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Canada-related events during the year of 1928
Events from the year 1928 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Science and technology
Sports
Births
January to March
January 2
January 7 –
Benny Woit , ice hockey player (d.
2016 )
January 20 –
Peter Donat , actor (d.
2018 )
January 25 –
Jérôme Choquette , lawyer and politician (d.
2017 )
February 8 –
Gene Lees , biographer and lyricist (d.
2010 )
February 13 –
Gerald Regan , politician, Minister and
Premier of Nova Scotia (d.
2019 )
February 16 –
Les Costello , ice hockey player and
Catholic priest (d.
2002 )
February 26 –
Donald Davis , actor (d.
1998 )
March 3 –
Diane Foster , athlete (d.
1999 )
March 9 –
Gerald Bull , engineer and artillery designer (d.
1990 )
March 10 –
Robert Coates , politician and minister (d.
2016 )
March 12 –
Thérèse Lavoie-Roux , politician and Senator (d.
2009 )
March 13 –
Douglas Rain , actor and narrator (d.
2018 )
March 17
March 31 –
Gordie Howe , ice hockey player (d.
2016 )
April to June
April 10
April 17 –
Fabien Roy , politician
April 28 –
Zbigniew Basinski , physicist
April 30 –
Hugh Hood , novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor (d.
2000 )
May 4 –
Maynard Ferguson , jazz trumpet player and bandleader (d.
2006 )
May 7 –
Bruno Gerussi , actor and television presenter (d.
1995 )
May 9 –
Barbara Ann Scott , figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (d.
2012 )
May 23
June 1 –
Larry Zeidel , Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (d.
2014 )
June 2 –
George Wearring , basketball player (d.
2013 )
June 13 –
Renée Morisset , pianist (d.
2009 )
June 25 –
Michel Brault , cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and producer (d.
2013 )
June 26 –
Samuel Belzberg , businessman, philanthropist (d.
2018 )
July to December
July 3 –
Raymond Setlakwe , entrepreneur, lawyer and politician (d.
2021 )
July 7 –
Tom Chambers , politician (d.
2018 )
July 12 –
Paul Ronty , ice hockey centre (d.
2020 )
July 17 –
Robert Nixon , politician
July 21 –
Anne Harris , sculptor
July 22 –
Hugh Edighoffer , politician (d.
2019 )
July 23 –
Irving Grundman , ice hockey executive and politician (d.
2021 )
July 26 –
Peter Lougheed , lawyer and politician (d.
2012 )
July 28 –
Ann Sloat , politician (d.
2017 )
July 31 –
Gilles Carle , film director and screenwriter (d.
2009 )
August 7 –
James Randi , stage magician and scientific skeptic (d.
2020 in the United States )
September 10
September 20 –
Jacqueline Desmarais , billionaire philanthropist (d.
2018 )
[4]
October 1 –
Jim Pattison , businessman
October 7 –
Raymond Lévesque , singer-songwriter (d.
2021 )
October 9 –
Clare Drake , ice hockey coach (d.
2018 )
October 27 –
Gilles Vigneault , poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
November 3 –
Gary Lautens , humorist and newspaper columnist (d.
1992 )
November 16 –
David Adams , ballet dancer (d.
2007 )
November 20 –
Toni Onley , painter (d.
2004 )
November 28 –
Floyd Crawford , ice hockey player (d.
2017 )
December 10 –
Michael Snow , artist (d.
2023 )
December 12 –
Lionel Blair , dancer and entertainer (d.
2021 in the United Kingdom )
December 16 –
Roy Bailey , politician (d.
2018 )
December 21 –
Clayton Kenny , boxer (d.
2015 )
December 24 –
Adam Exner , Roman Catholic archbishop (d.
2023 )
[5]
December 28 –
Moe Koffman , flautist and saxophonist (d.
