1930 in Canada
Years in Canada: | 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 |
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Years: | 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 |
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Events from the year 1930 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Mary of Teck)
Federal government
- Governor general – Freeman Freeman-Thomas (viceregal consort – Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon)
- Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King (until August 7) then Richard B. Bennett
- Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario)
- Parliament – 16th (until 30 May) then 17th (from 8 September)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory (until November 19) then Frank Stanfield
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz (until November 19) then Charles Dalton
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
- Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick – John Baxter
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Edgar Nelson Rhodes (until August 11) then Gordon Sidney Harrington
- Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson (until December 15) then George Stewart Henry
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders (until May 20) then Walter Lea
- Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
- February 15 – Cairine Wilson becomes Canada's first female senator
- May 20 – Walter Lea becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Albert Saunders
- June 19 – Alberta general election, 1930: Premier John Brownlee's United Farmers of Alberta win a third consecutive majority
- June 22 – Jean Vauquelin Monument unveiled
- June 29 – Eight Jesuit martyrs become the first Canadian saints. See Canadian Martyrs.
- July 1 – The Seigniory Club, later to become the Château Montebello hotel, opens in Montebello, Quebec
- June 26 – John B. King Explosion
- July 28 – Federal election: R.B. Bennett's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Mackenzie King's Liberals
- August 7 – R.B. Bennett becomes Prime Minister, replacing Mackenzie King
- August 11 – Gordon Harrington becomes Premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Edgar Rhodes
- October 18 – Robert Burns Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
- November 12 – Norway relinquishes its claim to the Sverdrup Islands.
- December 15 – George Henry becomes Premier of Ontario, replacing Howard Ferguson
Arts and literature
- January 6 – An early literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.
Sport
- March 29 – South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats won their Third Memorial Cup by defeating Ontario Hockey Association's West Toronto Nationals 2 games to 0. All games played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
- April 3 – Montreal Canadiens won their Third Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 2 games to 0. The deciding game was played at the Montreal Forum
- May 14 – Winnipeg Rugby Club (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) are established
- December 6 – Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers won their Second Grey Cup defeating the Regina Roughriders 11 to 6 in the 18th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium
Births
January to March
- January 4 – Herbert O. Sparrow, politician
- January 11 – Harold Greenberg, film producer (d.1996)
- January 12 – Tim Horton, ice hockey player and businessman (d.1974)
- January 14 – Kenny Wheeler, composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
- January 24 – Felix Cappella, race walker (d.2011)
- February 6 – Allan King, film director (d.2009)
- March 11 – Claude Jutra, actor, film director and writer (d.1986)
April to June
- April 8 – Theo Dimson, artist(d.2012)
- April 28 – Charles Caccia, politician (d.2008)
- April 29 – Ben Hanuschak, politician
- May 9 – Muriel Smith, politician
- May 24 – Robert Bateman, naturalist and painter
- May 26 – Lorne Ferguson, ice hockey player (d.2008)
- May 29 -
- Roy Bonisteel, journalist and television host
- Lawrence Heisey, businessman
- June 17 – Rosemary Brown, politician (d.2003)
- June 19 – John Lynch-Staunton, Senator
July to December
- July 6 – George Armstrong, ice hockey player
- July 12 – Gordon Pinsent, actor
- July 15 – Richard Garneau, sports journalist (d.2013)
- July 25 – Maureen Forrester, opera singer (d.2010)
- August 9
- Jacques Parizeau, economist, politician and 26th Premier of Quebec
- Larry Regan, ice hockey player, coach and manager (d.2009)
- September 18 – John Tolos, wrestler and wrestling manager (d.2009)
- September 21 – John Morgan, comedian (d.2004)
- October 2 – Dave Barrett, politician and 26th Premier of British Columbia
- October 24 – Micheline Beauchemin, textile artist and weaver
- October 29 – André Bernier, politician
- October 30 – Timothy Findley, novelist and playwright (d.2002)
- December 1 – Jim Anderson, ice hockey player (Springfield Indians) and coach (Washington Capitals) (d.2013)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- February – Levi Addison Ault, businessman and naturalist (b.1851)
- February 28 – George Boyce, politician (b.1848)
- April 3 – Emma Albani, soprano (b.1847)
- November 16 – William James Topley, photographer (b.1845)
- December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, painter (b.1860)
- November 21 – Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, Canadian writer, linguist and Catholic priest (born 1855)
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