1933 in Canada
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Events from the year 1933 in Canada.
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[edit] Events
- April 7 - Raymond Paley becomes the first known skiing fatality in the Canadian Rockies on Fossil Mountain.
- August 16 - A race riot occurs at Christie Pits in Toronto.
- November 11 - The magnitude 7.3 Baffin Bay earthquake occurs at Baffin Bay, Nunavut.
- December 2 - Newfoundland's independence is revoked due its financial difficulties.
[edit] Arts and Literature
[edit] Births
[edit] January to March
- January 25 - Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, playwright and journalist (d.1983)
- January 31 - Camille Henry, ice hockey player (d.1997)
- January 31 - John Snow, Native leader
- February 13 - Michael Cook, playwright (d.1994)
- February 18 - Frank Moores, businessman, politician and 2nd Premier of Newfoundland (d.2005)
- February 24 - Gustavo Da Roza, architect
- March 4 - James Jerome, jurist, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.2005)
- March 9 - Mel Lastman, businessman, politician and Mayor of Toronto
- March 19 - John Sopinka, lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1997)
- March 29 - Jacques Brault, poet and translator
[edit] April to June
- April 5 - Joe Comuzzi, politician
- April 24 - Alan Eagleson, disbarred lawyer, convicted felon, former politician, hockey agent and promoter
- May 24 - Marian Engel, novelist (d.1985)
- May 29 - Marc Carbonneau, taxi driver and convicted kidnapper
- June 28 - George Stulac, basketball player and decathlete
[edit] July to September
- July 8 - Antonio Lamer, lawyer, jurist and 16th Chief Justice of Canada (d.2007)
- July 13 - Scott Symons, writer (d.2009)
- July 14 - Robert Bourassa, politician and 22nd Premier of Quebec (d.1996)
- July 28 - David Ahenakew, politician
- August 30 - Don Getty, politician and 11th Premier of Alberta
- September 19 - Gilles Archambault, novelist
[edit] October to December
- October 12 - Guido Molinari, artist (d.2004)
- October 22 - David Bromige, poet (d.2009)
- November 16 - Leonard Marchand, politician
- November 26 - Robert Goulet, singer and actor (d.2007)
- November 27 - Jacques Godbout, novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet
- December 1 - Alex Campbell, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
- December 12 - Joe Borowski, politician and activist (d.1996)
[edit] Full date unknown
- Harry Flemming, journalist (d.2008)
[edit] Deaths
- January 3 - Jack Pickford, actor (b.1896)
- April 14 - Daniel Hunter McMillan, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1846)
- October 10 - James David Stewart, educator, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1874)
- October 17 - Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire (b.1868)
- October 25 - William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1867)
- November 30 - Arthur Currie, World War I general (b.1875)
