- Source: 1954 in Canada
Events from the year 1954 in Canada.
Incumbents
= 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
= Provincial governments
=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
= Territorial governments
=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
Arts and literature
= 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
Births
= 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)
See also
1954 in Canadian television
List of Canadian films
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