1932 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

  Federal government

• Governor general – Vere Ponsonby
• Prime minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
• Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin
• Parliament – 17th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mulock then Herbert Alexander Bruce
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

  Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington
• Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner then Controller of Yukon – George Ian MacLean then George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt

  Events

• February 17 – The "Mad Trapper" is killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Yukon
• July 20 – The Ottawa Imperial Conference is held, it creates a zone of preferential trade within the Commonwealth
• August 1 – The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation is formed in Calgary
• August 3 – Henri Bourassa leaves Le Devoir
• October 29 – The Dominion Drama Festival is founded

  Full date unknown

• A seven-month miners strike occurs in Alberta's coal mines in Crowsnest Pass
• The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.

  Arts and literature

New Books

• A Broken Journey – Morley Callaghan

  Sport

• April 4 – Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Sudbury Cub Wolves won their First Memorial Cup by defeating Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs 2 game to 0. All games played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
• April 9 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their Third Stanley Cup by defeating the New York Rangers 3 game to 0. The deciding game was played at the newly opened Maple Leaf Gardens
• February 13 – Canada wins their Fourth hockey Gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics
• December 3 – Hamilton Tigers won their Fifth and Final Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Roughriders 25 to 6 in the 20th Grey Cup played at Hamilton's Civic Stadium

  Births

January to March

• January 2 – Jean Little, author
• February 4 – Bob Dawson, football player
• February 24 – John Vernon, actor
• February 28 – Don Francks, actor
• March 1 – Donald Stovel Macdonald, politician and Minister
• March 2 – Jack Austin, politician and Senator
• March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, artist

  April to June

• April 6 – Eugène Bellemare, politician
• April 12 – Dick Fowler, mayor, MLA
• April 22 – Ron Basford, politician and Minister
• April 26 – Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
• May 7 – Jordi Bonet, artist
• May 28 – John Savage, politician and 23rd Premier of Nova Scotia
• June 5 – Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, general and Chief of the Defence Staff
• June 10 – Hal Jackman, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• June 24 – Mel Hurtig, publisher, author and political activist
• June 24 – David McTaggart, environmentalist

  July to September

• July 13 – Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist
• July 16 – Hédi Bouraoui, poet, novelist and academic
• July 22 – Doug Kyle, long-distance runner
• July 27 – George Ryga, playwright and novelist
• August 11 – Izzy Asper, tax lawyer and media magnate
• August 18 – Bill Bennett, politician and 27th Premier of British Columbia
• August 28 – Andy Bathgate, ice hockey player
• August 31 – Allan Fotheringham, newspaper and magazine journalist
• September 14 – Harry Sinden, ice hockey player, general manager and coach
• September 25 – Glenn Gould, pianist
• September 27 – Gabriel Loubier, politician

  October to December

• October 16 – Lucien Paiement, politician, Mayor of Laval
• October 18 – Iona Campagnolo, politician, first female Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
• October 24 – Robert Mundell, professor of economics
• November 10 – Martin Hattersley, lawyer and politician
• November 13 – Marilyn Brooks, fashion designer
• November 29 – Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist
• December 6 – Hank Bassen, ice hockey player

  Deaths

• March 6 – Joseph-Hormisdas Legris, politician and Senator
• July 22 – Reginald Fessenden, inventor and radio pioneer
• August 1 – Wellington Willoughby, politician and lawyer
• August 7 – Napoléon Belcourt, politician
• August 21 – Leonard Burnett, politician, farmer and teacher
• November 26 – J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven

  Historical Documents