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1956 in Canada
Summary
Events from the year
1956 in Canada
.
←
1955
1954
1953
1956
in
Canada
→
1957
1958
1959
Decades:
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
See also:
History of Canada
Timeline of Canadian history
List of years in Canada
1956 Canadian
Pontiac
Pathfinder
Sedan Delivery
. Like all Canadian-built Pontiacs of the era, built on a
Chevrolet
chassis, with Chevrolet engines.
Incumbents
edit
Crown
edit
Monarch
–
Elizabeth II
[1]
Federal government
edit
Governor General
–
Vincent Massey
[2]
Prime Minister
–
Louis St. Laurent
Chief Justice
–
Patrick Kerwin
(
Ontario
)
Parliament
–
22nd
Provincial governments
edit
Lieutenant governors
edit
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
edit
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
edit
Commissioners
edit
Commissioner of Yukon
–
Frederick Howard Collins
Commissioner of Northwest Territories
–
Robert Gordon Robertson
Events
edit
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
edit
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
edit
New books
edit
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
edit
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
edit
Walter Susskind
replaces
Sir Ernest MacMillan
as the director of the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
.
Pianist
Glenn Gould
tours the
Soviet Union
Births
edit
January to March
edit
January 6 –
Peter Stoffer
, politician
January 7 –
Mike Liut
, ice hockey player and coach
January 9 –
Gregory Dewar
, politician
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
edit
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
edit
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
edit
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
edit
January to June
edit
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
edit
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
edit
1956 in Canadian television
List of Canadian films
References
edit
^
"Queen Elizabeth II | The Canadian Encyclopedia".
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
. Retrieved
4 December
2022
.
^
Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014).
Heads of States and Governments Since 1945
. Routledge. p. 142.
ISBN
978-1-134-26490-2
.
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