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1950 in Canada

Events from the year 1950 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George VI

Federal government

 * Governor General – the Viscount Alexander of Tunis
 * Prime Minister – Louis St. Laurent
 * Chief Justice – Thibaudeau Rinfret (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 21st

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen (until February 1) then John J. Bowlen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Charles Arthur Banks (until October 1) then Clarence Wallace
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Ray Lawson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Joseph Alphonsus Bernard (until October 4) then Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Eugène Fiset (until October 3) then Gaspard Fauteux
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – John Michael Uhrich

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – Byron Johnson
 * Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
 * Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Macdonald
 * Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – John Edward Gibben (until August 15) then Andrew Harold Gibson
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside (until November 14) then Hugh Andrew Young

Events

 * January 14 - The first non-stop trans-Canada flight is made
 * February 14 - Nancy Hodges of British Columbia becomes the first woman in the Commonwealth elected speaker of a legislature in Canadian history.
 * Early May - The Winnipeg Flood along the Red River causes immense damage and one death in Winnipeg
 * May 29 - The St. Roch becomes the first vessel to circumnavigate North America
 * August 7 - Canada joins a United Nations force to fight in Korean War
 * August 22 – August 30 - Rail workers strike shuts down much of the Canadian economy
 * October 31 - The oil pipeline linking Edmonton to Sarnia is completed
 * November 28 - Canada joins onto the Colombo Plan
 * December 18 - Korean War: First Canadian troops arrive in Korea.

Full date unknown

 * Cité libre magazine is first published
 * British Columbia Provincial Police are disestablished.

Awards

 * See 1950 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and nominees for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Earle Birney, Turvey

Sport

 * April 23 - The Detroit Red Wings win their fourth Stanley Cup by defeating the New York Rangers 4 games to 3. Due to scheduling conflicts at Madison Square Garden, all of the Rangers' home games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * May 6 - The Quebec Junior Hockey League's Montreal Junior Canadiens win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 4 games to 1. All games were held at Montreal Forum.
 * November 25 - The Toronto Argonauts win their ninth Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 13–0 in the 38th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

January to March

 * January 5
 * Tom Benner, sculptor (d. 2022)
 * John Manley, lawyer, businessman and politician, Deputy Prime Minister
 * January 13 - Joe Fontana, politician
 * January 17 - Jean Poirier, politician

 * January 18 - Gilles Villeneuve, motor racing driver (d. 1982)
 * February 8 - Keith Milligan, politician
 * February 9 - Tom Wappel, politician
 * February 12 - Michael Ironside, actor, voice actor, producer, film director and screenwriter
 * March 6 - Bruce Simpson, pole vaulter
 * March 17 - Jackson Davies, actor
 * March 23 - Jerry Storie, politician
 * March 23 - Ralph Eichler, politician
 * March 26 - Martin Short, comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer

April to June

 * April 1 - Daniel Paillé, leader of the Bloc Québécois
 * April 16 - Robert Dutil, Canadian businessman and politician
 * April 19 - Gérard Asselin, politician and MP for Charlevoix and Manicouagan (1993-2011) (d. 2013)
 * May 2 - Jose Kusugak, Inuit politician (d. 2011)
 * May 10 – Dale Wilson, voice actor
 * May 12 - Louise Portal, actress, singer, and director
 * May 27 - Brent St. Denis, politician
 * June 1 - Perrin Beatty, corporate executive and politician
 * June 7 - John Wood, Olympic canoeist (d. 2013)
 * June 12 - David Onley, broadcaster and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d. 2023)
 * June 19 - Rosie Shuster, comedy writer and actress
 * June 21 - Anne Carson, poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics and comparative literature
 * June 25 – Barbara Gowdy, novelist
 * June 27 - Rick Cluff, radio journalist (d. 2024)

July to September

 * July 2 - Lee Maracle, writer and academic (d. 2021)
 * July 5 - Deepak Obhrai, politician (d. 2019)
 * July 6 - Hélène Scherrer, politician and Minister
 * July 7 - Leon Benoit, politician
 * July 18 - Jack Layton, politician, leader of New Democratic Party of Canada (2003-2011) and Leader of the Official Opposition (2011) (d. 2011)
 * July 20 - Lucille Lemay, archer
 * August 2 - Sue Rodriguez, advocate for assisted suicide (d. 1994)
 * August 6 - Carole Pope, rock singer-songwriter
 * August 15 - Ron Lemieux, ice hockey player and politician
 * August 16 - Stockwell Day, politician
 * August 31 - Anne McLellan, academic, politician, Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
 * September 8 - Richard Henry Bain, criminal who is charged with the September 4, 2012, Montreal, Quebec, shooting that killed Denis Blanchette.
 * September 9 - Janis Babson (d. 1961)
 * September 16 - Sheila Fraser, Auditor General of Canada
 * September 18 - Darryl Sittler, ice hockey player

October to December

 * October 17 – Val Ross, writer and journalist (d. 2008)
 * October 31 - John Candy, comedian and actor (d. 1994)
 * November 2 - Wendy Lill, playwright and politician
 * November 2 - Daryl Reid, politician
 * November 5 - Susan Nattrass, sport shooter
 * November 8 - Dennis Fentie, politician and 7th Premier of the Yukon
 * November 14 - Colleen Peterson, singer (d. 1996)
 * December 18 - Martha Johnson, pop singer and songwriter
 * December 20 - Carolyn Bennett, politician
 * December 21 - Lap-Chee Tsui, geneticist

Full date unknown

 * David Barr, Commander of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command
 * Denis Simpson, singer and actor (d. 2010)

January to June

 * February 7 - Thomas Langton Church, politician and Mayor of Toronto (b. 1870)
 * April 7 - Walter Huston, actor (b. 1884)
 * May 15 - Hervé-Edgar Brunelle, politician and lawyer (b. 1891)
 * June 28 - James Allison Glen, politician, Minister and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1877)

July to December

 * July 22 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, lawyer, economist, university professor, civil servant, journalist, politician and 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
 * July 25 - Gleason Belzile, politician (b. 1898)
 * August 1 - Humphrey Mitchell, politician and trade unionist (b. 1894)
 * August 2 - Pierre-François Casgrain, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1886)
 * October 19 - Charles Ballantyne, politician, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (b. 1867)
 * November 11 - John Knox Blair, politician, physician and teacher (b. 1873)

Full date unknown

 * William Sanford Evans, politician (b. 1869)

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title: 1950 in Canada


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1951 in Canada

Events from the year 1951 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George VI

Federal government

 * Governor General – the Viscount Alexander of Tunis
 * Prime Minister – Louis St. Laurent
 * Chief Justice – Thibaudeau Rinfret (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 21st

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clarence Wallace
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Ray Lawson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – John Michael Uhrich (until June 15) then William John Patterson (from June 25)

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – Byron Johnson
 * Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
 * Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Macdonald
 * Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Andrew Harold Gibson (until October 15) then Frederick Fraser
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Andrew Young

Events

 * April 22–25 – Korean War: In the Battle of Kapyong, the Canadians hold off the Chinese.
 * June 1 – The Massey Report into Canadian culture is released
 * July 10 – A formal peace agreement between Canada and Germany is signed
 * September 30 - Charlotte Whitton becomes mayor of Ottawa and Canada's first woman mayor of a major city.
 * October 27:
 * The cobalt bomb cancer therapy is first tested in London, Ontario
 * The Duke of Edinburgh, and The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (later Queen Elizabeth II), attend an Edmonton Eskimos home game. In the western semi-final, Edmonton beat Winnipeg 4–1
 * November 22 – 1951 Ontario general election: Leslie Frost's PCs win a third consecutive majority
 * December 12 – The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority is established.

Full date unknown

 * Canada's immigration rate rises. Population is 14,009,429.
 * The Indian Act of Canada is revised to limit coverage of Aboriginal people, excluding Aboriginal women who married non-Aboriginal men.
 * Louis St. Laurent moves into 24 Sussex Drive, the new official residence of the Prime Minister
 * Labatt Blue is introduced
 * The Wartime Prices and Trade Board is abolished.
 * Thérèse Casgrain, the first woman to lead a provincial political party in Canada, becomes leader of the Quebec CCF.

Arts and literature

 * November 12 – The National Ballet of Canada gives its first performance in Eaton Auditorium, Toronto.

