1928 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

  Federal government

• Governor general – Freeman Freeman-Thomas
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin
• Parliament – 16th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Theodore Arthur Burrows
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Frederick Todd then Hugh Havelock McLean
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse Pérodeau then Lomer Gouin
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

  Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – John Duncan MacLean then Simon Fraser Tolmie
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – John Baxter
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Edgar Nelson Rhodes
• Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George A. Jeckell then George Ian MacLean
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

  Events

• April 2 – Camillien Houde elected mayor of Montreal
• April 24 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that women are not persons who can hold office according to the British North America Act, 1867—reversed a year later by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain
• May 7 – The St. Roch is launched. It would become the first ship to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east and to circumnavigate North America.
• May 31 – The Legislative Council of Nova Scotia is abolished
• July 4 – Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball.
• August 20 – John Duncan MacLean resigns as premier of British Columbia
• August 21 – Simon Fraser Tolmie becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing John Duncan MacLean
• August 25 – Canada's first major air disaster occurred when bad weather caused a BC Airways Ford Trimotor plane to crash in Puget Sound, Washington

  Science and technology

• Frank Morse Robb of Ontario obtains a patent for the first Electronic Organ, the Robb Wave Organ.

  Sports

• The Winter Olympics take place in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The U of T Grads won a gold medal in hockey.
• The Summer Olympics take place in Amsterdam. Percy Williams and Ethel Catherwood won gold medals for Canada.
• March 26 – South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats won their Second Memorial Cup by defeating the Ottawa City Junior Hockey League's Ottawa Gunners 2 game to 1. The deciding Game 3 was played Arenas Garden in Toronto
• December 1 – Hamilton Tigers win their Third Grey cup by shutting out the Regina Roughriders 30 to 0 in the 16th Grey Cup played at A.A.A Grounds in Hamilton

  Births

January to March

• January 2 -
• *Avie Bennett, businessman and philanthropist
• *Allen Sapp, painter
• January 7 – Benny Woit, ice hockey player
• January 20 – Peter Donat, actor
• January 25 – Jérôme Choquette, lawyer and politician
• February 8 – Gene Lees, biographer and lyricist
• February 13 – Gerald Regan, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia
• February 16 – Les Costello, ice hockey player and Catholic priest
• February 26 – Donald Davis, actor
• March 9 – Gerald Bull, engineer and artillery designer
• March 10 – Robert Coates, politician and Minister
• March 12 – Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, politician and Senator
• March 17 – William John McKeag, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
• March 31 – Gordie Howe, ice hockey player

  April to June

• April 10
• *Kenneth Earl Hurlburt, politician
• *Fraser MacPherson, jazz musician
• April 17 – Fabien Roy, politician
• April 28 – Zbigniew Basinski, physicist
• April 30 – Hugh Hood, novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor
• May 4 – Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpet player and bandleader
• May 7 – Bruno Gerussi, actor and television presenter
• May 9 – Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater and Olympic gold medalist
• May 23 -
• *Pauline Julien, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist
• *Sidney Spivak, politician and Minister
• June 1 – Larry Zeidel, Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster
• June 2 – George Wearring, basketball player
• June 13 – Renée Morisset, pianist
• June 26 – Samuel Belzberg, businessman, philanthropist

  July to December

• July 3 – Raymond Setlakwe, entrepreneur, lawyer, and politician
• July 7 – Tom Chambers, politician
• July 12 – Paul Ronty, ice hockey centre
• July 17 – Robert Nixon, politician
• July 21 – Anne Harris, sculptor
• July 22 – Hugh Edighoffer, politician
• July 26 – Peter Lougheed, lawyer and politician
• July 31 – Gilles Carle, film director and screenwriter
• August 7 – James Randi, Canadian-American retired stage magician and a scientific skeptic
• September 10
• *Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant, politician
• *Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche
• October 1 – Jim Pattison, businessman
• October 27 – Gilles Vigneault, poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
• November 3 – Gary Lautens, humorist and newspaper columnist
• November 16 – David Adams, ballet dancer
• November 20 – Toni Onley, painter
• November 28 – Floyd Crawford, ice hockey player
• December 16 – Roy Bailey, politician
• December 21 – Clayton Kenny, boxer
• December 28 – Moe Koffman, flautist and saxophonist
• December 29 -
• *Robert Hylton Brisco, politician
• *Norman Cafik, politician

  Full date unknown

• Peter Bronfman, businessman

  Deaths

• April 6 – Godfroy Langlois, politician, journalist and lawyer
• April 28 – George Gerald King, politician

  Historical Documents