1932 in Canada

Events from the year 1932 in Canada.

← 1931 1930 1929 1932 in Canada → 1933 1934 1935
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)
• 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 – William Mulock (until November 1) then Herbert Alexander Bruce
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton
• 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
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington
• Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner then Controller of Yukon – George Ian MacLean (until June 30) then George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt

Events

• February 17 – The "Mad Trapper" is killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the Yukon
• July 20 – The Ottawa Imperial Conference is held, it creates a zone of preferential trade within the Commonwealth
• August 1 – The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) is formed in Calgary^[2]
• August 3 – Henri Bourassa leaves Le Devoir
• October 29 – The Dominion Drama Festival is founded

Full date unknown

• A seven-month miners strike occurs in Alberta's coal mines in Crowsnest Pass^[3]
• The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.^[4]

Arts and literature

New Books

• A Broken Journey – Morley Callaghan

Sport

• April 4 – The Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Sudbury Cub Wolves win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs 2 games to 0. All games played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
• April 9 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their third Stanley Cup by defeating the New York Rangers 3 game to 0. The deciding game was played at the newly opened Maple Leaf Gardens
• February 13 – Canada (represented by the Winnipeg Hockey Club) wins their fourth (consecutive) hockey gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics
• December 3 – The Hamilton Tigers win their fifth and final Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Roughriders 25 to 6 in the 20th Grey Cup played at Hamilton's Civic Stadium

Births

January to March

• January 2 – Jean Little, author
• January 11 – Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk, nurse (d. 2021)
• February 4 – Bob Dawson, football player (d. 2017)
• February 13 – Robert Fulford, journalist (d. 2024)
• February 24 – John Vernon, actor (d. 2005)
• February 28 – Don Francks, actor (d. 2016)
• March 1 – Donald Stovel Macdonald, politician and minister
• March 2 – Jack Austin, politician and Senator
• March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, artist (d. 2007)

April to June

• April 3 – Jean-Claude Corbeil, linguist and lexicographer (d. 2022)
• April 6 – Eugène Bellemare, politician
• April 8 – Al Boliska, radio and television broadcaster
• April 12 – Dick Fowler, mayor, MLA (d. 2012)
• April 14 – Bill Bennett, politician and 27th Premier of British Columbia (d. 2015)
• April 22 – Ron Basford, politician and Minister (d. 2005)
• April 26 – Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2000)
• May 7 – Jordi Bonet, artist (d. 1979)
• May 28 – John Savage, politician and 23rd Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
• June 5 – Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, general and Chief of the Defence Staff (d. 1998)
• June 10 – Hal Jackman, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• June 24
  • Mel Hurtig, publisher, author and political activist
  • David McTaggart, environmentalist (d. 2001)

July to September

• July 11 – Jean-Guy Talbot, ice hockey defenceman and coach (d. 2024)
• July 13 – Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist (d. 2023 in France)
• July 16 – Hédi Bouraoui, poet, novelist and academic
• July 22 – Doug Kyle, long-distance runner
• July 27 – George Ryga, playwright and novelist (d. 1987)
• August 2 – Leo Boivin, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
• August 11 – Izzy Asper, tax lawyer and media magnate (d. 2003)
• August 28 – Andy Bathgate, ice hockey player
• August 31 – Allan Fotheringham, newspaper and magazine journalist
• September 14 – Harry Sinden, ice hockey player, general manager and coach
• September 25 – Glenn Gould, pianist (d. 1982)
• September 27 – Gabriel Loubier, politician

October to December

• October 16 – Lucien Paiement, politician, Mayor of Laval (d. 2013)
• October 18 – Iona Campagnolo, politician, first female Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
• October 24 – Robert Mundell, professor of economics (d. 2021)
• November 10 – Martin Hattersley, lawyer and politician
• November 13 – Marilyn Brooks, fashion designer
• November 29 – Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist
• December 6 – Hank Bassen, ice hockey player (d. 2009)

Deaths

J. E. H. MacDonald

• March 6 – Joseph-Hormisdas Legris, politician and Senator (b. 1850)
• July 22 – Reginald Fessenden, inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
• August 1 – Wellington Willoughby, politician and lawyer (b. 1859)
• August 7 – Napoléon Belcourt, politician (b. 1860)
• August 21 – Leonard Burnett, politician, farmer and teacher (b. 1845)
• November 11 – Georgina Fraser Newhall, author and the bardess of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada (b. 1860)
• November 26 – J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven (b. 1873)

Historical documents

Federal budget broadly raises tax rates and restricts exemptions^[5]

Liberals claim "blank cheque legislation" to aid unemployed allows government to bypass Parliament^[6]

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation founded "to regulate production, distribution and exchange for supplying human needs"^[7]

At average 35 cents per bushel, prices for wheat farmers about one-third what they were in 1929^[8]

United Farmers of Alberta convention's calls to nationalize credit and monetary system, and make wheat certificates legal tender^[9]

Mass meeting denounces maladministration by Newfoundland government of Richard Squires^[10]

German politics "a fight between philosophies of life[...]as violent and as irreconcilable as you will never be able to believe"^[11]

Place held by Jews of western Canada in professions, business and agriculture^[12]

House of Commons debates deportation procedures and rights of residents^[13]

Women's Institutes are for radio for Canadians and against "weariness of advertisement before and after every item of music or speech"^[14]

Edward Johnson on importance of music to mind and spirit ^[15]

CBC interview with member of aircrew who joined "Mad Trapper" manhunt for Albert Johnson in Northwest Territories^[16]

Thunder Bay (Ont.) area farmers set local record for construction^[17]

Letter-to-editor profiles Watson Duchemin, inventor of brass roller bearing block^[18]