New books

 * Morley Callaghan – The Loved and the Lost
 * Harold Innis – The Bias of Communication

Awards

 * See 1951 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Eric Nicol, The Roving I

Sport

 * April 21 - The Toronto Maple Leafs win their ninth Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 1. The deciding Game 5 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * May 8 - The Ontario Hockey Association's Barrie Flyers win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs 4 game to 0. All games were played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
 * November 24 - The Ottawa Rough Riders win their fourth Grey Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Roughriders 21 to 14 in the 39th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

January to March

 * January 3 – Claude Bachand, politician
 * January 17 – Carol Marguerite Anderson, choreographer
 * January 21 – Yvon Dumont, politician
 * January 25 - Bob McDonald, science journalist
 * February 16 – Greg Selinger, 21st premier of Manitoba
 * February 22 – Elaine Tanner, swimmer
 * March 12 – Susan Musgrave, poet and children's writer
 * March 16 – Kate Nelligan, actress
 * March 21 – Lesley Choyce, novelist, poet and children's writer
 * March 25 – Ethel Blondin-Andrew, politician
 * March 28 – Karen Kain, ballet dancer
 * March 31 – Lawrence D. O'Brien, politician (d. 2004)

April to June

 * April 5
 * Joe Bowen, hockey broadcaster
 * Guy Vanderhaeghe, author
 * April 15 – Paul Snider, killer of Dorothy Stratten (d. 1980)
 * April 18 – Pierre Pettigrew, politician
 * May 2 – Andrew Barron, ice speed skater
 * May 3 – Dianne Whalen, MHA for Conception Bay East – Bell Island (2003–2010) (d. 2010)
 * May 7 – Janina Fialkowska, pianist
 * May 9 – Christopher Dewdney, poet, author and professor
 * May 11
 * Chuck McMann, football player and coach (d. 2021)
 * Ed Stelmach, farmer, 13th premier of Alberta
 * May 20 – Christie Blatchford, newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (d. 2020)
 * June 2
 * Larry Robinson, ice hockey player and coach
 * Frank C. Turner, actor
 * June 7 – Terry O'Reilly, ice hockey player and coach
 * June 19 – Bill Blaikie, politician (d. 2022)

July to September

 * July 2 – Elisabeth Brooks, actress (d. 1997)
 * July 4 – Beverly Boys, diver
 * July 5 – Penny Werthner, track and field athlete
 * July 20 – Paulette Bourgeois, children's writer
 * July 26 – Rick Martin, ice hockey player (d. 2011)
 * July 27 – Shawn Murphy, politician
 * August 3 – Marcel Dionne, ice hockey player
 * August 10 – Judy Wasylycia-Leis, politician
 * August 17 – Robert Joy, actor
 * September 9 – Jerry Doucette, guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 2022)
 * September 14 – Elizabeth Carruthers, diver
 * September 19 – Daniel Lanois, record producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter
 * September 20 – Guy Lafleur, ice hockey player (d. 2022)
 * September 28 – Rick Gibson, artist

October to December

 * October 8 – Bruce McArthur, serial killer
 * October 9 – Joe Tascona, lawyer and politician
 * October 11 – Jim Carr, politician (d. 2022)
 * October 16 – Brenda Eisler, long jumper
 * October 26 – Willie P. Bennett, folk music singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
 * October 27 – Roger Fortin, boxer
 * October 29
 * Camille Huard, boxer
 * Kelly Sutherland, rodeo competitor
 * October 31 – Doug Bennett, singer, musician and music video director (d. 2004)
 * November 10 – Marlene Jennings, politician
 * November 13 – Robert Hilles, poet and novelist
 * December 6 – Tomson Highway, playwright, novelist and children's author
 * December 7 - Richard Darbois, actor
 * December 22 – Charles de Lint, fantasy author and Celtic folk musician

Full date unknown

 * Robert Priest, poet and children's author

January to June

 * January 1 – Frank Scott Hogg, astrophysicist (b. 1904)
 * January 3 – Richard Langton Baker, politician (b. 1870)
 * January 16 – Seymour Farmer, politician (b. 1878)
 * February 7 – Edna Diefenbaker, first wife of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (b. 1899)
 * February 27 – Leland Payson Bancroft, politician (b. 1880)
 * April 14 – Al Christie, film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1881)

July to December

 * August 26 – Bill Barilko, ice hockey player (b. 1927)
 * September 1 – Nellie McClung, feminist, politician and social activist (b. 1873)
 * September 14 – James Langstaff Bowman, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1879)
 * September 20 – William Henry Wright, prospector and newspaper owner (b. 1876)
 * September 28 – P. L. Robertson, inventor (b. 1879)
 * October 8 – Charles William Jefferys, artist and historian (b. 1869)
 * November 20 – Lou Skuce, cartoonist (b. 1886)

Full date unknown

 * Harry Cassidy, academic, social reformer and civil servant (b. 1900)

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1952 in Canada

Events from the year 1952 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – George VI (until February 6) then Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – the Viscount Alexander of Tunis (until February 28), then Vincent Massey
 * Prime Minister – Louis St. Laurent
 * Chief Justice – Thibaudeau Rinfret (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 21st

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clarence Wallace
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy (until September 1) then Alistair Fraser
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Ray Lawson (until February 18) then Louis Orville Breithaupt
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – Byron Johnson (until August 1) then W.A.C. Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
 * Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair (until October 8) then Hugh John Flemming
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Macdonald
 * Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Fraser (until November 5) then Wilfred George Brown
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Andrew Young

Events

 * January 24 – Vincent Massey appointed first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada
 * February 6 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen of Canada upon the death of her father George VI.
 * June 11 – Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a third consecutive majority
 * May 25 – Korean War: Canadian troops are dispatched to the troubled Geoje POW Camp
 * July 16 – Quebec election: Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale wins a third consecutive majority
 * August 1 – W.A.C. Bennett becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Byron Johnson
 * August 5 – Alberta election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a fifth consecutive majority
 * September 6 – The first CBC Television station, CBFT, goes on the air in Montreal, Quebec
 * September 8 – CBLT (CBC Toronto) goes on air
 * September 11 – Volkswagen of Canada is founded.
 * September 16 – The Boyd Gang is captured
 * October 2 – Korean War: HMCS Iroquois (G89), while shelling an enemy train in Korea, is hit by return fire from shore batteries. Three sailors were killed and 10 wounded: the only Royal Canadian Navy casualties of the war.
 * October 8 – Hugh John Flemming becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing John McNair
 * October 14 – Lester B. Pearson is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Full date unknown

 * Fighting in the Korean War drags on as the factions attempt to negotiate an armistice.
 * The pension system is reformed with the introduction of the Old Age Security Act.
 * Roy Thomson acquires The Scotsman and emigrates to Britain
 * Painters Eleven founded.
 * Atomic Energy Canada founded.
 * Manitoba women were first permitted to serve on juries. (New Brunswick women become jurors in 1954, and PEI women in 1966).

New books

 * Thomas B. Costain: The Silver Chalice

Awards

 * See 1952 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Jan Hilliard, The Salt Box

Sport

 * February 24 – Canada men's national ice hockey team (represented by the Edmonton Mercurys) win their 7th (consecutive and last until 2002) Gold Medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway
 * April 15 – The Detroit Red Wings win their fifth Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 0.
 * May 2 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 4 games to 0. The deciding Game 4 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * November 29 – The Toronto Argonauts win their tenth (and last until 1983) Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Eskimos 21–11 in the 40th Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

January to June

 * January 1 – Rosario Marchese, Italian-Canadian educator and politician
 * January 19 – Michel Plante, ice hockey left winger
 * February – Kathy Dunderdale, politician and 10th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
 * February 3 – Wayne Erdman, judoka
 * February 18 – Bernard Valcourt, politician and lawyer
 * February 27 – Maureen McTeer, author and lawyer
 * March 4 – Svend Robinson, politician, Canada's first openly homosexual elected official and prominent activist for gay rights
 * May 13 – Mary Walsh, actress and comedian
 * May 17 – Howard Hampton, politician
 * June 2 – Ferron, folk singer-songwriter and poet
 * June 6 – Jean Hamel, ice hockey player
 * June 22 – Graham Greene, actor
 * June 29 – David Dingwall, politician, Minister and civil servant

July to September

 * July 1
 * Dan Aykroyd, comedian, actor, screenwriter and musician
 * Sam George, native rights activist (d. 2009)
 * Deborah Grey, politician
 * July 3 – Rohinton Mistry, author
 * July 6 – George Athans, world-champion water skier
 * July 7 – David Milgaard, wrongfully convicted of murder (d. 2022)
 * July 13 – Rosemary Dunsmore, actress
 * July 25 – Nancy Allan, politician
 * July 31 – Kent Angus, businessman (d. 2021)
 * August 9 – Gary Kowalski, politician
 * September 8 – Sue Barnes, politician
 * September 10 – Vic Toews, politician
 * September 12 – Neil Peart, drummer and author (d. 2020)

October to December

 * October 2 – Marie Deschamps, jurist and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
 * October 4 – Angela Coughlan, swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (d. 2009)
 * October 22 – Peggy Baker, dancer
 * November 10 – Jim Maloway, politician
 * November 16 – Candas Jane Dorsey, poet and science fiction novelist
 * November 27 – Sheila Copps, journalist and politician
 * December 12 – Herb Dhaliwal, politician and Minister
 * December 24 – Lorne Calvert, politician and 13th Premier of Saskatchewan
 * December 27 – Jay Hill, politician

