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      Events from the year 1956 in Canada.


      Incumbents




      = Crown

      =
      Monarch – Elizabeth II


      = Federal government

      =
      Governor General – Vincent Massey
      Prime Minister – Louis St. Laurent
      Chief Justice – Patrick Kerwin (Ontario)
      Parliament – 22nd


      = Provincial governments

      =


      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
      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 (until November 20) then Robert Stanfield
      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 – Frederick Howard Collins
      Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson


      Events


      February 10 – Wilbert Coffin is hanged
      May 1 – The Trades and Labour Congress of Canada merges with the Canadian Congress of Labour to form the Canadian Labour Congress.
      May 8 – The controversial bill to create the TransCanada pipeline is introduced in the House of Commons.
      May 15 – A CF-100 crashes into a Grey Nuns convent outside of Ottawa killing fifteen.
      June 20 – Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a fourth consecutive majority
      September 30 – Winnipeg connects to TransCanada Telephone System's microwave radio relay via MTS, bringing same day programming from CBC Television.
      November 1 – The second Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 39.
      November 4 – Lester B. Pearson proposes a successful resolution to the Suez Crisis, this will win him a Nobel Peace Prize.
      November 20 – Robert Stanfield becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Henry Hicks
      December 9 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 (9), a Canadair Northstar, crashes on Slesse Mountain near Chilliwack during heavy weather. The plane carried five members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers and fans on their way home from an all-star game in Vancouver. Bodies were not found until the following late summer due to severe terrain and high altitude and unknown location of the crash. This was one of the worst civilian air disasters in the world at the time.
      December 14 – John Diefenbaker is elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
      René Lévesque begins hosting Point de Mire


      Sport


      March 15 - Whipper Billy Watson (William John Potts) becomes the first Canadian to hold the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship by defeating Lou Thesz in Toronto
      April 10 - The Montreal Canadiens win their 8th Stanley Cup championship by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 1. The deciding Game 5 was played at the Montreal Forum
      May 6 - The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros won their third (and second consecutive) Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 4 games to 0 (with 1 tie). All games at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
      November 24 - The Edmonton Eskimos win their third (consecutive) Grey Cup by defeating the Montreal Alouettes by the score of 50 to 27 in the 44th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto


      Arts and literature




      = New books

      =
      Milton Acorn – In Love and Anger
      Pierre Berton – The Mysterious North
      Max Aitken – Men and Power
      Leonard Cohen – Let Us Compare Mythologies
      Harold Innis – Essays in Canadian Economic History
      Farley Mowat – Lost in the Barrens


      = Awards

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      See 1956 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
      Stephen Leacock Award: Eric Nicol, Shall We Join The Ladies'


      = Music

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      Walter Susskind replaces Sir Ernest MacMillan as the director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
      Pianist Glenn Gould tours the Soviet Union


      Births




      = January to March

      =
      January 6 – Peter Stoffer, politician
      January 7 – Mike Liut, ice hockey player and coach
      January 9 – Greg Dewar, politician
      January 27 – Kevyn Major Howard, actor and photographer (d. 2025)
      January 28 – David Faurschou, politician
      February 28 – Guy Maddin, screenwriter and film director
      February 29 – Steve Ashton, politician
      February 29 – Bob Speller, politician (d. 2021)


      = April to June

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      April 4 – Evelyn Hart, ballet dancer
      April 6 - Normand Corbeil, composer (Double Jeopardy, Extreme Ops, The Statement, V) (d. 2013)
      April 10 – Thomas Graham, volleyball player
      May 7 – Jean Lapierre, television broadcaster, politician and Minister (d. 2016)
      May 9 – Wendy Crewson, actress
      May 15 – Ian Clyde, boxer
      May 19 – James Gosling, software developer, father of the Java programming language
      May 29 – Claude Drouin, politician
      June 10 – Hugh McMillan, musician
      June 11 – Simon Plouffe, mathematician and academic
      June 11 – Arthur Porter, physician and academic (d. 2015)
      June 15 – David Iftody, politician (d. 2001)
      June 15 – Dan Thompson, swimmer
      June 18 – Oliver Schroer, fiddler, composer and music producer (d. 2008)
      June 22 – Blake Debassige, artist


      = July to September

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      July 8 – Terry Puhl, baseball player
      July 10 - Robert Ing, forensic scientist and author
      July 15 – Barry Melrose, ice hockey player, coach and commentator
      July 17 – Bryan Trottier, ice hockey player
      July 20 - Jim Prentice, politician, Premier of Alberta 2014–2015 (d. 2016)
      August 5 - Jerry Ciccoritti, director
      August 7 – Paul Williams, long-distance runner
      August 12 – Bruce Greenwood, actor


      = October to December

      =
      October 5 – Brad Farrow, judoka
      October 7 – Brian Sutter, ice hockey player and coach
      October 17 – Sheela Basrur, medical doctor and Chief Medical Officer of Health in Ontario (d.2008)
      October 23 – Geoffrey Kelly, musician
      October 24 – Chris Clarke, boxer
      December 10 – Marie Bountrogianni, politician and Minister
      December 31 – Paul Zed, lawyer, professor and politician


      Deaths




      = January to June

      =
      January 6 – Albert James Bradshaw, politician (b. 1882)
      January 12 – Sam Langford, boxer (b. 1886)
      February 14 – Aylesworth Perry, 6th Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (b. 1860)
      March 10 – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, businessman, politician and Governor General of Canada (b. 1880)
      March 30 – Joseph W. Noseworthy, politician (b. 1888)
      March 30 – Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, politician and 22nd Premier of British Columbia (b. 1873)


      = July to December

      =
      August 4 – Joseph Georges Bouchard, politician (b. 1888)
      September 11 – Billy Bishop, First World War flying ace (b. 1894)
      September 15 – Charles Dow Richards, judge, politician and 18th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1879)
      September 18 – Adélard Godbout, politician and 15th Premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
      October 7 – Maud Allan, actor, dancer and choreographer (b. 1873)
      November 18 – Clarence Chant, astronomer and physicist (b. 1865)
      December 3 – Matthew Halton, radio and television journalist (b. 1904)
      December 7 – Huntley Gordon, actor (b. 1887)


      See also


      1956 in Canadian television
      List of Canadian films


      References

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