1934 in Canada

• March 9 - New Brunswick women win the right to hold office
• June 19 - Ontario election: Mitchell Hepburn's Liberals win a majority, defeating George S. Henry's Conservatives
• June 19 - Saskatchewan election: James Garfield Gardiner's Liberals win a majority, defeating James T.M. Anderson's Conservative-led coalition government
• July 3 - The Bank of Canada is formed
• July 10 - Mitchell Hepburn becomes premier of Ontario, replacing George Henry
• July 10 - Richard G. Reid becomes premier of Alberta, replacing John Brownlee
• July 19 - James Gardiner becomes premier of Saskatchewan for the second time, replacing James Anderson
• August 14 - John Sackville Labatt kidnapped
• October 26 - Reconstruction Party of Canada formed

• February 14 – The Ace Bailey Benefit Game (forerunner of the annual National Hockey League All-Star Game) is played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
• April 5 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto St. Michael's Majors win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Edmonton Junior Hockey League's Edmonton Athletics 2 games to 0. All games were played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
• November 24 – The Sarnia Imperials win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Regina Roughriders 20 to 12 in the 22nd Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

• March 7 - John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Governor General of Canada (b.1847)
• March 15 - Davidson Black, paleoanthropologist (b.1884)
• April 17 - Frank S. Cahill, politician (b.1876)
• July 28 - Marie Dressler, actress (b.1868)
• September 1 – William Anderson Black, politician (b.1847)
• October 4 - Henry Sproatt, architect (b.1866)
• November 10 - Sir Donald Mann, railway contractor and entrepreneur (b.1853)

B.C. MLA Gerry McGeer says depression not "due to a reckless public" but businessmen who "expanded far beyond the needs of the time"[1]

Prime Minister Bennett says nothing "spectacular" will be done to regain economic stability [2]

Conservatives note 25,000 fewer families on relief by end of 1933, but C.C.F. leader finds no improvement in situation [3]

Bill introduced to create Bank of Canada with initial capital of $5 million and "appropriate limitations" on loans [4]

Newfoundland goes under rule by commission "until the credit of the country has been restored" [5]

P.E.I. premier says Island's farming and fishing are "at low ebb," with fishermen "in dire straits" [6]

Bennett government's resources marketing bill will end cutthroat competition in fisheries [7]

P.E.I. merchant finds 1932 Commonwealth trade agreements have produced much export shipping in Halifax [8]

Canadian Jewish Congress will raise $950,000 for German Jewish refugees and ruined businesses in Germany and Poland [9]

MP Samuel William Jacobs indicts German consul-general in Montreal for anti-Semitic pamphlet "Germany's Fight for Western Civilization" [10]

Prairie provinces and federal government assuming dictatorial powers over wheat in emergency control laws [11]

Agriculture deputy minister tells Senate committee how Prairie grasshopper losses as high as 60% will be reduced to less than 10%[12]

"Officials and supporters of the Wheat Pools of Western Canada" give advice to farmers by radio broadcast [13]

Quebec dairy farmer tells Senate committee why he only breaks even and what causes Montreal milk middlemen to lose money[14]

Toronto chain store, needle trade and other employers pay far below minimum wage while city expends $6.6 million in relief [15]

Indigenous art (described in past tense as it is "rapidly passing away") can be reinvigorated if promoted to tourists[16]