Full date unknown

 * Di Brandt, poet and literary critic
 * David Macfarlane, journalist, playwright and novelist
 * Bob McLeod, politician and 12th Premier of the Northwest Territories

Deaths

 * February 6 – George VI, King of Canada (b. 1895)
 * June 21 – Wilfrid R. "Wop" May, World War I flying ace and pioneering bush pilot (b. 1896)
 * July 6 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, politician and 14th Premier of Quebec (b. 1867)
 * August 31 – Henri Bourassa, politician and publisher (b. 1868)
 * October 6 – Walter Stanley Monroe, businessman, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b. 1871)
 * October 18 – Joseph-Mathias Tellier, politician (b. 1861)
 * November 8 – Harold Innis, professor of political economy and author (b. 1894)

Full date unknown

 * James Breakey, politician (b. 1865)

title: 1952 in Canada


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1953 in Canada

Events from the year 1953 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Vincent Massey
 * Prime Minister – Louis St. Laurent
 * Chief Justice – Thibaudeau Rinfret (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 21st (until 13 June) then 22nd (from 12 November)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clarence Wallace
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams (until August 1) then John Stewart McDiarmid
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Louis Orville Breithaupt
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Hugh John Flemming
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Macdonald
 * Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones (until May 25) then Alex Matheson
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Wilfred George Brown
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Andrew Young (until November 15) then Robert Gordon Robertson

Events

 * January 1 – The National Library of Canada is founded.
 * January 9 – Marguerite Pitre becomes the thirteenth, and last, woman hanged in Canada when she is executed in Montréal.
 * January 27 – The Canadian Dental Association approves the use of fluoride in drinking water
 * May 25 – Alex Matheson becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing J. Walter Jones
 * June 2 – Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of Canada. In Korea the Canadian Army celebrates the coronation by firing red, white, and blue smoke shells at the enemy.
 * July 13 – The Stratford Festival of Canada opens
 * July 27 – The Korean War ends. In total 314 Canadians were killed and 1211 wounded.
 * August 10 – Federal election: Louis Saint Laurent's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.
 * October 12 – Wilfrid Laurier Memorial unveiled
 * October 15 – The Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline is completed
 * October 25 – Canada's first privately owned television station, CKSO, broadcasts in Sudbury.
 * The federal Immigration Act is amended to prohibit homosexuals entry into Canada. This amendment was repealed in 1977.

Awards

 * See 1953 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Lawrence Earl, The Battle of Baltinglass

Sport

 * April 16 - Montreal Canadiens won their Seventh Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 4 games to 1. The deciding Game 5 was played at the Montreal Forum
 * May 6 - Ontario Hockey Association's Barrie Flyers won their Second Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's St. Boniface Canadiens 4 games to 1. The deciding Game 5 was played at Wheat City Arena in Brandon, Manitoba
 * November 28 - Hamilton Tiger-Cats won their First Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 12–6 in the 41st Grey Cup played at Toronto's Varsity Stadium

January to June

 * January 7
 * Dionne Brand, poet, novelist and non-fiction writer
 * Morris Titanic, ice hockey player and coach
 * January 19 – Richard Legendre, tennis player and politician
 * January 29 – Pierre Jacob, politician
 * February 5 – Eric Robinson, politician
 * February 15
 * David Chomiak, politician
 * Gerald Keddy, politician
 * February 16 – Lanny McDonald, ice hockey player
 * February 17 – Borys Chambul, discus thrower
 * February 18 – Robbie Bachman, drummer (d. 2023)
 * February 20 – Gaëtan Dugas, early AIDS patient, the alleged and debunked Patient Zero for AIDS (d.1984)
 * March 10 – Debbie Brill, high jumper
 * March 13 – Stephanie Berto, track and field athlete
 * April 2 – Janet Nutter, diver
 * April 17 – Dany Laferrière, novelist and journalist
 * April 18 – Rick Moranis, comedian, actor and musician
 * May 11 – Celine Lomez, actress and singer
 * May 14 – Tom Cochrane, singer-songwriter and musician
 * May 21 - Kathleen Wynne, 25th premier of Ontario
 * June 23 – Raymonde April, photographer
 * June 23 – Albina Guarnieri, politician and Minister

July to September

 * July 3 – Dave Lewis, ice hockey player and coach
 * July 9 – Margie Gillis, dancer and choreographer
 * July 15 – Richard Margison, operatic tenor
 * July 15 – Mila Mulroney, wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney
 * July 22 – Paul Quarrington, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and musician
 * July 25 – Barbara Haworth-Attard, children's author
 * July 29 – Geddy Lee, singer, bassist and keyboardist
 * August 11 – Greg Duhaime, middle-distance runner
 * August 17 – Robert Thirsk, engineer and astronaut
 * August 27 – Alex Lifeson, guitarist
 * September 16 – Nancy Huston, novelist and essayist
 * September 29 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Quebec filmmaker (d. 1997)
 * September 30 – S. M. Stirling, science fiction and fantasy author

October to December

 * October 12 – Daniel Louis, film producer
 * October 24
 * Charles Colbourn, computer scientist and mathematician
 * Jim Pettie, ice hockey player (d.2019)
 * October 29 – Denis Potvin, ice hockey player
 * November 26 – Pam Barrett, politician (d.2008)
 * November 28 – John Majhor, radio and television host (d.2007)
 * December 7 – Carmen Rinke, boxer
 * December 13 – Bob Gainey, ice hockey player and coach
 * December 18 – Daniel Poliquin, novelist and translator
 * December 23 – Holly Dale, film and television director and film producer

Full date unknown

 * Patrick LaForge, president and CEO of the Edmonton Oilers

Deaths

 * January 2 – Gordon Daniel Conant, lawyer, politician and 12th Premier of Ontario (b.1885)
 * January 5 – Mitchell Hepburn, politician and 11th Premier of Ontario (b.1896)
 * February 16 – Norman Hipel, politician and Minister (b.1890)
 * March 20 – John Livingstone Brown, politician (b.1867)
 * May 4 – James Tompkins, priest and educator (b.1870)
 * September 19 – Gordon Graydon, politician (b.1897)
 * November 29 – Sam De Grasse, actor (b.1875)
 * December 26 – David Milne, painter, printmaker and writer (b.1882)

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1954 in Canada

Events from the year 1954 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Vincent Massey
 * Prime Minister – Louis St. Laurent
 * Chief Justice – Thibaudeau Rinfret (Quebec) (until 22 June) then Patrick Kerwin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 22nd

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clarence Wallace
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Stewart McDiarmid
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Louis Orville Breithaupt
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Hugh John Flemming
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Macdonald (until April 13) then Harold Connolly (April 13 to September 30) then Henry Hicks
 * Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alex Matheson
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Wilfred George Brown
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

Events

 * January 1 – Metropolitan Toronto comes into being to coordinate services among the various municipalities around Toronto.
 * January 8 – The first oil from Alberta arrives in Sarnia through the new pipeline
 * March 30 – The Yonge St. subway, the first subway system in Canada, opens in Toronto
 * April 13 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia, dies in office
 * April 14 – Harold Connolly becomes premier of Nova Scotia
 * May 31 – Winnipeg's first television station, CBWT a CBC Television owned and operated station, begins broadcasting
 * August 10 – The groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway begins
 * September 9 - The 1954 Series of banknotes is introduced.
 * September 9 – Marilyn Bell becomes the first person to swim Lake Ontario
 * September 18 – Marie-Victorin Statue unveiled
 * September 30 – Henry Hicks becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Harold Connolly
 * October 15 – Hurricane Hazel hits Toronto killing 81.

