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Events from the year 1935 in Canada.

[edit] Events

[edit] January to June

• January 2 - Prime Minister R.B. Bennett outlines his programme
• March 11 - Bank of Canada established
• May 7 - David Dunlap Observatory opens
• June 5 - The On to Ottawa Trek begins

[edit] July to December

• 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 W.J.P. MacMillan
• August 22 - Alberta general election, 1935: William Aberhart's Alberta Social Credit Party wins a majority, defeating Richard G. Reid's United Farmers of Alberta
• September 3 - William Aberhart becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Richard Reid
• October 14 - Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a majority, defeating R.B. Bennett's Conservatives
• October 3 - After the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Canada refuses to support military intervention or even sanctions
• October 23 - Mackenzie King becomes prime minister for the third time, replacing R.B. Bennett
• November 1 - William Patterson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
• November 1 - The magnitude 6.2 Timiskaming earthquake occurs in western Quebec

[edit] Full date unknown

• The Bank of Canada issued a $500 banknote with Sir John A. Macdonald's portrait and a $1,000 note with Sir Wilfrid Laurier's portrait

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

• December 7 - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers become the first western Canadian team to win the Grey Cup.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• January 7 - Rey Pagtakhan, physician, professor, politician and Minister
• January 10 - Ronnie Hawkins, pioneering rock and roll musician
• January 14 - Lucille Wheeler, alpine skier, Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion
• February 21 - Jean Pelletier, politician and Mayor of Quebec City (d.2009)
• February 28 - Alex Janvier, artist
• March 2 - Al Waxman, actor and director (d.2001)
• March 15 - Mary Pratt, painter
• March 24 - Mary Seeman, psychiatrist
• April 22 - Rita Johnston, politician, Canada's first female premier and 29th Premier of British Columbia
• May 25 - W. P. Kinsella, novelist and short story writer
• May 26 - Pat Carney, politician, Minister and Senator
• June 2 - Carol Shields, author (d.2003)

[edit] July to December

Donald Sutherland at the Mill Valley Film Festival, 2005

• July 17 - Donald Sutherland, actor
• 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
• July 29 - Pat Lowther, poet (d.1975)
• October 3 - Floyd Laughren, politician
• October 15 - Willie O'Ree, ice hockey player, first Black Canadian player in the National Hockey League
• October 20 - Russell Doern, politician (d.1987)
• November 17 - Audrey Thomas, novelist and short story writer
• December 13 - Raymond Speaker, politician
• December 21 - Edward Schreyer, politician and 22nd Governor General of Canada

[edit] Full date unknown

• James Bourque, First Nations activist (d.1996)
• Lionel Giroux, midget wrestler (d.1995)
• J. Robert Janes, author
• Christina McCall, political writer (d.2005)

[edit] Deaths

• March 15 - James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1860)
• March 16 - John James Richard Macleod, physician, physiologist and Nobel laureate (b.1876)
• 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.