1929 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

  Federal government

• Governor general – Freeman Freeman-Thomas
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin
• 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 then James Duncan McGregor
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – 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 – Lomer Gouin then Henry George Carroll
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

  Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – 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 then James Thomas Milton Anderson

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George Ian MacLean
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

  Events

• January 10 – Lomer Gouin becomes Quebec's 15th Lieutenant Governor, serving until his death on March 28, 1929.
• March 22 – The Canadian schooner and rum-runner I'm Alone was sunk by the US Coast Guard.
• April 4 – Henry George Carroll becomes Quebec's 16th Lieutenant Governor.
• June 6 – 1929 Saskatchewan election: James Garfield Gardiner's Liberals win a plurality, but the other parties, led by James T.M. Anderson's Conservatives, will form a coalition against Gardiner, forcing him to resign as premier
• May 29 – A series of explosions rip through Ottawa's sewer system.
• September 9 – James Anderson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
• October 18 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rules in the Persons Case that women are eligible to be senators.
• October 29 – The crash of the New York Stock Exchange marks the beginning of the Great Depression
• October 30 – Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority
• November 13 – A second stock market crash hits Canada.

  Arts and literature

• January 6 – Regina's Darke Hall auditorium opened.

  Science and technology

• Wop May and Vic Horner brave poor visibility and −30 °C temperatures in an open cockpit to rush diphtheria anti-toxin to Fort Vermilion.
• Frozen fish fillets are introduced by the Biological Board of Canada developed by Archibald Huntsman.

  Sport

• March 30The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Elmwood Millionaires 2 games to 0. The deciding Game 2 was played at Mutual Street Arena in Toronto
• September 12The first legal forward pass in Canadian football is completed.
• November 30The Hamilton Tigers win their fourth Grey Cup, defeating the Regina Roughriders 14 to 3 in the 17th Grey Cup played at A.A.A. Grounds in Hamilton

  Births

January to March

• January 17 – Jacques Plante, ice hockey player
• January 20 – Pat Mahoney, businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South, General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders
• January 21 – Bill Norrie, politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg, Chancellor of the University of Manitoba, respiratory failure.
• January 23 – John Charles Polanyi, chemist and 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry joint laureate
• February 12 – Philip Kives, businessman
• February 28 – Frank Gehry, architect
• March 20 – William Andrew MacKay, academic, President of Dalhousie University

  April to June

• April 8 – Garnet Bloomfield, politician
• April 11 – Eric Luoma, cross-country skier
• May 8 – Claude Castonguay, banker and politician
• May 10
• *Antonine Maillet, novelist, playwright and scholar
• *Peter C. Newman, journalist
• May 12 – Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 13 – Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author
• May 14 – Gump Worsley, ice hockey player
• May 16 – Claude Morin, politician
• May 18 – Walter Pitman, educator and politician
• June 7 –
• *John Turner, lawyer, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Canada
• *Walter Weir, politician and 15th Premier of Manitoba
• June 8 – Louise Maheux-Forcier, author
• June 9 – Jean Rougeau, professional wrestler and bodyguard of Quebec Premier René Lévesque
• June 10 – Pearl McGonigal, politician
• June 20 – Edgar Bronfman, Sr., businessman
• June 27 – H. Ian Macdonald, economist

  July to September

• July 3 – Béatrice Picard, actress
• July 10 – Moe Norman, golfer
• July 18 – Roy Killin, footballer
• July 19 – Ronald Melzack, psychologist
• July 26 – Marc Lalonde, politician and Minister
• July 30 – Bill Davis, politician and 18th Premier of Ontario
• August 1 – Sidney Green, politician
• August 3 – Peter Salmon, swimmer
• August 9 – George Scott Wallace, British Columbia physician and politician
• August 19 – Leonard Evans, politician
• August 27 – George Scott, professional wrestler and promoter
• September 14 – Dimitri Dimakopoulos, architect
• September 24 -Edward M. Lawson, trade unionist, politician and Senator

  October to December

• November 2 – Richard E. Taylor, physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics joint laureate
• November 21 – Laurier LaPierre, broadcaster, journalist, author and Senator
• November 24 – Harry Oliver Bradley, politician
• December 10 – Michael Snow, artist
• December 13 – Christopher Plummer, actor
• December 15 – Emery Barnes, Canadian football player and politician
• December 23 – Patrick Watson, broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director
• December 28 – Terry Sawchuk, ice hockey player

  Full date unknown

• Ken Adachi, writer and literary critic

  Deaths

January to March

• January 6 – George Henry Murray, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
• January 14 – Alexander Warburton, politician, jurist, author and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• January 18 – Theodore Arthur Burrows, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
• January 19 – Edward Charles Bowers, politician
• January 29 – John Howatt Bell, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• February – Richard Gardiner Willis, politician
• February 17 – James Colebrooke Patterson, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
• March 1 – James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
• March 28 – Lomer Gouin, politician and 13th Premier of Quebec
• March 29 – Hugh John Macdonald, politician, Minister and 8th Premier of Manitoba

  April to December

• April 17 – Clifford Sifton, politician and Minister
• May 6 – William Dillon Otter, soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff
• June 3 – John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• June 8 – Bliss Carman, poet
• June 23 – William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
• July 30 – Antonin Nantel, priest, teacher, school administrator, and author
• October 10 – Elijah McCoy, inventor and engineer

  Historical Documents