Events from the year 1929 in Canada .
Births
January to March
January 17 – Jacques Plante , ice hockey player (d. 1986 )
January 20 – Pat Mahoney , businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South (1968–1972), General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders (1965) (d. 2012 )
January 21 – Bill Norrie , politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992), Chancellor of the University of Manitoba (2001–2009), respiratory failure. (d. 2012 )
January 23 – John Polanyi , chemist and 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry joint laureate
January 25 – Brian O'Neill , ice hockey executive (d. 2023 )
February 12 – Philip Kives , businessman
February 14 – Renée Maheu , biographer, journalist and soprano (d. 2007 )
February 28 – Frank Gehry , architect (d. 2025 )
March 20 – William Andrew MacKay , academic, President of Dalhousie University (1980– 1986) (d. 2013 )
April to June
John Turner in September 2009 April 8 – Garnet Bloomfield , politician (d. 2018 )
April 11 – Eric Luoma , cross-country skier (d. 2018 )
May 8 – Claude Castonguay , banker and politician (d. 2020 )
May 10
May 12 – Dollard St. Laurent , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
May 13 – Al Adair , politician, radio broadcaster and author (d. 1996 )
May 14 – Gump Worsley , ice hockey player (d. 2007 )
May 16 – Claude Morin , politician
May 18 – Walter Pitman , educator and politician
May 28- Shane Rimmer , actor (d. 2019 in the United Kingdom )
May 29 – Fernande Chiocchio , mezzo-soprano, pianist and teacher (d. 2021 )
June 7
June 8 – Louise Maheux-Forcier , author
June 9
June 10 – Pearl McGonigal , politician
June 20 – Edgar Bronfman, Sr. , businessman
June 27 – H. Ian Macdonald , economist
July to September
July 2 – Anna-Marie Globenski , pianist and teacher (d. 2008 )
July 3 – Béatrice Picard , actress (d. 2025 )
July 4 – Walt Konarski , Canadian football player
July 10 – Moe Norman , golfer (d. 2004 )
July 18 – Roy Killin , footballer
July 19 – Ronald Melzack , psychologist (d. 2019 )
July 26 – Marc Lalonde , politician and Minister (d. 2023 )[ 3]
July 30 – Bill Davis , politician and 18th Premier of Ontario
August 1 – Sidney Green , politician
August 3 – Peter Salmon , swimmer (d. 2003 )
August 9 – George Scott Wallace , British Columbia physician and politician (d. 2011 )
August 19 – Leonard Evans , politician
August 27 – George Scott , professional wrestler and promoter (d. 2014 )
September 14 – Dimitri Dimakopoulos , architect
September 19 – Gertrude Story , writer and broadcaster (d. 2014 )[ 4] [ 5]
September 24 -Edward M. Lawson , trade unionist, politician and Senator
October to December
October 7 – Graeme Ferguson , filmmaker and inventor who co-invented IMAX (d. 2021 )
November 1 – Charles Juravinski , businessman and philanthropist (d. 2022 )[ 6]
November 2 – Richard E. Taylor , physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics joint laureate (d. 2018 )
November 21 – Laurier LaPierre , broadcaster, journalist, author and senator (d. 2012 )
November 24 – Harry Oliver Bradley , politician
December 6 – Harry Langford , footballer (d. 2022 )[ 7]
December 13 – Christopher Plummer , actor (d. 2021 )[ 8]
December 15 – Emery Barnes , Canadian football player and politician (d. 1998 )
December 23 – Patrick Watson , broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director (d. 2022 )
December 28 – Terry Sawchuk , ice hockey player (d. 1970 )
Deaths
January to March
Lomer Gouin January 19 – Edward Charles Bowers , politician (b. 1845 )
January 29 – John Howatt Bell , lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1846 )
February – Richard Gardiner Willis , politician (b. 1865 )
February 17 – James Colebrooke Patterson , politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1839 )
March 1 – James Albert Manning Aikins , politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1851 )
March 28 – Lomer Gouin , politician and 13th Premier of Quebec (d. 1861 )
March 29 – Hugh John Macdonald , politician, Minister and 8th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1850 )
April to December
April 17 – Clifford Sifton , politician and Minister (b. 1861 )
May 6 – William Dillon Otter , soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff (b. 1843 )
June 3 – John Morison Gibson , politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1842 )
June 8 – Bliss Carman , poet (b. 1861 )
June 23 – William Stevens Fielding , journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1848 )
July 30 – Antonin Nantel , priest, teacher, school administrator, and author (b. 1839 )
October 10 – Elijah McCoy , inventor and engineer (b. 1843 )
References
1929 in North America
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Dominican Republic
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Haiti
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Trinidad and Tobago
United States Dependencies and
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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