Deaths
- January 24 - Alfred Edmond Bourgeois, politician (b.1872)
- March 7 - Joseph Flavelle, businessman (b.1858)
- March 8 - Henry Pellatt, financier and soldier (b.1859)
- May 6 - Edward S. Rogers, Sr., inventor and radio pioneer (b.1900)
- July 12 - Fernand Rinfret, politician (b.1883)
- November 12 - Norman Bethune, physician and medical innovator (b.1890)
- November 28 - James Naismith, sports coach and innovator, inventor of basketball (b.1861)
- December 22 - Herbert James Palmer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1851)
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