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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