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1937 in Canada

Events from the year 1937 in Canada.

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With graphic descriptions of slaughter, United Church moderator expresses outrage at atrocities in Spain and China[54]

Peace league calls national congress because "Human life, Liberty, Social Culture and the Arts hang in terrible jeopardy"[55]

Ontario Lieutenant-Governor endorses Youth Crusade for Peace: "Youth of the world should have a decisive voice"[56]

J.W. Dafoe, J.S. Woodsworth, Sidney E. Smith and others lead weekly 1937 radio broadcast discussions on various Canadian defence policies[57]

On committee studying death penalty, MP Agnes Macphail argues criminally insane murderers should suffer death like other killers[58]

Commons debates Trans-Canada Air Lines (when planes went through mountain passes on 16-hour Winnipeg-Vancouver flights)[59]

Call for more British immigrants to allow West "to develop a race of people that is strong, sturdy and self-reliant"[60]

"The danger is that the Chinese or Japanese by inter-marriage would absorb our own race" - race fear in denying vote to "oriental"[61]

Alberta Social Credit government's "accurate news" bill amended in face of "almost[...]Fascism" and "dictatorship" criticism[62]

Britain's debt to Newfoundland, in its history of exploiting and leaving it underdeveloped, balances assuming its liabilities currently[63]

Calling him "sly" and "delightful," newspaper profiles judge representing Canada on Trail, B.C. fumes tribunal[64]

Canadian studying at Harvard writes about friends fighting in Spain and his fervour for communism[65]

Report of cooperative Canadian and U.S. work done on site of Champlain's Habitation of Port Royal in Nova Scotia[66]

Advertisement for Westinghouse World Cruiser Radio - "Tonal Fidelity Reflects the Living Image of Each Broadcast Note"[67]

Two Canadian Pacific Railway dining car menus[68]

Cover art: Menu from Empress of Britain world cruise[69]

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