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Events from the year
1928 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
(until December 28) then
Hugh Havelock McLean
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
–
James Cranswick Tory
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
–
William Donald Ross
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island
–
Frank Richard Heartz
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
–
Narcisse Pérodeau
(until December 31) then
Lomer Gouin
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
–
Henry William Newlands
Premiers
Premier of Alberta
–
John Edward Brownlee
Premier of British Columbia
–
John Duncan MacLean
(until August 21) then
Simon Fraser Tolmie
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
–
Albert Charles Saunders
Premier of Quebec
–
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Premier of Saskatchewan
–
James Garfield Gardiner
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Gold Commissioner of Yukon
–
George A. Jeckell
(until April 1) then
George Ian MacLean
Commissioner of Northwest Territories
–
William Wallace Cory
Events
April 2 –
Camillien Houde
elected mayor of
Montreal
April 24 – The
Supreme Court of Canada
rules that women are not persons who can hold office according to the
British North America Act, 1867
—reversed a year later by the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
in Britain
May 7 – The
St. Roch
is launched. It would become the first ship to sail the
Northwest Passage
from west to east and to
circumnavigate
North America.
May 31 – The
Legislative Council of Nova Scotia
is abolished
July 4 –
Jean Lussier
goes over
Niagara Falls
in a rubber ball.
August 20 –
John Duncan MacLean
resigns as premier of British Columbia
August 21 –
Simon Fraser Tolmie
becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing John Duncan MacLean
August 25 – Canada's first major
air disaster
occurred when bad weather caused a
BC Airways
Ford Trimotor
plane to crash in
Puget Sound
,
Washington
[
2
]
Science and technology
Frank Morse Robb
of
Ontario
obtains a patent for the first Electronic Organ, the Robb Wave Organ.
Sports
The
Winter Olympics
take place in
St. Moritz
,
Switzerland
. The
University of Toronto Grads
won a gold medal in
ice hockey
.
The
Summer Olympics
take place in
Amsterdam
.
Percy Williams
and
Ethel Catherwood
won gold medals for
Canada
.
March 26 – The
South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League
's
Regina Pats
win their second
Memorial Cup
by defeating the
Ottawa City Junior Hockey League
's
Ottawa Gunners
2 game to 1. The deciding Game 3 was played
Arenas Garden
in
Toronto
December 1 – The
Hamilton Tigers
win their third Grey cup by shutting out the
Regina Roughriders
30 to 0 in the
16th Grey Cup
played at
A.A.A Grounds
in
Hamilton
Births
January to March
January 2
Avie Bennett
, businessman and philanthropist (d.
2017
)
Allen Sapp
, painter (d.
2015
)
January 7 –
Benny Woit
, ice hockey player (d.
2016
)
January 20 –
Peter Donat
, actor (d.
2018
)
January 25 –
Jérôme Choquette
, lawyer and politician (d.
2017
)
February 8 –
Gene Lees
, biographer and lyricist (d.
2010
)
February 13 –
Gerald Regan
, politician, Minister and
Premier of Nova Scotia
(d.
2019
)
February 16 –
Les Costello
, ice hockey player and
Catholic
priest (d.
2002
)
February 26 –
Donald Davis
, actor (d.
1998
)
March 3 –
Diane Foster
, athlete (d.
1999
)
March 9 –
Gerald Bull
, engineer and artillery designer (d.
1990
)
March 10 –
Robert Coates
, politician and minister (d.
2016
)
March 12 –
Thérèse Lavoie-Roux
, politician and senator (d.
2009
)
March 13 –
Douglas Rain
, actor and narrator (d.
2018
)
March 17
André Chagnon
, businessman and philanthropist (d.
2022
)
William John McKeag
, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of
Manitoba
(d.
2007
)
March 20 –
James K. Irving
, businessman (d.
2024
)
March 31 –
Gordie Howe
, ice hockey player (d.
2016
)
April to June
April 10
Kenneth Earl Hurlburt
, politician (d.
2016
)
Fraser MacPherson
, jazz musician (d.
