1954 in Canada explained
Events from the year 1954 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Full date unknown
Arts and literature
New books
Awards
Joan Walker, Pardon My Parka
Sport
Births
January to June
- January 11 – Jim Wych, snooker player and sports announcer
- January 29 – Doug Risebrough, ice hockey player and coach
- February 3 – Tiger Williams, ice hockey player
- February 24 – Sid Meier, Canadian-American programmer
- March 2 – Ed Johnstone, ice hockey player
- March 4 – Catherine O'Hara, actress
- April 5 - Claude-André Lachance, politician and son of Georges-C. Lachance
- April 7 – Clark Gillies, ice hockey player (d. 2022)
- April 17 – Roddy Piper, wrestler and actor (d. 2015)
- April 20 – Gilles Lupien, ice hockey player and agent (d. 2021)
- May 4 – Sylvia Burka, ice speed skater and World Champion, cyclist
- May 10 – Eleni Bakopanos, politician
- May 13 – David Bissett, field hockey player
- May 14 – Danny Gare, ice hockey player
- May 16 – Dafydd Williams, physician and astronaut
- May 26 – Aritha Van Herk, writer, critic, editor and university professor
- May 28 – John Tory, businessman, politician and broadcaster
- June 3 – Wally Weir, Canadian ice hockey player
- June 28 – Jean-Serge Brisson, politician
July to December
- August 16 – James Cameron, film director, producer and screenwriter
- September 3 – Avis Gray, politician
- September 18 – Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist
- October 21 – Brian Tobin, politician
- November 7 – Guy Gavriel Kay, fantasy fiction author
- November 12 – Dave Edge, long-distance runner
- November 24 – Stuart Murray, politician
- December 14 – Steven MacLean, astronaut
- December 20 – John Kinch, football player (d. 2022)
- December 28 – Lanny Poffo, wrestler (d. 2023)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 24 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat (b. 1894)
- February 13 – Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1890)
- March 15 – Charles MacOdrum, politician
- March 31 – John Walter Jones, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1878)
- April 4 – Abraham Albert Heaps, politician and labor leader (b. 1885)
- April 8 – Winnifred Eaton, author (b. 1875)
- April 13 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890)
- June 18 – Welland Gemmell, politician and Minister
- August 6 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b. 1934)
- November 26 – Wallace Rupert Turnbull, engineer and inventor (b. 1870)
Full date unknown
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Queen Elizabeth II The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 4 December 2022.
- Book: Lentz . Harris M. . Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 . 4 February 2014 . Routledge . 978-1-134-26490-2 . 142 . en.