1944 in Canada
Events from the year 1944 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Births
January to June
- January 6 - John Efford, politician
- February 27 - André Roy, writer
- March 15 - Francis Mankiewicz, film director, screenwriter and producer (d.1993)
- March 26 - Benjamin Chee Chee, artist (d.1977)
- March 29 - Terry Jacks, singer, songwriter, record producer and environmentalist
- April 12 - Glen Cummings, politician
- April 17 - Bobby Curtola, singer
- May 20 - Elinor Caplan, politician and businesswoman
- May 28 - Rita MacNeil, singer-songwriter
- June 1 - Aileen Carroll, politician
- June 29 - Bob Kilger, politician
- June 29 - Charlie Watt, Senator
July to September
- July 5 - Norma McCormick, politician
- July 5 - Robbie Robertson, singer-songwriter and guitarist
- July 30 - Mendelson Joe, singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter
- August 11 - Alexa McDonough, politician
- August 18 - David Newman, politician
- August 25 - Conrad Black, historian, columnist and publisher, appealing a fraud conviction in the United States
- September 3 - Brian Linehan, television host (d.2004)
- September 20 - Phil Fontaine, Aboriginal Canadian leader
- September 30 - bpNichol, poet (d.1988)
- September 30 - Diane Dufresne, singer and painter
October to December
- November 17 -Lorne Michaels, television producer, writer and comedian
- December 4 - Anna McGarrigle, singer-songwriter
- December 12 - Peter Goldring, politician
- December 16 - Judy Sgro, politician
- December 16 - Mike Radcliffe, politician
- December 19 - Zal Yanovsky, rock musician (d.2002)
- December 24 - Daniel Johnson, Jr., politician and 25th Premier of Quebec
- December 24 - Dan Miller, politician and 32nd Premier of British Columbia
Full date unknown
Deaths
January to June
Stephen Leacock
July to December
- July 27 - Clifford William Robinson, lawyer, businessman, politician and 11th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1866)
- September 5 - Gustave Biéler, Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b.1904)
- September 9 - John Stuart Foster, physicist (b.1890)
- September 14 - John Kenneth Macalister, World War II hero (b.1914)
- September 14 - Frank Pickersgill, World War II hero (b.1915)
- September 14 - Roméo Sabourin, World War II hero (b.1923)
- September 27 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (b.1890)
- October 1 - William Mulock, politician and Minister (b.1844)
- November 3 - Jack Miner, conservationist (b.1865)
- November 26 - Henry Cockshutt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1868)
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| Sovereign states |
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
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| Dependencies and other territories |
- Anguilla
- Aruba
- Bermuda
- Bonaire
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Curaçao
- Greenland
- Guadeloupe
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Martin
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saba
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
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