1931 in Canada

Events from the year 1931 in Canada.

Incumbents

May 19 – Charles Richards becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing John Baxter
August 29 – James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing Walter Lea
November 12 – Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto
September 29 – Striking coal miners clash with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Estevan riot.
December 11 – the Statute of Westminster goes into effect: Canada is granted full legislative independence in national and international affairs, with the Crown represented by the Governor General.
The Beauharnois Scandal breaks out

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January 5 - Percy Schmeiser, businessman, farmer, and politician
January 6 - Dickie Moore, ice hockey player, businessman and philanthropist
January 7 - Elizabeth Kishkon, politician
January 19 - Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist
January 27 - Mordecai Richler, author, screenwriter and essayist
January 30 - John Crosbie, politician and Minister
February 16 - Bernie Geoffrion, ice hockey player
February 17 - Mark MacGuigan, academic and politician
February 26 - C. William Doody, politician and Senator
March 10 - Georges Dor, author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator and theatrical producer and director
March 12 - Danny Lewicki, Canadian professional ice hockey player
March 20 - Hubert Desbiens, politician.
March 22 - William Shatner, actor and novelist
March 22 - Monte Kwinter, politician
March 25 - Jack Chambers, artist and filmmaker
March 28 - Jane Rule, novelist and non-fiction writer
March 30 - Gérard Bruchési, politician

April 2 - Howard Engel, writer and television producer
April 9 - Richard Hatfield, politician and 26th Premier of New Brunswick
April 13 - Cliff Lumsdon, world champion marathon swimmer
April 15 - Helen Maksagak, politician, first woman and first Inuk Northwest Territories Commissioner
April 19 - Walter Stewart, writer, editor and journalism educator
April 22 - John Buchanan, lawyer, politician and 27th Premier of Nova Scotia
April 29 - Chris Pearson, 1st Premier of the Yukon
May 18 - Clément Vincent, politician
May 21 - Jeannine Pelland, former President of the Order of nurses of Quebec
May 22 - Arthé Guimond, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan .
May 24 - Bruce Owen, politician and lawyer
May 25 - Herb Gray, politician, Canada's first Jewish federal cabinet minister
June 23 - Charles Keith Taylor, politician
June 25 - Stan Dromisky, politician
June 27 - Charles Bronfman, businessman and philanthropist
June 30 - Joyce Wieland, experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist

July 2 - Robert Ito, actor
July 5 - Peter Silverman, broadcast journalist
July 6 - Jean Campeau, Quebec businessman and politician
July 7 - Charles Alexander Best, politician
July 10 - Alice Munro, short-story writer
July 15 - Jacques-Yvan Morin, politician
July 19 - Allan Slaight, rock and roll radio pioneer, media mogul, and philanthropist
July 20 - Gilles Morin, politician
August 18 - Bramwell Tillsley, General of The Salvation Army
August 29 - Lise Payette, politician, feminist, writer and columnist
August 30 - Frank Zakem, politician and businessman
August 31 - Jean Béliveau, ice hockey player
September 23 - Gerald Merrithew, politician

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[Image:Henrietta Edwards.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Henrietta Edwards]

July 10 - Louise McKinney, first woman sworn into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and first woman elected to a legislature in Canada and in the British Empire
July 28 - Charles Doherty, politician and jurist
November 10 - Henrietta Edwards, women's rights activist and reformer
December 30 - George Eulas Foster, politician and academic