1938 in Canada

Events from the year 1938 in Canada.

Incumbents

June 8 - Saskatchewan general election: William John Patterson's Liberals win a second consecutive majority

Superman first appears in Action #1, as a backup feature. The character is created by Joe Shuster and American writer Jerry Siegel for National Comics.
Vaccination for tuberculosis is introduced.

April 12 - The Chicago Black Hawks win their second Stanley Cup by defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 3 games to 1.
April 18 - The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's St. Boniface Seals win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Oshawa Generals 3 games to 2. The deciding Game 5 was played Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
December 10 - In a repeat of the 25th Grey Cup, the Toronto Argonauts win their fifth Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 30 to 7 in the 26th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

January 9 - Claudette Boyer, politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Ottawa—Vanier
January 10 - Frank Mahovlich, ice hockey player and Senator
January 13 - William B. Davis, actor
January 16 - Lou Angotti, ice hockey player and coach
February 9 - Jovette Marchessault, writer and artist
February 17 - Martha Henry, actress
February 22 - Pierre Vallières, journalist and writer
April 5 - David Helwig, poet, novelist, and essayist
April 8 - John Hamm, physician, politician and 32nd Premier of Nova Scotia
April 12 - Roger Caron, author
May 13 - Lucille Starr, singer, songwriter and yodeler
May 16 - Jim Coutts, political advisor
May 24 - Tommy Chong, comedian, actor and musician
May 26 - Teresa Stratas, operatic soprano
May 30 - Eugene Belliveau, Canadian football defensive lineman
June 4 - John Harvard, journalist, politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
June 13 - John Newlove, poet
June 19
* Jean-Claude Labrecque, director and cinematographer
* Beth Phinney, educator and politician
June 26 - Ken Monteith, politician

January 4 - George Halsey Perley, politician and diplomat
January 8 - Aimé Bénard, politician
January 28 - Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher
February 20 - William Alves Boys, politician and barrister
March 23 - Thomas Walter Scott, politician and first Premier of Saskatchewan
April 13 - Grey Owl, writer and conservationist
April 24 - John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, artist
May 6 - Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, politician and 11th Governor General of Canada
May 7 - Frederick Cronyn Betts, politician
July 25 - Francis Haszard, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
December 26 - Pierre-Ernest Boivin, politician and businessman