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Events from the year 1938 in Canada.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George VI
• Governor General - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
• Prime Minister - William Lyon Mackenzie King

[edit] Events

• June 8 - Saskatchewan general election: William John Patterson's Liberals win a second consecutive majority

[edit] Full date unknown

• Franklin Roosevelt becomes the first president of the United States to visit Canada.
• Superman first appears in Action #1 (cover date June 1938), as a backup feature. The character is created by Joe Shuster (an artist for the Toronto Star) and American writer Jerry Siegel for National Comics.
• Vaccination for tuberculosis (the leading cause of death in young people) is introduced.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

• December 10 - Toronto Argonauts wins the 26th Grey Cup.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

John Hamm

• January 10 - Frank Mahovlich, ice hockey player and Senator
• January 13 - William B. Davis, actor
• February 17 - Martha Henry, actress
• February 22 - Pierre Vallières, journalist and writer (d.1998)
• April 8 - John Hamm, physician, politician and 32nd Premier of Nova Scotia
• May 13 - Lucille Starr, singer, songwriter and yodeler
• May 24 - Tommy Chong, comedian, actor and musician
• June 4 - John Harvard, journalist, politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
• June 13 - John Newlove, poet (d.2003)

[edit] July to September

Paul Martin

• July 14 - Moshe Safdie, architect and urban designer
• July 18 - Helen Gardiner, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum (d.2008)
• July 29 - Peter Jennings, journalist and television news anchor (d.2005)
• August 8 - Jacques Hétu, composer
• August 9 - Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, musician and composer (d.1985)
• August 25 - Colin Thatcher, politician and murderer
• August 28 - Paul Martin, politician and 21st Prime Minister of Canada

[edit] October to December

• October 14 - Ron Lancaster, Canadian football player and coach (d.2008)
• October 27 - Tim Ralfe, journalist (d.2000)
• October 28 - Gary Cowan, golfer
• November 3 - Yvon Cormier, wrestler (d.2009)
• November 13 - Gérald Godin, poet and politician (d.1994)
• November 17 - Gordon Lightfoot, singer and songwriter
• November 26 - Rich Little, impressionist and voice actor
• December 16 - John Allan Cameron, folk singer (d.2006)
• December 22 - Lucien Bouchard, lawyer, diplomat, politician and Minister

[edit] Deaths

• January 4 - George Halsey Perley, politician and diplomat (b.1857)
• January 8 - Aimé Bénard, politician (b.1873)
• January 28 - Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher (b.1848)
• February 20 - William Alves Boys, politician and barrister (b.1868)
• March 23 - Thomas Walter Scott, politician and first Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1867)
• April 13 - Grey Owl, writer and conservationist (b.1888)
• April 24 - John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, artist (b.1850)
• May 6 - Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, politician and 11th Governor General of Canada (b.1868)
• May 7 - Frederick Cronyn Betts, politician (b.1896)
• July 25 - Francis Haszard, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1849)
• December 26 - Pierre-Ernest Boivin, politician and businessman (b.1872)