Events from the year 1929 in Canada .
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January to March
January 17 – Jacques Plante , ice hockey player (d. 1986 )
January 20 – Pat Mahoney , businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South (1968–1972), General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders (1965) (d. 2012 )
January 21 – Bill Norrie , politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992), Chancellor of the University of Manitoba (2001–2009), respiratory failure. (d. 2012 )
January 23 – John Polanyi , chemist and 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry joint laureate
January 25 – Brian O'Neill , ice hockey executive (d. 2023 )
February 12 – Philip Kives , businessman
February 28 – Frank Gehry , architect
March 20 – William Andrew MacKay , academic, President of Dalhousie University (1980– 1986) (d. 2013 )
April to June
John Turner in September 2009
April 8 – Garnet Bloomfield , politician (d. 2018 )
April 11 – Eric Luoma , cross-country skier (d. 2018 )
May 8 – Claude Castonguay , banker and politician (d. 2020 )
May 10
May 12 – Dollard St. Laurent , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
May 13 – Al Adair , politician, radio broadcaster and author (d. 1996 )
May 14 – Gump Worsley , ice hockey player (d. 2007 )
May 16 – Claude Morin , politician
May 18 – Walter Pitman , educator and politician
June 7
June 8 – Louise Maheux-Forcier , author
June 9
June 10 – Pearl McGonigal , politician
June 20 – Edgar Bronfman, Sr. , businessman
June 27 – H. Ian Macdonald , economist
July to September
July 2 – Anna-Marie Globenski , pianist and teacher (d. 2008 )
July 3 – Béatrice Picard , actress
July 10 – Moe Norman , golfer (d. 2004 )
July 18 – Roy Killin , footballer
July 19 – Ronald Melzack , psychologist (d. 2019 )
July 26 – Marc Lalonde , politician and Minister (d. 2023 )[3]
July 30 – Bill Davis , politician and 18th Premier of Ontario
August 1 – Sidney Green , politician
August 3 – Peter Salmon , swimmer (d. 2003 )
August 9 – George Scott Wallace , British Columbia physician and politician (d. 2011 )
August 19 – Leonard Evans , politician
August 27 – George Scott , professional wrestler and promoter (d. 2014 )
September 14 – Dimitri Dimakopoulos , architect
September 19 – Gertrude Story , writer and broadcaster (d. 2014 )[4] [5]
September 24 -Edward M. Lawson , trade unionist, politician and Senator
October to December
October 7 – Graeme Ferguson , filmmaker and inventor who co-invented IMAX (d. 2021 )
November 1 – Charles Juravinski , businessman and philanthropist (d. 2022 )[6]
November 2 – Richard E. Taylor , physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics joint laureate (d. 2018 )
November 21 – Laurier LaPierre , broadcaster, journalist, author and senator (d. 2012 )
November 24 – Harry Oliver Bradley , politician
December 6 – Harry Langford , footballer (d. 2022 )[7]
December 13 – Christopher Plummer , actor (d. 2021 )[8]
December 15 – Emery Barnes , Canadian football player and politician (d. 1998 )
December 23 – Patrick Watson , broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director (d. 2022 )
December 28 – Terry Sawchuk , ice hockey player (d. 1970 )
January to March
Lomer Gouin
January 19 – Edward Charles Bowers , politician (b. 1845 )
January 29 – John Howatt Bell , lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1846 )
February – Richard Gardiner Willis , politician (b. 1865 )
February 17 – James Colebrooke Patterson , politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1839 )
March 1 – James Albert Manning Aikins , politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1851 )
March 28 – Lomer Gouin , politician and 13th Premier of Quebec (d. 1861 )
March 29 – Hugh John Macdonald , politician, Minister and 8th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1850 )
April to December
April 17 – Clifford Sifton , politician and Minister (b. 1861 )
May 6 – William Dillon Otter , soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff (b. 1843 )
June 3 – John Morison Gibson , politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1842 )
June 8 – Bliss Carman , poet (b. 1861 )
June 23 – William Stevens Fielding , journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1848 )
July 30 – Antonin Nantel , priest, teacher, school administrator, and author (b. 1839 )
October 10 – Elijah McCoy , inventor and engineer (b. 1843 )
British Privy Council members decide "that women are eligible to be summoned to and become members of the Senate of Canada"[9]
"Crest of the flood of selling " passes on New York Stock Exchange [10]
Charlotte Whitton warns family allowance would reduce mothers to economic slavery and government parental role would undermine family [11]
Residential school principal objects to farm training because land limited, students are not labourers, and hired hands would not obey her[12]
Calgary Board of Trade report on Turner Valley oil field [13]
At Walkerville, Ont. General Motors plant, it is "very dangerous" to work exposed pulleys late in 12-hour night shift [14]
Killing of Americans by U.S. border guards enforcing prohibition regulations draws outrage[15]
Lord Beaverbrook on overcoming "the great general division between farmers and industrialists" to establish imperial free trade
[16]
Hunter-conservationist Jack Miner calls for extermination of wolves in Ontario[17]
Mackenzie King "wholly convinced in the reality of the spiritual world " after medium contacts his dead family members[18]
Testimony of Charlotte Whitton (April 30, 1929), [House] Select Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations; [on] granting Family Allowances, pgs. 55-8. Accessed 21 October 2020
[U.S.] Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, "Outrages on the Border" Canada Liquor Crossing the Border (1929), pgs. 18-21. Accessed 19 May 2020
Jack Miner, "Deer and Wolves" Jack Miner on Current Topics (copyright 1929), pgs. 61-9. Accessed 27 January 2020
Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1929, pg. 7 . Accessed 19 May 2020