Events from the year 1928 in Canada.

Events

• April 2 - Camillien Houde elected mayor of Montreal
• April 24 - The Supreme Court of Canada rules that women are not persons who can hold office according to the British North America Act reversed a year later by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain
• May 7 - The St. Roch is launched. It would become the first ship to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east and to circumnavigate North America.
• May 31 - The Legislative Council of Nova Scotia is abolished
• August 20 - John Duncan MacLean resigns as premier of British Columbia
• August 21 - Simon Fraser Tolmie becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing John Duncan MacLean
• August 25 - Canada's first major air disaster occurred when bad weather caused a BC Airways Ford Trimotor plane to crash in Puget Sound, Washington^[1]

Science and technology

• Frank Robb of Ontario obtains a patent for the first Wave Organ.

Sports

• The Winter Olympics take place in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The U of T Grads won a gold medal in hockey.
• The Summer Olympics take place in Amsterdam. Percy Williams and Ethel Catherwood won gold medals for Canada.

Births

January to March

Allen Sapp

• January 2 -
  • Avie Bennett, businessman and philanthropist
  • Allen Sapp, painter
• February 13 - Gerald Regan, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia
• February 16 - Les Costello, ice hockey player and Catholic priest (d.2002)
• February 26 - Donald Davis, actor (d.1998)
• March 9 - Gerald Bull, engineer and artillery designer (d.1990)
• March 10 - Robert Coates, politician and Minister
• March 12 - Th r se Lavoie-Roux, politician and Senator (d.2009)
• March 17 - William John McKeag, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.2007)
• March 31 - Gordie Howe, ice hockey player

April to June

• April 10 - Fraser MacPherson, jazz musician (d.1993)
• April 17 - Fabien Roy, politician
• April 28 - Zbigniew Basinski, physicist
• April 30 - Hugh Hood, novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor (d.2000)
• May 4 - Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpet player and bandleader (d.2006)
• May 7 - Bruno Gerussi, actor and television presenter (d.1995)
• May 9 - Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater and Olympic gold medalist
• May 23 -
  • Pauline Julien, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist (d.1998)
  • Sidney Spivak, politician and Minister (d.2002)
• June 13 - Ren e Morisset, pianist (d.2009)

July to December

• July 26 - Peter Lougheed, lawyer and politician
• September 10 - Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche
• October 1 - Jim Pattison, businessman
• October 27 - Gilles Vigneault, poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
• November 3 - Gary Lautens, humorist and newspaper columnist (d.1992)
• November 16 - David Adams, ballet dancer (d.2007)
• November 20 - Toni Onley, painter (d.2004)
• December 16 - Roy Bailey, politician
• December 21 - Clayton Kenny, boxer
• December 28 - Moe Koffman, flautist and saxophonist (d.2001)
• December 29 -
  • Robert Hylton Brisco, politician (d.2004)
  • Norman Cafik, politician

Full date unknown

• Peter Bronfman, businessman (d.1996)

Deaths

• April 6 - Godfroy Langlois, politician, journalist and lawyer (b.1866)

References

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