1936 in Canada
Events from the year 1936 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
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 Mail and Empire 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 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
Births
January to March
April to June
April 17 - Peter Adams , politician
April 19 - Sharon Pollock , playwright, actress, and director (d. 2021 )
May 14
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
June 30 - Alan Hamel , entertainer, producer and television host
July to December
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
Deaths
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
Historical documents
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
^ "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
1936 in North America
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