1928 in Canada
Events from the year 1928 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
- Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin
- Parliament – 16th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Theodore Arthur Burrows
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Frederick Todd then Hugh Havelock McLean
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse Pérodeau then Lomer Gouin
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
- Premier of British Columbia – John Duncan MacLean then Simon Fraser Tolmie
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick – John Baxter
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Edgar Nelson Rhodes
- Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders
- Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George A. Jeckell then George Ian MacLean
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory
Events
- April 2 – Camillien Houde elected mayor of Montreal
- April 24 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that women are not persons who can hold office according to the British North America Act, 1867—reversed a year later by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain
- May 7 – The St. Roch is launched. It would become the first ship to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east and to circumnavigate North America.
- May 31 – The Legislative Council of Nova Scotia is abolished
- July 4 – Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball.
- August 20 – John Duncan MacLean resigns as premier of British Columbia
- August 21 – Simon Fraser Tolmie becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing John Duncan MacLean
- August 25 – Canada's first major air disaster occurred when bad weather caused a BC Airways Ford Trimotor plane to crash in Puget Sound, Washington
Science and technology
- Frank Morse Robb of Ontario obtains a patent for the first Electronic Organ, the Robb Wave Organ.
Sports
- The Winter Olympics take place in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The University of Toronto Grads won a gold medal in ice hockey.
- The Summer Olympics take place in Amsterdam. Percy Williams and Ethel Catherwood won gold medals for Canada.
- March 26 – The South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Ottawa City Junior Hockey League's Ottawa Gunners 2 game to 1. The deciding Game 3 was played Arenas Garden in Toronto
- December 1 – The Hamilton Tigers win their third Grey cup by shutting out the Regina Roughriders 30 to 0 in the 16th Grey Cup played at A.A.A Grounds in Hamilton
Births
January to March
- January 2
- *Avie Bennett, businessman and philanthropist
- *Allen Sapp, painter
- January 7 – Benny Woit, ice hockey player
- January 20 – Peter Donat, actor
- January 25 – Jérôme Choquette, lawyer and politician
- February 8 – Gene Lees, biographer and lyricist
- February 13 – Gerald Regan, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia
- February 16 – Les Costello, ice hockey player and Catholic priest
- February 26 – Donald Davis, actor
- March 3 – Diane Foster, athlete
- March 9 – Gerald Bull, engineer and artillery designer
- March 10 – Robert Coates, politician and minister
- March 12 – Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, politician and senator
- March 13 – Douglas Rain, actor and narrator
- March 17
- * André Chagnon, businessman and philanthropist
- * William John McKeag, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
- March 20 – James K. Irving, businessman
- March 31 – Gordie Howe, ice hockey player
April to June
- April 10
- *Kenneth Earl Hurlburt, politician
- *Fraser MacPherson, jazz musician
- April 17 – Fabien Roy, politician
- April 28 – Zbigniew Basinski, physicist
- April 30 – Hugh Hood, novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor
- May 4 – Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpet player and bandleader
- May 7 – Bruno Gerussi, actor and television presenter
- May 9 – Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater and Olympic gold medalist
- May 23
- *Pauline Julien, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist
- *Sidney Spivak, politician and Minister
- June 1 – Larry Zeidel, Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster
- June 2 – George Wearring, basketball player
- June 13 – Renée Morisset, pianist
- June 25 – Michel Brault, cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and producer
- June 26 – Samuel Belzberg, businessman, philanthropist
July to December
- July 3 – Raymond Setlakwe, entrepreneur, lawyer and politician
- July 7 – Tom Chambers, politician
- July 12 – Paul Ronty, ice hockey centre
- July 17 – Robert Nixon, politician
- July 21 – Anne Harris, sculptor
- July 22 – Hugh Edighoffer, politician
- July 23 – Irving Grundman, ice hockey executive and politician
- July 26 – Peter Lougheed, lawyer and politician
- July 28 – Ann Sloat, politician
- July 31 – Gilles Carle, film director and screenwriter
- August 7 – James Randi, stage magician and scientific skeptic
- September 10
- *Roch Bolduc, civil servant, politician
- *Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche
- September 20 – Jacqueline Desmarais, billionaire philanthropist
- October 1 – Jim Pattison, businessman
- October 7 – Raymond Lévesque, singer-songwriter
- October 9 – Clare Drake, ice hockey coach
- October 27 – Gilles Vigneault, poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
- November 3 – Gary Lautens, humorist and newspaper columnist
- November 16 – David Adams, ballet dancer
- November 20 – Toni Onley, painter
- November 28 – Floyd Crawford, ice hockey player
- December 10 – Michael Snow, artist
- December 12 – Lionel Blair, dancer and entertainer
- December 16 – Roy Bailey, politician
- December 21 – Clayton Kenny, boxer
- December 24 – Adam Exner, Roman Catholic archbishop
- December 28 – Moe Koffman, flautist and saxophonist
- December 29
- *Robert Hylton Brisco, politician
- *Norman Cafik, politician
Full date unknown
- Peter Bronfman, businessman
Deaths
- April 6 – Godfroy Langlois, politician, journalist and lawyer
- April 28 – George Gerald King, politician