1954 in Canada
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Events from the year 1954 in Canada.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch – Elizabeth II
- Governor General – Vincent Massey
- Prime Minister – Louis Saint Laurent
- 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 then Harold Connolly 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
[edit] 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 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.
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- 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
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- Mordecai Richler – The Acrobats
- Gabrielle Roy – Alexandre Chenevert
- Igor Gouzenko – The Fall of a Titan
[edit] 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
[edit] Sport
- July 30 – The "Miracle Mile" is run at the Commonwealth Games in Vancouver
[edit] Births
[edit] January to June
- January 11 – Jim Wych, snooker player and sports announcer
- February 3 – Tiger Williams, ice hockey player
- March 4 – Catherine O'Hara, actress
- April 5 - Claude-André Lachance, politician and son of Georges-C. Lachance
- April 17 – Roddy Piper, wrestler and actor
- 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 28 – Jean-Serge Brisson, politician
[edit] July to December
- July 6 – Brian Pallister, politician
- 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
- October 21 – Brian Tobin, politician
- November 7 – Guy Gavriel Kay, fantasy fiction author
- November 12 – David Edge, long-distance runner
- November 24 – Stuart Murray, politician
- December 14 – Steven MacLean, astronaut
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- Alan Kane, author
[edit] Deaths
- January 24 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat (b.1894)
- February 13 – Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons (b.1890)
- 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)
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- James Endicott, church leader and missionary (b.1865)
