1927 in Canada

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Events from the year 1927 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – King George V (consort – Mary of Teck)

Federal government

• Governor general – Freeman Freeman-Thomas (viceregal consort – Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon)
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Randolph Bruce
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Theodore Arthur Burrows
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William Frederick Todd
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Cranswick Tory
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry Cockshutt (until January 12) then William Donald Ross
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Richard Heartz
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse Pérodeau
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Henry William Newlands

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
• Premier of British Columbia – John Oliver (until August 17) then John Duncan MacLean (from August 20)
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – John Baxter
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Edgar Nelson Rhodes
• Premier of Ontario – George Howard Ferguson
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart (until August 12) then Albert Charles Saunders
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Premier of Saskatchewan – James Garfield Gardiner

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – Percy Reid (until November 13) then George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – William Wallace Cory

Events

• January 5 - The National Museum of Canada is created
• January 9 - 76 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 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, BC. Five of the cars land in the Fraser River.
• October 11 - Richard Bedford Bennett, becomes leader of the Conservative Party of Canada

Arts and literature

• Mazo de la Roche publishes Jalna
• December 5 - The National Gallery of Canada opened an exhibit featuring the work of Emily Carr, bringing her out of obscurity.

Science and technology

• Canadian anthropologist Davidson Black discovered a fossil molar of Peking Man in a cave near Beijing, China
• Wallace Rupert Turnbull tested the second design of his variable-pitch propeller, a key development in aviation

Births

January to March

• January 1 - Jean-Paul Mousseau, artist (d.1991)
• January 4 - Paul Desmarais, financier
• 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 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
• March 3 - William Kurelek, artist and writer (d.1977)
• March 9 - John Beckwith, composer, writer, pianist, teacher and administrator
• March 25 - Bill Barilko, ice hockey player (d.1951)

April to June

• April 7 - Dorothy Knowles, artist
• April 8 - Lois Miriam Wilson, first female Moderator of the United Church of Canada and Senator
• April 25 - Frances Hyland, actress (d.2004)
• 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
• June 24 - Fernand Dumont, sociologist, philosopher, theologian and poet (d.1997)
• June 26 - Robert Kroetsch, novelist, poet and non-fiction writer (d.2011)

July to December

• July 20 - Jack Horner, politician and Minister (d.2004)
• 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)
• November 3 - Harrison McCain, businessman (d.2004)
• November 8 - Peter Munk, businessman and philanthropist
• November 10 - Joyce Trimmer, politician and first female mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (d.2008)
• November 18 - Knowlton Nash, journalist, author and television news anchor (d.2014)
• November 26 - Ernie Coombs, children's entertainer Mr. Dressup (d.2001)
• December 7 - Grant Strate, dancer, choreographer and academic
• December 18 - Roméo LeBlanc, politician and 25th Governor General of Canada (d.2009)
• December 24 - Geoffrey Pearson, diplomat (d.2008)

Deaths

January to June

• January 24 - Agnes Maule Machar, author (b.1837)
• February 10 - James Kidd Flemming, businessman, politician and 13th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1868)
• March 8 - James Fisher, politician (b.1840)
• March 16 - Robert Bond, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b.1857)
• March 30 - Charles Hibbert Tupper, politician (b.1855)
• June 3 - Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor General of Canada (b.1845)
• June 7 - Edmund James Flynn, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1847)

July to December

• August 17 - John Oliver, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1856)
• November 2 - Charles Augustus Semlin, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1836)
• December 31 - William Warren, lawyer, politician, judge and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b.1879)

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