Full date unknown

 * Canada contributes to a peacekeeping force in Indochina
 * Sir Adam Beck Generating Station built on the Canadian side of the Niagara River
 * Pinetree Line radar system completed
 * Yahtzee is invented by a Canadian couple
 * Jean Drapeau first elected mayor of Montreal
 * Streetcars leave Winnipeg

New books

 * Mordecai Richler – The Acrobats
 * Gabrielle Roy – Alexandre Chenevert
 * Igor Gouzenko – The Fall of a Titan

Awards

 * See 1954 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Joan Walker, Pardon My Parka

Sport

 * April 16 - The Detroit Red Wings win their sixth Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 3.
 * May 16 - The Ontario Hockey Association's St. Catharines Teepees win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Central Alberta Hockey League's Edmonton Oil Kings 4 games to 0 (with 1 tie). All games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * July 30 – The Miracle Mile is run at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. Empire Stadium is opened on the same day.
 * August 28 - The BC Lions are established. This event is often seen as the beginning of the Canadian Football League despite the league being established three years later
 * November 27 - The Edmonton Eskimos win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Montreal Alouettes 26 to 25 in the 42nd Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

January to June

 * January 11 – Jim Wych, snooker player and sports announcer
 * January 29 – Doug Risebrough, ice hockey player and coach
 * February 3 – Tiger Williams, ice hockey player
 * February 24 – Sid Meier, Canadian-American programmer
 * March 2 – Ed Johnstone, ice hockey player
 * March 4 – Catherine O'Hara, actress
 * April 5 - Claude-André Lachance, politician and son of Georges-C. Lachance
 * April 7 – Clark Gillies, ice hockey player (d. 2022)
 * April 17 – Roddy Piper, wrestler and actor (d. 2015)
 * April 20 – Gilles Lupien, ice hockey player and agent (d. 2021)
 * May 4 – Sylvia Burka, ice speed skater and World Champion, cyclist
 * May 10 – Eleni Bakopanos, politician
 * May 13 – David Bissett, field hockey player
 * May 14 – Danny Gare, ice hockey player
 * May 16 – Dafydd Williams, physician and astronaut
 * May 26 – Aritha Van Herk, writer, critic, editor and university professor
 * May 28 – John Tory, businessman, politician and broadcaster
 * June 3 – Wally Weir, Canadian ice hockey player
 * June 28 – Jean-Serge Brisson, politician

July to December

 * July 6 – Brian Pallister, politician
 * July 9 – Kevin O'Leary, businessman, television personality, and political candidate
 * July 18 – Audrey Vandervelden, volleyball player
 * August 11 – Gulzar Singh Cheema, politician
 * August 16 – James Cameron, film director, producer and screenwriter
 * September 3 – Avis Gray, politician
 * September 18 – Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist
 * October 21 – Brian Tobin, politician
 * November 7 – Guy Gavriel Kay, fantasy fiction author
 * November 12 – Dave Edge, long-distance runner
 * November 24 – Stuart Murray, politician
 * December 14 – Steven MacLean, astronaut
 * December 20 – John Kinch, football player (d. 2022)
 * December 28 – Lanny Poffo, wrestler (d. 2023)

Full date unknown

 * Alan Kane, author
 * Jim St. James, actor and HIV/AIDS activist

Deaths

 * January 24 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat (b. 1894)
 * February 13 – Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1890)
 * March 15 – Charles MacOdrum, politician
 * 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)

Full date unknown

 * James Endicott, church leader and missionary (b. 1865)

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Adam Busby

Adam Stuart Busby (born 1948) is a terrorist Scottish nationalist who claims to be the founder of the Scottish National Liberation Army. In 1983 after a hoax letter-bombing campaign against high-profile public figures he organised attacks from Dublin involving anthrax hoaxes, bomb threats, and genuine parcel bombs. In 1997 he was jailed in Ireland for two hoax phone threats against Scottish media organisations.

Early life
Busby was associated with the separatist group called the Scottish Liberation Army. He joined the British army and trained briefly in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

Career
In 1983 letter bombs were sent to the Ministry of Defence, oil companies and public figures including Lady Diana Spencer and the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. The device sent to Thatcher was active and was opened by parliamentarian Robert Key but there was no explosion. Busby fled to Dublin after the letter-bombing campaign. He reportedly tried to join forces with the Provisional Irish Republican Army, but the offer is said to have been refused. He organised attacks from Dublin involving anthrax hoaxes, bomb threats, and genuine parcel bombs.

In 1997, Busby was jailed in Ireland for two hoax phone threats against Scottish media organisations.

In 1999, he then reportedly formed the short lived Republican Revenge Group (RRG), a proposed Pan-Celtic militant organisation.

In May 2006 he sent threats by email from Charleville Mall public library to BAA at London Heathrow Airport claiming bombs were on two New York flights. BAA did not take the threats seriously. Busby denied making the threats.

In September 2006, the Sunday Times reported that Busby might be targeted for extradition to the United States to face terror charges. Police in Ireland were said to have agreed to help the FBI, MI5 and Special Branch to investigate a series of e-mails to the US about how to contaminate US water supplies.

In July 2010 he was sentenced by a Dublin court to four years in jail for the May 2006 threats by email to BAA at London Heathrow Airport claiming bombs were on two New York flights. Two of the years were suspended due to his age and health, as he has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair.

In 2010, Busby was alleged to have made threats against then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown.

On 15 August 2012, a United States federal grand jury returned two indictments charging Busby, a resident of Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland, with emailing bomb threats targeting the University of Pittsburgh, three federal courthouses and a federal officer. A separate four-count indictment charged Mr Busby with, on 20 and 21 June, maliciously conveying false information through the Internet claiming bombs had been placed at federal courthouses in Pittsburgh, Erie, and Johnstown in Pennsylvania.

Busby was released from an Irish prison on 21 March 2014 and was reported to be living in a Dublin hostel, banned from internet access, awaiting verdicts about his extradition to Scotland and the US.

In February 2015, Busby was extradited to Scotland. In October of that year, however, a Glasgow court ruled that he was medically unfit to be tried over multiple bomb threats. In 2017, the Sheriff Court of Lothian and Borders in Edinburgh ruled that Busby, by then 69, was too ill to be sent to the US, as multiple sclerosis was at an advanced stage.

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1958 in Canada

Events from the year 1958 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Vincent Massey
 * Prime Minister – John Diefenbaker
 * Chief Justice – Patrick Kerwin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 23rd (until 1 February) then 24th (from 12 May)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Frank Mackenzie Ross
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Stewart McDiarmid
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren (until June 5) then Joseph Leonard O'Brien
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Campbell Leonard Macpherson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser (until January 15) then Edward Chester Plow
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Keiller MacKay
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse (until March 31) then Frederick Walter Hyndman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux (until February 14) then Onésime Gagnon
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson (until February 3) then Frank Lindsay Bastedo

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell (until June 30) then Dufferin Roblin
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Hugh John Flemming
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Robert Stanfield
 * Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alex Matheson
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Howard Collins
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

Events

 * January 16 – Louis St. Laurent is replaced by Lester B. Pearson as leader of the Liberal Party
 * February 19–20 – Rt Hon Ellen Fairclough first woman to assume the duties of Prime Minister for two days during John Diefenbaker's absence from the country.
 * March 25 – The Avro Arrow flies for the first time
 * March 31 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a massive election victory.
 * April 5 – The Seymour Narrows is made more easily passable after Ripple Rock was destroyed in one of the largest planned non-nuclear explosions
 * May 12 – The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
 * June 17 – The Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver collapses killing 18.
 * June 30 – Duff Roblin sworn in as premier of Manitoba
 * July 1 – Canada-wide television broadcasting starts
 * July 1 – The Lost Villages in Ontario are permanently flooded as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway construction project.
 * October 22 – Canada appoints, Margaret Meagher, the country's first female ambassador, to Israel.
 * October 23 – The third Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 74.

Full date unknown

 * Ellen Fairclough becomes Canada's first federal female cabinet minister.
 * Department of Physical Education started at the University of Saskatchewan

Arts and literature

 * July 16 – The Manitoba Theatre Centre opens.

New works

 * John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society
 * Farley Mowat's Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great Adventure
 * Antonine Maillet's first novel Pointe-aux-Coques

Awards

 * See 1958 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Eric Nicol, Girdle Me A Globe

Film

 * Morley Callaghan's Now That April's Here is made into a feature film
 * Allan Dwan directs his last film Enchanted Island

Music

 * Paul Anka has four hit singles and becomes one of the most popular singers in the world.

Sport

 * January 17 - The Canadian Football League is established with 9 teams (Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Ottawa Rough Riders, Toronto Argonauts, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Edmonton Eskimos, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders, and BC Lions)
 * April 20 – Montreal Canadiens won their Tenth (and Third consecutive) Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2.
 * May 6 - Ottawa-Hull Canadiens won their Second (and only in Ottawa) Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at Ottawa Auditorium
 * November 29 – Winnipeg Blue Bombers won their Fourth Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 35–28 in the 46th Grey Cup played at Empire Stadium in Vancouver

January to June

 * January 10 – Terrence Scammell, voice director and voice actor
 * January 29 – Glen Cochrane, ice hockey player and scout
 * February 15 – Peter Butler, long-distance runner
 * February 23
 * Norm Spencer, actor (d. 2020)
 * Bob Stephen, Canadian football player (d. 2009)
 * March 8 – Raymond Simard, politician
 * March 30 – Maurice LaMarche, voice actor
 * April 7 – Ted Nolan, ice hockey player and coach
 * April 15 – Keith Acton, ice hockey player and coach
 * April 17 – Laslo Babits, javelin thrower
 * May 10 – Gaétan Boucher, speed skater and double Olympic gold medallist
 * May 13 – Claire Backhouse-Sharpe, badminton player
 * May 18 – Bob Chaperon, snooker and billiards player
 * June 24 – Jean Charest, lawyer and politician, 29th Premier of Quebec

