1938 in Canada
Historical events by year (Canada)
Events from the year 1938 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Full date unknown
Sport
Births
January to June
John Hamm January 9 - Claudette Boyer , politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Ottawa—Vanier (1999–2003) (d.2013 )
January 10 - Frank Mahovlich , ice hockey player and Senator
January 13 - William B. Davis , actor
January 16 - Lou Angotti , ice hockey player and coach (d. 2021 )
February 9 - Jovette Marchessault , writer and artist (d. 2012 )
February 17 - Martha Henry , actress
February 22 - Pierre Vallières , journalist and writer (d. 1998 )
April 5 - David Helwig , poet, novelist, and essayist (d. 2018 )
April 8 - John Hamm , physician, politician and 32nd Premier of Nova Scotia
April 12 - Roger Caron , author
May 13 - Lucille Starr , singer, songwriter and yodeler
May 16 - Jim Coutts , political advisor (d.2013 )
May 24 - Tommy Chong , comedian, actor and musician
May 26 - Teresa Stratas , operatic soprano[ 3]
May 30 - Eugene Belliveau , Canadian football defensive lineman
June 4 - John Harvard , journalist, politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
June 13 - John Newlove , poet (d.2013 )
June 19
June 26 - Ken Monteith , politician
July to September
Paul Martin
October to December
October 8 - Walter Gretzky , ice hockey player and coach (d.2021 )
October 14 - Ron Lancaster , Canadian football player and coach (d.2008 )
October 27 - Tim Ralfe , journalist (d.2000 )
October 28 - Gary Cowan , golfer
November 3 - Yvon Cormier , wrestler (d.2009 )
November 4 - LeRoy Fjordbotten , politician (d. 2017 )
November 13 - Gérald Godin , poet and politician (d.1994 )
November 15 - Denis DeJordy , ice hockey player and coach
November 17 - Gordon Lightfoot , singer and songwriter (d. 2023 )
November 18 – Annon Lee Silver , lyric soprano (d.1971 )
November 26 - Rich Little , impressionist and voice actor
December 16 - John Allan Cameron , folk singer (d.2006 )
December 22 - Lucien Bouchard , lawyer, diplomat, politician and Minister
Undated
Roland Doré , educator, President of the Canadian Space Agency
Deaths
January 4 - George Halsey Perley , politician and diplomat (b.1857 )
January 8 - Aimé Bénard , politician (b.1873 )
January 28 - Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan , newspaper publisher (b.1848 )
February 20 - William Alves Boys , politician and barrister (b.1868 )
March 23 - Thomas Walter Scott , politician and first Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1867 )
April 13 - Grey Owl , writer and conservationist (b.1888 )
April 24 - John Wycliffe Lowes Forster , artist (b.1850 )
May 6 - Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire , politician and 11th Governor General of Canada (b.1868 )
May 7 - Frederick Cronyn Betts , politician (b.1896 )
July 25 - Francis Haszard , jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1849 )
December 26 - Pierre-Ernest Boivin , politician and businessman (b.1872 )
See also
Historical documents
Prime Minister Chamberlain defends Munich Agreement in "peace for our time" speech in British House of Commons[ 4]
President Roosevelt requests increased defence appropriations from Congress[ 5]
President Roosevelt says "we[...]are no longer a far away continent" in address at Queen's University at Kingston[ 6]
Vancouverites fail in plot to bomb Japanese ocean liner Hiye Maru [ 7]
"Map of the Pacific Ocean [showing] route taken by the Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Asia from Hong Kong to Vancouver, [B.C. via Shanghai and Japan]"[ 8]
Jewish Anti-Defamation League member says act on "passion for democracy" in face of world events[ 9]
Jewish columnist sets radio host straight on his "joke" about Jews [ 10]
Al-Rashid Mosque , Canada's first, opened in Edmonton with Indian statesman and Hanna, Alta. mayor present[ 11]
With prices for necessities and product sold dictated to them, Alberta farmers form United Farmers of Canada branch[ 12]
