1928 in Canada

none April 2026 December 2010 1928 Events from the year 1928 in Canada. Incumbents Crown Monarch – George VKing George V The Canadian Encyclopedia https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/king-george-v www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca 4 December 2022 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, WashingtonCanadian aviation history http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/so00/aviation_history.asp Canadian Geographic Sep–Oct 2000 2010-06-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20100806160637/http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/so00/aviation_history.asp 2010-08-06 dead 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)Herstory 2012 Coteau Books 978-1-55050-454-5 42 https://books.google.com/books?id=D7I_UErEQ7gC&pg=PA42 en 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)https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/philanthropist-jacqueline-desmarais-nurtured-the-opera-world/article38308804/ Philanthropist Jacqueline Desmarais nurtured the opera world March 19, 2018 Fred Langan Globe and Mail February 21, 2022 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 10 – Diane Oxner, soprano and voice teacher (d. 2025) 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)Archbishop Adam Exner, OMI, dies at age 94 December 28 – Moe Koffman, flautist and saxophonist (d. 2001) December 29 Robert Hylton Brisco, politician (d. 2004) Norman Cafik, politician (d. 2016) Deaths January 13 – Earle Nelson, serial killer, hanged (b. 1897 in the United States) February 15 – Edward Murray Wrong, historian (b. 1889) March 4 – Victoria Grace Blackburn, journalist (b. 1865) April 6 – Godfroy Langlois, politician, journalist and lawyer (b. 1866) April 16 – Henry Birks, businessman (b. 1840 in the United Kingdom) April 28 – George Gerald King, politician (b. 1836) May 2 – Marie-Louise Marmette, writer (b. 1870) May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, landscape painter (b. 1836) December 1 – Rodolphe Monty, politician (b. 1874) See also List of Canadian films References 1928 in Category:Years of the 20th century in Canada Canada Category:1928 in North America