Events
- January 6 - Barbara Hanley is elected mayor of Webbwood, Ontario, becoming the first woman ever to serve as a mayor in Canada
- January 14 - Thane Campbell becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Walter Lea
- April 12 - The Moose River Gold Mines collapse
- June 11 - Adélard Godbout becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- August 26 - Maurice Duplessis becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Adélard Godbout
- September - Earl Bascom of Raymond, Alberta, designs and directs the construction of the first rodeo arena and grandstands in the state of Mississippi
- November 2 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation replaces the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
- November 18 - The Toronto Globe and the Mail and Empire merge to form the Globe and Mail
- December 11 - The British Parliament passes His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 which legislates the abdication of King Edward VIII.
- The Spanish Civil War begins. Eventually 1135 Canadians will serve in the International Brigades of the Republican forces
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)