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1929 in Canada

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1929
in
Canada

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Events from the year 1929 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Territorial governments

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Commissioners

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Events

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Arts and literature

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Science and technology

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Sport

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Births

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January to March

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April to June

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John Turner in September 2009

July to September

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October to December

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Full date unknown

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Deaths

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January to March

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Lomer Gouin

April to December

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Historical documents

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Antonine Maillet | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Marc Lalonde | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  4. ^ Hammond, Margaret A. "Story, Gertrude (1929–)". The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
  5. ^ "Gertrude Story". The StarPhoenix. January 18, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2021 – via Postmedia Obituaries.
  6. ^ "Hamilton philanthropist Charles Juravinski dead at 92 - Hamilton | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Archived from the original on 2023-07-09.
  7. ^ Stampeders mourn death of 'Ironman' Harry Langford
  8. ^ Weber, Bruce (5 February 2021). "Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to 'The Sound of Music,' Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  9. ^ "Privy Council Appeal No. 121 of 1928. In the matter of a Reference as to the meaning of the word 'persons' in Section 24 of The British North America Act, 1867; Judgement of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council" (October 18, 1929), pgs. 2, 5, 7-8, 9, 11-13, 14. Accessed 19 May 2020
  10. ^ Associated Press (New York, October 29), "Bankers Again Halt Big Flood of Liquidation" The (Montreal) Gazette, Vol. CLVIII, No. 260 (October 30, 1929), pg. 1. Accessed 19 May 2020
  11. ^ 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
  12. ^ Letter of Sister Saint Simon to Duncan Scott (June 24, 1929). Accessed 24 June 2021
  13. ^ "A Trip through Turner Valley; with the Young Men's Section of the Calgary Board of Trade" (September 12, 1929). Accessed 19 May 2020
  14. ^ "From a Member of the G.M.C. 'Happy Family' in Walkerville," Auto Workers' Life (1929). Accessed 12 August 2020 https://projects.windsorpubliclibrary.com/digi/sar/part3.htm (scroll down to Excerpt from Auto Workers's Life)
  15. ^ [U.S.] Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, "Outrages on the Border" Canada Liquor Crossing the Border (1929), pgs. 18-21. Accessed 19 May 2020
  16. ^ Max Aitken, "Empire Free Trade;...A Manifesto by Lord Beaverbrook." Accessed 10 April 2020
  17. ^ Jack Miner, "Deer and Wolves" Jack Miner on Current Topics (copyright 1929), pgs. 61-9. Accessed 27 January 2020
  18. ^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1929, pg. 7. Accessed 19 May 2020