1955 in Canada

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Events from the year 1955 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II (consort – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)

Federal government

• Governor general – Vincent Massey (viceregal consort – Alice Massey)
• Prime minister – Louis Saint Laurent

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clarence Wallace (until October 3) then 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

• 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
• Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alex Matheson
• Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – Wilfred George Brown (until June 8) then Frederick Howard Collins
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

Events

• January 7 – The first television broadcast of the opening of parliament
• February 1 – The Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank merge to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank
• March 17- Richard Riot
• April 2 – The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge connecting Halifax to Dartmouth opens.
• June 9 – Ontario general election, 1955: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fourth consecutive majority
• June 29 – Alberta general election, 1955: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a sixth consecutive majority.
• July 11 – Seven teenagers die in a mountaineering accident on Mount Temple in Banff National Park.
• Cape Breton Island is connected to the mainland by the Canso Causeway

Arts and literature

New books

• Gabrielle Roy: Rue Deschambault

Awards

• See 1955 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice

Music

• Glenn Gould's first recording of the Goldberg Variations is made.

Sport

• March 17 – A riot erupts in Montreal when Maurice Richard is suspended.
• The Canadian Sports Hall of Fame is created.

Births

Eva Aariak

January to June

• January 4 – John Nunziata, politician
• January 10 - Eva Aariak, politician, and 2nd Premier of Nunavut
• January 28 – Odette Lapierre, long-distance runner
• February 23 – Jerry Holland, fiddler
• February 25 – Camille Thériault, politician and 29th Premier of New Brunswick
• February 27 – MaryAnn Mihychuk, politician
• March 16 – Andy Scott, politician and Minister
• April 6 – Cathy Jones, comedian and writer
• April 25 – Jane Stewart, politician and Minister
• May 12 – Yvon Godin, politician
• May 14 – Marie Chouinard, dancer, choreographer and dance company director
• June 14 – Joe Preston, politician
• June 16 – J. Jill Robinson, writer

July to December

Dalton McGuinty

• July 7 – Gord Mackintosh, politician
• July 13 – Hubert Lacroix, lawyer and President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• July 17 – Geneviève Cadieux, artist
• July 19 – Dalton McGuinty, lawyer, politician and 24th Premier of Ontario
• August 6 – Gilles Bernier, politician
• August 12 – Tooker Gomberg, politician and environmental activist (d.2004)
• August 19 – Bev Desjarlais, politician
• August 31 – Sidney McKnight, boxer

Stéphane Dion

• September 28 – Stéphane Dion, politician and Minister
• October 12 – Issa, singer-songwriter
• November 4 – Rodger Cuzner, politician
• November 10 – Ken Holland, ice hockey player
• December 13 – Pat Martin, politician

Full date unknown

• Vatche Arslanian, Canadian Red Cross worker, killed in Iraq (d.2003)
• Kim Morrissey, poet and playwright

Deaths

• April 24 – Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor (b.1876)
• April 26 – Lyman Duff, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (b.1865)
• May 10 – Tommy Burns, only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer (b.1881)
• June 16 – Ozias Leduc, painter (b.1864)
• August 5 – Izaak Walton Killam, financier (b.1885)
• August 7 – Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1871)
• October 1 – Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner (b.1880)