1934 in Canada

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Events from the year 1934 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 (until December 1) then William Johnston Tupper
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Herbert Alexander Bruce
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George Des Brisay de Blois
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll (until April 29) then Esioff-Léon Patenaude
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee (until July 10) then Richard Gavin Reid
• Premier of British Columbia – Duff Pattullo
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Leonard Tilley
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
• Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry (until July 10) then Mitchell Hepburn
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – William J. P. MacMillan
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson (until July 19) then James Garfield Gardiner

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt (until April 30) then Vacant (Roy A. Gibson acting)

Events

• March 9 - New Brunswick women win the right to hold office
• June 19 - Ontario election: Mitchell Hepburn's Liberals win a majority, defeating George S. Henry's Conservatives
• June 19 - Saskatchewan election: James Garfield Gardiner's Liberals win a majority, defeating James T.M. Anderson's Conservative-led coalition government
• July 3 - The Bank of Canada is formed
• July 10 - Mitchell Hepburn becomes premier of Ontario, replacing George Henry
• July 10 - Richard G. Reid becomes premier of Alberta, replacing John Brownlee
• July 19 - James Gardiner becomes premier of Saskatchewan for the second time, replacing James Anderson
• August 14 - John Sackville Labatt kidnapped
• October 26 - Reconstruction Party of Canada formed

Births

January to March

Jean Chrétien

• January 3 - Yves Gaucher, artist
• January 11 - Jean Chrétien, politician and 20th Prime Minister of Canada
• January 16 - Judy Erola, broadcaster and politician
• January 19 - Lloyd Robertson, television news anchor and senior editor
• January 23 - Pierre Bourgault, politician and essayist (d.2003)
• February 5 - Don Cherry, ice hockey player, coach and commentator
• February 8 - Philip Seeman, schizophrenia researcher and neuropharmacologist
• March 7 - Douglas Cardinal, architect
• March 9 - Marlene Streit, golfer
• March 16 - Ray Hnatyshyn, politician and 24th Governor General of Canada (d.2002)
• March 24 - Alice Whitty, high jumper

April to June

• May 17 - George Karpati, neurologist and neuroscientist (d.2009)
• May 28 - Dionne quintuplets, first quintuplets known to survive their infancy
• June 7 - David Strangway, Canadian geophysicist and academic
• June 16 - Roger Neilson, ice hockey coach (d.2003)
• June 22 - Willie Adams, politician and Senator
• June 25 - Théodore Jean Arcand, diplomat
• June 27 - Norman Atkins, businessman and Senator

July to September

• July 13 - Peter Gzowski, broadcaster, writer and reporter (d.2002)
• July 19 - Larry Zolf, journalist (d. 2011)
• July 27 - Jim Elder, horse rider and Olympic gold medalist
• August 11 - Abrams twins, Lillian and Dorothy

Leonard Cohen in 2008

• August 31 - Herb Epp, politician, MPP of the Ontario Legislature for Waterloo North (1977–1990) (d. 2013)
• September 21 - Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and artist

October to December

• October 1 - Margaret McCain, philanthropist and first female Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
• October 4 - Rudy Wiebe, author and professor
• October 5 - Ken Taylor, diplomat involved in the Iran hostage crisis
• November 21 - Howard Pawley, politician, professor and 18th Premier of Manitoba
• November 26 - Conrad Santos, politician
• November 30 - Marcel Prud'homme, politician and Senator

Deaths

• March 7 - John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Governor General of Canada (b.1847)
• March 15 - Davidson Black, paleoanthropologist (b.1884)
• April 17 - Frank S. Cahill, politician (b.1876)
• July 28 - Marie Dressler, actress (b.1868)
• October 4 - Henry Sproatt, architect (b.1866)
• November 10 - Donald Mann, railway contractor and entrepreneur (b.1853)