1926 in Canada
Events from the year 1926 in Canada .
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(July 2010 )
Births
Leslie Nielsen in 1982
January to June
January 1 – Dean Bandiera , Canadian football player (d. 2020 )
January 2 – John Stroppa , football player (d. 2017 )
January 3 – Murray Dowey , ice hockey player and Olympic champion (d. 2021 )
January 4 – Betty Kennedy , broadcaster, journalist, author, Senator and gameshow panelist (d. 2017 )
January 20 – John Michael Sherlock , Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2019 )
January 26 – Georges-C. Lachance , politician and father of Claude-André Lachance (d. 2020 )
February 4 – Roger Blais , engineer and academic (d. 2009 )
February 6 – Ray Perrault , politician (d. 2008 )
February 11 – Leslie Nielsen , comedian and actor (d. 2010 )
February 20 – Jean Boucher , politician (d. 2011 )
April 1 – Gérard La Forest , lawyer and judge
April 17 – Gerry McNeil , ice hockey player (d. 2004 )
April 21 – Keith Davey , businessman and politician (d. 2011 )
April 28 – Alex Oakley , race walker (d. 2010 )
May 3 – Matt Baldwin , curler (d. 2023 )
May 13 – Joy Coghill , actress, director, and writer (d. 2017 )
May 20 – Allan McEachern , lawyer, judge and university chancellor (d. 2008 )
May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb , science fiction novelist and poet (d. 2009 )
June 3 – Flora MacDonald , politician (d. 2015 )
June 7 – Jean-Noël Tremblay , lawyer and politician (d. 2020 )
June 15 – Douglas Bell , politician (d. 2021 )
July to December
July 7 – Armand Lemieux , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015 )
July 14 – Wallace Diestelmeyer , figure skater (d. 1999 )
July 18 – Margaret Laurence , novelist and short story writer (d. 1987 )
July 21 – Norman Jewison , film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre (d. 2024 )
July 22 – Paul Collins , long-distance runner (d. 1995 )
August 13 – Dalton McGuinty Sr. , politician and father of premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty and the politician David McGuinty (d. 1990 )
August 18 – Gordon Donaldson , author and journalist (d. 2001 )
September 1 – James Reaney , poet, playwright and literary critic (d. 2008 )
September 13 – Emile Francis , ice hockey player (d. 2022 )
September 27 – Jack Duffy , actor and comedian (d. 2008 )
October 1 – Ben Wicks , cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author (d. 2000 )
October 8 – Vern Jones , professional ice hockey player
October 26 – George Crum , conductor, pianist, vocal coach and musical arranger (d. 2007 )
November 8 – Kay Hawtrey , actress (d. 2021 )
December 3 – Denise Morelle , actress and murder victim (d. 1984 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
Nérée Le Noblet Duplessis January 31 – Paul Tourigny , politician (b. 1852 )
February 2 – John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong , politician (b. 1877 )
February 20 – Paul-Eugène Roy , Roman Catholic priest, and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1859 )
March 27 – Georges Vézina , ice hockey player (b. 1887 )
June 23 – Nérée Le Noblet Duplessis , politician, 19th Mayor of Trois-Rivières and father of 16th Premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis (b. 1855 )
August 24 – Laurent-Olivier David , journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1840 )
See also
Historical documents
Prime Minister King 's resignation letter urges Gov. Gen. Byng to rethink his refusal of King's advice to dissolve Parliament
[ 2]
King profoundly relieved that Byng took Meighen's advice to dissolve , "deliver[ing] himself so completely into my hands"[ 3]
British government recognizes Canada's need of direct diplomatic relations with U.S.A. [ 4]
Canada posts its first diplomatic representative in Washington[ 5]
House committee studying minimum wage hears details of decent and unhealthy standards of living affordable on industrial wages[ 6]
Tourist guide to Rocky Mountains resorts includes Banff , Lake Louise , Yoho , and Glacier parks, plus Vancouver and Victoria , B.C.[ 7]
Exile-weary anarchist Emma Goldman hopes Canada will let her stay[ 8]
Touching letter to stranger follows visit to her brother's grave in France[ 9]
English immigrant loves slush-free winters and long summer days in Dawson City , Yukon[ 10]
Instructions for bleaching out suntan [ 11]
References
^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .^ Letter of William Lyon Mackenzie King to Governor General Byng (June 28, 1926). Accessed 8 May 2020^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1926 (July 2), pg. 174 Accessed 11 May 2020
^ "Relations with Foreign Countries, General Conduct of Foreign Policy," Imperial Conference, 1926; Inter-Imperial Relations Committee; Report, pg. 9 (PDF frame 10) Accessed 11 May 2020
^ United States Department of State, "Approval by the United States of Proposal by the British Government for the Appointment of a Canadian Minister at Washington," Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1926, pgs. 578-90 Accessed 8 May 2020
^ "Minutes of Evidence" (May 1926), Select Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations, pgs. 19-21 and 41-50 Accessed 20 October 2020
^ Canadian Pacific Railway Company, "Resorts in the Canadian Pacific Rockies" (1926), University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 19 February 2023
^ Letter of Emma Goldman to Theodore Dreiser (October 22, 1926). Accessed 8 May 2020
^ Letter of Minnie M. Miller to Jessie I. Lawson (August 2, 1926). http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/MOP/english/ww1/dosearch.asp?browse=10&results=50&all=true (scroll down to Miller) Accessed 11 May 2020
^ Letter of Claude Tidd (April 6, 1926). Accessed 11 May 2020
^ Lucrezia Bor, "Bleaching for Beauty," Daily World, Vol. 1, No. 56 (Montreal, August 31, 1926), pg. 11. Accessed 11 May 2020 http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3677279 (turn to pg. 11)
1926 in North America
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