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HOW IT WORKS
1958 in Canada
Summary
Events from the year
1958 in Canada
.
←
1957
1956
1955
1958
in
Canada
→
1959
1960
1961
Decades:
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
See also:
History of Canada
Timeline of Canadian history
List of years in Canada
Incumbents
edit
Crown
edit
Monarch
–
Elizabeth II
[1]
Federal government
edit
Governor General
–
Vincent Massey
[2]
Prime Minister
–
John Diefenbaker
Chief Justice
–
Patrick Kerwin
(
Ontario
)
Parliament
–
23rd
(until 1 February) then
24th
(from 12 May)
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
(until June 5) then
Joseph Leonard O'Brien
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland
–
Campbell Leonard Macpherson
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
–
Alistair Fraser
(until January 15) then
Edward Chester Plow
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
–
John Keiller MacKay
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island
–
Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
(until March 31) then
Frederick Walter Hyndman
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
–
Gaspard Fauteux
(until February 14) then
Onésime Gagnon
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
–
William John Patterson
(until February 3) then
Frank Lindsay Bastedo
Premiers
edit
Premier of Alberta
–
Ernest Manning
Premier of British Columbia
–
W.A.C. Bennett
Premier of Manitoba
–
Douglas Campbell
(until June 30) then
Dufferin Roblin
Premier of New Brunswick
–
Hugh John Flemming
Premier of Newfoundland
–
Joey Smallwood
Premier of Nova Scotia
–
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
January 16 –
Louis St. Laurent
is replaced by
Lester B. Pearson
as leader of the
Liberal Party
February 19–20 –
Rt Hon
Ellen Fairclough
first woman to assume the duties of Prime Minister for two days during
John Diefenbaker
's absence from the country.
March 25 – The
Avro Arrow
flies for the first time
March 31 –
John Diefenbaker
leads the
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
to a massive election victory.
April 5 – The
Seymour Narrows
is made more easily passable after
Ripple Rock
was destroyed in one of the largest planned non-nuclear explosions
May 12 – The
North American Aerospace Defense Command
(NORAD) agreement is signed between the
United States
and
Canada
.
June 17 – The
Second Narrows Bridge
in
Vancouver
collapses killing 18.
June 30 –
Duff Roblin
sworn in as premier of
Manitoba
July 1 –
Canada-wide
television
broadcasting starts
July 1 –
The Lost Villages
in
Ontario
are permanently flooded as part of the
St. Lawrence Seaway
construction project.
October 22 – Canada appoints,
Margaret Meagher
, the country's first female
ambassador
, to
Israel
.
[3]
October 23 – The third
Springhill Mining Disaster
occurs killing 74.
Full date unknown
edit
Ellen Fairclough
becomes Canada's first federal female
cabinet minister
.
Department of Physical Education started at the
University of Saskatchewan
Arts and literature
edit
July 16 – The
Manitoba Theatre Centre
opens.
New works
edit
John Kenneth Galbraith
's
The Affluent Society
Farley Mowat
's
Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great Adventure
Antonine Maillet
's first novel
Pointe-aux-Coques
Awards
edit
See
1958 Governor General's Awards
for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Stephen Leacock Award
:
Eric Nicol
,
Girdle Me A Globe
Film
edit
Morley Callaghan
's
Now That April's Here
is made into a feature film
Allan Dwan
directs his last film
Enchanted Island
Music
edit
Paul Anka
has four hit singles and becomes one of the most popular singers in the world.
Television
edit
Sport
edit
January 17 - The
Canadian Football League
is established with 9 teams (
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
,
Ottawa Rough Riders
,
Toronto Argonauts
,
Saskatchewan Roughriders
,
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
,
Edmonton Eskimos
,
Montreal Alouettes
,
Calgary Stampeders
, and
BC Lions
)
April 20 –
Montreal Canadiens
won their Tenth (and Third consecutive)
Stanley Cup
by defeating the
Boston Bruins
4 games to 2.
