1937 in Canada
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Years: | 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 |
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Events from the year 1937 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – King George VI (consort – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon)
Federal government
- Governor general – John Buchan (viceregal consort – Susan Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir)
- Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Philip Primrose (until March 17) then John C. Bowen (from March 23)
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Eric Hamber
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William Johnston Tupper
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Murray MacLaren
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert (until April 7) then Robert Irwin
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Herbert Alexander Bruce (until November 23) then Albert Edward Matthews
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George Des Brisay de Blois
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Esioff-Léon Patenaude
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Archibald Peter McNab
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – William Aberhart
- Premier of British Columbia – Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick – Allison Dysart
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
- Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Thane Campbell
- Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
- Premier of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
- April 10 - Trans-Canada Airlines, the predecessor of Air Canada, was created as a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway
- July 5 - Midale, Saskatchewan and Yellow Grass record the highest temperature ever in Canada, with a record high of 45 °C (113 °F).
- August 15 - The Rowell-Sirois Commission is formed
- September 1 - Regular flights of Trans-Canada Air Lines begin
- October 6 - Ontario election: Mitchell Hepburn's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
- November 24 - The first Governor General's Awards are given.
- First ascent of Mount Lucania (5,226 m), third highest mountain in Canada.
Births
January to June
- January 5 - Richard Cashin, lawyer, politician and trade union leader
- January 21 - Jim Unger, cartoonist
- January 24 - Suzanne Tremblay, politician
- January 26 - Maureen Hemphill, politician
- January 29 - Frank Iacobucci, jurist and Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
- January 31 - Andrée Boucher, politician and 39th Mayor of Quebec City (d.2007)
- February 10 - Archibald Megarry, publisher
- February 26 - Hagood Hardy, composer, pianist and vibraphonist (d.1997)
- March 2 - Joseph B. MacInnis, diver
- March 9 - Bernard Landry, lawyer, teacher, politician and 28th Premier of Quebec
- March 10 - Tommy Hunter, country music singer
- March 26 - James Lee, politician and 28th Premier of Prince Edward Island
- April 29 - Jean Gauthier, ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins) (d.2013)
- May 9 - Jim Walding, politician (d.2007)
- May 13 - Roch Carrier, novelist
- June 15 - Toby Tarnow, actress
- November 12 - Glen Shortliffe, Clerk of the Privy Council
July to December
- July 30 - John de Chastelain, general, diplomat and Chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (in Northern Ireland)
- August 16 - David Anderson, politician and Minister
- August 16 - Ian Deans, politician
- August 25 - John G. Bryden, lawyer, public servant, businessman and Senator
- September 3 - Gerry Brisson, ice hockey player
- September 5 – John Dahmer, politician (d.1988)
- September 8 - Barbara Frum, radio and television journalist (d.1992)
- September 9 - Jean Augustine, politician
- September 12 - George Chuvalo, boxer
- September 19 - Neil Gaudry, politician (d.1999)
- September 23 - Jacques Poulin, novelist
- October 19 - Marilyn Bell, long distance swimmer, first person to swim across Lake Ontario
- October 19 - Stanley Faulder, murderer and first Canadian citizen to be executed in the United States since 1952 (d.1999)
- November 6 - Gerry St. Germain, politician
- November 11 - Stephen Lewis, politician, broadcaster and diplomat
- November 12 - Barbara McDougall, politician and Minister
Deaths
January to June

Robert Borden
- January 21 - Marie Prevost, actress (b.1898)
- January 29 - Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (b.1869)
- February 16 - Rodmond Roblin, businessman, politician and 9th Premier of Manitoba (b.1853)
- March 8 - Howie Morenz, ice hockey player (b.1902)
- June 10 - Robert Borden, lawyer, politician and 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1854)
July to December
- July 25 - Charles E. Saunders, agronomist (b.1867)
- October 13 - Simon Fraser Tolmie, politician and 21st Premier of British Columbia (b.1867)
- November 21 - Matthew Robert Blake, politician (b.1876)
- December 27 - John Douglas Hazen, politician and 12th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1860)
References
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