Events from the year 1927 in Canada.
Events
- January 5 – The National Museum of Canada is created.
- January 9 – 76 people are killed when a fire breaks out at the Laurier Palace Theatre in Montreal.
- March 1 – The location of the boundary between Labrador and Quebec is settled by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, accepting the Dominion of Newfoundland's claim rather than Canada's.
- May 28 – The Old Age Pensions Act is introduced.
- July 1 – Confederation celebration marked by the first cross country radio broadcast.
- August 6 – Toronto Union Station is officially opened, by Prince Edward, Prince of Wales.
- August 12 – Albert Saunders becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James D. Stewart.
- August 17 – John Oliver, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
- August 20 – John Duncan MacLean becomes premier of British Columbia.
- September 21 – Ten Canadian Pacific Railway cars carrying a valuable cargo of silk goes off the rails near Yale, British Columbia. Five of the cars land in the Fraser River.
- October 4 – Worthington mine disaster occurs.
- October 11 – Richard Bedford Bennett, becomes leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- December 11 – Gamma Sigma Fraternity becomes the first high school fraternity to become international with Alpha Zeta chapter in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.[2]
Births
January to March
- January 1
- January 4 – Paul Desmarais, financier (d. 2013)
- January 6 – John W. Grace, first Privacy Commissioner of Canada (d. 2009)
- January 10 – Gisele MacKenzie, singer (d. 2003)
- January 17 – Stan Roberts, politician (d. 1990)
- January 24 – Phyllis Lambert, architect and philanthropist
- January 25 – Gildas Molgat, politician (d. 2001)
- January 27 – Edith Firth, historian and librarian (d. 2005)[3]
- January 28 – Sheila Finestone, politician and Senator (d. 2009)
- January 29 – Lewis Urry, chemical engineer and inventor (d. 2004)
- January 30 – Sterling Lyon, politician and 17th Premier of Manitoba (d. 2010)
- February 11 – Sinclair Stevens, politician (d. 2016)
- March 3 – William Kurelek, artist and writer (d. 1977)
- March 9 – John Beckwith, composer, writer, pianist, teacher and administrator (d. 2022)
- March 25 – Bill Barilko, ice hockey player (d. 1951)
- March 27 – Eugène Philippe LaRocque, Roman Catholic priest (d. 2018)
- March 28 – Fernande Saint-Martin, art critic, museologist, semiologist, visual arts theorist and writer (d. 2019)
April to June
- April 6
- April 8
- April 13 – Ronald Stewart, businessman and politician (d. 2022)
- April 25 – Frances Hyland, actress (d. 2004)
- May 2 – Budge Wilson, writer (d. 2021)
- May 5 – Sylvia Fedoruk, scientist, curler and Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (d. 2012)
- May 14 – Frank Miller, politician and 19th Premier of Ontario (d. 2000)
- June 3 – George Hislop, gay activist (d. 2005)
- June 17 – Jean Robert Beaulé, politician (d. 2005)
- June 24 – Fernand Dumont, sociologist, philosopher, theologian and poet (d. 1997)
- June 25 – Nora McDermott basketball player, volleyball player, coach and physical education teacher (d. 2013)
- June 26 – Robert Kroetsch, novelist, poet and non-fiction writer (d. 2011)
- June 29
July to December
- July 2 – Fern Villeneuve, aviator (d. 2019)
- July 18 – Keith MacDonald, politician (d. 2021)
- July 20 – Jack Horner, politician and Minister (d. 2004)
- July 21 – Hal Hatfield, football player
- August 17 – John Alan Beesley, diplomat and civil servant (d. 2009)
- September 1 – Chuck Dalton, basketball player, member of Olympic team (1952) (d. 2013)
- September 7 – Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- October 3 – Kenojuak Ashevak, artist (d. 2013)
- October 14 – Elmer Iseler, choir conductor and choral editor (d. 1998)
- October 15 – Peter Pollen, politician (d. 2017)
- November 3 – Harrison McCain, businessman (d. 2004)
- November 8 – Peter Munk, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
- November 10
- November 17 – Nicholas Taylor, geologist, businessman, politician and Senator (d. 2020)
- November 18 – Knowlton Nash, journalist, author and television news anchor (d. 2014)
- November 26 – Ernie Coombs, children's entertainer Mr. Dressup (d. 2001)
- November 30 – Tod Sloan, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
- December 6 – Marcel Pelletier, ice hockey player (d. 2017)
- December 7 – Grant Strate, dancer, choreographer and academic (d. 2015)
- December 18 – Roméo LeBlanc, politician and 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009)
- December 24 – Geoffrey Pearson, diplomat (d. 2008)
References
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- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
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- Anguilla
- Aruba
- Bermuda
- Bonaire
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Curaçao
- Greenland
- Guadeloupe
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Martin
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saba
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
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