1955 in Canada
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| Years: | 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 |
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Events from the year 1955 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II (consort – The Duke of Edinburgh)
Federal government
- Governor general – Vincent Massey (viceregal consort – Alice Massey)
- Prime minister – Louis Saint Laurent
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clarence Wallace (until October 3) then Frank Mackenzie Ross
- 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 – Henry Hicks
- Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alex Matheson
- Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
- Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon – Wilfred George Brown (until June 8) then Frederick Howard Collins
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson
Events
- January 7 – The first television broadcast of the opening of parliament
- February 1 – The Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank merge to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank
- March 17- Richard Riot
- April 2 – The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge connecting Halifax to Dartmouth opens.
- June 9 – Ontario general election, 1955: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fourth consecutive majority
- June 29 – Alberta general election, 1955: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a sixth consecutive majority.
- July 11 – Seven teenagers die in a mountaineering accident on Mount Temple in Banff National Park.
- Cape Breton Island is connected to the mainland by the Canso Causeway
Arts and literature
New books
- Gabrielle Roy: Rue Deschambault
Awards
- See 1955 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Stephen Leacock Award: Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice
Music
- Glenn Gould's first recording of the Goldberg Variations is made.
Sport
- March 17 – A riot erupts in Montreal when Maurice Richard is suspended.
- The Canadian Sports Hall of Fame is created.
Births
January to June
- January 4 – John Nunziata, politician
- January 10 - Eva Aariak, politician, and 2nd Premier of Nunavut
- January 28 – Odette Lapierre, long-distance runner
- February 23 – Jerry Holland, fiddler
- February 25 – Camille Thériault, politician and 29th Premier of New Brunswick
- February 27 – MaryAnn Mihychuk, politician
- March 16 – Andy Scott, politician and Minister
- April 6 – Cathy Jones, comedian and writer
- April 25 – Jane Stewart, politician and Minister
- May 12 – Yvon Godin, politician
- May 14 – Marie Chouinard, dancer, choreographer and dance company director
- June 14 – Joe Preston, politician
- June 16 – J. Jill Robinson, writer
July to December
- July 7 – Gord Mackintosh, politician
- July 13 – Hubert Lacroix, lawyer and President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- July 17 – Geneviève Cadieux, artist
- July 19 – Dalton McGuinty, lawyer, politician and 24th Premier of Ontario
- August 6 – Gilles Bernier, politician
- August 12 – Tooker Gomberg, politician and environmental activist (d.2004)
- August 19 – Bev Desjarlais, politician
- August 31 – Sidney McKnight, boxer
- September 28 – Stéphane Dion, politician and Minister
- October 12 – Issa, singer-songwriter
- November 4 – Rodger Cuzner, politician
- November 10 – Ken Holland, ice hockey player
- December 13 – Pat Martin, politician
Full date unknown
- Vatche Arslanian, Canadian Red Cross worker, killed in Iraq (d.2003)
- Kim Morrissey, poet and playwright
Deaths
- April 24 – Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor (b.1876)
- April 26 – Lyman Duff, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (b.1865)
- May 10 – Tommy Burns, only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer (b.1881)
- June 16 – Ozias Leduc, painter (b.1864)
- August 5 – Izaak Walton Killam, financier (b.1885)
- August 7 – Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1871)
- October 1 – Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner (b.1880)
