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Canada’s King Boosts Knighthoods in 1930s Honors Boom
The 1934 1935 honors lists see nine new knights on June 3 King George’s birthday, including Sir Frederick Banting and Sir Charles Saunders. Parliament debates titles ending Canada’s class system while postwar reforms limit further entries. Notables such as Sir Edward Beatty and Sir J A F Chapais receive high orders. 40s and 100s honored without titles.
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NCE
Canada
George
Liberal Party
Europe
King George
R. B. Bennett
Bennett
Supreme Court of Canada
Lyman P. Duff
Quebec
King’s Bench
Sir Louis Tellier
Dominion
Joseph A. Chisholm
Nova Scotia
Albert E. Gooderham
Toronto
Sir Charles William Lindsay
Montreal
Every Week
Edward W. Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
McGill University
Boy Scouts Association
Japan
Herbert M. Marler
J. H. MacBrien
Order of the Bath
Arthur George Doughty
J. C. McLennan
University of Toronto
J. A.F. Chapais
Ernest Campbell MacMillan
Charles G. D. Roberts
Edmond Wylie Grier
Royal Canadian Academy
Thomas White
Order of St. Michael and St. George
Allan Roy Dafoe
Callander
Ontario
Order of the British Empire
Edward Johnson
Metropolitan Opera of
New York
John A. Stiles
Boy Scouts
United States
Ralph Connor
Charles William Gordon
Winnipeg
L. M. Montgomery