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Events from the year 1929 in Canada.
Incumbents[edit]
Federal government[edit]
Provincial governments[edit]
Lieutenant governors[edit]
Premiers[edit]
Territorial governments[edit]
Commissioners[edit]
Arts and literature[edit]
Science and technology[edit]
January to March[edit]
- January 17 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey player (d.1986)
- January 20 - Pat Mahoney, businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South (1968–1972), General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders (1965) (d.2012)
- January 21 - Bill Norrie, politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992), Chancellor of the University of Manitoba (2001–2009), respiratory failure. (d.2012)
- January 23 - John Charles Polanyi, chemist and 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry joint laureate
- February 12 - Philip Kives, businessman
- February 28 - Frank Gehry, architect
- March 20 - William Andrew MacKay, academic, President of Dalhousie University (1980–1986) (d.2013)
April to June[edit]
John Turner in September 2009
- May 8 - Claude Castonguay, Canadian banker and politician
- May 10
- May 12 - Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
- May 13 - Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author (d.1996)
- May 14 - Gump Worsley, ice hockey player (d.2007)
- May 16 - Claude Morin, politician
- May 18 - Walter Pitman, educator and politician
- June 7 -
- June 8 - Louise Maheux-Forcier, author
- June 9 - Jean Rougeau, professional wrestler and bodyguard of Quebec Premier René Lévesque (d.1983)
- June 10 - Pearl McGonigal, politician
- June 20 - Edgar Bronfman, Sr., businessman
July to September[edit]
- July 3 - Béatrice Picard, actress
- July 10 - Moe Norman, golfer (d.2004)
- July 26 - Marc Lalonde, politician and Minister
- July 30 - Bill Davis, politician and 18th Premier of Ontario
- August 1 - Sidney Green, politician
- August 3 - Peter Salmon, swimmer
- August 19 - Leonard Evans, politician
- September 14 - Dimitri Dimakopoulos, architect
- September 22 - Paul-Marie Lapointe, author
- September 24 -Edward M. Lawson, trade unionist, politician and Senator
October to December[edit]
- November 2 - Richard E. Taylor, physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics joint laureate
- November 21 - Laurier LaPierre, broadcaster, journalist, author and Senator
- November 24 - Harry Oliver Bradley, politician
- December 10 - Michael Snow, artist
- December 13 - Christopher Plummer, actor
- December 15 - Emery Barnes, Canadian football player and politician (d.1998)
- December 23 - Patrick Watson, broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director
- December 28 - Terry Sawchuk, ice hockey player (d.1970)
Full date unknown[edit]
January to March[edit]
- January 19 - Edward Charles Bowers, politician (b.1845)
- January 29 - John Howatt Bell, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1846)
- February - Richard Gardiner Willis, politician (b.1865)
- February 17 - James Colebrooke Patterson, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1839)
- March 1 - James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1851)
- March 28 - Lomer Gouin, politician and 13th Premier of Quebec (d.1861)
- March 29 - Hugh John Macdonald, politician, Minister and 8th Premier of Manitoba (b.1850)
April to December[edit]
- April 17 - Clifford Sifton, politician and Minister (b.1861)
- May 6 - William Dillon Otter, soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff (b.1843)
- June 3 - John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1842)
- June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet (b.1861)
- June 23 - William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1848)
- July 30 - Antonin Nantel, priest, teacher, school administrator, and author (b.1839)
- October 10 - Elijah McCoy, inventor and engineer (b.1843)
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