1930 in Canada

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Events from the year 1930 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Mary of Teck)

Federal government

• Governor general – Freeman Freeman-Thomas (viceregal consort – Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon)
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King (until August 7) then Richard B. Bennett

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 (until November 19) then Frank Stanfield
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz (until November 19) 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 (until August 11) then Gordon Sidney Harrington
• Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson (until December 15) then George Stewart Henry
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders (until May 20) 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 - Alberta general election, 1930: 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 (Montreal) 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.

Births

January to March

• January 4 - Herbert O. Sparrow, politician
• January 11 - Harold Greenberg, film producer (d.1996)
• January 12 - Tim Horton, ice hockey player and businessman (d.1974)
• January 14 - Kenny Wheeler, composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
• January 24 - Felix Cappella, race walker (d.2011)
• February 6 - Allan King, film director (d.2009)
• March 11 - Claude Jutra, actor, film director and writer (d.1986)

April to June

• April 8 - Theo Dimson, artist(d.2012)
• April 28 - Charles Caccia, politician (d.2008)
• April 29 - Ben Hanuschak, politician
• May 9 - Muriel Smith, politician
• May 24 - Robert Bateman, naturalist and painter
• May 26 - Lorne Ferguson, ice hockey player (d.2008)
• May 29 -
  • Roy Bonisteel, journalist and television host
  • Lawrence Heisey, businessman

Jacques Parizeau

• June 17 - Rosemary Brown, politician (d.2003)
• 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 (d.2013)

Maureen Forrester photo taken by Carl Van Vechten

• July 25 - Maureen Forrester, opera singer (d.2010)
• August 9
  • Jacques Parizeau, economist, politician and 26th Premier of Quebec
  • Larry Regan, ice hockey player, coach and manager (d.2009)
• September 18 - John Tolos, wrestler and wrestling manager (d.2009)
• September 21 - John Morgan, comedian (d.2004)
• 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 (d.2002)
• December 1 - Jim Anderson, ice hockey player (Springfield Indians) and coach (Washington Capitals) (d.2013)

Full date unknown

• Ben Kerr, street performer, author, broadcaster, musician and perennial candidate (d.2005)

Deaths

Emma Albani

• February - Levi Addison Ault, businessman and naturalist (b.1851)
• February 28 - George Boyce, politician (b.1848)
• April 3 - Emma Albani, soprano (b.1848)
• November 16 - William James Topley, photographer (b.1845)
• December 9 - Laura Muntz Lyall, painter (b.1860)
• November 21 – Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, Canadian writer, linguist and Catholic priest (born 1855)