1935 in Canada

• Monarch – George V{{cite web |title=King George V {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/king-george-v |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |access-date=4 December 2022}}

• Governor General – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough (until November 2) then John Buchan
• Prime Minister – Richard B. Bennett (until October 23) then William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
• Parliament – 17th (until 14 August)

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William Johnston Tupper
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean (until February 8) then Murray MacLaren
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Herbert Alexander Bruce
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George Des Brisay de Blois
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Esioff-Léon Patenaude
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe

• Premier of Alberta – Richard Gavin Reid (until September 3) then William Aberhart
• Premier of British Columbia – Duff Pattullo
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – Leonard Tilley (until July 16) then Allison Dysart
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Lewis Macdonald
• Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – William J. P. MacMillan (until August 15) then Walter Lea
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner (until November 1) then William John Patterson

• Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Vacant (Roy A. Gibson acting)

• January 2 – Prime Minister R. B. Bennett outlines his programme
• February 11 – Goodwill, The Amity Group established
• March 11
• Bank of Canada established
• The Bank of Canada issues a $500 banknote with Sir John A. Macdonald's portrait and a $1,000 note with Sir Wilfrid Laurier's portrait
• May 6 – Silver Jubilee of George V's accession as King
• May 7 – David Dunlap Observatory opens
• May 25 – Cabot Monument unveiled, Montreal
• June 5 – The On-to-Ottawa Trek begins
• June 26 – "Regina Riot": Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire into unarmed crowd of unemployed marchers in Regina, Saskatchewan

• July 5 – Canadian Wheat Board established[http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/about/history/ Wheat Board history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218042315/http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/about/history/ |date=2011-02-18 }}
• July 16 – Allison Dysart becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Leonard Tilley
• August 15 – Walter Lea becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing William J. P. MacMillan
• August 22 – 1935 Alberta general election: William Aberhart's Social Credit Party (SoCreds) wins a majority, defeating Richard G. Reid's United Farmers of Alberta
• September 3 – Aberhart becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Reid
• October 14 – Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a majority, defeating Bennett's Conservatives
• October 3 – After the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Canada refuses to support military intervention or sanctions
• October 23 – Mackenzie King becomes prime minister for the third time, replacing Bennett
• November 1
• William Patterson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
• The magnitude 6.2 Timiskaming earthquake shakes western Quebec

• April 9 – The Montreal Maroons win their second and final Stanley Cup by defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 3 games to 0. The deciding game was played at the Montreal Forum. This was the last time a non-Original Six team won the Stanley Cup until the Philadelphia Flyers won the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals.
• April 13 – The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Sudbury Cub Wolves 2 games to 1. All game played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
• December 7 – The Winnipeg 'Pegs become the first western team to win the Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tigers 18 to 12 in the 23rd Grey Cup played at Hamilton Amateur Athletic Association Grounds

• January 6 – Joseph Rotman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
• January 7 – Rey Pagtakhan, physician, professor, politician and Minister
• January 10 – Ronnie Hawkins, pioneering rock and roll musician (d. 2022)
• January 14 – Lucille Wheeler, alpine skier, Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion
• January 18 – Albert Millaire, actor and theatre director (d. 2018)
• January 21 – Jack Tunney, professional wrestling promoter (d. 2004)
• January 29 – Christina McCall, political writer (d. 2005)
• February 9 – Ron Attwell, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
• February 14
• Rob McConnell, jazz musician (d. 2010)
• Howie Glover, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
• February 21 – Jean Pelletier, politician and Mayor of Quebec City (d. 2009)
• March 2 – Al Waxman, actor and director (d. 2001)
• March 15 – Mary Pratt, painter (d. 2018)
• March 24 – Mary Seeman, psychiatrist
• April 16 – Ray Frenette, 28th Premier of New Brunswick (d. 2018)
• April 22 – Rita Johnston, politician, Canada's first female premier and 29th Premier of British Columbia
• April 28 – Murray McBride, politician
• May 5 – Billy Two Rivers, wrestler (d. 2023)
• May 7 – Isobel Warren, author
• May 25 – W. P. Kinsella, novelist and short story writer (d. 2016)
• May 26 – Pat Carney, politician, minister and senator
• May 30 – Ruta Lee, actress
• June 2 – Carol Shields, author (d. 2003)
• June 28 – Bob Hobert, football player

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• July 3 – Bill Reichart, ice hockey player (d. 2021 in the United States)
• July 11 – Bobbie Sparrow, politician
• July 17 – Donald Sutherland, actor (d. 2024)
• July 23 – Danièle Dorice, singer and teacher (d. 2018)
• July 24 – Bob McAdorey, television and radio broadcaster (d. 2005)
• July 25 – Gilbert Parent, politician and 33rd Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 2009)
• July 27
• Don Mazankowski, politician and Minister (d. 2020)
• François Barbeau, costume designer (d. 2016)
• July 29 – Pat Lowther, poet (d. 1975)
• August 30 – Daniel L. Norris, Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (d. 2008)
• September 9 – Fred Stone, jazz musician (d. 1986)
• September 24 – Sean McCann, actor (d. 2019){{Cite web|url=http://canadianobituaries.com/toronto/114796-william-leonard-sean-mccann-june-13-2019.html|title=MCCANN, William Leonard Sean McCann - Canadian Obituaries}}
• September 27 – Al MacNeil, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2025)
• October 3 – Floyd Laughren, politician
• October 15 – Willie O'Ree, ice hockey player, first Black Canadian player in the National Hockey League{{icehockeystats|legends=13894}}
• October 20 – Russell Doern, politician (d. 1987)
• November 15 – Bill Graham, Canadian football player (d. 2020)
• November 17 – Audrey Thomas, novelist and short story writer
• December 9 – Christopher Pratt, painter and printmaker (d. 2022)[https://www.saanichnews.com/news/christopher-pratt-prominent-canadian-painter-and-printmaker-dies-at-86/ Christopher Pratt, prominent Canadian painter and printmaker, dies at 86]
• December 11 – Elmer Vasko, ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• December 12 – John Wise, politician, MP for Elgin (1972–1988); Minister of Agriculture (1979–1980; 1984–1988) (d. 2013)
• December 13 – Raymond Speaker, politician
• December 21 – Edward Schreyer, politician, Premier of Manitoba and Governor General of Canada{{cite book |last1=Lentz |first1=Harris M. |title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 |date=4 February 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26490-2 |page=144 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA144 |language=en}}

