1930 in Canada

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Years:	1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933

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Events from the year 1930 in Canada.

Incumbents

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 (until August 7) then Richard B. Bennett

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

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 (until August 11) then Gordon Sidney Harrington
Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson (until December 15) then George Stewart Henry
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Albert Charles Saunders (until May 20) then Walter Lea
Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

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 22 - Jean Vauquelin Monument unveiled
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
June 26 - John B. King Explosion
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
October 18 - Robert Burns Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
November 12 - Norway relinquishes its claim to the Sverdrup Islands.
December 15 - George Henry becomes Premier of Ontario, replacing Howard Ferguson

Arts and literature

January 6 - An early literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.

Births

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 Cappella, race walker (d.2011)
February 6 - Allan King, film director (d.2009)
March 11 - Claude Jutra, actor, film director and writer (d.1986)

April to June

April 8 - Theo Dimson, artist(d.2012)
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 26 - Lorne Ferguson, ice hockey player (d.2008)
May 29 -
- Roy Bonisteel, journalist and television host
- Lawrence Heisey, businessman

Jacques Parizeau

June 17 - Rosemary Brown, politician (d.2003)
June 19 - John Lynch-Staunton, Senator

July to December

July 6 - George Armstrong, ice hockey player
July 12 - Gordon Pinsent, actor
July 15 - Richard Garneau, sports journalist (d.2013)

Maureen Forrester photo taken by Carl Van Vechten

July 25 - Maureen Forrester, opera singer (d.2010)
August 9
- Jacques Parizeau, economist, politician and 26th Premier of Quebec
- 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)
December 1 - Jim Anderson, ice hockey player (Springfield Indians) and coach (Washington Capitals) (d.2013)

Full date unknown

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

Deaths

Emma Albani

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)
November 21 – Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, Canadian writer, linguist and Catholic priest (born 1855)

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