1930 in Canada
Events from the year 1930 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Monarch – George V
Federal government
- Governor general – Freeman Freeman-Thomas
- Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King then Richard B. Bennett
- Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin
- Parliament – 16th then 17th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory then Frank Stanfield
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz then Charles Dalton
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – 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 then Gordon Sidney Harrington
- Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson then George Stewart Henry
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders then Walter Lea
- Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George Ian MacLean
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory
Events
- February 15 – Cairine Wilson becomes Canada's first female senator
- May 20 – Walter Lea becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Albert Saunders
- June 19 – 1930 Alberta general election: Premier John Brownlee's United Farmers of Alberta win a third consecutive majority
- June 22 – Jean Vauquelin Monument unveiled
- June 29 – Eight Jesuit martyrs become the first Canadian saints. See Canadian Martyrs.
- July 1 – The Seigniory Club, later to become the Château Montebello hotel, opens in Montebello, Quebec
- June 26 – John B. King Explosion
- July 28 – Federal election: R.B. Bennett's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Mackenzie King's Liberals
- August 7 – R.B. Bennett becomes Prime Minister, replacing Mackenzie King
- August 11 – Gordon Harrington becomes Premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Edgar Rhodes
- October 18 – Robert Burns Memorial unveiled
- November 12 – Norway relinquishes its claim to the Sverdrup Islands.
- December 15 – George Henry becomes Premier of Ontario, replacing Howard Ferguson
Arts and literature
- January 6 – An early literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.
Sport
- March 29 – South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats won their Third Memorial Cup by defeating Ontario Hockey Association's West Toronto Nationals 2 games to 0. All games played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
- April 3 – Montreal Canadiens won their Third Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 2 games to 0. The deciding game was played at the Montreal Forum
- May 14 – Winnipeg Rugby Club are established
- December 6 – Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers won their Second Grey Cup defeating the Regina Roughriders 11 to 6 in the 18th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium
Births
January to March
- January 4 – Herbert O. Sparrow, politician
- January 11 – Harold Greenberg, film producer
- January 12 – Tim Horton, ice hockey player and businessman
- January 14 – Kenny Wheeler, composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
- January 24 – Felix Cappella, race walker
- February 6 – Allan King, film director
- February 12 – Daniel Hyatt, actor
- March 11 – Claude Jutra, actor, film director and writer
April to June
- April 2 – Don Hall, ice hockey player
- April 8 – Theo Dimson, artist
- April 28 – Charles Caccia, politician
- April 29 – Ben Hanuschak, politician
- May 9 – Muriel Smith, politician
- May 24 – Robert Bateman, naturalist and painter
- May 26 – Lorne Ferguson, ice hockey player
- May 29 -
- * Roy Bonisteel, journalist and television host
- * Lawrence Heisey, businessman
- June 17 – Rosemary Brown, politician
- June 19 – John Lynch-Staunton, Senator
July to December
- July 6 – George Armstrong, ice hockey player
- July 12 – Gordon Pinsent, actor
- July 15 – Richard Garneau, sports journalist
- July 22 – Dinny Flanagan, ice hockey player
- July 25 – Maureen Forrester, opera singer
- August 9
- *Jacques Parizeau, economist, politician and 26th Premier of Quebec
- *Larry Regan, ice hockey player, coach and manager
- September 18 – John Tolos, wrestler and wrestling manager
- September 21 – John Morgan, comedian
- October 2 – Dave Barrett, politician and 26th Premier of British Columbia
- October 24 – Micheline Beauchemin, textile artist and weaver
- October 29 – André Bernier, politician
- October 30 – Timothy Findley, novelist and playwright
- December 1 – Jim Anderson, ice hockey player and coach
Full date unknown
- Ben Kerr, street performer, author, broadcaster, musician and perennial candidate
Deaths
- February – Levi Addison Ault, businessman and naturalist
- February 28 – George Boyce, politician
- April 3 – Emma Albani, soprano
- November 16 – William James Topley, photographer
- December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, painter
- November 21 – Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, Canadian writer, linguist and Catholic priest
Historical Documents
To reduce unemployment, B.C. MP wants limits on number of Japanese immigrants that are equal to those set for Europeans
One Big Union organizes industrial wage workers in struggle with "those who possess and do not produce"
Communist Party of Canada challenged by influence of ethnic "foreign language" organizations in its membership
New Saskatchewan cancer commission will oversee education, diagnosis and treatment
Gov. Franklin Roosevelt says New York's residential hydro rates much higher than Ontario's because of private ownership of power supply
School's history pageant praised for its "costumes, stage settings, music, character portrayal and general effectiveness"
Young people's "Shan-a-mac" guide has romanticized stories and knowledge imitating Indigenous culture
New to Canada, starlings inhabit barns and sing "wheezy bumptious versatile essays to the belles of the roof"
Cartoon: influenza returns with "complications and accompanying ills"
Photo: annual Procession of St. Anne, Chapel Island, Nova Scotia
Photo: Chris and Mary Josephine Morris putting birchbark on Mi'kmaq wigwam frame
Photo: Louisiana group at White House, en route to Grand-Pré for 175th anniversary of Acadian deportation
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