July to September

 * July 12 – Tonya Williams, actress
 * July 28 – Terry Fox, humanitarian, athlete and cancer treatment activist (d. 1981)
 * August 6 – Lorne Saxberg, television journalist and news anchor (d. 2006)
 * August 15 – Craig MacTavish, ice hockey player and coach
 * August 17 – Kirk Stevens, snooker player
 * August 19 – Darryl Sutter, ice hockey player and coach
 * August 22
 * Lyle Bauer, Canadian football player and executive (d. 2024)
 * Colm Feore, American-born stage, film and television actor
 * August 29 – Linda Staudt, long-distance runner
 * September 7 – Peter Mettler, filmmaker
 * September 8 – Stevie Vallance, actress, voice actress, stage performer, singer, casting director and voice director
 * September 11 – Jeffrey A. Hutchings, fisheries scientist (d. 2022)
 * September 14 – Rob McCall, ice dancer (d. 1991)
 * September 16
 * Diane Deans, politician (d. 2024)
 * Jennifer Tilly, actress and poker player
 * September 17 – Monte Solberg, politician and businessman
 * September 28 – Angella Taylor-Issajenko, sprinter

October to December

 * October 8 – Neile Graham, poet and scholar
 * November 3 – Kevin Sorenson, politician
 * November 6 – Kevin Doherty, judoka
 * November 19 – Joe Jordan, politician
 * December 10 – David Paul Grove, actor and voice actor
 * December 12 – Lucie Guay, canoe racer
 * December 24 – Lyse Doucet, journalist and broadcaster
 * December 25 – Alannah Myles, singer-songwriter

Full date unknown

 * John Colapinto, journalist, author and novelist
 * Kim Rabot (d. 1975)
 * Gordon Stewart Anderson, writer (d. 1991)

January to June

 * January 7 – Margaret Anglin, actress, director and producer (b. 1876)
 * January 8 – John Duff, race car driver (b. 1895)
 * January 16 – Charles Bélec, politician (b. 1872)
 * April 1 – J. Arthur Ross, politician (b. 1893)
 * May 12 – Lewis Stubbs, judge and politician (b. 1878)
 * June 26 – George Orton, middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medallist, first Canadian to win an Olympic medal (b. 1873)

July to December

 * July 21 – Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger, politician and lawyer (b. 1888)
 * September 2 – George Stewart Henry, politician and 10th Premier of Ontario (b. 1871)
 * September 11 – Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (b. 1889)
 * September 11 – Robert W. Service, poet and writer (b. 1874)
 * October 2 – Charles Avery Dunning, politician, Minister and university chancellor (b. 1885)
 * November 10 – Billy Boucher, ice hockey player (b. 1899)

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1959 in Canada

Events from the year 1959 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Vincent Massey (until September 15) then Georges Vanier
 * Prime Minister – John Diefenbaker
 * Chief Justice – Patrick Kerwin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 24th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen (until December 16) then John Percy Page (from December 19)
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Frank Mackenzie Ross
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Stewart McDiarmid
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Joseph Leonard O'Brien
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Campbell Leonard Macpherson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Edward Chester Plow
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Keiller MacKay
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Walter Hyndman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Onésime Gagnon
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Frank Lindsay Bastedo

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Dufferin Roblin
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Hugh John Flemming
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Robert Stanfield
 * Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alex Matheson (until September 16) then Walter Shaw
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis (until September 7) then Paul Sauvé (from September 11)
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Howard Collins
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

Events

 * February 20: Avro Arrow project is terminated
 * April 1: The St. Lawrence Seaway opens
 * June 11: 1959 Ontario general election: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fifth consecutive majority
 * June 18: 1959 Alberta general election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a seventh consecutive majority
 * June 20: The Escuminac Disaster results in 35 fishermen drowned or missing and 22 fishing boats sunk.
 * September 7: Maurice Duplessis, Premier of Quebec, dies in office
 * September 11: Paul Sauvé becomes premier of Quebec
 * September 15: Georges Vanier is sworn in as Governor General replacing Vincent Massey. He is the first French Canadian Governor General.
 * September 16: Walter Shaw becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Alex Matheson
 * October 12: Isabella Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
 * November 18: Canadian content rules are introduced for television.
 * December 2: York University is founded

Full date unknown

 * National Energy Board of Canada is created.
 * Steven Truscott falsely convicted of the murder of Lynne Harper. He would be exonerated in 2007.
 * Vancouver Folk Song Society is founded.

New books

 * Mordecai Richler: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
 * Hugh MacLennan: The Watch That Ends the Night
 * Farley Mowat: Grey Seas Under
 * Max Aitken: Friends
 * Gordon R. Dickson: Dorsai!

Awards

 * See 1959 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Sport

 * April 18 - Montreal Canadiens won their Eleventh (and Fourth consecutive) Stanley Cup by defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 4 games to 1. The deciding Game 5 was played at the Montreal Forum
 * May 1 - Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Braves won their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Peterborough TPT Petes 4 games to 1. The deciding Game 5 was played at Wheat City Arena in Brandon, Manitoba
 * November 1 – Montreal Canadiens Jacques Plante becomes the first ice hockey goalie to wear a protective face mask during a game against the New York Rangers at the Montreal Forum
 * November 28 - Winnipeg Blue Bombers won their Fifth Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 21 to 7 in the 47th Grey Cup played at Toronto's CNE Stadium

January to March

 * January 1 – Sharon Bayes, field hockey player
 * January 3 – Dwight Duncan, politician and Minister
 * January 8 – Bill Sawchuk, swimmer
 * January 11 – Rob Ramage, ice hockey player
 * January 12 – Helen Vanderburg, synchronized swimmer
 * May 25 – Rick Wamsley, ice hockey player

April to June

 * April 5 – Stephen Feraday, javelin thrower
 * April 6 – Jim Rondeau, politician
 * April 13 – Genevieve Robic-Brunet, road racing cyclist
 * April 15 – Kevin Lowe, ice hockey player
 * April 22 – Ryan Stiles, actor, comedian, director and voice actor
 * April 30 – Paul Gross, actor, producer, director, singer and writer
 * April 30 – Stephen Harper, politician and 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
 * May 14 – Rick Vaive, ice hockey player
 * May 26 – Brian Peaker, rower and Olympic silver medalist
 * May 27
 * Eugene Melnyk, businessman and sports franchise owner (d. 2022)
 * Donna Strickland, physicist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics
 * June 2 – Charlie Huddy, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
 * June 4 – Rex Barnes, politician
 * June 9 - Louis Hamelin, writer
 * June 12 – Scott Thompson, comedian
 * June 20 – Louise Bessette, pianist
 * June 28 – Brad Fraser, playwright, screenwriter and cultural commentator

July to December

 * August 29 – Chris Hadfield, astronaut, first Canadian to walk in space
 * September 29 – Robert Thibault, politician
 * October 14 – Dominic Agostino, politician (d.2004)
 * October 20 – Janice McCaffrey, racewalker
 * November 5 – Bryan Adams, rock singer-songwriter and photographer
 * November 17 – Guy André, politician
 * November 22 – Geoff Regan, politician
 * December 2 – David Alward, 32nd Premier of New Brunswick
 * December 8 – Mark Steyn, writer and broadcaster

Full date unknown

 * Michael Slobodian, murderer responsible for the Centennial Secondary School shooting (d.1975)

Deaths

 * January 26 – Barbara Hanley, first woman to be elected a mayor in Canada (b.1882)
 * February 11 – Harry James Barber, politician (b.1875)
 * February 13 – Thomas Laird Kennedy, politician and 15th Premier of Ontario (b.1878)
 * March 3 – Philémon Cousineau, politician (b.1874)
 * March 17 – Sidney Earle Smith, academic and 7th President of the University of Toronto (b.1897)
 * April 8 – George Croil, first Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (b.1893)
 * June 3 – Filip Konowal, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient in 1917 (b.1888)
 * June 9 - Lynne Harper, murder victim (b.1946)
 * September 7 – Maurice Duplessis, politician and 16th Premier of Quebec (b.1890)
 * October 25 – Samuel Lawrence, politician and trade unionist (b.1879)

Full date unknown

 * Edwin Hansford, politician (b.1895)

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1960 in Canada

Events from the year 1960 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Georges Vanier
 * Prime Minister – John Diefenbaker
 * Chief Justice – Patrick Kerwin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 24th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John Percy Page
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Frank M. Ross (until October 12) then George Pearkes
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John S. McDiarmid (until January 15) then Errick Willis
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Joseph Leonard O'Brien
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Campbell Leonard Macpherson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Edward Chester Plow
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Keiller MacKay
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Walter Hyndman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Onésime Gagnon
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Frank Lindsay Bastedo

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Dufferin Roblin
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Hugh John Flemming (until July 12) then Louis Robichaud
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Robert Stanfield
 * Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Walter Shaw
 * Premier of Quebec – Paul Sauvé (until January 2) then Antonio Barrette (January 8 to July 22) then Jean Lesage
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Howard Collins
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

January to June

 * January – The Board of Broadcast Governors begins hearings in Winnipeg to determine alternatives to CBC Television. Hearings are conducted throughout the country. Eventually, numerous licences are given to: Halifax—the Finlay MacDonald group—CJCH-TV; Montreal—the Canadian Marconi Co.—CFCF-TV; Ottawa—Ernie Bushnell's group—CJOH-TV; Toronto—Baton—the Bassett group—CFTO-TV; Winnipeg—Ralph S. Misener & Associates—CJAY-TV (CKY-TV); Edmonton—the CBC (CBXT), (which would relieve CFRN-TV of its CBC affiliation); Calgary—the Love organization—CFCN-TV; Vancouver—the Vantel group—CHAN-TV (BCTV).
 * January 2 – Paul Sauvé, Premier of Quebec, dies in office.
 * January 8 – Antonio Barrette becomes premier of Quebec.
 * April 24 – Television station CBWFT signs on for the first time as Radio-Canada Winnipeg.
 * June 8 – Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a fifth consecutive majority.
 * June 22 – 1960 Quebec general election: Barrette's ruling Union nationale, is defeated by the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Lesage, beginning the 'Quiet Revolution' in the historically conservative province.
 * June 27 – 1960 New Brunswick general election: The Liberals, led by Louis Robichaud defeat the Progressive Conservative government of Hugh John Flemming.

