1954 in Canada

Events from the year 1954 in Canada.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Arts and literature 3.1 New books 3.2 Awards 4 Sport 5 Births 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December 5.3 Full date unknown 6 Deaths 6.1 Full date unknown

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

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.

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

• July 30 – The "Miracle Mile" is run at the Commonwealth Games in Vancouver

Births

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 and comedienne
• 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

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

Full date unknown

• Alan Kane, author

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)

Full date unknown

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

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