1929 in Canada

Crown

Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Mary of Teck)

Federal government

Governor general – Freeman Freeman-Thomas (viceregal consort – Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon)

Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King

Lieutenant governors

Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert

Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce

Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Theodore Arthur Burrows (until January 18) then James Duncan McGregor (from January 28)

Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean

Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory

Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Donald Ross

Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz

Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Lomer Gouin (until March 28) then Henry George Carroll (from April 2)

Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

Premiers

Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee

Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie

Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken

Premier of New Brunswick – John Baxter

Premier of Nova Scotia – Edgar Nelson Rhodes

Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson

Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders

Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau

Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner (until September 9) then James Thomas Milton Anderson

Commissioners

Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George Ian MacLean

Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events

January 10 - Lomer Gouin becomes Quebec's 15th Lieutenant Governor, serving until his death on March 28, 1929.

March 22 - The Canadian schooner and rum-runner I'm Alone was sunk by the US Coast Guard.

April 4 - Henry George Carroll becomes Quebec's 16th Lieutenant Governor.

June 6 - 1929 Saskatchewan election: James Garfield Gardiner's Liberals win a plurality, but the other parties, led by James T.M. Anderson's Conservatives, will form a coalition against Gardiner, forcing him to resign as premier

May 29 - A series of explosions rip through Ottawa's sewer system.

September 9 - James Anderson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner

October 19 - The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rules in the Persons Case that women are eligible to be senators.

October 29 - The crash of the New York Stock Exchange marks the beginning of the Great Depression

October 30 - Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority

November 13 - A second stock market crash hits Canada.

Arts and literature

January 6 - Regina's Darke Hall auditorium opened.

Science and technology

Wop May and Vic Horner brave poor visibility and −30 °C temperatures in an open cockpit to rush diphtheria anti-toxin to Fort Vermilion.

Frozen fish fillets are introduced by the Biological Board of Canada developed by Archibald Huntsman.

Sport

September 12 - The first legal forward pass in Canadian football is completed.

January to March

January 17 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey player (d.1986)

January 20 - Pat Mahoney, businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South (1968–1972), General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders (1965) (d.2012)

January 21 - Bill Norrie, politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992), Chancellor of the University of Manitoba (2001–2009), respiratory failure. (d.2012)

January 23 - John Charles Polanyi, chemist and 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry joint laureate

February 12 - Philip Kives, businessman

February 28 - Frank Gehry, architect

March 20 - William Andrew MacKay, academic, President of Dalhousie University (1980–1986) (d.2013)

April to June

May 8 - Claude Castonguay, Canadian banker and politician

May 10

Antonine Maillet, novelist, playwright and scholar

Peter C. Newman, journalist

May 12 - Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)

May 13 - Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author (d.1996)

May 14 - Gump Worsley, ice hockey player (d.2007)

May 16 - Claude Morin, politician

May 18 - Walter Pitman, educator and politician

June 7 -

John Turner, lawyer, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Canada

Walter Weir, politician and 15th Premier of Manitoba (d.1985)

June 8 - Louise Maheux-Forcier, author

June 9 - Jean Rougeau, professional wrestler and bodyguard of Quebec Premier René Lévesque (d.1983)

June 10 - Pearl McGonigal, politician

June 20 - Edgar Bronfman, Sr., businessman

July to September

July 3 - Béatrice Picard, actress

July 10 - Moe Norman, golfer (d.2004)

July 26 - Marc Lalonde, politician and Minister

July 30 - Bill Davis, politician and 18th Premier of Ontario

August 1 - Sidney Green, politician

August 3 - Peter Salmon, swimmer

August 19 - Leonard Evans, politician

September 14 - Dimitri Dimakopoulos, architect

September 22 - Paul-Marie Lapointe, author

September 24 -Edward M. Lawson, trade unionist, politician and Senator

October to December

November 2 - Richard E. Taylor, physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics joint laureate

November 21 - Laurier LaPierre, broadcaster, journalist, author and Senator

November 24 - Harry Oliver Bradley, politician

December 10 - Michael Snow, artist

December 13 - Christopher Plummer, actor

December 15 - Emery Barnes, Canadian football player and politician (d.1998)

December 23 - Patrick Watson, broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director

December 28 - Terry Sawchuk, ice hockey player (d.1970)

Full date unknown

Ken Adachi, writer and literary critic (d.1989)

January to March

January 6 - George Henry Murray, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1861)

January 14 - Alexander Warburton, politician, jurist, author and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1852)

January 18 - Theodore Arthur Burrows, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1857)

January 19 - Edward Charles Bowers, politician (b.1845)

January 29 - John Howatt Bell, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1846)

February - Richard Gardiner Willis, politician (b.1865)

February 17 - James Colebrooke Patterson, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1839)

March 1 - James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1851)

March 28 - Lomer Gouin, politician and 13th Premier of Quebec (d.1861)

March 29 - Hugh John Macdonald, politician, Minister and 8th Premier of Manitoba (b.1850)

April to December

April 17 - Clifford Sifton, politician and Minister (b.1861)

May 6 - William Dillon Otter, soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff (b.1843)

June 3 - John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1842)

June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet (b.1861)

June 23 - William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1848)

July 30 - Antonin Nantel, priest, teacher, school administrator, and author (b.1839)

October 10 - Elijah McCoy, inventor and engineer (b.1843)