1935 in Canada

Events from the year 1935 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 2 – Prime Minister R. B. Bennett outlines his programme
February 11 – Goodwill, The Amity Group established
March 11
*Bank of Canada established
*The Bank of Canada issues a $500 banknote with Sir John A. Macdonald's portrait and a $1,000 note with Sir Wilfrid Laurier's portrait
May 6 – Silver Jubilee of George V's accession as King
May 7 – David Dunlap Observatory opens
May 25 – Cabot Monument unveiled, Montreal
June 5 – The On-to-Ottawa Trek begins
June 26 – "Regina Riot": Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire into unarmed crowd of unemployed marchers in Regina, Saskatchewan

July 5 – Canadian Wheat Board established
July 16 – Allison Dysart becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Leonard Tilley
August 15 – Walter Lea becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing William J. P. MacMillan
August 22 – 1935 Alberta general election: William Aberhart's Social Credit Party wins a majority, defeating Richard G. Reid's United Farmers of Alberta
September 3 – Aberhart becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Reid
October 14 – Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a majority, defeating Bennett's Conservatives
October 3 – After the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Canada refuses to support military intervention or sanctions
October 23 – Mackenzie King becomes prime minister for the third time, replacing Bennett
November 1
*William Patterson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
*The magnitude 6.2 Timiskaming earthquake shakes western Quebec

April 9 – The Montreal Maroons win their second and final Stanley Cup by defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 3 games to 0. The deciding game was played at the Montreal Forum. This was the last time a non-Original Six team won the Stanley Cup until the Philadelphia Flyers won the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals.
April 13 – The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Sudbury Cub Wolves 2 games to 1. All game played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
December 7 – The Winnipeg 'Pegs become the first western team to win the Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tigers 18 to 12 in the 23rd Grey Cup played at Hamilton Amateur Athletic Association Grounds

January 6 – Joseph Rotman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist
January 7 – Rey Pagtakhan, physician, professor, politician and Minister
January 10 – Ronnie Hawkins, pioneering rock and roll musician
January 14 – Lucille Wheeler, alpine skier, Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion
January 18 – Albert Millaire, actor and theatre director
January 21 – Jack Tunney, professional wrestling promoter
January 29 – Christina McCall, political writer
February 9 – Ron Attwell, ice hockey player
February 14
*Rob McConnell, jazz musician
*Howie Glover, ice hockey player
February 21 – Jean Pelletier, politician and Mayor of Quebec City
March 2 – Al Waxman, actor and director
March 15 – Mary Pratt, painter
March 24 – Mary Seeman, psychiatrist
April 16 – Ray Frenette, 28th Premier of New Brunswick
April 22 – Rita Johnston, politician, Canada's first female premier and 29th Premier of British Columbia
April 28 – Murray McBride, politician
May 5 – Billy Two Rivers, wrestler
May 7 – Isobel Warren, author
May 25 – W. P. Kinsella, novelist and short story writer
May 26 – Pat Carney, politician, minister and senator
May 30 – Ruta Lee, actress
June 2 – Carol Shields, author
June 28 – Bob Hobert, football player

July 3 – Bill Reichart, ice hockey player
July 11 – Bobbie Sparrow, politician
July 17 – Donald Sutherland, actor
July 23 – Danièle Dorice, singer and teacher
July 24 – Bob McAdorey, television and radio broadcaster
July 25 – Gilbert Parent, politician and 33rd Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
July 27
*Don Mazankowski, politician and Minister
*François Barbeau, costume designer
July 29 – Pat Lowther, poet
August 30 – Daniel L. Norris, Commissioner of the Northwest Territories
September 9 – Fred Stone, jazz musician
September 24 – Sean McCann, actor
September 27 – Al MacNeil, ice hockey player and coach
October 3 – Floyd Laughren, politician
October 15 – Willie O'Ree, ice hockey player, first Black Canadian player in the National Hockey League
October 20 – Russell Doern, politician
November 15 – Bill Graham, Canadian football player
November 17 – Audrey Thomas, novelist and short story writer
December 9 – Christopher Pratt, painter and printmaker
December 11 – Elmer Vasko, ice hockey player
December 12 – John Wise, politician, MP for Elgin ; Minister of Agriculture
December 13 – Raymond Speaker, politician
December 21 – Edward Schreyer, politician, Premier of Manitoba and Governor General of Canada

March 15 – James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
March 16 – John Macleod, physician, physiologist and Nobel laureate
April 10 – Charles-Émile Trudeau, entrepreneur and father of Pierre Trudeau, who would later become Prime Minister of Canada
April 19 – Willis Keith Baldwin, politician
July 18 – George Clift King, politician and 2nd Mayor of Calgary
September 30 – J. J. Kelso, journalist and social activist
October 24 – Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Newfoundland
October 29 – Del Fontaine, Canadian middleweight boxing champion, executed for murder in the U.K.