1935 in Canada

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Events from the year 1935 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

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

Federal government

• Governor general – Vere Ponsonby (until November 2) then John Buchan (viceregal consort – Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough then Susan Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir)
• Prime minister – Richard B. Bennett (until October 23) then William Lyon Mackenzie King

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William Johnston Tupper
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean (until February 8) then Murray MacLaren
• 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 – Esioff-Léon Patenaude
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Richard Gavin Reid (until September 3) then William Aberhart
• Premier of British Columbia – Duff Pattullo
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Leonard Tilley (until July 16) then Allison Dysart
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
• Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – William J. P. MacMillan (until August 15) then Walter Lea
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner (until November 1) then William John Patterson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Vacant (Roy A. Gibson acting)

Events

January to June

• January 2 - Prime Minister R. B. Bennett outlines his programme
• March 11 - Bank of Canada established
• March 11 - The Bank of Canada issued a $500 banknote with Sir John A. Macdonald's portrait and a C$1,000 note with Sir Wilfrid Laurier's portrait
• May 7 - David Dunlap Observatory opens
• May 25 - Cabot Monument unveiled, Montreal
• June 5 - The On-to-Ottawa Trek begins
• June 26 - "Regina Riot": Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire into unarmed crowd of unemployed marchers in Regina, Saskatchewan

July to December

• July 5 - Canadian Wheat Board established
• July 16 - Allison Dysart becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Leonard Tilley
• August 15 - Walter Lea becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing W. J. P. MacMillan
• August 22 - Alberta general election, 1935: William Aberhart's Social Credit Party (SoCreds) wins a majority, defeating Richard G. Reid's United Farmers of Alberta
• September 3 - Aberhart becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Reid
• October 14 - Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a majority, defeating Bennett's Conservatives
• October 3 - After the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Canada refuses to support military intervention or even sanctions
• October 23 - Mackenzie King becomes prime minister for the third time, replacing Bennett
• November 1 - William Patterson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
• November 1 - magnitude 6.2 Timiskaming earthquake occurs in western Quebec

Sport

• December 7 - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers become the first western Canadian team to win the Grey Cup.

Births

January to June

• January 7 - Rey Pagtakhan, physician, professor, politician and Minister
• January 10 - Ronnie Hawkins, pioneering rock and roll musician
• January 14 - Lucille Wheeler, alpine skier, Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion
• January 29 - Christina McCall, political writer (d.2005)
• February 21 - Jean Pelletier, politician and Mayor of Quebec City (d.2009)
• March 2 - Al Waxman, actor and director (d.2001)
• March 15 - Mary Pratt, painter
• March 24 - Mary Seeman, psychiatrist
• April 16 - Ray Frenette, 28th Premier of New Brunswick
• April 22 - Rita Johnston, politician, Canada's first female premier and 29th Premier of British Columbia
• May 25 - W. P. Kinsella, novelist and short story writer
• May 26 - Pat Carney, politician, Minister and Senator
• June 2 - Carol Shields, author (d.2003)

July to December

Donald Sutherland at the Mill Valley Film Festival, 2005

• July 17 - Donald Sutherland, actor
• July 24 - Bob McAdorey, television and radio broadcaster (d.2005)
• July 25 - Gilbert Parent, politician and 33rd Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.2009)
• July 27 - Don Mazankowski, politician and Minister
• July 29 - Pat Lowther, poet (d.1975)
• October 3 - Floyd Laughren, politician
• October 15 - Willie O'Ree, ice hockey player, first Black Canadian player in the National Hockey League
• October 20 - Russell Doern, politician (d.1987)
• November 17 - Audrey Thomas, novelist and short story writer
• December 11 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• December 12 - John Wise, politician, MP for Elgin (1972–1988); Minister of Agriculture (1979–1980; 1984–1988) (d.2013)
• December 13 - Raymond Speaker, politician
• December 21 - Edward Schreyer, politician, 16th Premier of Manitoba and 22nd Governor General of Canada

Full date unknown

• James Bourque, First Nations activist (d.1996)
• Lionel Giroux, midget wrestler (d.1995)
• J. Robert Janes, author
• Alex Janvier, artist
• Louise Laurin, educator and activist (d.2013)

Deaths

• March 15 - James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1860)
• March 16 - John James Richard Macleod, physician, physiologist and Nobel laureate (b.1876)
• April 10 - Joseph Charles-Émile Trudeau, entrepreneur and father of Pierre Trudeau, who would later become Prime Minister of Canada (b.1887)
• April 19 - Willis Keith Baldwin, politician (b.1857)
• July 18 - George Clift King, politician and 2nd Mayor of Calgary (b.1848)
• September 30 - J. J. Kelso, journalist and social activist (b.1864)
• October 24 - Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b.1859)
• October 29 - Del Fontaine, Canadian middleweight boxing champion, executed for murder in the U.K.