1928 in Canada

Events from the year 1928 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – George V

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

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