2001 )
December 29
Full date unknown
Deaths
See also
Historical documents
Supreme Court 's
negative decision on whether women can be appointed to Senate
[6]
Emily Murphy leads
Famous Five in response to Supreme Court decision against women entering Senate
[7]
Influenza
epidemic among
Northwest Territories Indigenous people "spread[s] like wildfire" from Mackenzie delta to northern Alberta
[8]
MP
Agnes Macphail calls for federal department of
peace because people lack "confidence in war or in preparedness for war"
[9]
Guide to
social hygiene combines public health and
eugenics
[10]
Manitoba MLA explains trials of unemployment for single men and new immigrants, especially after crop failure in her province
[11]
Statements and petition from Quebec call on government to give settling "sons of our large families" priority over immigrants
[12]
M.J. Coldwell would prioritize settling "those who through[...]damage to crops and mortgage companies had gone to the wall"
[13]
Anglican bishop of Saskatchewan calls immigration "the foreignization of Canada [with the] aggression of the Church of Rome"
[14]
Backing "Protestantism, Racial Purity, Gentile Economic Freedom" etc.,
KKK constitution adopted by Imperial Kloncilium in Regina
[15]
Film clip: Brief segment of film on
Coast Salish people shows
Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) master weaver Skwetsiya (Mrs. Harriet Johnnie) making hat
[16]
Photographer
Ansel Adams and other
Sierra Club members' first experience of Canadian Rockies
[17]
References
^
"King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .
^
"Canadian aviation history" .
Canadian Geographic . Sep–Oct 2000. Archived from
the original on 2010-08-06. Retrieved 2010-06-18 .
^
Herstory 2012 . Coteau Books. p. 42.
ISBN
978-1-55050-454-5 .
^ Fred Langan (March 19, 2018).
"Philanthropist Jacqueline Desmarais nurtured the opera world" . Globe and Mail . Retrieved February 21, 2022 .
^
Archbishop Adam Exner, OMI, dies at age 94
^
"No. 9; In the Supreme Court of Canada" (April 24, 1928), In the Privy Council; No. 121 of 1928; On Appeal from the Supreme Court of Canada[....], pgs. 38-9. Accessed 14 May 2020
^ Nellie L. McClung, The Stream Runs Fast; My Own Story (1945), pgs.
187 -8. Accessed 14 May 2020
^ Associated Press,
"Epidemic Flu Killing Indians" Spokane (Washington) Chronicle (July 26, 1928). Accessed 14 May 2020
^ Agnes Campbell Macphail,
"Proposal for International Peace Department" (excerpt from Hansard). Accessed 13 May 2020
^ Canadian Social Hygiene Council,
Tell Your Children the Truth; A Social Hygiene Booklet for Parents (1928). Accessed 10 April 2020
^
Testimony of Edith Rogers (April 19, 1928), [House] Select Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations [on] the question of Insurance against Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity, pgs. 41-4. Accessed 21 October 2020
^
"Productions" [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization; Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence, pgs. 813-18. Accessed 21 October 2020
^
"Traffic in Immigration Permits by Members of Federal House Alleged" The (Regina) Leader (November 24, 1927), read into record during testimony of M.J. Coldwell (May 15, 1928), [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization, pg. 678. Accessed 21 October 2020
^ G.E. Lloyd,
"The Building of the Nation; Natural Increase and Immigration" (unpaginated; July 26, 1928). Accessed 14 May 2020
^
"Constitution of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" (March 1928). Accessed 14 May 2020
^ Harlan Smith,
"Film clip on Coast Salish weaving" (1928), Canadian Museum of History. Accessed 17 April 2022
^ Ruth Teiser (interviewer),
"The Sierra and Other Ranges" Conversations with Ansel Adams (1972, 1974, 1975), pg. 279, and
"Helen M. LeConte; Reminiscences of LeConte Family Outings, the Sierra Club, and Ansel Adams" pgs. 22-3 (document pgs. 140-1), in Sierra Club Women (1976, 1977). Accessed 14 May 2020
1928 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories