1933 in Canada

Events from the year 1933 in Canada.

Incumbents

April 7 – Raymond Paley becomes the first known skiing fatality in the Canadian Rockies on Fossil Mountain.
June 1 – Leonard Tilley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Charles Richards
August 16 – The Christie Pits riot between Jews and Nazi sympathizers in Toronto.
September 5 – Angus Macdonald becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Gordon Harrington
October 14 – W. J. P. MacMillan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James D. Stewart
November 11 – The magnitude 7.3 Baffin Bay earthquake occurs at Baffin Bay, Northwest Territories.
November 15 – Thomas Pattullo becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Simon Fraser Tolmie
December 2 – Newfoundland's independence is revoked due to its financial difficulties.

April 6 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Newmarket Redmen win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 2 games to 0. All games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
December 9 – The Toronto Argonauts win their third Grey Cup by defeating the Sarnia Imperials 4–3 at Sarnia's Davis Field
December 12 – Eddie Shore of the Boston Bruins hits Ace Bailey of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Bailey lands head first, and severe head trauma ends his career. The Ace Bailey Benefit Game, a forerunner of the NHL All-Star Game, is played on February 14, 1934.

January 24 – Claude Préfontaine, actor
January 25
* Anne Innis Dagg, zoologist and feminist
* Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, playwright and journalist
January 31 – Camille Henry, ice hockey player
February 13 – Michael Cook, playwright
February 16 – Tom Hickey, Canadian politician
February 18 – Frank Moores, businessman, politician and 2nd Premier of Newfoundland
February 24 – Gustavo Da Roza, architect
March 2 – Simonie Michael, Inuk politician
March 4 – James Jerome, jurist, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
March 9 – Mel Lastman, businessman, politician and Mayor of Toronto
March 19
* John Sopinka, lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
* Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator
March 23 – Thomas R. Berger, politician and jurist
March 29 – Jacques Brault, poet and translator

April 5 – Joe Comuzzi, politician
April 19
* Peter Demeter, murderer
* Garry Blaine, ice hockey player
April 24 – Alan Eagleson, disbarred lawyer, convicted felon, former politician, hockey agent and promoter
May 24 – Marian Engel, novelist
May 29 – Marc Carbonneau, taxi driver and convicted kidnapper
June 19 – Michael M. Ames, anthropologist and academic
June 24
* Bob Cole, sports television announcer
* Bernard Grandmaître, politician
June 26 – Gerry Weiner, politician
June 28
* Antonio Flamand, politician
* Gisèle Lalonde, politician and community activist, mayor of Vanier, Ontario
June 30
* Don Head, ice hockey player
* Orval Tessier, ice hockey centre and coach

October 12 – Guido Molinari, artist
October 22 – David Bromige, poet
November 16 – Leonard Marchand, politician
November 26 – Robert Goulet, singer and actor
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
December 25 – Fred Sasakamoose, ice hockey player

January 3 – Jack Pickford, actor
April 14 – Daniel Hunter McMillan, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
October 10 – James David Stewart, educator, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
October 17 – Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire
October 25 – William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia
November 30 – Arthur Currie, World War I general