1935 in Canada

Events from the year 1935 in Canada.

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July 16 - Allison Dysart becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Leonard Tilley
August 15 - Walter Lea becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing W.J.P. MacMillan
August 22 - Alberta general election, 1935: William Aberhart's Alberta Social Credit Party wins a majority, defeating Richard G. Reid's United Farmers of Alberta
September 3 - William Aberhart becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Richard Reid
September - Earl and Weldon Bascom of Raymond Alberta produce history's first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights in Columbia, Mississippi
October 14 - Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a majority, defeating R.B. Bennett's Conservatives
October 3 - After the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Canada refuses to support military intervention or even sanctions
October 23 - Mackenzie King becomes prime minister for the third time, replacing R.B. Bennett
November 1 - William Patterson becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing James Gardiner
November 1 - The magnitude 6.2 Timiskaming earthquake occurs in western Quebec

The Bank of Canada issued a $500 banknote with Sir John A. Macdonald's portrait and a $1,000 note with Sir Wilfrid Laurier's portrait
Young men riot in Regina, Saskatchewan due to poor economic conditions.

December 7 - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers become the first western Canadian team to win the Grey Cup.

January 7 - Rey Pagtakhan, physician, professor, politician and Minister
January 10 - Ronnie Hawkins, pioneering rock and roll musician
January 14 - Lucille Wheeler, alpine skier, Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion
February 21 - Jean Pelletier, politician and Mayor of Quebec City (d.2009)
February 28 - Alex Janvier, artist
March 2 - Al Waxman, actor and director (d.2001)
March 15 - Mary Pratt, painter
March 24 - Mary Seeman, psychiatrist
April 22 - Rita Johnston, politician, Canada's first female premier and 29th Premier of British Columbia
May 25 - W. P. Kinsella, novelist and short story writer
May 26 - Pat Carney, politician, Minister and Senator
June 2 - Carol Shields, author (d.2003)

Donald Sutherland at the Mill Valley Film Festival, 2005

March 15 - James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1860)
March 16 - John James Richard Macleod, physician, physiologist and Nobel laureate (b.1876)
April 19 - Willis Keith Baldwin, politician (b.1857)
July 18 - George Clift King, politician and 2nd Mayor of Calgary (b.1848)
September 30 - J. J. Kelso, journalist and social activist (b.1864)
October 24 - Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b.1859)