1933 in Canada

Events from the year 1933 in Canada.

← 1932 1931 1930 1933 in Canada → 1934 1935 1936
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 – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
• Prime Minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
• Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario) (until 28 February) then Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
• Parliament – 17th

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
• 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 – Charles Dalton (until December 9) then George Des Brisay de Blois (from December 28)
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie (until November 15) then Duff Pattullo
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards (until June 1) then Leonard Tilley
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington (until September 5) then Angus Lewis Macdonald
• Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart (until October 10) then William J. P. MacMillan (from October 14)
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt

Events

• April 7 – Raymond Paley becomes the first known skiing fatality in the Canadian Rockies on Fossil Mountain.
• June 1 – Leonard Tilley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Charles Richards
• August 16 – The Christie Pits riot between Jews and Nazi sympathizers in Toronto.
• September 5 – Angus Macdonald becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Gordon Harrington
• October 14 – W. J. P. MacMillan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James D. Stewart
• November 11 – The magnitude 7.3 Baffin Bay earthquake occurs at Baffin Bay, Northwest Territories.
• November 15 – Thomas Pattullo becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Simon Fraser Tolmie
• December 2 – Newfoundland's independence is revoked due to its financial difficulties.

Arts and literature

Main articles: 1933 in art and 1933 in literature

Sport

• April 6 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Newmarket Redmen win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 2 games to 0. All games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
• December 9 – The Toronto Argonauts win their third Grey Cup by defeating the Sarnia Imperials 4–3 at Sarnia's Davis Field

Births

January to March

• January 24 – Claude Préfontaine, actor (d. 2013)
• January 25
  • Anne Innis Dagg, zoologist and feminist (d. 2024)
  • Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, playwright and journalist (d. 1983)
• January 31 – Camille Henry, ice hockey player (d. 1997)
• February 13 – Michael Cook, playwright (d. 1994)
• February 16 – Tom Hickey, Canadian politician (d. 2020)
• February 18 – Frank Moores, businessman, politician and 2nd Premier of Newfoundland (d. 2005)
• February 24 – Gustavo Da Roza, architect
• March 2 – Simonie Michael, Inuk politician (d. 2008)
• March 4 – James Jerome, jurist, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2005)
• March 9 – Mel Lastman, businessman, politician and Mayor of Toronto (d. 2021)
• March 19
  • John Sopinka, lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 1997)
  • Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator (d. 2019)
• March 23 – Thomas R. Berger, politician and jurist (d. 2021)
• March 29 – Jacques Brault, poet and translator (d. 2022)

April to June

• April 5 – Joe Comuzzi, politician (d. 2022)
• April 19
  • Peter Demeter, murderer
  • Garry Blaine, ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• April 24 – Alan Eagleson, disbarred lawyer, convicted felon, former politician, hockey agent and promoter
• May 24 – Marian Engel, novelist (d. 1985)
• May 29 – Marc Carbonneau, taxi driver and convicted kidnapper
• June 19 – Michael M. Ames, anthropologist and academic (d. 2006)
• June 24
  • Bob Cole, sports television announcer (d. 2024)
  • Bernard Grandmaître, politician
• June 26 – Gerry Weiner, politician
• June 28
  • Antonio Flamand, politician
  • Gisèle Lalonde, politician and community activist, mayor of Vanier, Ontario (1985–1992) (d. 2022)
• June 30
  • Don Head, ice hockey player
  • Orval Tessier, ice hockey centre and coach (d. 2022)

July to September

• July 2 – Kenny Wharram, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
• July 8 – Antonio Lamer, lawyer, jurist and 16th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 2007)
• July 13 – Scott Symons, writer (d. 2009)
• July 14 – Robert Bourassa, politician and 22nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1996)
• July 16 – Julian Klymkiw, ice hockey goaltender (d. 2022)
• July 17 – Mimi Hines, singer and comedian
• July 28
  • David Ahenakew, politician (d. 2010)
  • Charlie Hodge, ice hockey goaltender (d. 2016)
• August 13 – Ted Godwin, artist (d. 2013)
• August 24 – John Alan Lee, sociologist (d. 2013)
• August 30 – Don Getty, politician and 11th Premier of Alberta (d. 2016)
• September 8 – Maurice Foster, politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993) (d. 2010)
• September 19 – Gilles Archambault, novelist

October to December

• October 12 – Guido Molinari, artist (d. 2004)
• October 22 – David Bromige, poet (d. 2009)
• November 16 – Leonard Marchand, politician (d. 2016)
• November 26 – Robert Goulet, singer and actor (d. 2007)
• November 27 – Jacques Godbout, novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet
• December 1 – Alex Campbell, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• December 12 – Joe Borowski, politician and activist (d. 1996)
• December 25 – Fred Sasakamoose, ice hockey player (d. 2020)

Full date unknown

• Harry Flemming, journalist (d. 2008)
• Doreen Kimura, psychologist who was professor at Simon Fraser University (d. 2013)

Deaths

• January 3 – Jack Pickford, actor (b. 1896)
• April 14 – Daniel Hunter McMillan, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1846)
• October 10 – James David Stewart, educator, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1874)
• October 17 – Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire (b. 1868)
• October 25 – William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b. 1867)
• November 30 – Arthur Currie, World War I general (b. 1875)

See also

• List of Canadian films

Historical documents

Montreal Gazette report finds that, after bad start, 1933 has brought industrial expansion and "a general revival of confidence"^[2]

"With a cheery, optimistic feeling prevailing", agricultural grain trade markets in Winnipeg, Chicago and Liverpool raise price of wheat^[3]

In what "has been a very bad year", federal budget raises taxes and creates support fund for agricultural exporters^[4]

"Heavy obligations" from resource and production investment call for debt conversion, budget balancing and international agreement^[5]

Most first ministers back re-employment through shortening of everyone's work day (but unemployment insurance scheme doubtful)^[6]

Hitler sworn in as German chancellor, but "surrounded with conservatives" in cabinet^[7]

With Nazi plurality, German parliament will allow Hitler to suspend its powers and constitution temporarily^[8]

Appeals to Jewish community and Christians to relieve oppression of German Jews^[9]

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation rejects capitalism and "its inherent injustice and inhumanity" in Regina Manifesto^[10]

Marxist delegate to CCF's Regina convention calls it "middle class" and "reformist"^[11]

Rejected in Saskatchewan by-election, Farmer–Labor (CCF) candidates and campaign managers receive advice from their president^[12]

Spinning wheel and Bennett buggy: how Prairie farmers are coping in Great Depression^[13]

Poor woman asks Prime Minister Bennett to send underwear for her husband (and request is fulfilled)^[14]

Memorial plaque unveiled at University of Saskatchewan for 46th Battalion^[15]

Mackenzie King yields to temptation, being "disobedient to the heavenly vision as I have held it in my heart"^[16]

Flyer for opening of Harlem-style nightclub in Montreal (note: blackface depicted)^[17]