, politician (d. 2021)
• July 20 – Jack Horner, politician and Minister (d. 2004)
• July 21 – Hal Hatfield, football player
• August 17 – John Alan Beesley, diplomat and civil servant (d. 2009)
• September 1 – Chuck Dalton, basketball player, member of Olympic team (1952) (d. 2013)
• September 7 – Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• October 3 – Kenojuak Ashevak, artist (d. 2013)
• October 14 – Elmer Iseler, choir conductor and choral editor (d. 1998)
• October 15 – Peter Pollen, politician (d. 2017)
• November 3 – Harrison McCain, businessman (d. 2004)
• November 8 – Peter Munk, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
• November 10
  • Gerry Glaude, professional ice hockey defenceman (d. 2017)
  • Joyce Trimmer, politician and first female mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (d. 2008)
• November 17 – Nicholas Taylor, geologist, businessman, politician and Senator (d. 2020)
• November 18 – Knowlton Nash, journalist, author and television news anchor (d. 2014)
• November 26 – Ernie Coombs, children's entertainer Mr. Dressup (d. 2001)
• November 30 – Tod Sloan, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
• December 6 – Marcel Pelletier, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
• December 7 – Grant Strate, dancer, choreographer and academic (d. 2015)
• December 18 – Roméo LeBlanc, politician and 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009)
• December 24 – Geoffrey Pearson, diplomat (d. 2008)

Deaths

January to June

• January 24 – Agnes Maule Machar, author (b. 1837)
• February 10 – James Kidd Flemming, businessman, politician and 13th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1868)
• March 8 – James Fisher, politician (b. 1840)
• March 16 – Robert Bond, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b. 1857)
• March 30 – Charles Hibbert Tupper, politician (b. 1855)
• June 3 – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
• June 7 – Edmund James Flynn, politician and Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)

July to December

• August 17 – John Oliver, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b. 1856)
• November 2 – Charles Augustus Semlin, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b. 1836)
• November 5 – Jérémie-Louis Décarie, judge and lawyer (b. 1870)
• December 21 – Félix Gatineau, statesman (b. 1857)
• December 31 – William Warren, lawyer, politician, judge and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b. 1879)

See also

• List of Canadian films

Historical documents

Popular infant care author writes government guide to raising babies, including growth, health, habits, and "character and disposition" ^[2]

Speaker delivers strongly anti-Catholic commentary at packed Ku Klux Klan meeting in Regina ^[3]

MP Agnes Macphail calls for government pension coverage for war veterans unable to work ^[4]

British privy council renders decision on long-disputed Labrador border between Newfoundland and Canada ^[5]

U.S. border restrictions force Canadian residents working in U.S.A. to qualify for immigration ^[6]

Film: cottage life in Ontario ^[7]

Illustration: A.Y. Jackson's painting of Mount Robson is among Group of Seven art in Canadian National Railway guide to Jasper National Park ^[8]

Photograph: Canadian Olympic figure skater Cecil Eustace Smith (Note: click on photo for clearer image) ^[9]

Hunter regrets killing one of Jack Miner's "noble" Canada geese ^[10]

Son of "dead" man who skippered schooner lost in Lake Ontario gale learns he started life anew in Oklahoma ^[11]

Map: Discoveries in the Arctic Sea; 1616-1927 (1855 map with information to 1927 and "North West Passage tracks" to 1954) ^[12]

References

1. "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
2. Helen MacMurchy, The Canadian Mother's Book (1927). Accessed 6 December 2019
3. "Ku Klux Klan Not Dead Yet, Meeting Told" Regina Morning Leader (October 5, 1927), pg. 8. Accessed 12 May 2020
4. "Old Age Pensions" (March 3, 1927), House of Commons Debates, 16th Parliament, 1st Session: Vol. 1, pg. 882 Accessed 7 March 2020
5. "Labrador; A Source of Wealth; The Boundary Dispute; Privy Council Decision" The (Wellington, N.Z.) Evening Post, Vol. CXIII, No. 94 (April 22, 1927), pg. 9. Accessed 12 May 2020
6. "The Canadian Minister (Massey) to Secretary of State" (No. 149, June 8, 1927), Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1927, Volume 1, pgs. 502-6. Accessed 12 May 2020
7. Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, "A Region of Romance" (1927), Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 22 September 2024
8. "Mount Robson (12,972 Feet) - The Monarch of the Canadian Rockies - Jasper National Park - Canadian National Railways" (1927), Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 28 July 2024
9. "Preston - Miss Cecile Eustace Smith, skating pose" (January 29, 1927), City of Toronto Archives. https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?SystemName=City+of+Toronto+Archives&UserName=wa+public&Password=&TemplateProcessID=6000_3355&PromptID=&ParamID=&TemplateProcessID=6000_1051_1051&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=6000_3363(0)&KeyValues=KEY_284976 (Note: URL included in this reference because it contains brackets; do not click on linked portion of URL - cut and paste entire URL) Accessed 28 July 2024
10. Letter in "The Canada Goose as Canada's Emblem," Jack Miner on Current Topics, pgs. 48-50 Accessed 12 May 2020
11. "Ten Year Old Mystery of Wreck Expected to Be Cleared Up Now" The (Belleville, Ont.) Intelligencer (March 7, 1927). Accessed 12 May 2020
12. U.K. Hydrographic Office, Discoveries in the Arctic Sea; 1616-1927 (1956), National Library of Australia. Accessed 16 August 2024