1938_in_canada

See also: 1937 in Canada, other events of 1938, 1939 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Events

• June 8: 1938 Saskatchewan election: William John Patterson\'s Liberals win a second consecutive majority
• Franklin Roosevelt becomes the first president of the United States to visit Canada.
• Superman first appears in Action Comics, created by Joe Shuster (an artist for the Toronto Star) and American, Jerry Siegal.
• Vaccination for tuberculosis (the leading cause of death in young people) is introduced.

Births

• January 10: Frank Mahovlich, hockey player
• January 13: William B. Davis, actor
• February 17: Martha Henry, actor
• February 22: Pierre Vallières, journalist and writer
• April 8: John Hamm, Premier of Nova Scotia
• May 13: Lucille Starr, singer
• May 24: Tommy Chong, actor
• June 4: John Harvard, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
• June 13: John Newlove, poet
• July 14: Moshe Safdie, architect
• July 29: Peter Jennings, journalist
• July 30: John de Chastelain, general
• August 8: Jacques Hétu, composer
• August 9: Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, composer
• August 25: Colin Thatcher, politician and murderer
• August 28: Paul Martin, politician
• October 28: Gary Cowan, golfer
• November 17: Gordon Lightfoot, folk singer
• November 13: Gérald Godin, poet and politician
• November 26: Rich Little, comedian
• December 22: Lucien Bouchard, politician

Deaths

• March 23: Thomas Walter Scott, first premier of Saskatchewan
• April 13: Grey Owl, conservationist
• May 7: Frederick Cronyn Betts, politician

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