1933 in Canada
Events from the year 1933 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Monarch – George V
Federal government
- Governor general – Vere Ponsonby
- Prime minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
- Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin then Lyman Poore Duff
- 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 – Herbert Alexander Bruce
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton then George Des Brisay de Blois
- 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 then Duff Pattullo
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
- Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards then Leonard Tilley
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington then Angus Lewis Macdonald
- Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart then William J. P. MacMillan
- Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt
Events
- April 7 - Raymond Paley becomes the first known skiing fatality in the Canadian Rockies on Fossil Mountain.
- June 1 - Leonard Tilley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Charles Richards
- August 16 - A race riot occurs at Christie Pits in Toronto.
- September 5 - Angus Macdonald becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Gordon Harrington
- October 14 - W. J. P. MacMillan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James D. Stewart
- November 11 - The magnitude 7.3 Baffin Bay earthquake occurs at Baffin Bay, Nunavut.
- November 15 - Thomas Pattullo becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Simon Fraser Tolmie
- December 2 - Newfoundland's independence is revoked due to its financial difficulties.
Arts and literature
Sport
- April 6 - Ontario Hockey Association's Newmarket Redmen won their First Memorial Cup by defeating the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 2 game to 0. All games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
- December 9 - Toronto Argonauts win their Third Grey Cup by defeating the Sarnia Imperials 4–3 at Sarnia's Davis Field
Births
January to March
- January 24 - Claude Préfontaine, actor
- January 25 - Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, playwright and journalist
- January 31 - Camille Henry, ice hockey player
- January 31 - John Snow, Native leader
- February 13 - Michael Cook, playwright
- February 18 - Frank Moores, businessman, politician and 2nd Premier of Newfoundland
- February 24 - Gustavo Da Roza, architect
- March 4 - James Jerome, jurist, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
- March 9 - Mel Lastman, businessman, politician and Mayor of Toronto
- March 19 - John Sopinka, lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
- March 29 - Jacques Brault, poet and translator
April to June
- April 5 - Joe Comuzzi, politician
- April 19
- *Peter Demeter, murderer
- * Garry Blaine, ice hockey player
- April 24 - Alan Eagleson, disbarred lawyer, convicted felon, former politician, hockey agent and promoter
- May 24 - Marian Engel, novelist
- May 29 - Marc Carbonneau, taxi driver and convicted kidnapper
- June 19 - Michael M. Ames, anthropologist and academic
- June 24
- *Bob Cole, sports television announcer
- * Bernard Grandmaître, politician
- June 26 - Gerry Weiner, politician
- June 28
- * Antonio Flamand, politician
- *George Stulac, basketball player and decathlete
- June 30
- * Don Head, ice hockey player
- * Orval Tessier, ice hockey centre and coach
July to September
- July 2 – Kenny Wharram, ice hockey player
- July 8 - Antonio Lamer, lawyer, jurist and 16th Chief Justice of Canada
- July 13 - Scott Symons, writer
- July 14 - Robert Bourassa, politician and 22nd Premier of Quebec
- July 16 - Julian Klymkiw, ice hockey goaltender
- July 17 - Mimi Hines, singer and comedian
- July 28
- *David Ahenakew, politician
- *Charlie Hodge, ice hockey goaltender
- August 13 - Ted Godwin, artist
- August 24 - John Alan Lee, sociologist
- August 30 - Don Getty, politician and 11th Premier of Alberta
- September 8 - Maurice Foster, politician, MP for Algoma
- September 19 - Gilles Archambault, novelist
October to December
- October 12 - Guido Molinari, artist
- October 22 - David Bromige, poet
- November 16 - Leonard Marchand, politician
- November 26 - Robert Goulet, singer and actor
- November 27 - Jacques Godbout, novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet
- December 1 - Alex Campbell, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
- December 12 - Joe Borowski, politician and activist
Full date unknown
- Harry Flemming, journalist
- Doreen Kimura, psychologist who was professor at Simon Fraser University
Deaths
- January 3 - Jack Pickford, actor
- April 14 - Daniel Hunter McMillan, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
- October 10 - James David Stewart, educator, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
- October 17 - Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire
- October 25 - William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia
- November 30 - Arthur Currie, World War I general
Historical Documents
"With a cheery, optimistic feeling prevailing," grain markets in Winnipeg, Chicago and Liverpool raise price of wheat
In what "has been a very bad year," federal budget raises taxes and creates support fund for agricultural exporters
Most first ministers back re-employment through shortening of everyone's work day
Hitler sworn in as German chancellor, but "surrounded with conservatives" in cabinet
With Nazi plurality, German parliament will allow Hitler to suspend its powers and constitution temporarily
Appeals to Jewish community and Christians to relieve oppression of German Jews
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation rejects capitalism and "its inherent injustice and inhumanity" in Regina Manifesto
Marxist delegate to CCF's Regina convention calls it "middle class" and "reformist"
Rejected in Saskatchewan by-election, Farmer-Labor candidates and campaign managers receive advice from their president
Spinning wheel and Bennett buggy: how Prairie farmers are coping in Great Depression
Poor woman asks Prime Minister Bennett to send underwear for her husband
:File:InMemoryOfAllRanksUofS.jpg|Memorial plaque unveiled at University of Saskatchewan for 46th Battalion
Mackenzie King yields to temptation, being "disobedient to the heavenly vision as I have held it in my heart"
Flyer for opening of Harlem-style nightclub in Montreal