Incumbents Prime Minister - William Lyon Mackenzie King Governor General - Viscount Byng Premier of Alberta - Herbert Greenfield Premier of British Columbia - John Oliver Premier of Manitoba - John Bracken Premier of New Brunswick - Walter Foster then Peter Veniot Premier of Nova Scotia - George H. Murray then Ernest Armstrong Premier of Ontario - Ernest C. Drury then Howard Ferguson Premier of Prince Edward Island - J.H. Bell then James D. Stewart Premier of Quebec - Alexandre Taschereau Premier of Saskatchewan - C.A. Dunning Events January 1 - The Department of National Defence comes into being January 24 - Ernest Armstrong becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing George Murray, who had governed for 27 years February 28 - Peter Veniot becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Walter Foster March 2 - The Halibut Treaty signed with the United States is Canada's first international treaty not signed under the auspices of the United Kingdom March 14 - World's first complete play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional hockey game is done by Pete Parker in Regina. March 22 - Foster Hewitt announces his first hockey game June 25 - Ontario election: Howard Ferguson's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Ernest Drury's United Farmers of Ontario July 1 - Almost all Chinese immigration to Canada is ended by the federal government July 16 - Howard Ferguson becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Ernest Drury August 17 - The Home Bank of Montreal fails October 8 - A longshoreman's stike beigns in Vancouver October 25 - Frederick Banting and John Macleod win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of insulin September 5 - James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing J.H. Bell Canadian National Railway is formed by merger of Canadian Government Railways, Canadian Northern Railway, Grand Trunk Railway and National Transcontinental Railway. Marijuana is made illegal in Canada Arts and literature New books Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery Births January 1 - Roméo Sabourin, war hero March 1 - Uno Helava, inventor March 2 - Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, painter March 10 - Richard Doyle, newspaper editor March 19 - Henry Morgentaler, abortion activist March 30 - Milton Acorn, poet April 25 - Melissa Hayden, dancer May 18 - Jean-Louis Roux, actor August 21 - Robert Stewart, scientist September 18 - Bertha Wilson, Supreme Court Justice October 7 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter October 23 - Réjane L. Colas, jurist November 22 - Arthur Hiller, film director Samuel Nathan Cohen, critic Kildare Dobbs , writer Harold Horwood, writer Deaths October 30 - Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister