1942 in Canada

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Events from the year 1942 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – King George VI (consort – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon)

Federal government

• Governor general – Alexander Cambridge (viceregal consort – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone)
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – William Culham Woodward
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William George Clark
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Frederick F. Mathers (until November 17) then Henry Ernest Kendall
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Albert Edward Matthews
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Bradford William LePage
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Eugène Fiset
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Archibald Peter McNab

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – William Aberhart
• Premier of British Columbia – John Hart
• Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken
• Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
• Premier of Nova Scotia – A.S. MacMillan
• Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn (until October 21) then Gordon Daniel Conant
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Thane Campbell
• Premier of Quebec – Adélard Godbout
• Premier of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell

Events

• January 10 - Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Pilon become the first female lawyers in Quebec
• February 26 - Japanese Canadians are interned and moved further inland.
• April 27 - A national plebiscite is held on the issue of conscription. Most English-Canadians are in favour, while most French-Canadians are not.
• July - The Official Food Rules is published, for the first time.
• August - The National Resources Mobilization Act is repealed as a result of the April plebiscite.
• August 19 - Dieppe Raid
• September 9 - The Canadian government establishes the Wartime Information Board, a government agency responsible for pro-conscription propaganda.
• October 14 - A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137.
• October 21 - Gordon Conant becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Mitchell Hepburn
• December 12 - A fire at the Knights of Columbus Hall in St John's, Newfoundland kills 99.

Births

January to March

• January 12 - Hilary Weston, businessperson and 26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• January 16 - René Angélil, husband and manager of Céline Dion
• January 19 - John Reynolds, politician
• February 5 - Tim Sale, politician
• February 19 - Norm Sterling, politician
• February 20 - Phil Esposito, ice hockey player
• February 22 - Gerard Jennissen, politician
• March 3 - Menaka Thakka, dancer

April to June

• April 8 - Harold Gilleshammer, politician
• April 10 - Nick Auf der Maur, journalist and politician (died 1998)
• April 22 - Sandra Birdsell, novelist and short story writer
• April 26 - Sharon Carstairs, politician and Senator
• May 1 - Becky Barrett, politician
• May 3 - Earl McRae, journalist (Ottawa Sun), apparent heart attack (died 2011)
• May 8 - Pierre Morency, Canadian poet and playwright
• June 9 - John Gerretsen, politician
• June 10 - Preston Manning, politician
• June 21 - Jeannette Lavell, Native rights advocate
• June 25 - Michel Tremblay, novelist and playwright

July to September

• July 1 - Geneviève Bujold, actress
• July 4 - Len Harapiak, politician
• July 11 - Terry Carisse, singer, guitarist, and songwriter (died 2005)
• July 11 - Nancy Zerg, poet
• July 22 - Anita Neville, politician
• July 24 - Gloria George, Native leader
• August 10 - Jim Downey, politician
• August 18 - Jim Abbott, politician
• August 24 - Gary Filmon, politician and 19th Premier of Manitoba
• August 24 - Tony Hunt, artist
• August 30 - Rick Salutin, novelist, playwright and critic
• September 4 - George Baker, politician and Senator
• September 13 - Michael Breaugh, politician
• September 13 - Michel Côté, businessman and politician

October to December

Ralph Klein

• October 10 - Roy Miki, poet and scholar
• October 11 - Dianne Brushett, politician
• November 1 - Ralph Klein, politician and 12th Premier of Alberta (died 2013)
• November 19 - Jim Ernst, politician
• November 20 - Raymond Bonin, politician
• December 1 - Charlie Penson, politician
• December 19 - John Godfrey, educator, journalist and politician
• December 30 - Matt Cohen, writer (died 1999)

Full date unknown

• Dermot O'Reilly, musician, producer and songwriter (died 2007)
• Jay Roberts, football player, lung cancer (died 2010)

Deaths

• January 16 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, 10th Governor General of Canada (born 1850)
• January 30 - Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, politician and 1st Premier of the Northwest Territories (born 1857)
• February 4 - Louis-Adolphe Paquet, theologian (born 1859)
• March 11 - Raoul Dandurand, politician (born 1861)
• March 15 - Edgar Nelson Rhodes, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia (born 1877)
• March 21 - J. S. Woodsworth, politician (born 1874)
• April 24 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, author (born 1874)
• May 18 - Herménégilde Boulay, politician (born 1861)
• June 17 - Charles Fitzpatrick, lawyer, politician and 5th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1853)
• October 6 - Ella Cora Hind, journalist and women's rights activist (born 1861)
• December 26 - Frank Dawson Adams, geologist (born 1859)