1928 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 |
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Events from the year 1928 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Mary of Teck)
Federal government
- Governor general – Freeman Freeman-Thomas (viceregal consort – Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon)
- Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Theodore Arthur Burrows
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Frederick Todd (until December 28) then Hugh Havelock McLean
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse Pérodeau (until December 31) then Lomer Gouin
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
- Premier of British Columbia – John Duncan MacLean (until August 21) then Simon Fraser Tolmie
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick – John Baxter
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Edgar Nelson Rhodes
- Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders
- Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George A. Jeckell (until April 1) then George Ian MacLean
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory
Events
- April 2 - Camillien Houde elected mayor of Montreal
- April 24 - The Supreme Court of Canada rules that women are not persons who can hold office according to the British North America Act—reversed a year later by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain
- May 7 - The St. Roch is launched. It would become the first ship to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east and to circumnavigate North America.
- May 31 - The Legislative Council of Nova Scotia is abolished
- July 4 - Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball.
- August 20 - John Duncan MacLean resigns as premier of British Columbia
- August 21 - Simon Fraser Tolmie becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing John Duncan MacLean
- August 25 - Canada's first major air disaster occurred when bad weather caused a BC Airways Ford Trimotor plane to crash in Puget Sound, Washington[1]
Science and technology
- Frank Morse Robb of Ontario obtains a patent for the first Electronic Organ, the Robb Wave Organ.
Sports
- The Winter Olympics take place in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The U of T Grads won a gold medal in hockey.
- The Summer Olympics take place in Amsterdam. Percy Williams and Ethel Catherwood won gold medals for Canada.
Births
January to March
- January 2 -
- Avie Bennett, businessman and philanthropist
- Allen Sapp, painter
- February 13 - Gerald Regan, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia
- February 16 - Les Costello, ice hockey player and Catholic priest (d.2002)
- February 26 - Donald Davis, actor (d.1998)
- 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 17 - William John McKeag, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.2007)
- March 31 - Gordie Howe, ice hockey player
April to June
- April 10 - Fraser MacPherson, jazz musician (d.1993)
- 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 -
- Pauline Julien, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist (d.1998)
- Sidney Spivak, politician and Minister (d.2002)
- June 2 - George Wearring, basketball player (d.2013)
- June 13 - Renée Morisset, pianist (d.2009)
July to December
- July 26 - Peter Lougheed, lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
- September 10 - Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche
- October 1 - Jim Pattison, businessman
- 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)
- December 16 - Roy Bailey, politician
- December 21 - Clayton Kenny, boxer
- December 28 - Moe Koffman, flautist and saxophonist (d.2001)
- December 29 -
- Robert Hylton Brisco, politician (d.2004)
- Norman Cafik, politician
Full date unknown
- Peter Bronfman, businessman (d.1996)
Deaths
- April 6 - Godfroy Langlois, politician, journalist and lawyer (b.1866)
- April 28 - George Gerald King, politician (b. 1836)
References
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