Deaths
- April 24 – Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor (b.1876)
- April 26 – Lyman Duff, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (b.1865)
- May 10 – Tommy Burns, only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer (b.1881)
- June 16 – Ozias Leduc, painter (b.1864)
- August 5 – Izaak Walton Killam, financier (b.1885)
- August 7 – Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1871)
- October 1 – Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner (b.1880)
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