1933 in Canada

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1933
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Events from the year 1933 in Canada.

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Montreal Gazette report finds that, after bad start, 1933 has brought industrial expansion and "a general revival of confidence"[2]

"With a cheery, optimistic feeling prevailing," grain markets in Winnipeg, Chicago and Liverpool raise price of wheat[3]

In what "has been a very bad year," federal budget raises taxes and creates support fund for agricultural exporters[4]

"Heavy obligations" from resource and production investment call for debt conversion, budget balancing and international agreement[5]

Most first ministers back re-employment through shortening of everyone's work day (but unemployment insurance scheme doubtful)[6]

Hitler sworn in as German chancellor, but "surrounded with conservatives" in cabinet[7]

With Nazi plurality, German parliament will allow Hitler to suspend its powers and constitution temporarily[8]

Appeals to Jewish community and Christians to relieve oppression of German Jews[9]

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation rejects capitalism and "its inherent injustice and inhumanity" in Regina Manifesto[10]

Marxist delegate to CCF's Regina convention calls it "middle class" and "reformist"[11]

Rejected in Saskatchewan by-election, Farmer-Labor (CCF) candidates and campaign managers receive advice from their president[12]

Spinning wheel and Bennett buggy: how Prairie farmers are coping in Great Depression[13]

Poor woman asks Prime Minister Bennett to send underwear for her husband (and request is fulfilled)[14]

Memorial plaque unveiled at University of Saskatchewan for 46th Battalion[15]

Mackenzie King yields to temptation, being "disobedient to the heavenly vision as I have held it in my heart"[16]

Flyer for opening of Harlem-style nightclub in Montreal (note: blackface depicted)[17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ Canadian Press, "Many Evidences Of Improvement," The Charlottetown Guardian (January 4, 1934) pg. 1. Accessed 5 June 2020
  3. ^ "Wheat Closes More Than Two Cents Higher," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 64 (March 16, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 4, 2020
  4. ^ Charles Bishop, "Income Levy Raised, Tax Put on Sugar To Increase Revenue," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 69 (March 22, 1933), pgs. 1, 4 Accessed June 4, 2020
  5. ^ "Reports of the Committee; Sixth Report; General," [House] Select Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce (1933), pg. 208 Accessed 23 October 2020
  6. ^ "To Reduce Working Day?; Indications Point to Agreement on Scheme at Parley in Ottawa (Special to The Star-Phoenix)," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 153 (January 19, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 3, 2020
  7. ^ Associated Press, "Hitler Wins Power; Europe Stirred," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 162 (January 30, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 3, 2020
  8. ^ Associated Press, "Republic of Germany Is on Its Last Legs; Reichstag Expected to Create Four Years' Dictatorship For Hitler," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 69 (March 22, 1933), pgs. 1. Accessed June 4, 2020
  9. ^ Maurice N. Eisendrath, "Can the New Year Be Happy" and "Where Are the Christian Champions of the Jew?," Canadian Jewish Review, Vol. XV, No. 49 (September 22, 1933), pg. 3 Accessed 10 December 2019 (See also internal government letter noting opposition to admitting German Jews)
  10. ^ Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, "The Regina Manifesto" (July 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020
  11. ^ W. (William) Moriarty, "The Regina Convention of the C.C.F." Workers' Age (September 15, 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020
  12. ^ Letter of G.H. Williams (Saskatoon, October 28, 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020
  13. ^ "1933 Conditions in the Canadian West During the Depression" (no source). Accessed June 3, 2020
  14. ^ Letter of Mrs. Thomas Hodgins (Perdue, Sask., September 28, 1933; with replies). Accessed June 3, 2020
  15. ^ "Plaque Unveiled To Members Of 46th Battalion," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (November 13, 1933), pg. 5. Accessed June 3, 2020 http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/war/memorials.html (scroll down to 167)
  16. ^ Entries of January 14 and 15, Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1933, pgs. 17-18 Accessed June 3, 2020
  17. ^ "Connies Inn (formerly The Frolics)" Accessed June 3, 2020