1946 in Canada - Definition and Overview

See also: 1945 in Canada, other events of 1946, 1947 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Events

• January 21 - The Bluenose sinks off Haiti
• May 14 - The Canadian Citizenship Act is passed. It creates a Canadian citizenship separate from the British.
• May 31 - All Japanese-Canadians ordered deported to Japan
• April 12 - Sir Harold Alexander appointed the new Governor General of Canada, replacing the Earl of Athlone
• June 27 - Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 is enacted, recognized the definition of a Canadian citizen which included a reference to being a British subject
• July 15 - A royal commission investigates a Soviet spy group in Canada. Secret information was found to be leaked and among the Canadians involved was the one parliamentary delegate of the Labour-Progressive (Communist) Party
• August 3 - An Anglophone Canadian wheat agreement provided for British purchases of large amounts of Canadian wheat at prices considerably below the world market
• October 14 - Canada Savings Bonds introduced for the first time
• December 12 - The Canadian Army, Navy and Ariforce are reintegrated into a single organization

Births

• January 15 - Veronica Tennant, ballet dancer
• January 22 - Serge Savard, hockey player
• February 6 - Kate McGarrigle, musician
• March 6 - Marcel Proulx, politician
• March 11 - Paul DeVillers, politician
• March 22 - Rivka Golani, viola player
• April 11 - Donald Orchard, Manitoba politician
• April 15 - David Chatters, politician
• April 28 - Ginette Reno, singer
• May 30 - Don Ferguson, comedian
• June 6 - Judy Jarvis, dancer
• June 17 - Ernie Eves, Ontario premier
• June 24 - David Collenette, politician
• June 25 - Andy Anstett, Manitoba politician
• June 25 - Roméo Dallaire, general
• July 1 - Rosalie Abella, jurist
• July 5 - Pierre-Marc Johnson, Quebec politician
• July 10 - Roger Abbott, comedian
• July 15 - Steven Langdon, politician
• July 19 - Dennis Mills, politician
• August 8 - Richard Johnston, Ontario politician
• September 4 - Greg Sorbara, Ontario politician
• September 9 - Lawrence MacAulay, politician
• September 23 - Anne Wheeler, filmmaker
• October 11 - Leona Gom, poet and novelist
• October 16 - Elizabeth Witmer, Ontario politician
• October 28 - Sharon Thesen, poet
• November 4 - Robert Davidson, artist
• November 12 - Peter Milliken, politician
• November 17 - Petra Burka, figure skater
• November 26 - Andreas Schroeder, author
• December 5 - Andy Kim, musician
• December 14 - Paul Forseth, politician
• December 17 - Eugene Levy, comedian

Deaths