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

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.
• 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 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 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)
• 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

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

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

Communist Party of Canada challenged by influence of ethnic "foreign language" organizations in its membership

New Saskatchewan cancer commission will oversee education, diagnosis and treatment (with radiotherapy)

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

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

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

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

Cartoon: Influenza returns with "complications and accompanying ills"

Photo: annual Procession of St. Anne, Chapel Island, Nova Scotia

Photo: Chris and Mary Josephine Morris putting birchbark on Mi'kmaw wigwam frame

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

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