Events from the year 1926 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Full date unknown
Sport
Births
January to June
- January 1 â Dean Bandiera, Canadian football player (d. 2020)
- January 2 â John Stroppa, football player (d. 2017)
- January 3 â Murray Dowey, ice hockey player and Olympic champion (d. 2021)
- January 4 â Betty Kennedy, broadcaster, journalist, author, Senator and gameshow panelist (d. 2017)
- January 20 â John Michael Sherlock, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2019)
- January 26 â Georges-C. Lachance, politician and father of Claude-André Lachance (d. 2020)
- February 4 â Roger Blais, engineer and academic (d. 2009)
- February 6 â Ray Perrault, politician (d. 2008)
- February 11 â Leslie Nielsen, comedian and actor (d. 2010)
- February 20 â Jean Boucher, politician (d. 2011)
- April 1 â Gérard La Forest, lawyer and judge (d. 2025)
- April 17 â Gerry McNeil, ice hockey player (d. 2004)
- April 21 â Keith Davey, businessman and politician (d. 2011)
- April 28 â Alex Oakley, race walker (d. 2010)
- May 3 â Matt Baldwin, curler (d. 2023)
- May 13 â Joy Coghill, actress, director, and writer (d. 2017)
- May 20 â Allan McEachern, lawyer, judge and university chancellor (d. 2008)
- May 26 â Phyllis Gotlieb, science fiction novelist and poet (d. 2009)
- June 3 â Flora MacDonald, politician (d. 2015)
- June 7 â Jean-Noël Tremblay, lawyer and politician (d. 2020)
- June 15 â Douglas Bell, politician (d. 2021)
July to December
- July 7 â Armand Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
- July 14 â Wallace Diestelmeyer, figure skater (d. 1999)
- July 18 â Margaret Laurence, novelist and short story writer (d. 1987)
- July 21 â Norman Jewison, film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre (d. 2024)
- July 22 â Paul Collins, long-distance runner (d. 1995)
- August 13 â Dalton McGuinty Sr., politician and father of premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty and the politician David McGuinty (d. 1990)
- August 18 â Gordon Donaldson, author and journalist (d. 2001)
- September 1 â James Reaney, poet, playwright and literary critic (d. 2008)
- September 13 â Emile Francis, ice hockey player (d. 2022)
- September 27 â Jack Duffy, actor and comedian (d. 2008)
- October 1 â Ben Wicks, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author (d. 2000)
- October 8 â Vern Jones, professional ice hockey player
- October 26 â George Crum, conductor, pianist, vocal coach and musical arranger (d. 2007)
- November 8 â Kay Hawtrey, actress (d. 2021)
- December 3 â Denise Morelle, actress and murder victim (d. 1984)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 31 â Paul Tourigny, politician (b. 1852)
- February 2 â John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong, politician (b. 1877)
- February 20 â Paul-Eugène Roy, Roman Catholic priest, and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1859)
- March 27 â Georges Vézina, ice hockey player (b. 1887)
- June 23 â Nérée Le Noblet Duplessis, politician, 19th Mayor of Trois-Rivières and father of 16th Premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis (b. 1855)
- August 24 â Laurent-Olivier David, journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1840)
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