1993
)
April 17 –
Fabien Roy
, politician
April 28 –
Zbigniew Basinski
, physicist
April 30 –
Hugh Hood
, novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor (d.
2000
)
May 4 –
Maynard Ferguson
, jazz trumpet player and bandleader (d.
2006
)
May 7 –
Bruno Gerussi
, actor and television presenter (d.
1995
)
May 9 –
Barbara Ann Scott
, figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (d.
2012
)
May 23
Pauline Julien
, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist (d.
1998
)
[
3
]
Sidney Spivak
, politician and Minister (d.
2002
)
June 1 –
Larry Zeidel
, Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (d.
2014
)
June 2 –
George Wearring
, basketball player (d.
2013
)
June 13 –
Renée Morisset
, pianist (d.
2009
)
June 25 –
Michel Brault
, cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and producer (d.
2013
)
June 26 –
Samuel Belzberg
, businessman, philanthropist (d.
2018
)
July to December
July 3 –
Raymond Setlakwe
, entrepreneur, lawyer and politician (d.
2021
)
July 7 –
Tom Chambers
, politician (d.
2018
)
July 12 –
Paul Ronty
, ice hockey centre (d.
2020
)
July 17 –
Robert Nixon
, politician
July 21 –
Anne Harris
, sculptor
July 22 –
Hugh Edighoffer
, politician (d.
2019
)
July 23 –
Irving Grundman
, ice hockey executive and politician (d.
2021
)
July 26 –
Peter Lougheed
, lawyer and politician (d.
2012
)
July 28 –
Ann Sloat
, politician (d.
2017
)
July 31 –
Gilles Carle
, film director and screenwriter (d.
2009
)
August 7 –
James Randi
, stage magician and scientific skeptic (d.
2020 in the United States
)
September 10
Roch Bolduc
, civil servant, politician
Jean Vanier
, founder of
L'Arche
(d.
2019
)
September 20 –
Jacqueline Desmarais
, billionaire philanthropist (d.
2018
)
[
4
]
October 1 –
Jim Pattison
, businessman
October 7 –
Raymond Lévesque
, singer-songwriter (d.
2021
)
October 9 –
Clare Drake
, ice hockey coach (d.
2018
)
October 27 –
Gilles Vigneault
, poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
November 3 –
Gary Lautens
, humorist and newspaper columnist (d.
1992
)
November 16 –
David Adams
, ballet dancer (d.
2007
)
November 20 –
Toni Onley
, painter (d.
2004
)
November 28 –
Floyd Crawford
, ice hockey player (d.
2017
)
December 10 –
Michael Snow
, artist (d.
2023
)
December 12 –
Lionel Blair
, dancer and entertainer (d.
2021 in the United Kingdom
)
December 16 –
Roy Bailey
, politician (d.
2018
)
December 21 –
Clayton Kenny
, boxer (d.
2015
)
December 24 –
Adam Exner
, Roman Catholic archbishop (d.
2023
)
[
5
]
December 28 –
Moe Koffman
, flautist and saxophonist (d.
2001
)
December 29
Robert Hylton Brisco
, politician (d.
2004
)
Norman Cafik
, politician (d.
2016
)
Full date unknown
Peter Bronfman
, businessman (d.
1996
)
Deaths
April 6 –
Godfroy Langlois
, politician, journalist and lawyer (b.
1866
)
April 28 –
George Gerald King
, politician (b.
1836
)
See also
List of Canadian films
References
↑
"King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia"
.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
. Retrieved
4 December
2022
.
↑
"Canadian aviation history"
.
Canadian Geographic
. Sep–Oct 2000. Archived from
the original
on 2010-08-06
. Retrieved
2010-06-18
.
↑
Herstory 2012
. Coteau Books. p.
42.
ISBN
978-1-55050-454-5
.
↑
Fred Langan (March 19, 2018).
"Philanthropist Jacqueline Desmarais nurtured the opera world"
.
Globe and Mail
. Retrieved
February 21,
2022
.
↑
Archbishop Adam Exner, OMI, dies at age 94
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