← → Events from the year 1937 in Canada.
With graphic descriptions of slaughter, United Church moderator expresses outrage at atrocities in Spain and China[57] Peace league calls national congress because "Human life, Liberty, Social Culture and the Arts hang in terrible jeopardy"[58] Ontario Lieutenant-Governor endorses Youth Crusade for Peace: "Youth of the world should have a decisive voice"[59] J.W.
Dafoe, J.S.
Woodsworth, Sidney E. Smith and others lead weekly 1937 radio broadcast discussions on various Canadian defence policies[60] On committee studying death penalty, MP Agnes Macphail argues criminally insane murderers should suffer death like other killers[61] Commons debates Trans-Canada Air Lines (when planes went through mountain passes on 16-hour Winnipeg-Vancouver flights)[62] Call for more British immigrants to allow West "to develop a race of people that is strong, sturdy and self-reliant"[63] "The danger is that the Chinese or Japanese by inter-marriage would absorb our own race" - race fear in denying vote to "oriental"[64] Alberta Social Credit government's "accurate news" bill amended in face of "almost[...]Fascism" and "dictatorship" criticism[65] Britain's debt to Newfoundland, in its history of exploiting and leaving it underdeveloped, balances assuming its liabilities currently[66] Calling him "sly" and "delightful," newspaper profiles judge representing Canada on Trail, B.C.
fumes tribunal[67] Canadian studying at Harvard writes about friends fighting in Spain and his fervour for communism[68] Report of cooperative Canadian and U.S. work done on site of Champlain's Habitation of Port Royal in Nova Scotia[69] Artist Emily Carr enjoys reasonably good sketching trip despite days of pouring rain[70] Advertisement for Westinghouse World Cruiser Radio - "Tonal Fidelity Reflects the Living Image of Each Broadcast Note"[71] Two Canadian Pacific Railway dining car menus[72] Cover art: Menu from Empress of Britain world cruise[73]