Events from the year 1932 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch – George V
Federal government
Governor General – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
Prime Minister – Richard Bedford Bennett
Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario) Parliament – 17th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John William Fordham Johnson
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Duncan McGregor
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hugh Havelock McLean
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Walter Harold Covert
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mulock (until November 1) then Herbert Alexander Bruce Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Charles Dalton Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Henry George Carroll Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Hugh Edwin Munroe
Premiers
Premier of Alberta – John Edward Brownlee
Premier of British Columbia – Simon Fraser Tolmie
Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
Premier of New Brunswick – Charles Dow Richards
Premier of Nova Scotia – Gordon Sidney Harrington
Premier of Ontario – George Stewart Henry
Premier of Prince Edward Island – James D. Stewart
Premier of Quebec – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Premier of Saskatchewan – James Thomas Milton Anderson
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Gold Commissioner then Controller of Yukon – George Ian MacLean (until June 30) then George A. Jeckell Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Rowatt
Events
February 17 – The "Mad Trapper" is killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the Yukon July 20 – The Ottawa Imperial Conference is held, it creates a zone of preferential trade within the Commonwealth August 1 – The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) is formed in Calgary August 3 – Henri Bourassa leaves Le Devoir October 29 – The Dominion Drama Festival is founded
Full date unknown
A seven-month miners strike occurs in Alberta's coal mines in Crowsnest Pass
The first family planning clinic in Canada is set up by Elizabeth Bagshaw in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, providing birth control was illegal.
Arts and literature
New Books
A Broken Journey – Morley Callaghan
Sport
April 4 – The Northern Ontario Hockey Association's Sudbury Cub Wolves win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs 2 games to 0. All games played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg April 9 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their third Stanley Cup by defeating the New York Rangers 3 game to 0. The deciding game was played at the newly opened Maple Leaf Gardens February 13 – Canada (represented by the Winnipeg Hockey Club) wins their fourth (consecutive) hockey gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics December 3 – The Hamilton Tigers win their fifth and final Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Roughriders 25 to 6 in the 20th Grey Cup played at Hamilton's Civic Stadium
Births
January to March
January 2 – Jean Little, author
January 11 – Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk, nurse (d. 2021) February 4 – Bob Dawson, football player (d. 2017) February 24 – John Vernon, actor (d. 2005) February 28 – Don Francks, actor (d. 2016) March 1 – Donald Stovel Macdonald, politician and Minister March 2 – Jack Austin, politician and Senator March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, artist (d. 2007)
April to June
April 3 – Jean-Claude Corbeil, linguist and lexicographer (d. 2022) April 6 – Eugène Bellemare, politician April 12 – Dick Fowler, mayor, MLA (d. 2012) April 14 – Bill Bennett, politician and 27th Premier of British Columbia (d. 2015) April 22 – Ron Basford, politician and Minister (d. 2005) April 26 – Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2000) May 7 – Jordi Bonet, artist (d. 1979) May 28 – John Savage, politician and 23rd Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003) June 5 – Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, general and Chief of the Defence Staff (d. 1998) June 10 – Hal Jackman, businessman and 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario June 24 Mel Hurtig, publisher, author and political activist David McTaggart, environmentalist (d. 2001)