• James Bourque, First Nations activist (d. 1996)
• Lionel Giroux, midget wrestler (d. 1995)
• J. Robert Janes, author
• Alex Janvier, artist
• Louise Laurin, educator and activist (d. 2013)

• March 15 – James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1860)
• March 16 – John Macleod, physician, physiologist and Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
• April 10 – Charles-Émile Trudeau, entrepreneur and father of Pierre Trudeau, who would later become Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1887)
• April 19 – Willis Keith Baldwin, politician (b. 1857)
• July 18 – George Clift King, politician and 2nd Mayor of Calgary (b. 1848)
• September 30 – J. J. Kelso, journalist and social activist (b. 1864)
• October 24 – Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b. 1859)
• October 29 – Del Fontaine, Canadian middleweight boxing champion, executed for murder in the U.K.

• List of Canadian films

On radio, PM Bennett declares "reform means Government intervention[,] control and regulation [and] the end of laissez faire"

R.B. Bennett, The Premier Speaks to the People: The First Address[....] (January 2, 1935), pgs. 9-20. Accessed 10 June 2020 http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/4/h4-4049-e.html

In current national crisis, Commons Clerk suggests constituent assembly replace British North America Act with modern constitutionTestimony of Arthur Beauchesne (April 16, 1935), Special Committee on British North America Act, [https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1706_1_1/144?r=0&s=1 pg. 126] Accessed 26 October 2020

Prime Minister Bennett argues need to pass laws that courts will approve of"Trade Commission – Mr. Bennett" (June 19, 1935), House of Commons Debates, 17th Parliament, 6th Session: Vol. 4, pgs. 3809-11. Accessed 10 June 2020 http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC1706_04/561?r=0&s=1 (scroll down to second "Hear, hear")

"The trouble is [lack of] accommodation designed objectively for the low wage earner" - House committee calls for national housing policy"Third and Final Report" (April 16, 1935), Special Committee on Housing, [https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1706_3_1/432?r=0&s=1 pgs. 364-6] Accessed 26 October 2020

In election broadcast, Bennett admits that at his age (65), "ambitions dim, the love of power dies"Canadian Press, "'Ambitions Dim At My Age,'" [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=ifIdVpG6JtcC&dat=19350907&printsec=frontpage&hl=en The (Vancouver) Sunday Sun, Vol. XCII, No. 306] (September 7, 1935), pg. 1. Accessed 10 June 2020

PM King and President Roosevelt support trade – "another word for increased employment, transportation and consumption""Joint Statement by the President and Rt. Hon. W. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, on Trade Relations. November 9, 1935," The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volume Four, The Court Disapproves, 1935, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/ppotpus/4925387.1935.001/467 pg. 441] Accessed 11 June 2020

Secretary of State Hull says goal of U.S. foreign policy is to preserve peace of "friends," not of "inequality based on force"U.S. Department of State, [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/interwar/hull9.htm "Address Delivered by the Secretary of State(...), February 16, 1935"] Peace and War: United States Foreign Policy, 1931-1941

(Publication 1983, 1943), pgs. 249-54. Accessed 10 June 2020

Statement of 330 international psychiatrists warns of "evident war-psychosis" in global mentalityScience Service, "Science War Warning;[...]Man's Fierce Instincts," The Vancouver Sun, Vol. XCII (October 22, 1935), [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=ifIdVpG6JtcC&dat=19351022&printsec=frontpage&hl=en pgs. 1, 3] Accessed 10 June 2020

Tour of Flanders' grave-strewn fields, twenty years laterR. Duder, "Flanders 1935," [http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/compoundobject/collection/cns_veteran/id/30610/rec/4 The Veteran Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 1] (December 1935), pgs. 50, 57. Accessed 12 June 2020

Eyewitnesses tell inquiry about clashes involving police, residents and On-to-Ottawa trekkers in Regina[http://library2.usask.ca/sni/stories/con15.html "Eye-Witnesses Tell Dramatic Story Of Dominion Day Riots"] Regina Leader Post (December 11, 1935), pg. 10. Accessed 10 June 2020

Canadian Federation of the Blind founder explains to House committee need for pensions for blind people[https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1706_4_1/13?r=0&s=1 "Minutes of Evidence"] (February 21, 1935), Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations, pgs. 1-4. Accessed 26 October 2020

Columbia University student newspaper's review of Maria Chapdelaine movieM.C., "A Canadian Idyll; Maria Chapdelaine. A French sound film, from the novel by Louise [sic] Hemon," Columbia Daily Spectator, Vol. LIX, No. 9 (October 8, 1935), pg. 2. Accessed 10 June 2020 http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19351008-01.2.16&srpos=523 (click "Maximize" symbol at upper right)

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