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1938 in Canada

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1938
in
Canada

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Events from the year 1938 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Territorial governments

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Commissioners

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Events

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Full date unknown

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Sport

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Births

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January to June

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John Hamm

July to September

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Paul Martin

October to December

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Undated

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  • Roland Doré, educator, President of the Canadian Space Agency

Deaths

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Historical documents

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Prime Minister Chamberlain defends Munich Agreement in "peace for our time" speech in British House of Commons[4]

President Roosevelt requests increased defence appropriations from Congress[5]

President Roosevelt says "we[...]are no longer a far away continent" in address at Queen's University at Kingston[6]

Vancouverites fail in plot to bomb Japanese ocean liner Hiye Maru[7]

"Map of the Pacific Ocean [showing] route taken by the Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Asia from Hong Kong to Vancouver, [B.C. via Shanghai and Japan]"[8]

Jewish Anti-Defamation League member says act on "passion for democracy" in face of world events[9]

Jewish columnist sets radio host straight on his "joke" about Jews[10]

Al-Rashid Mosque, Canada's first, opened in Edmonton with Indian statesman and Hanna, Alta. mayor present[11]

With prices for necessities and product sold dictated to them, Alberta farmers form United Farmers of Canada branch[12]

Manitoba premier comments on globally higher production, lower demand and drastically lower prices for wheat[13]

Development of huge Turner Valley oil field and its significance to Canada and Empire (especially British Navy)[14]

Nellie McClung praises cooperation as solution to poverty resulting from "profit system divorced from Christian ethics" [15]

Woonsocket, Rhode Island Franco-American mill worker and his family survive another layoff during Depression[16]

Trans-Canada Air Lines will be part of multi-day international flights linking Britain with New Zealand and Australia[17]

Tides and trees, gardens and exiles are subjects of Nellie McClung's Nova Scotia travel article[18]

New wing of Kitchener-Waterloo YWCA hosts Saturday morning games, stories and handwork for girls[19]

18th century Kanien’kéhà:ka-British alliance seen as "administration" of Indigenous people versus French "encroachments"[20]

References

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  1. ^ "King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ "John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  3. ^ Randel, Don Michael (30 October 2002). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Harvard University Press. p. 866. ISBN 978-0-674-25572-2.
  4. ^ Great Britain, Parliamentary Debates; Commons; Vol. 339 (October 3, 1938). Accessed 18 June 2020
  5. ^ "Paper VIII; Message to the Congress recommending increased armament for national defense, January 28, 1938" Development of United States Foreign Policy; Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942), pgs. 25-6. Accessed 18 June 2020
  6. ^ "Paper IX; Address at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 18, 1938" Development of United States Foreign Policy; Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942), pgs. 27-9. Audio: "President Franklin Roosevelt Receiving Honorary Degree at Queens University in Ontario, Canada" Accessed 18 June 2020
  7. ^ "One Seized, One Dead at Seattle; Vancouver Man Admits They Were in Pay of 'Oriental Nation'" (Seattle, January 20, 1938). Accessed 18 June 2020
  8. ^ Canadian Pacific Railway Company, "Steamship tracks chart used on the Empress of Asia" (1938), University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 14 July 2024
  9. ^ Richard E. Gutstadt, in "B'nai B'rith and A.Z.A. 1938; Second Annual Conference; Western Canadian Council" (September 1938; unpaginated). Accessed 18 June 2020
  10. ^ Al Segal, "Plain Talk; Suppose it were the Scotch" Jewish Western Bulletin, Vol. VIII, No. 43 (May 13, 1938), pg. 1. Accessed 18 June 2020
  11. ^ "City's Mosque Will Be Opened Sunday Night" Edmonton Journal (December 9, 1938). Accessed 13 June 2021
  12. ^ "Manifesto and Constitution of United Farmers of Canada (Alberta Section) Third Revised Edition. Accessed 18 June 2020
  13. ^ "Radio Address by Honourable John Bracken; December 18, 1938" Proceedings of the Conference on Markets for Western Farm Products, pgs. 325-8. Accessed 18 June 2020
  14. ^ Walter S. Campbell, "Turner Valley - Its Resources and Possibilities" (February 10, 1938), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 227-44. Accessed 18 June 2020
  15. ^ Nellie L. McClung, "Co-operation in Nova Scotia" The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (September 7, 1938). Accessed 18 June 2020
  16. ^ Mr. Guilfoyle, "French Canadian Textile Worker" (interview with Henry Boucher, January 12, 1939), pgs. 18-23. Accessed 18 June 2020
  17. ^ "Across Canada by Air" The (Wellington, N.Z.) Evening Post, Vol. CXXV, No. 94 (April 22, 1938), pg. 8. Accessed 18 June 2020
  18. ^ Nellie L. McClung, "The Flavour of Nova Scotia" The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (August 3, 1938), pgs. 1, 3. Accessed 18 June 2020
  19. ^ "Saturday Morning Play Hour Big Attraction at Y.W.C.A." Kitchener Daily Record (March 21, 1938). Accessed 18 June 2020
  20. ^ John Wolfe Lydekker, "Introduction" (excerpt), The Faithful Mohawks (1938). Accessed 8 February 2021