1924 in Canada
Events from the year 1924 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Canadian Red Ensign (1921–1957)
Arts and literature
Science and technology
August – Mars is closer to Earth than it has been for many years and mysterious wireless signals are picked up at a Vancouver wireless station. It is thought by some to be evidence of martian contact.[ 2]
October 21 – CFYC carried a speech made by Prime Minister Mackenzie King from the Denman Arena , considered to be Canada's first federal political broadcast.
Sports
Basketball
The Edmonton Grads win their first international basketball tournament held as part of the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. As it was only a demonstration sport, no medals were awarded. The Grads would dominate women's basketball tournaments from 1924 to 1936.[ 3]
Hockey
Births
January to March
January 5 – Gerry Plamondon , ice hockey player (d. 2019 )
January 10 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff , ballet dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1996 )
January 29 – Marcelle Ferron , painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001 )
January 29 – Lois Marshall , soprano (d. 1997 )
February 3 – Martial Asselin , politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2013 )
February 7 – Ivor Dent , politician and mayor of Edmonton (d. 2009 )
February 18 – Nicolo Rizzuto , Italian-Canadian mobster (d. 2010 )
February 24
March 11 – Eva Von Gencsy , dancer (d. 2013 )
March 18 – Johnny Papalia , mobster (d. 1997 )
April to June
April 5 – Orville Howard Phillips , politician and Senator (d. 2009 )
April 20 – Guy Rocher , sociologist and academic
April 29 – Al Balding , golfer (d. 2006 )
May 26 – Nancy Bell , senator (d. 1989 )
May 28 – Paul Hébert , actor (d. 2017 )
June 2 – June Callwood , journalist, author and social activist (d. 2007 )
June 3 – Colleen Dewhurst , actress (d. 1991 )
June 22 – Larkin Kerwin , physicist, President of the Canadian Space Agency (d. 2004 )
June 14 – Arthur Erickson , architect and urban planner (d. 2009 )
June 21 – Wally Fawkes , Canadian-born jazz clarinettist and cartoonist (d. 2023 in the United Kingdom )
July to September
July 11 – Eugene Whelan , politician and Minister (d. 2013 )
July 20 – Mort Garson , electronic musician (d. 2008 )
July 21 – Lynn R. Williams , labour leader (d. 2014 )
July 29 – Lloyd Bochner , actor (d. 2005 )
July 30 – Roland Penner , politician (d. 2018 )
September 13 – Léonel Beaudoin , politician (d. 2021 )
September 19 – Don Harron , comedian, actor, director, journalist, author and composer (d. 2015 )
October to December
October 18 – Buddy MacMaster , fiddle player (d. 2014 )
November 1 – Jean-Luc Pépin , academic, politician and Minister (d. 1995 )
November 10 – Danny Cameron , politician (d. c2009 )
November 11 – Evelyn Wawryshyn , baseball player
November 24 – Lorne Munroe , Canadian-American cellist and educator (d. 2020 )
December 6 – Donald Jack , novelist and playwright (d. 2003 )
December 15 – Robert B. Salter , surgeon (d. 2010 )
December 19 – Doug Harvey , ice hockey player (d. 1989 )
December 20 – Judy LaMarsh , politician and Minister, lawyer, author and broadcaster (d. 1980 )
December 22 – A. Edison Stairs , businessman and politician, New Brunswick MLA (1960–1978) and Minister of Finance (1974–1976), natural causes (d. 2010 )
Deaths
January 23 – James Wilson Morrice , painter (b.1865 )
May 1 – Louis Henry Davies , lawyer, businessman, politician and 3rd Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1845 )
June 6 – Laure Conan , novelist (b.1845 )[ 4]
August 13 – Joseph Bolduc , politician, Speaker of the Senate (b. 1847 )
September 21 – Edouard Deville , cartographer and Surveyor General of Canada (b.1850 )
October 29 – Peter Verigin , philosopher, activist and leader and preacher of the Doukhobors (b.1859 )
December 9 – Judson Burpee Black , physician and politician (b.1842 )
See also
Historical documents
House banking committee decides government should have audited Home Bank before it failed , and clients have moral claim for redress[ 5]
Immigration pamphlet calls Canadian climate "particularly suited to the white race " in "a British country , with British customs and ideals"[ 6]
Kiuga hereditary chief describes inequalities since 1924 imposition of elective council system on First Nations[ 7]
Metis man's memories of buffalo hunts and 1885 resistance [ 8]
Alberta Presbyterians object to undemocratic process for union with Methodist and Congregational churches[ 9]
Lethal smallpox epidemic in Windsor, Ont. stopped by vaccination [ 10]
"Swoile" (seal), "insides" (underwear), "tizzie" (dry cough), "skipper" (youngest son), "wellaway" (rich) and other Labrador lingo [ 11]
Professor of English speaks on feeling sorry for ourselves [ 12]
Photo: Arctic traveller 's snapshot of Inuit dancing in "Victoria Land " (Victoria Island), Northwest Territories[ 13]
Film: sailing and baseball - on ice[ 14]
References
^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .^ "1924 – the History of Metropolitan Vancouver" .^ "The Great Teams" . Archived from the original on 2010-08-12. Retrieved 2009-06-02 .^ "Félicité Angers (Laure Conan) | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 30 January 2021 .^ "Eleventh Report" (July 1, 1924), Proceedings (Revised) of the Select Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce[....], pgs. xii-xiii. Accessed 19 October 2020^ Government of Canada, "Canada; The New Homeland" (1924). Accessed 29 April 2020
^ Testimony of Harvey Longboat (November 27, 1992), "Justice Roundtable" hearings, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, pgs. 635-9. Accessed 29 April 2020^ "Fleury, Patrice" (February 27, 1924). Accessed 29 April 2020^ Letter of D.G. McQueen and 43 others (for The Presbyterian Church Association - Alberta Branch; February 4, 1924). Accessed 29 April 2020 https://presbyterianarchives.ca/2017/11/03/the-life-of-rev-d-g-mcqueen/ (click on McQueen of Edmonton and scroll down to "memorandum")
^ "Smallpox at Windsor" The Canadian Red Cross, Vol. III, No. 6 (June 1924), pg. 5. Accessed 30 April 2020 (See "Vaccination" appeal from P.E.I. Red Cross)^ Fred P. Carleton, "Notes of the Labrador Dialect" Among the Deep-Sea Fishers, Vol. XXI, No. 4 (January 1924), pgs. 138-9. Accessed 29 April 2020
^ Bernard K. Sandwell, "On Being Sorry for Ourselves" The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 31-44. Accessed 29 April 2020
^ Knud Rasmussen, "Eskimo Dance Ritual" (1924). Accessed 24 May 2020
^ British Pathé, "On The Wings Of The Wind" and "Baseball On Ice" (1924). Accessed 27 July 2020
1924 in North America
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