May 6 -
Ottawa-Hull Canadiens
won their Second (and only in Ottawa)
Memorial Cup
by defeating the
Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League
's
Regina Pats
4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at
Ottawa Auditorium
November 29 – Winnipeg Blue Bombers won their Fourth
Grey Cup
by defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 35–28 in the
46th Grey Cup
played at
Empire Stadium
in
Vancouver
Births
edit
January to June
edit
January 10 –
Terrence Scammell
, voice director and voice actor
January 29 –
Glen Cochrane
, ice hockey player and scout
February 15 –
Peter Butler
, long-distance runner
February 23
Norm Spencer
, actor (d.
2020
)
Bob Stephen
, Canadian football player (d.
2009
)
Jean Charest
March 8 –
Raymond Simard
, politician
March 30 –
Maurice LaMarche
, voice actor
April 7 –
Ted Nolan
, ice hockey player and coach
April 15 –
Keith Acton
, ice hockey player and coach
April 17 –
Laslo Babits
, javelin thrower
May 10 –
Gaétan Boucher
, speed skater and double Olympic gold medallist
May 13 –
Claire Backhouse-Sharpe
, badminton player
[4]
May 18 –
Bob Chaperon
, snooker and billiards player
June 24 –
Jean Charest
, lawyer and politician, 29th
Premier of Quebec
July to September
edit
Terry Fox
July 12 –
Tonya Lee Williams
, actress
July 28 –
Terry Fox
, humanitarian, athlete and cancer treatment activist (d.
1981
)
August 6 –
Lorne Saxberg
, television journalist and news anchor (d.
2006
)
August 15 –
Craig MacTavish
, ice hockey player and coach
August 17 –
Kirk Stevens
, snooker player
August 19 –
Darryl Sutter
, ice hockey player and coach
August 22 -
Colm Feore
, American-born stage, film and television actor
August 29 –
Linda Staudt
, long-distance runner
September 7 –
Peter Mettler
, filmmaker
September 8 –
Stevie Vallance
, actress, voice actress, stage performer, singer, casting director and voice director
September 11 –
Jeffrey A. Hutchings
, fisheries scientist (d.
2022
)
September 16 –
Jennifer Tilly
, actress and poker player
September 17 –
Monte Solberg
, politician and businessman
September 25 –
Rob McCall
, ice dancer (d.
1991
)
September 28 –
Angella Taylor-Issajenko
, sprinter
October to December
edit
October 8 –
Neile Graham
, poet and scholar
November 3 –
Kevin Sorenson
, politician
November 6 –
Kevin Doherty
, judoka
November 19 –
Joe Jordan
, politician
December 10 –
David Paul Grove
, actor and voice actor
December 12 –
Lucie Guay
, canoe racer
December 24 –
Lyse Doucet
, journalist and broadcaster
December 25 –
Alannah Myles
, singer-songwriter
Full date unknown
edit
John Colapinto
, journalist, author and novelist
[5]
Kim Rabot (d.
1975
)
Gordon Stewart Anderson
, writer (d.
1991
)
Deaths
edit
Robert W. Service, c.1905
January to June
edit
January 7 –
Margaret Anglin
, actress, director and producer (b.
1876
)
January 8 –
John Duff
, race car driver (b.
1895
)
January 16 –
Charles Bélec
, politician (b.
1872
)
April 1 –
J. Arthur Ross
, politician (b.
1893
)
May 12 –
Lewis Stubbs
, judge and politician (b.
1878
)
June 26 –
George Orton
, middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medallist, first Canadian to win an Olympic medal (b.
1873
)
July to December
edit
George Stewart Henry
July 21 –
Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger
, politician and lawyer (b.
1888
)
September 2 –
George Stewart Henry
, politician and 10th
Premier of Ontario
(b.
1871
)
September 11 –
Camillien Houde
, politician and four-time mayor of
Montreal
(b.
1889
)
September 11 –
Robert W. Service
, poet and writer (b.
1874
)
October 2 –
Charles Avery Dunning
, politician, Minister and university chancellor (b.
1885
)
November 10 –
Billy Boucher
, ice hockey player (b.
1899
)
See also
edit
1958 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
.
^
"Canada appoints first woman ambassador".
CBC News
. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010
. Retrieved
23 October
2010
.
^
"Claire Sharpe". Olympedia
. Retrieved
January 3,
2021
.
^
Colapinto, John, 1958- : Toronto Public Library