1931 in Canada
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Events from the year 1931 in Canada.
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[edit] Events
- May 19 - Charles Richards becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing John Baxter
- August 29 - James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing Walter Lea
- November 12 - Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto
- December 11 - the Statute of Westminster goes into effect: Canada is granted full legislative independence in national and international affairs, with the Crown represented by the Governor General.
- The Beauharnois Scandal breaks out
[edit] Arts and Literature
[edit] Births
[edit] January to March
- January 6 - Dickie Moore, ice hockey player, businessman and philanthropist
- January 27 - Mordecai Richler, author, screenwriter and essayist (d.2001)
- January 30 - John Crosbie, politician and Minister
- February 16 - Bernie Geoffrion, ice hockey player (d.2006)
- February 17 - Mark MacGuigan, academic and politician (d.1998)
- February 26 - C. William Doody, politician and Senator (d.2005)
- March 10 - Georges Dor, author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator and theatrical producer and director (d.2001)
- March 22 - William Shatner, actor and novelist
- March 22 - Monte Kwinter, politician
- March 25 - Jack Chambers, artist and filmmaker (d.1978)
- March 28 - Jane Rule, novelist and non-fiction writer (d.2007)
- March 30 - Gérard Bruchési, politician
[edit] April to June
- April 2 - Howard Engel, writer and television producer
- April 9 - Richard Hatfield, politician and 26th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1991)
- April 13 - Cliff Lumsdon, world champion marathon swimmer (d.1991)
- April 15 - Helen Maksagak, politician, first woman and first Inuk Northwest Territories Commissioner (d.2009)
- April 19 - Walter Stewart, writer, editor and journalism educator (d.2004)
- April 22 - John Buchanan, lawyer, politician and 27th Premier of Nova Scotia
- May 25 - Herb Gray, politician, Canada's first Jewish federal cabinet minister
- June 11 - John Bright, football player
- June 27 - Charles Bronfman, businessman and philanthropist
- June 30 - Joyce Wieland, experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist (d.1998)
[edit] July to September
- July 7 -Charles Alexander Best, politician (d.1978)
- July 10 - Alice Munro, short-story writer
- July 15 - Jacques-Yvan Morin, politician
- August 29 - Lise Payette, politician, feminist, writer and columnist
- August 31 - Jean Béliveau, ice hockey player
- September 23 - Gerald Merrithew, politician (d.2004)
[edit] October to December
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- October 4 - Werner Israel, physicist
- October 8 - Isadore Sharp, businessman
- November 5 - Charles Taylor, philosopher
- November 28 - George Ramsay Cook, historian
- November 30 - Harry Enns, politician
[edit] Deaths
- July 10 - Louise McKinney, first woman sworn in to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and first woman elected to a legislature in Canada and in the British Empire (b.1868)
- July 28 - Charles Doherty, politician and jurist (b.1855)
- November 10 - Henrietta Edwards, women’s rights activist and reformer (b.1849)
- December 30 - George Eulas Foster, politician and academic (b.1847)
[edit] Full date unknown
- Fred Dixon, politician (b.1881)