July to December

 * July 1 – Status Indians are given the right to vote.
 * July 9 – Seven-year-old Roger Woodward became the first person accidentally to fall over the Horseshoe Falls and survive.
 * July 12 – Louis Robichaud becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Hugh John Flemming.
 * July 22 – Vincent Massey becomes the first Canadian to receive the Royal Victorian Chain.
 * July 25–27 – The first First Ministers conference is held.
 * August 10 – The Canadian Bill of Rights is given royal assent.
 * September – York University's first class begins learning.
 * September 19 – The University of Calgary is founded.
 * December 17 – Quebec becomes the last province to agree to the National Health Act.
 * December 20 – Ontario executes 10,000 cats due to over population.

Full date unknown

 * French beginning to be recognized as language taught in schools outside of Quebec
 * L'Anse aux Meadows, evidence of Viking colonization of North America is discovered in Newfoundland
 * The Ford Frontenac is introduced exclusively to the Canadian market.

Arts and literature

 * February 16 – The new National Gallery of Canada building opens in Ottawa.
 * November 2 – The National Theatre School opens in Montreal.

New books

 * Milton Acorn: Against a League of Liars
 * Farley Mowat: Ordeal by Ice
 * Gordon R. Dickson: Necromancer

Awards

 * See 1960 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Pierre Berton, Just Add Water and Stir

Sport

 * January 16 – Gordie Howe becomes the leading scorer in National Hockey League history, passing Maurice Richard.
 * April 14 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 12th (fifth consecutive) Stanley Cup by defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 4 games to 0. The deciding game (as well being Maurice Richard's final game) was played in Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * May 8 – The Ontario Hockey Association's St. Catharines Teepees win their second (and final) Memorial Cup by defeating the Central Alberta Hockey League's Edmonton Oil Kings 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * October 6 – Maurice Richard's number (9) is retired by the Montreal Canadiens in a ceremony at the Montreal Forum
 * November 26 – The Ottawa Rough Riders win their fifth Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Eskimos 16 to 6 in the 48th Grey Cup played at Vancouver's Empire Stadium. Toronto's Ron Stewart became the first Canadian to win the game's official MVP award.

January to June

 * January 12 – Oliver Platt, actor
 * January 24 – Mark Reeds, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
 * February 11 – Grant Main, rower and Olympic gold medalist
 * February 12 – George Elliott Clarke, poet and playwright
 * February 14 – Walt Poddubny, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2009)
 * February 14 – Meg Tilly, actress and dancer
 * February 17 – Lindy Ruff, ice hockey player and coach
 * February 28 – Dorothy Stratten, model, actress and murder victim (d. 1980)
 * March 7 – Gail Greenough, equestrian
 * March 13 - John Greyson, filmmaker
 * March 15 – Carole Rouillard, long-distance runner
 * March 18 - Guy Carbonneau, retired professional ice hockey player
 * April 8 - Pat Duncan, politician and sixth (and first female) Premier of Yukon and the first Liberal government
 * April 10 – Drew Caldwell, politician
 * April 12 - Toren Smith, manga publisher and translator (d. 2013)
 * April 20 - Eria Fachin, pop singer
 * April 29 – Robert J. Sawyer, science fiction writer
 * May 3 – Jennifer Luce, architect
 * May 8 - Patrick McKenna, actor
 * May 11 - Gildor Roy, actor

July to December

 * July 19 – Atom Egoyan, filmmaker
 * July 22 – Jane Patterson, judoka
 * July 25 – Alain Robidoux, snooker player
 * July 28 – Anna Marie Malone, long-distance runner
 * July 31 – Dale Hunter, ice hockey player and coach
 * August 17 – Chris Potter, actor
 * August 27 – Mike Mahovlich, javelin thrower
 * August 30
 * Mark Eyking, politician
 * Guy A. Lepage, actor
 * September 14 – Callum Keith Rennie, actor
 * September 21 – David James Elliott, actor
 * September 25 - Sonia Benezra, TV and radio interviewer and personality and actress
 * October 8 - François Pérusse, comedian and humor
 * November 2 – Paul Martini, pair skater
 * November 6 – Kevin Neufeld, rower and Olympic gold medallist
 * November 8
 * Anne Dorval, actress
 * Robert Libman, politician, architect and leader of Equality Party
 * November 20 - Marc Labrèche, actor, comedian and host
 * December 28 – Ray Bourque, ice hockey player

January to June

 * January 2 – Paul Sauvé, lawyer, soldier, politician and 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907)
 * February 16 – James Alexander Murray, politician and Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1864)
 * February 22 – Paul-Émile Borduas, painter (b. 1905)
 * June 13 – Brooke Claxton, politician and Minister (b. 1898)

July to December

 * July 26 – Maud Menten, medical scientist (b. 1879)
 * August 5 – Arthur Meighen, politician and 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
 * November 5 – Mack Sennett, actor, producer, screenwriter and film director (b. 1880)
 * December 12 – Louis Orville Breithaupt, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1890)
 * December 19 – Jean Désy, diplomat (b. 1893)
 * December 29 – Philippe Panneton, physician, academic, diplomat and writer (b. 1895)
 * December 31 – C. D. Howe, politician and Minister (b. 1886)

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1961 in Canada

Events from the year 1961 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Georges Vanier
 * Prime Minister – John Diefenbaker
 * Chief Justice – Patrick Kerwin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 24th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John Percy Page
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – George Pearkes
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Errick Willis
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Joseph Leonard O'Brien
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Campbell Leonard Macpherson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Edward Chester Plow
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Keiller MacKay
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Walter Hyndman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Onésime Gagnon (until October 12) then Paul Comtois
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Frank Lindsay Bastedo

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Dufferin Roblin
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Louis Robichaud
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Robert Stanfield
 * Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost (until November 8) then John Robarts
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Walter Shaw
 * Premier of Quebec – Jean Lesage
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas (until November 7) then Woodrow Lloyd

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Howard Collins
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

January to June

 * June 1
 * The Canadian Bank of Commerce and the Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
 * Census Day for the 1961 Census of Canada, which finds Canada has a population of 18,238,247.
 * June 6 – CUSO is formed
 * June 13 – The NCC study of Ottawa's new Green Belt is completed
 * June 14 – James Elliott Coyne, the Governor of the Bank of Canada resigns due to disagreements with the federal government's fiscal policies

July to December

 * August 3 – Tommy Douglas is elected leader of the newly formed New Democratic Party
 * August 14 – 15 – The Premiers meet in Charlottetown
 * August 26 – The new home for the Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto, at the Canadian National Exhibition.
 * October 1 – CTV, Canada's second major television network, begins broadcasting
 * November 7 – Woodrow Lloyd becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Tommy Douglas
 * November 8 – John Robarts becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Leslie Frost
 * November 17 – Saskatchewan passes a bill creating Canada's first government run health system
 * December 28 – Canada's first BOMARC Missile squadron is formed

Full date unknown

 * The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation becomes the New Democratic Party
 * The Massey Lectures are created
 * The transatlantic telephone system is officially launched with a call from Elizabeth II to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
 * The Canadian Conference of the Arts is established.

Sport

 * March 12 – The Trail Smoke Eaters win the 1961 Ice Hockey World Championships for Canada.
 * May 5 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto St. Michael's Majors win their fourth (and final) Memorial Cup by defeating the Central Alberta Hockey League's Edmonton Oil Kings 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at Edmonton Gardens.
 * July 11 – Gene Kiniski becomes the first Canadian to win the AWA World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Verne Gagne
 * December 2 – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers win their 6th Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 21–14  in the 49th Grey Cup at CNE Stadium in Toronto.

