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June 19 – 1930 Alberta general election: Premier John Brownlee's United Farmers of Alberta win a third consecutive majority; June 22 – Statue of Jean Vauquelin unveiled in Montreal's Vauquelin Square; June 29 – Eight Jesuit martyrs become the first Canadian saints
Several of these Canadian pioneers achieved enormous wealth and worldwide fame, such as Louis B. Mayer and Mary Pickford who were, in their day, two of the most powerful personalities in Hollywood. From the late 1920s to the mid-1930s, Canadian female actresses were amongst the greatest box office draws.
Six String Nation – public art and history project conceived by Jowi Taylor and centred around a steel-string acoustic guitar built from a variety of artifacts collected by Taylor representing diverse cultures, communities, characters and events from every province and territory of Canada; Table hockey game – invented by Donald Munro (1930s)
The first Canadian sound feature film; made with U.S. financing. [2] Damaged Lives: Edgar G. Ulmer: Diane Sinclair, Lyman Williams: Drama: Made with U.S. financing 1935: Lest We Forget: Frank Badgley, W.W. Murray: Short: Made by the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, the precursor to the National Film Board of Canada. [3] Rhapsody in ...
Founder and chair, Canadian-American aeronautical research group Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) (30 Sep 1907 – 31 Mar 1909); [11] in 1908 and 1909, the AEA designed, constructed, and flew four powered aircraft: the Red Wing, White Wing, June Bug, and Silver Dart; technical innovations include the tricycle landing gear [19] [nb 3] and the ...
The bombing of Air India Flight 182 is the largest mass killing in Canadian history. On June 23, 1985, Air India Flight 182 was destroyed above the Atlantic Ocean by a bomb on board exploding; all 329 on board were killed, of whom 280 were Canadian citizens. [225] The Air India attack is the largest mass murder in Canadian history. [226]
Year Date Event Ref. to 14,000 BCE At some unknown time prior to this date, Paleo-Indians moved across the Beringia land bridge from eastern Siberia into northwest North America, settling in some areas of Alaska and the Yukon, [1] but are blocked from further travel south into the continent by extensive glaciation.
In 1930-1931 the Canadian government responded to the Great Depression by applying severe restrictions to entry into Canada. New rules limited immigration to British and American subjects or agriculturalists with money, certain classes of workers, and immediate family of the Canadian residents.