← → Events from the year 1939 in Canada.

With crisis in Europe, MP suggests Canada follow up on Statute of Westminster by declaring neutrality and following America-oriented defence policy[6] Labour Day finds fighters and nurses enlisting for overseas service and Red Cross rushing its wartime planning[7] Editorial says Canada and Commonwealth are "one and indivisible, [and] pledged unwaveringly to the support of the Mother Country"[8] Before declaring war, PM King asks Commons for "authority for effective cooperation by Canada at the side of Britain"[9] MP J.S.

Woodsworth interrogates "cooperation," unspoken government policy, and whether Canada is already in war[10] "We cannot be at peace while the head of this Empire is at war" - Sen. Arthur Meighen insists Canada enter European conflict[11] Canada's declaration of war against German Reich[12] Editorial says PM King, in choosing home defence over expeditionary force, is not giving "definite leadership"[13] Regimen for Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry's transport ship includes lectures, training and organized games[14] Enlisted man's 1939 surprises: Poland's fall weeks after invasion, and Christmas invitation given on his first day in England[15] Editorial says "equality of sacrifice," essential to war effort, must include fairness in agricultural costs, prices and margins[16] British meals depend on Canada for breakfast porridge and (with other wheat exporters) bread, and cheese, tinned soup, and suet in pudding at tea[17] MP A.A. Heaps advocates joining other countries in welcoming refugees from persecution[18] Mentioning uranium ore in Canada and German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Einstein urges President Roosevelt to back atomic energy research[19] "Only a mile from home" - Eleven-year-old student Andrew Gordon from Gordon's reserve residential school dies of exposure walking home[20] Supreme Court finds tavern, in absence of specific law, has "freedom of commerce" to not serve Black man[21] Law professor comments on Quebec's Padlock Law allowing police to seal premises and arrest occupants deemed "communistic"[22] Private intelligence agency offers to spy on corporation's workers to detect "plots, plans and unrest"[23] Mao's appreciation of Norman Bethune - "We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him"[24] Poster: "Time Is Life" depicts Bethune riding a galloping horse[25] King George VI - "It is my earnest hope that my present visit may give my Canadian people a deeper conception of their unity as a nation.

"[26] Woman records her excitement over 1939 royal tour of George VI and Elizabeth in her diary[27] Film of royal tour's stops in Calgary, Banff, Vancouver and Victoria[28] CBC chairman tells House committee move into television will not come soon because of its current technical and financial limitations[29] Course in interior decoration includes hands-on stitching, glazing, block-printing, weaving, lettering, etc., etc.

[30] Photo: children work on their art projects in Arthur Lismer's children's art classes in Toronto[31] Calling "more friendly relations" essential to world progress, bank's advertisement pledges friendship in its service[32]