Manitoba premier comments on globally higher production, lower demand and drastically lower prices for wheat[ 13]
Development of huge Turner Valley oil field and its significance to Canada and Empire (especially British Navy )[ 14]
Nellie McClung praises cooperation as solution to poverty resulting from "profit system divorced from Christian ethics"
[ 15]
Woonsocket, Rhode Island Franco-American mill worker and his family survive another layoff during Depression[ 16]
Trans-Canada Air Lines will be part of multi-day international flights linking Britain with New Zealand and Australia[ 17]
Tides and trees, gardens and exiles are subjects of Nellie McClung 's Nova Scotia travel article[ 18]
New wing of Kitchener-Waterloo YWCA hosts Saturday morning games, stories and handwork for girls[ 19]
18th century Kanien’kéhà:ka -British alliance seen as "administration" of Indigenous people versus French "encroachments"[ 20]
References
^ "King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .^ "John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland" . www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk . Retrieved 29 January 2021 .^ Randel, Don Michael (30 October 2002). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians ISBN 978-0-674-25572-2 ^ Great Britain, Parliamentary Debates; Commons; Vol. 339 (October 3, 1938 ). Accessed 18 June 2020
^ "Paper VIII; Message to the Congress recommending increased armament for national defense, January 28, 1938" Development of United States Foreign Policy; Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942), pgs. 25-6. Accessed 18 June 2020^ "Paper IX; Address at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 18, 1938" Development of United States Foreign Policy; Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942), pgs. 27-9. Audio: "President Franklin Roosevelt Receiving Honorary Degree at Queens University in Ontario, Canada" Accessed 18 June 2020^ "One Seized, One Dead at Seattle; Vancouver Man Admits They Were in Pay of 'Oriental Nation'" (Seattle, January 20, 1938). Accessed 18 June 2020^ Canadian Pacific Railway Company, "Steamship tracks chart used on the Empress of Asia" (1938), University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 14 July 2024
^ Richard E. Gutstadt, in "B'nai B'rith and A.Z.A. 1938; Second Annual Conference; Western Canadian Council" (September 1938; unpaginated). Accessed 18 June 2020
^ Al Segal, "Plain Talk; Suppose it were the Scotch" Jewish Western Bulletin, Vol. VIII, No. 43 (May 13, 1938), pg. 1. Accessed 18 June 2020
^ "City's Mosque Will Be Opened Sunday Night" Edmonton Journal (December 9, 1938). Accessed 13 June 2021^ "Manifesto and Constitution of United Farmers of Canada (Alberta Section) Third Revised Edition. Accessed 18 June 2020^ "Radio Address by Honourable John Bracken; December 18, 1938" Proceedings of the Conference on Markets for Western Farm Products, pgs. 325-8. Accessed 18 June 2020^ Walter S. Campbell, "Turner Valley - Its Resources and Possibilities" (February 10, 1938), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 227-44. Accessed 18 June 2020
^ Nellie L. McClung, "Co-operation in Nova Scotia" The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (September 7, 1938). Accessed 18 June 2020
^ Mr. Guilfoyle, "French Canadian Textile Worker" (interview with Henry Boucher, January 12, 1939), pgs. 18-23. Accessed 18 June 2020
^ "Across Canada by Air" The (Wellington, N.Z.) Evening Post, Vol. CXXV, No. 94 (April 22, 1938), pg. 8. Accessed 18 June 2020^ Nellie L. McClung, "The Flavour of Nova Scotia" The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (August 3, 1938), pgs. 1, 3. Accessed 18 June 2020
^ "Saturday Morning Play Hour Big Attraction at Y.W.C.A." Kitchener Daily Record (March 21, 1938). Accessed 18 June 2020^ John Wolfe Lydekker, "Introduction" (excerpt), The Faithful Mohawks (1938). Accessed 8 February 2021
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