New books

 * Morley Callaghan: A Passion in Rome
 * Max Aitken: Courage
 * Margaret Atwood: Double Persephone
 * Farley Mowat: Owls in the Family

Awards

 * See 1961 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Norman Ward, Mice in the Beer

January to March

 * January 11 – Graham Welbourn, swimmer
 * January 15 - Yves Pelletier, film director and actor
 * January 18 – Mark Messier, ice hockey player
 * January 26 – Wayne Gretzky, ice hockey player and coach
 * January 27 – Tony Clement, politician and Minister
 * January 28 – Normand Rochefort, ice hockey player and coach
 * February 4 – Connor O'Brien, Canadian skier
 * February 10 – Steve Pagendam, boxer
 * February 21 – Paul Edwards, politician and lawyer
 * February 23 – Silvia Ruegger, long-distance runner (died 2019)
 * February 27 – Ann Peel, race walker
 * February 28 - René Simard, singer
 * March 16 – Todd McFarlane, cartoonist, comic book artist, writer, toy designer and entrepreneur
 * March 24 – Pat Turner, rower and Olympic gold medallist

April to June

 * April 6 – Gene Eugene, actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician (died 2000)
 * April 10 – Barb Tarbox, anti-smoking activist (died 2003)
 * April 22 – Scott D. Sampson, paleontologist, science communicator and television presenter
 * May 1 – Clint Malarchuk, ice hockey player
 * May 8 – Greg Thomey, comedian
 * May 9 – Darren Praznik, politician
 * May 10 – Randy Cunneyworth, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 * June 1 – Paul Coffey, ice hockey player
 * June 9 – Michael J. Fox, actor, author and voice over artist

July to September

 * July 1 – Michelle Wright, singer-songwriter
 * July 8 – Kelly Kryczka, synchronized swimmer
 * July 17 – Blair Horn, rower and Olympic gold medallist
 * July 23
 * André Ducharme, author, comedian and humorist
 * Richard Martineau, journalist
 * Rob Stewart, actor
 * July 24 – Brian McMahon, coxswain and Olympic gold medallist
 * July 26 – Alan Lowe, politician
 * August 12 – Peter Szmidt, swimmer
 * August 20 – Lizanne Bussières, long-distance runner
 * August 23 – François Lapointe, racewalker
 * August 25 – Dave Tippett, ice hockey player and coach
 * September 12 – Mylène Farmer, singer, songwriter, actress and author
 * September 16 – Jen Tolley, actress, voice actress and singer
 * September 18 – Denis Lambert, boxer
 * September 24
 * Nancy Garapick, swimmer and Olympic bronze medallist
 * Luc Picard, actor
 * September 25 – Tracy Wilson, ice dancer
 * September 27 – Randy Vancourt, composer and entertainer
 * September 30 – Erica Ehm, video jockey, songwriter and actress

October to December

 * October 16 - Pierre Karl Péladeau, president and CEO of Quebecor Inc., Quebecor Media Inc. and Sun Media Corporation
 * October 25 – Alison Webb, judoka
 * November 2 – k.d. lang, singer-songwriter
 * November 23 – Floyd Roland, politician and 11th Premier of the Northwest Territories
 * December 8 – André Bachand, politician
 * December 10 – Mark McKoy, hurdler and Olympic gold medallist
 * December 11 - Michel Courtemanche, actor
 * December 13 – Ranza Clark, middle-distance runner
 * December 18 – Brian Orser, figure skater, double Olympic silver medallist and World Champion
 * December 30
 * Douglas Coupland, novelist
 * Ben Johnson, Jamaica-born sprinter, double Olympic bronze medallist, Olympic gold medal rescinded as disqualified for doping

January to June

 * May 12 - Janis Babson (born 1950)
 * May 14 – Albert Sévigny, politician (born 1881)
 * May 28 – Frank Boyes, politician (born 1874)
 * May 29 – Gilbert Layton, businessman and politician (born 1899)
 * May 31 – Walter Little, politician (born 1877)
 * June 6 – William Anderson, politician and businessman (born 1905)
 * June 19 – Richard Ernest William Turner, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1871)

July to December

 * July 12 – Mazo de la Roche, author (born 1879)
 * July 15 – John Edward Brownlee, politician and 5th Premier of Alberta (born 1884)
 * September 12 – Joseph-Arthur Bradette, politician (born 1886)
 * September 16 – Percy Chapman Black, politician (born 1878)
 * September 21 – William Duncan Herridge, politician and diplomat (born 1888)
 * September 30 - Onésime Gagnon, politician and the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1888)
 * October 15 – Peter Dickinson, architect (born 1925)
 * October 22 – Harry Nixon, politician and 13th Premier of Ontario (born 1891)

Full date unknown

 * Anne Wilkinson, poet (born 1910)

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I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.

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Hi Choni.

In case you didn't follow the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics, I'm writing to you to let you know that I've converted the "WikiProject Mathematics Participants List" into a table. It is now alphabetical, includes links to the participant's talk page and contribution list, and has a field for "Areas of Interest". Since your name is on the list, I thought you might want to check and/or update your entry.

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1962 in Canada

Events from the year 1962 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Georges Vanier
 * Prime Minister – John Diefenbaker
 * Chief Justice – Patrick Kerwin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 24th (until 19 April) then 25th (from 27 September)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John Percy Page
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – George Pearkes
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Errick Willis
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Joseph Leonard O'Brien
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Campbell Leonard Macpherson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Edward Chester Plow
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Keiller MacKay
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Walter Hyndman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Paul Comtois
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Frank Lindsay Bastedo

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Dufferin Roblin
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Louis Robichaud
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Robert Stanfield
 * Premier of Ontario – John Robarts
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Walter Shaw
 * Premier of Quebec – Jean Lesage
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Woodrow Lloyd

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Howard Collins (until May 1) then Gordon Robertson Cameron
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

Events

 * March 21 – The birth-defect-causing drug thalidomide is banned
 * May 2 – The Canadian dollar is pegged to the U.S. currency
 * June 18 – In the 1962 Federal election John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is reduced to a minority government
 * July 1 – First medicare plan is launched in Saskatchewan to great protest by doctors
 * July 30 – Trans-Canada Highway opens
 * August 6 – A Premiers Conference is held in Victoria, British Columbia
 * September 1 – Place Ville Marie opens in Montreal
 * September 29 – Alouette 1, Canada's first satellite, is launched.
 * October 25 – The Bedford Institute of Oceanography opens in Nova Scotia
 * October 25-November 12 – The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs. Diefenbaker refuses to put  Canadian forces on alert, angering the U.S. government.
 * December 11 – The last two hangings in Canada take place.
 * The Globe and Mail adds the Report on Business section

New books

 * Max Aitken – The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George
 * W. O. Mitchell – The Kite
 * Marshall McLuhan – The Gutenberg Galaxy
 * George Woodcock – Anarchism
 * Farley Mowat – The Black Joke
 * Thomas B. Costain – The Last Plantagenets

Awards

 * See 1962 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: W. O. Mitchell, Jake and the Kid

Television

 * Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premieres on CBC

Theatre

 * The first Shaw Festival opens

Sport

 * April 22 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their tenth Stanley Cup by defeating the Chicago Black Hawks.
 * May 7 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Hamilton Red Wings win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Central Alberta Hockey League's Edmonton Oil Kings 4 games to 1. The deciding Game 5 was played at Barton Street Arena in Hamilton, Ontario
 * December 1–2 – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers win the Grey Cup in the famous fog bowl.

Unknown date

 * Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (2014–present)

January to June

 * January 17 – Jim Carrey, comedian and actor
 * January 22 – Kevin Lamoureux, politician
 * February 4 – Michael Riley, actor
 * February 23 – John Hatch, basketball player
 * February 27 – Susie Moloney, novelist
 * March 20 – Ross Young, politician (d. 2021)
 * March 21 – Kathy Greenwood, actress and comedian
 * March 27 – Jann Arden, singer-songwriter
 * March 29 – John Martin Crawford, serial killer (d. 2020)
 * April 1 – John Wallace, rower and Olympic gold medallist
 * April 11 – Colin Carrie, politician
 * May 5 – Manoj Sood, actor
 * May 31 – Corey Hart, musician
 * June 12
 * Jordan Peterson, author, clinical psychologist and professor of psychology
 * Camilla Scott, Canadian actress
 * June 23
 * Chris Collins, politician
 * Pat Kelly, ice speed skater

