1932 in Canada

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Events from the year 1932 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

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

Federal government

• Governor general – Vere Ponsonby (viceregal consort – Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough)
• Prime minister – Richard Bedford Bennett

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mulock (until November 1) then Herbert Alexander Bruce
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington
• Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner then Controller of Yukon – George Ian MacLean (until June 30) then George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt

Events

• February 17 - The "Mad Trapper" is killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the Yukon
• July 20 - The Ottawa Imperial Conference is held, it creates a zone of preferential trade within the Commonwealth
• August 1 - The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) is formed in Regina, Saskatchewan
• August 3 - Henri Bourassa leaves Le Devoir
• October 29 - The Dominion Drama Festival is founded

Full date unknown

• A seven-month miners strike occurs in Alberta's coal mines in Crowsnest Pass
• The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.

Arts and literature

New Books

• A Broken Journey - Morley Callaghan

Sport

• The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
• At the 1932 Winter Olympics Canada wins the gold medal in hockey
• At the 1932 Summer Olympics Canada wins two gold medals.

Births

January to March

• February 24 - John Vernon, actor (d.2005)
• March 1 - Donald Stovel Macdonald, politician and Minister
• March 2 - Jack Austin, politician and Senator
• March 14 - Norval Morrisseau, artist (d.2007)

April to June

• April 6 - Eugène Bellemare, politician
• April 12 - Dick Fowler, mayor, MLA (d.2012)
• April 22 - Ron Basford, politician and Minister (d.2005)
• April 26 - Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d.2000)
• May 28 - John Savage, politician and 23rd Premier of Nova Scotia (d.2003)
• June 5 - Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, general and Chief of the Defence Staff (d.1998)
• June 10 - Hal Jackman, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• June 24 - Mel Hurtig, publisher, author and political activist
• June 24 - David McTaggart, environmentalist (d.2001)

July to September

• July 13 - Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist
• July 16 - Hédi Bouraoui, poet, novelist and academic
• July 22 - Doug Kyle, long-distance runner
• July 27 - George Ryga, playwright and novelist (d.1987)
• August 11 - Izzy Asper, tax lawyer and media magnate (d.2003)
• August 18 - Bill Bennett, politician and 27th Premier of British Columbia (d.2015)
• August 28 - Andy Bathgate, ice hockey player
• August 31 - Allan Fotheringham, newspaper and magazine journalist
• September 14 - Harry Sinden, ice hockey player, general manager and coach
• September 25 - Glenn Gould, pianist (d.1982)
• September 27 - Gabriel Loubier, politician

October to December

• October 16 - Lucien Paiement, politician, Mayor of Laval (d.2013)
• October 18 - Iona Campagnolo, politician, first female Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
• October 24 - Robert Mundell, professor of economics
• November 10 - Martin Hattersley, lawyer and politician
• November 13 - Marilyn Brooks, fashion designer
• November 29 - Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist
• December 6 - Hank Bassen, ice hockey player (d.2009)

Deaths

J. E. H. MacDonald

• March 6 - Joseph-Hormisdas Legris, politician and Senator (b.1850)
• July 22 - Reginald Fessenden, inventor and radio pioneer (b.1866)
• August 1 - Wellington Willoughby, politician and lawyer (b.1859)
• August 7 - Napoléon Belcourt, politician (b.1860)
• August 21 - Leonard Burnett, politician, farmer and teacher (b.1845)
• November 26 - J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven (b.1873)