1935 in Canada

Crown

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

Federal government

Governor general – Vere Ponsonby (until November 2) then John Buchan (viceregal consort – Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough then Susan Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir)

Prime minister – Richard B. Bennett (until October 23) then William Lyon Mackenzie King

Lieutenant governors

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

Premiers

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

Commissioners

Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell

Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Vacant (Roy A. Gibson acting)

January to June

January 2 - Prime Minister R. B. Bennett outlines his programme

March 11 - Bank of Canada established

March 11 - The Bank of Canada issued a $500 banknote with Sir John A. Macdonald's portrait and a C$1,000 note with Sir Wilfrid Laurier's portrait

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 to December

July 5 - Canadian Wheat Board established

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 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 even 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

November 1 - magnitude 6.2 Timiskaming earthquake occurs in western Quebec

Sport

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

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

January 29 - Christina McCall, political writer (d.2005)

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

March 24 - Mary Seeman, psychiatrist

April 16 - Ray Frenette, 28th Premier of New Brunswick

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)

July to December

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 27 - François Barbeau, costume designer (d.2016)

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 11 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian 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, 16th Premier of Manitoba and 22nd Governor General of Canada

Full date unknown

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)

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 10 - Joseph 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.