1929 in Canada

Events from the year 1929 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 10 – Lomer Gouin becomes Quebec's 15th lieutenant governor, serving until his death on March 28, 1929.
March 22 – The Canadian schooner and rum-runner I'm Alone is sunk by the US Coast Guard's.
April 4 – Henry George Carroll becomes Quebec's 16th lieutenant governor.
June 6 – 1929 Saskatchewan election: James Garfield Gardiner's Liberals win a plurality, but the other parties, led by James T.M. Anderson's Conservatives, will form a coalition against Gardiner, forcing him to resign as premier
May 29 – A series of explosions rips through Ottawa's sewer system.
September 9 – James Anderson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
September 10 – The Hudson Bay Railway opens for traffic to Churchill, Manitoba
October 18 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rules in the Persons Case that women are eligible to be senators.
October 29 – The crash of the New York Stock Exchange marks the beginning of the Great Depression
October 30 – Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority
November 13 – A second stock market crash hits Canada.

Wop May and Vic Horner brave poor visibility and −30 °C temperatures in an open cockpit to rush diphtheria anti-toxin to Fort Vermilion.
Frozen fish fillets are introduced by the Biological Board of Canada developed by Archibald Huntsman.

March 30 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Elmwood Millionaires 2 games to 0. The deciding Game 2 was played at Mutual Street Arena in Toronto
September 12 – The first legal forward pass in Canadian football is completed.
November 30 – The Hamilton Tigers win their fourth Grey Cup, defeating the Regina Roughriders 14 to 3 in the 17th Grey Cup played at A.A.A. Grounds in Hamilton

January 17 – Jacques Plante, ice hockey player
January 20 – Pat Mahoney, businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South, General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders
January 21 – Bill Norrie, politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg, Chancellor of the University of Manitoba, respiratory failure.
January 23 – John Polanyi, chemist and 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry joint laureate
January 25 – Brian O'Neill, ice hockey executive
February 12 – Philip Kives, businessman
February 28 – Frank Gehry, architect
March 20 – William Andrew MacKay, academic, President of Dalhousie University

April 8 – Garnet Bloomfield, politician
April 11 – Eric Luoma, cross-country skier
May 8 – Claude Castonguay, banker and politician
May 10
*Antonine Maillet, novelist, playwright and scholar
*Peter C. Newman, journalist
May 12 – Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player
May 13 – Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author
May 14 – Gump Worsley, ice hockey player
May 16 – Claude Morin, politician
May 18 – Walter Pitman, educator and politician
May 28- Shane Rimmer, actor
June 7
*John Turner, lawyer, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Canada
*Walter Weir, politician and 15th Premier of Manitoba
June 8 – Louise Maheux-Forcier, author
June 9
*Jean Rougeau, professional wrestler and bodyguard of Quebec Premier René Lévesque
*Harold R. Steele, businessman
June 10 – Pearl McGonigal, politician
June 20 – Edgar Bronfman, Sr., businessman
June 27 – H. Ian Macdonald, economist

October 7 – Graeme Ferguson, filmmaker and inventor who co-invented IMAX
November 1 – Charles Juravinski, businessman and philanthropist
November 2 – Richard E. Taylor, physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics joint laureate
November 21 – Laurier LaPierre, broadcaster, journalist, author and senator
November 24 – Harry Oliver Bradley, politician
December 6 – Harry Langford, footballer
December 13 – Christopher Plummer, actor
December 15 – Emery Barnes, Canadian football player and politician
December 23 – Patrick Watson, broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director
December 28 – Terry Sawchuk, ice hockey player

January 6 – George Henry Murray, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
January 14 – Alexander Warburton, politician, jurist, author and Premier of Prince Edward Island
January 18 – Theodore Arthur Burrows, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
January 19 – Edward Charles Bowers, politician
January 29 – John Howatt Bell, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
February – Richard Gardiner Willis, politician
February 17 – James Colebrooke Patterson, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
March 1 – James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
March 28 – Lomer Gouin, politician and 13th Premier of Quebec
March 29 – Hugh John Macdonald, politician, Minister and 8th Premier of Manitoba

April 17 – Clifford Sifton, politician and Minister
May 6 – William Dillon Otter, soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff
June 3 – John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
June 8 – Bliss Carman, poet
June 23 – William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
July 30 – Antonin Nantel, priest, teacher, school administrator, and author
October 10 – Elijah McCoy, inventor and engineer