1930 in Canada

Events from the year 1930 in Canada.

← 1929 1928 1927 1930 in Canada → 1931 1932 1933
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of Canada Timeline of Canadian history List of years in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
• Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King (until August 7) then Richard B. Bennett
• Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
• Parliament – 16th (until 30 May) then 17th (from 8 September)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory (until November 19) then Frank Stanfield
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz (until November 19) then Charles Dalton
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – John Baxter
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Edgar Nelson Rhodes (until August 11) then Gordon Sidney Harrington
• Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson (until December 15) then George Stewart Henry
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders (until May 20) then Walter Lea
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George Ian MacLean
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events

• February 15 – Cairine Wilson becomes Canada's first female senator
• May 20 – Walter Lea becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Albert Saunders
• June 19 – 1930 Alberta general election: Premier John Brownlee's United Farmers of Alberta win a third consecutive majority
• June 22 – Statue of Jean Vauquelin unveiled in Montreal's Vauquelin Square
• June 29 – Eight Jesuit martyrs become the first Canadian saints
• July 1 – The Seigniory Club, later to become the Château Montebello hotel, opens in Montebello, Quebec
• June 26 – John B. King Explosion
• July 28 – Federal election: R.B. Bennett's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Mackenzie King's Liberals
• August 7 – R.B. Bennett becomes Prime Minister, replacing Mackenzie King
• August 11 – Gordon Harrington becomes Premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Edgar Rhodes
• October 18 – Robert Burns Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
• November 12 – Norway relinquishes its claim to the Sverdrup Islands.
• December 15 – George Henry becomes Premier of Ontario, replacing Howard Ferguson

Arts and literature

• January 6 – An early literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.

Sport

• March 29 – The South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats win their third Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's West Toronto Nationals 2 games to 0. All games were played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
• April 3 – The Montreal Canadiens win their third Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 2 games to 0. The deciding game was played at the Montreal Forum
• May 14 – Winnipeg Rugby Club (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) are established
• August 16–23 – The British Empire Games take place in Hamilton.^[2]
• December 6 – The Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers win their second Grey Cup, defeating the Regina Roughriders 11 to 6 in the 18th Grey Cup, played at Varsity Stadium

Births

January to March

• January 4 – Herbert O. Sparrow, politician (d. 2012)
• January 7 – Clement Bowman, chemical engineer (d. 2021)
• January 11 – Harold Greenberg, film producer (d. 1996)
• January 12 – Tim Horton, ice hockey player and businessman (d. 1974)
• January 14 – Kenny Wheeler, composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
• January 23 – Georges Massicotte, politician (d. 2020)^[3]
• January 24 – Felix Cappella, race walker (d. 2011)
• February 6 – Allan King, film director (d. 2009)
• February 12 – Daniel Hyatt, actor (d. 2015)
• March 11 – Claude Jutra, actor, film director and writer (d. 1986)
• March 13 – Sue Johanson, Canadian sex educator and TV personality (d. 2023)

April to June

• April 2 – Don Hall, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
• April 24 – Étienne Gaboury, architect (d. 2022)
• April 28 – Charles Caccia, politician (d. 2008)
• April 29 – Ben Hanuschak, politician
• April 30 – Jackie McLeod, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2022)
• May 9 – Muriel Smith, politician
• May 24 – Robert Bateman, naturalist and painter
• May 26 – Lorne Ferguson, ice hockey player (d. 2008)
• May 29 -
  • Roy Bonisteel, journalist and television host
  • Lawrence Heisey, businessman

Jacques Parizeau

• June 17 – Rosemary Brown, politician (d. 2003)
• June 19 – John Lynch-Staunton, Senator

July to December

• July 6 – George Armstrong, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
• July 10 – Bruce Boa, actor (d. 2004)
• July 12 – Gordon Pinsent, actor (d. 2023)
• July 14 – Arthur Irving, businessman (d. 2024)
• July 15 – Richard Garneau, sports journalist (d. 2013)

Maureen Forrester photo taken by Carl Van Vechten

• July 22 – Dinny Flanagan, ice hockey player (d. 2018)
• July 25 – Maureen Forrester, opera singer (d. 2010)
• August 9
  • Jacques Parizeau, economist, politician and 26th Premier of Quebec
  • Larry Regan, ice hockey player, coach and manager (d.2009)
• September 18 – John Tolos, wrestler and wrestling manager (d.2009)
• September 21 – John Morgan, comedian (d.2004)
• October 2 – Dave Barrett, politician and 26th Premier of British Columbia
• October 24 – Micheline Beauchemin, textile artist and weaver
• October 29 – André Bernier, politician
• October 30 – Timothy Findley, novelist and playwright (d.2002)
• December 1 – Jim Anderson, ice hockey player (Springfield Indians) and coach (Washington Capitals) (d.2013)

Full date unknown

• Ben Kerr, street performer, author, broadcaster, musician and perennial candidate (d.2005)

Deaths

Emma Albani

• February – Levi Addison Ault, businessman and naturalist (b.1851)
• February 28 – George Boyce, politician (b.1848)
• April 3 – Emma Albani, soprano (b.1847)
• July 19 – David Bonis, politician
• August 3 – James Alexander Anderson, politician
• November 16 – William James Topley, photographer (b.1845)
• December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, painter (b.1860)
• November 21 – Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, Canadian writer, linguist and Catholic priest (born 1855)

Historical documents

Constitutional amendment affects natural resources control, Indigenous peoples, parks etc. in Prairie provinces^[4]

To reduce unemployment, B.C. MP wants limits on number of Japanese immigrants that are equal to those set for Europeans^[5]

One Big Union organizes industrial wage workers in struggle with "those who possess and do not produce"^[6]

Communist Party of Canada challenged by influence of ethnic "foreign language" organizations in its membership^[7]

New Saskatchewan cancer commission will oversee education, diagnosis and treatment (with radiotherapy)^[8]

Gov. Franklin Roosevelt says New York's residential hydro rates much higher than Ontario's because of private ownership of power supply^[9]

School's history pageant praised for its "costumes, stage settings, music, character portrayal and general effectiveness"^[10]

Young people's "Shan-a-mac" guide has romanticized stories and knowledge imitating Indigenous culture (and thus misappropriation)^[11]

New to Canada, starlings inhabit barns and sing "wheezy bumptious versatile essays to the belles of the roof"^[12]

Cartoon: Influenza returns with "complications and accompanying ills"^[13]

Photo: annual Procession of St. Anne, Chapel Island, Nova Scotia^[14]

Photo: Chris and Mary Josephine Morris putting birchbark on Mi'kmaw wigwam frame^[15]

Photo: Louisiana group at White House, en route to Grand-Pré for 175th anniversary of Acadian deportation^[16]

Photo: blimp and bike we know you'll like^[17]