Events from the year 1934 in Canada.

Events

• March 9 - New Brunswick women win the right to hold office
• June 19 - Ontario election: Mitchell Hepburn's Liberals win a majority, defeating George S. Henry's Conservatives
• June 19 - Saskatchewan election: James Garfield Gardiner's Liberals win a majority, defeating James T.M. Anderson's Conservative-led coalition government
• July 3 - The Bank of Canada is formed
• July 10 - Mitchell Hepburn becomes premier of Ontario, replacing George Henry
• July 10 - Richard G. Reid becomes premier of Alberta, replacing John Brownlee
• July 19 - James Gardiner becomes premier of Saskatchewan for the second time, replacing James Anderson
• August 14 - John Sackville Labatt kidnapped
• October 26 - Reconstruction Party of Canada formed

Arts and literature

Births

January to March

• January 3 - Yves Gaucher, artist
• January 11 - Jean Chr tien, politician and 20th Prime Minister of Canada
• January 16 - Judy Erola, broadcaster and politician
• January 19 - Lloyd Robertson, television news anchor and senior editor
• January 23 - Pierre Bourgault, politician and essayist (d.2003)
• February 5 - Don Cherry, ice hockey player, coach and commentator
• February 8 - Philip Seeman, schizophrenia researcher and neuropharmacologist
• March 7 - Douglas Cardinal, architect
• March 9 - Marlene Streit, golfer
• March 16 - Ray Hnatyshyn, politician and 24th Governor General of Canada (d.2002)
• March 24 - Alice Whitty, high jumper

April to June

• May 17 - George Karpati, neurologist and neuroscientist (d.2009)
• May 28 - Dionne quintuplets, first quintuplets known to survive their infancy
• June 16 - Roger Neilson, ice hockey coach (d.2003)
• June 22 - Willie Adams, politician and Senator
• June 25 - Th odore Jean Arcand, diplomat
• June 27 - Norman Atkins, businessman and Senator

July to September

• July 13 - Peter Gzowski, broadcaster, writer and reporter (d.2002)
• July 19 - Larry Zolf, journalist (d. 2011)
• July 27 - Jim Elder, horse rider and Olympic gold medalist
• August 11 - Abrams twins, Lillian and Dorothy

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• September 21 - Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and artist

October to December

• October 1 - Margaret McCain, philanthropist and first female Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
• October 4 - Rudy Wiebe, author and professor
• October 5 - Ken Taylor, diplomat involved in the Iran hostage crisis
• November 21 - Howard Pawley, politician, professor and 18th Premier of Manitoba
• November 26 - Conrad Santos, politician
• November 30 - Marcel Prud'homme, politician and Senator

Deaths

• March 7 - John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Governor General of Canada (b.1847)
• March 15 - Davidson Black, paleoanthropologist (b.1884)
• April 17 - Frank S. Cahill, politician (b.1876)
• July 28 - Marie Dressler, actress (b.1868)
• October 4 - Henry Sproatt, architect (b.1866)
• November 10 - Donald Mann, railway contractor and entrepreneur (b.1853)

References

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