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Events from the year 1933 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Arts and 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]
References
- ^ "King George V". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 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", 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
- ^ Letter of G. H. Williams (Saskatoon, October 28, 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020
- ^ "1933 Conditions in the Canadian West During the Depression" (no source). Accessed June 3, 2020
- ^ Letter of Mrs. Thomas Hodgins (Perdue, Sask., September 28, 1933; with replies). Accessed June 3, 2020
- ^ "Plaque Unveiled To Members Of 46th Battalion", Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (November 13, 1933), pg. 5. Accessed June 3, 2020 (scroll down to 167)
- ^ Entries of January 14 and 15, Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King 1933, pgs. 17-18. Accessed June 3, 2020
- ^ "Connies Inn (formerly The Frolics)" Accessed June 3, 2020
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