Deaths
- January 24 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat (b.1894)
- February 13 – Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons (b.1890)
- March 31 – John Walter Jones, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1878)
- April 4 – Abraham Albert Heaps, politician and labor leader (b.1885)
- April 8 – Winnifred Eaton, author (b.1875)
- April 13 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1890)
- June 18 – Welland Gemmell, politician and Minister
- August 6 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b.1934)
- November 26 – Wallace Rupert Turnbull, engineer and inventor (b.1870)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)