Events from the year 1930 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• February 15 - Cairine Wilson becomes Canada's first female senator
• May 20 - Walter Lea becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Albert Saunders
• June 19 - Alberta general election, 1930: Premier John Brownlee's United Farmers of Alberta win a third consecutive majority
• June 29 - Eight Jesuit martyrs become the first Canadian saints. See Canadian Martyrs.
• July 1 - The Seigniory Club, later to become the Château Montebello hotel, opens in Montebello, Quebec
• July 28 - Federal election: R.B. Bennett's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Mackenzie King's Liberals
• August 7 - R.B. Bennett becomes Prime Minister, replacing Mackenzie King
• August 11 - Gordon Harrington becomes Premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Edgar Rhodes
• November 12 - Norway relinquishes its claim to the Sverdrup Islands.
• December 15 - George Henry becomes Premier of Ontario, replacing Howard Ferguson

[edit] Arts and Literature

[edit] Births

[edit] January to March

• January 4 - Herbert O. Sparrow, politician
• January 11 - Harold Greenberg, film producer (d.1996)
• January 12 - Tim Horton, ice hockey player and businessman (d.1974)
• January 14 - Kenny Wheeler, composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
• January 24 - Felix Capella, race walker
• February 6 - Allan King, film director (d.2009)
• March 11 - Claude Jutra, actor, film director and writer (d.1986)

[edit] April to June

• April 28 - Charles Caccia, politician (d.2008)
• April 29 - Ben Hanuschak, politician
• May 9 - Muriel Smith, politician
• May 24 - Robert Bateman, naturalist and painter
• May 29 - Roy Bonisteel, journalist and television host
• May 29 - Lawrence Heisey, businessman
• June 17 - Rosemary Brown, politician (d.2003)
• June 19 - John Lynch-Staunton, Senator

[edit] July to December

Jacques Parizeau

• July 6 - George Armstrong, ice hockey player
• July 12 - Gordon Pinsent, actor
• August 9 - Jacques Parizeau, economist, politician and 26th Premier of Quebec
• August 9 - Larry Regan, ice hockey player, coach and manager (d.2009)
• September 18 - John Tolos, wrestler and wrestling manager (d.2009)
• September 21 - John Morgan, comedian (d.2004)
• October 2 - Dave Barrett, politician and 26th Premier of British Columbia
• October 24 - Micheline Beauchemin, textile artist and weaver
• October 29 - André Bernier, politician
• October 30 - Timothy Findley, novelist and playwright (d.2002)

[edit] Full date unknown

• Ben Kerr, street performer, author, broadcaster, musician and perennial candidate (d.2005)

[edit] Deaths

• February - Levi Addison Ault, businessman and naturalist (b.1851)
• February 28 - George Boyce, politician (b.1848)
• April 3 - Emma Albani, soprano (b.1848)
• November 16 - William James Topley, photographer (b.1845)
• December 9 - Laura Muntz Lyall, painter (b.1860)