1947 in Canada
Events from the year 1947 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
- January 1 - Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect.
- January 2 - Dominion of Newfoundland (later a province in 1949) switches to driving on the right from the left.
- January 27 - The cabinet order deporting Japanese-Canadians to Japan is repealed after widespread protests.
- February 13 - Oil is discovered near Leduc, Alberta.
- May 14 - The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 is repealed.
- June 15 - The laws limiting Asian immigration to Canada are repealed; Canadians of Asian descent are allowed to vote in federal elections.
- July 22 - Two new nuclear reactors go online at the Chalk River research facility.
- September 30 - The last group of personnel who had been on active service, for World War II, since September 1, 1939, stood down.[1]
- October 1 - New letters patent defining the office and powers of the governor general come into effect.
- December 29 - Boss Johnson becomes premier of British Columbia.
- Stephen Leacock Award: Harry L. Symons, Ojibway Melody.
- Federal law was changed such that Canadian women no longer lost their citizenship automatically if they married non-Canadians.[2]
New books
- Fearful Symmetry - Northrop Frye
- Who Has Seen the Wind? - W.O. Mitchell
Births
January to March
- January 14 - Bill Werbeniuk, snooker player (d.2003)
- January 15 - Andrea Martin, actress and comedienne
- January 23 - Clayton Manness, politician
- January 24 - Steve McCaffery, poet and scholar
- February 10 - Louise Arbour, jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- February 11 - Abby Hoffman, track and field athlete
- February 20 - Joy Smith, politician
- March 1 - Alan Thicke, actor, songwriter and game and talk show host
- March 10 - Chris Axworthy, politician
- March 10 - Kim Campbell, politician and 19th (and first female) Prime Minister of Canada
- March 13 - Judith Marcuse, dancer
- March 24 - Louise Lanctôt, convicted kidnapper and writer
April to June
- April 3 - Jonathan Welsh, actor (d.2005)
- April 27 - Pauline Picard, politician (d. 2009)
- May 3 - Doug Henning, magician, illusionist and escape artist (d.2000)
- May 4 - John Bosley, politician
- May 20 - Oscar Lathlin, politician (d.2008)
- May 25 - Doug Martindale, politician
- May 28 - Lynn Johnston, cartoonist
- June 10 - Michel Bastarache, lawyer, businessman, puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
- June 14 - Vanessa Harwood, ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, teacher and actor
- June 19 - John Ralston Saul, author and essayist
- June 22 - Aude, writer
July to September
- July 13 - Rosella Bjornson, airline pilot, first female pilot for a commercial airline in North America
- July 18 - Steve Mahoney, politician and Minister
- July 22 - Gilles Duceppe, politician
- July 22 - Bill Matthews, politician
- August 8 - Ken Dryden, ice hockey player, politician, lawyer, businessman and author
- August 24 - Linda Hutcheon, literary critic and theorist
- August 30 - Allan Rock, politician and diplomat
- September 24 - R. H. Thomson, actor
October to December
Full date unknown
Deaths
January to June
R. B. Bennett
July to December
References
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