July to December

 * July 7 – Ross Rutledge, field hockey player (d. 2004)
 * July 12 – Camilla Scott, actress and television host
 * July 14 – Diane Ratnik, volleyball player
 * July 21 – Lee Aaron, rock and jazz singer
 * August 8 – Mike Zanier, ice hockey player
 * August 23 – Martin Cauchon, politician and Minister
 * August 27 – Adam Oates, ice hockey and lacrosse player
 * August 29 – Ian James Corlett, voice actor and producer
 * August 31 – Wanda Guenette, volleyball player
 * September 11 – Andrew Jackson, voice actor
 * September 14 – Robert Herjavec, Croatian-born Canadian businessman, investor and author
 * September 15 – Brad Willock, volleyball player
 * September 18 – John Mann, rock musician and actor (d. 2019)
 * September 22 – Normand D'Amour, actor
 * September 24 – Nia Vardalos, actress, screenwriter and producer
 * September 28 – Grant Fuhr, ice hockey player
 * October 14 - Charles E. Bastien, animation director
 * October 16 – Dan McTeague, politician
 * October 30 – Rex Harrington, ballet dancer
 * November 8 – Cliff Cullen, politician
 * November 9 – Teryl Rothery, actress
 * November 12 – Mark Hunter, ice hockey player, coach, and manager
 * December 4 – Julie Lemieux, Canadian voice actress
 * December 28 – Michelle Cameron, synchronized swimmer

Deaths

 * January 12 – James Garfield Gardiner, politician, Minister and Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1883)
 * January 24 – James Charles Brady, politician (b. 1876)
 * March 3 – Cairine Wilson, Canada's first female Senator (b. 1885)
 * August 20 – Joseph-Arsène Bonnier, politician (b. 1879)
 * August 26 – Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer and ethnologist (b. 1879)
 * October 23 – John Thomas Haig, politician (b. 1877)
 * November 13 – Télesphore-Damien Bouchard, politician (b. 1881)
 * November 21 – Frank Amyot, sprint canoer and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1904)
 * December 8 – Allison Dysart, politician, lawyer, judge and 21st Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1880)
 * December 22 – Solon Earl Low, politician (b. 1900)

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1963 in Canada

Events from the year 1963 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Georges Vanier
 * Prime Minister – John Diefenbaker (until April 22) then Lester B. Pearson
 * Chief Justice – Patrick Kerwin (Ontario) (until 2 February) then Robert Taschereau (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 25th (until 6 February) then 26th (from 16 May)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John Percy Page
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – George Pearkes
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Errick Willis
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Joseph Leonard O'Brien
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Campbell Leonard Macpherson (until March 1) then Fabian O'Dea
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Edward Chester Plow (until March 1) then Henry Poole MacKeen
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Keiller MacKay (until May 1) then William Earl Rowe
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Walter Hyndman (until August 1) then Willibald Joseph MacDonald
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Paul Comtois
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Frank Lindsay Bastedo (until March 1) then Robert Hanbidge

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Dufferin Roblin
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Louis Robichaud
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Robert Stanfield
 * Premier of Ontario – John Robarts
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Walter Shaw
 * Premier of Quebec – Jean Lesage
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Woodrow Lloyd

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Gordon Robertson Cameron
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson (until July 12) then Bent Gestur Sivertz

Events

 * February 4: Defence Minister Douglas Harkness resigns after Prime Minister Diefenbaker refuses to accept nuclear weapons from the United States
 * February 5: The Diefenbaker government collapses over the Bomarc Missile Crisis and an election is called
 * March 1: Simon Fraser University is founded
 * April 8: Federal election: Lester Pearson's Liberals win a minority, defeating John Diefenbaker's PCs
 * April 9: Canadian Recording Industry Association is established
 * April 20: The Front de libération du Québec sets off its first bombs in Quebec
 * April 22: Lester Pearson becomes Prime Minister, replacing John Diefenbaker
 * May 27: The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology opens
 * June 17: 1963 Alberta general election: Ernest Manning's Alberta Social Credit Party wins an eighth consecutive majority
 * July 22: The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism is announced
 * September 21: Place des Arts opens in Montreal
 * September 25: 1963 Ontario general election: John Robarts's PCs win a sixth consecutive majority
 * November 29: 118 are killed in the Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crash near Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec
 * December 23: plans to build the National Arts Centre are approved

New Works

 * W.L. Morton: The Kingdom of Canada
 * Milton Acorn: Jawbreakers
 * Leonard Cohen: The Favorite Game
 * Farley Mowat: Never Cry Wolf

Awards

 * See 1963 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Donald Jack, Three Cheers for Me
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Kerry Wood

Sport

 * March 16 – The McMaster Marlins win the first University Cup by defeating the UBC Thunderbirds 3 to 2 at the Kingston Memorial Centre
 * April 18 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their 11th Stanley Cup by defeating the Detroit Red Wings. The deciding Game 5 is played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
 * April 22 – Winnipeg awarded the 1967 Pan Am Games
 * May 11 – The Central Alberta Hockey League's Edmonton Oil Kings win their First Memorial Cup by defeating Ontario Hockey Association's Niagara Falls Flyers 4 games to 2. All games were played at Edmonton Gardens.
 * November 30 – The Hamilton Tiger-Cats win their third Grey Cup by defeating the BC Lions 21–10 in the 51st Grey Cup played Empire Stadium in Vancouver.

January to March

 * January 1 – Cheryl Dick, netball player
 * January 9 – Larry Cain, sprint canoer and Olympic gold medallist
 * January 12 – Ken Fitzpatrick, swimmer
 * January 19 – Steve Peters, politician and Minister
 * January 25 – Paul Dewar, educator and politician (d. 2019)
 * February 12 – Ron Schuler, politician
 * February 21 – Lori Fung, rhythmic gymnast
 * March 1 – Ron Francis, ice hockey player and coach
 * March 17 – Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, novelist, spoken word artist, dub poet, essayist and musician (d. 2008)
 * March 26 – Roch Voisine, singer-songwriter, actor and radio and television host
 * March 28 – Sharon Hambrook, synchronized swimmer
 * March 30
 * Wayne Gordon, boxer
 * Carol Klimpel, swimmer

April to June

 * April 4
 * Vince Ditrich, rock musician
 * Dale Hawerchuk, ice hockey player
 * Jim Wilson, politician
 * April 14 – John Kalbhenn, boxer
 * April 17 – Penny & Vicky Vilagos, synchronized swimmers
 * April 18 – Eric McCormack, actor, musician, writer and producer
 * April 27 – Joe Peschisolido, politician and businessman
 * April 27 – Cali Timmins, actress
 * April 28 – Lloyd Eisler, pair skater
 * May 5
 * James LaBrie, vocalist (Dream Theater)
 * Susan Whelan, politician and Minister
 * May 9 – Joe Cirella, ice hockey player and coach
 * May 11 – Roark Critchlow, actor
 * May 17 – Michelle Conn, field hockey player
 * May 25 – Mike Myers, actor, comedian, screenwriter and film producer
 * May 26 – Richard Crouse, film critic
 * June – Laureen Harper, wife of Prime Minister Stephen Harper
 * June 4 – Carey Nelson, long-distance runner
 * June 6 – Bernard Drainville, Canadian journalist and politician
 * June 17 – Sandra Greaves, judoka
 * June 23 – Laureen Harper, wife of Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper
 * June 24 – Barbara Underhill, pairs figure skater and World Champion
 * June 25 – Doug Gilmour, ice hockey player and coach
 * June 25 – Yann Martel, author

July to September

 * July 11 – Al MacInnis, ice hockey player
 * July 11 – Sandra Schmirler, curler, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion (d. 2000)
 * July 12 – Andy Savoy, politician and engineer
 * July 28 – Gregory Henriquez, architect
 * July 30 – Albert Schultz, actor and director
 * August 2 – Russell Smith, novelist and newspaper columnist
 * August 8 – Stephen Walkom, ice hockey official and executive
 * September 2 – Gerard Gallant, ice hockey player and coach
 * September 7 – Karen Dianne Baldwin, Miss Universe 1982
 * September 9 – Kathryn Johnson, field hockey player
 * September 25 – Karin Larsen, synchronized swimmer and broadcaster
 * September 29 – Dave Andreychuk, ice hockey player

October to December

 * October 20 – Julie Payette, astronaut
 * November 19 – Bill Dunlop, boxer
 * November 22 – Benoît Sauvageau, politician (d. 2006)
 * November 23 – Troy Hurtubise, inventor and conservationist (d. 2018)
 * November 25 – Holly Cole, jazz singer
 * December 4 – Robert Dawson, wrestler
 * December 9 – Dave Hilton, Jr., boxer
 * December 29 – Liisa Savijarvi, alpine skier
 * December 30 – Michelle Douglas, human rights activist

Deaths

 * January 2 – Jack Carson, actor (b. 1910)
 * March 27 – Gaspard Fauteux, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (b. 1898)
 * May 12 – Robert Kerr, sprinter and Olympic gold medallist (b.1882)
 * June 23 – Herbert Alexander Bruce, surgeon and 15th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1868)
 * August 19 – Kathleen Parlow, violinist (b.1890)
 * September 8 – Leslie Gordon Bell, politician and lawyer (b. 1889)
 * October 8 – Grace Darmond, Canadian-born actress (b. 1893)

Full date unknown

 * Murdoch Mackay, politician (b.1884)

title: 1963 in Canada