1957 in Canada
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Events from the year 1957 in Canada.
Incumbents[edit]
Crown[edit]
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II (consort – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)
Federal government[edit]
- Governor general – Vincent Massey (viceregal consort – Alice Massey)
- Prime minister – Louis Saint Laurent (until June 21) then John Diefenbaker
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
- Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge (until December 16) then Campbell Leonard Macpherson
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Louis Orville Breithaupt (until December 30) then John Keiller MacKay
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson
Premiers[edit]
- 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 – 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 1 – The first Canadian peacekeepers arrive in Egypt after the Suez Crisis
- January 17 – HMCS Bonaventure, Canada's third and last aircraft carrier, is commissioned
- March 6 – Quebec's Padlock Law is ruled unconstitutional
- March 20 – The seven-month-long Murdochville Strike begins
- March 28 – The Canada Council is established
- April 15 - White Rock secedes from Surrey in British Columbia following a referendum.
- June 10 – Federal election: John Diefenbaker's PCs win a minority, defeating Louis Saint Laurent's Liberals
- June 21 – John Diefenbaker becomes prime minister, replacing Louis Saint Laurent
- July 31 – The DEW Line begins operation
- September 12 – Canada and the United States sign the NORAD agreement
- October 4 – The first prototype Avro Arrow is presented to the media. The rollout is completely overshadowed by the flight of Sputnik I the same day.
- October 12 – Foreign Minister Lester B. Pearson wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Suez Crisis
- October 13 – Elizabeth II opens the Canadian parliament, the first monarch to do so
- Thanksgiving is moved to its current date, the second Monday in October
- Equalization payments are established.
Arts and literature[edit]
New works[edit]
- F.R. Scott – The Eye of the Needle: Satire, Sorties, Sundries
- Mordecai Richler – A Choice of Enemies
- W.L. Morton – Manitoba: The Birth of a Province
- Farley Mowat – The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
- Northrop Frye – Anatomy of Criticism
Awards[edit]
- See 1957 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Stephen Leacock Award: Robert Thomas Allen The Grass Is Never Greener
Television[edit]
- Front Page Challenge premiers on CBC
Births[edit]
January to June[edit]
- January 8 - Wendy Mesley, broadcast journalist
- January 22 – Mike Bossy, ice hockey player
- January 28 – Michael Baker, politician (d.2009)
- February 17 – Loreena McKennitt, singer, composer, harpist and pianist
- March 10 – Shannon Tweed, actress
- March 24 - Olivia Chow, politician and widow of Jack Layton
- April 29 – Leona Dombrowsky, politician
- May 4 – Kathy Kreiner, alpine skier and Olympic gold medalist
- May 14 – Gilles Bisson, politician
- May 17 – Todd Hardy, leader of the Yukon New Democratic Party from 2002 to 2009 (d. 2010)
July to September[edit]
- July 2 – Bret Hart, wrestler and actor
- July 6 – Ron Duguay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- July 9 – George Nagy, swimmer
- July 15 – Craig Martin, soccer player and coach
- July 22 - Michèle Dionne, wife of Jean Charest, 29th Prime Minister of Quebec
- July 26 – Mark Paré, National Hockey League linesman
- August 6 – Francesca Gagnon, singer
- August 11 – Tony Valeri, politician
- August 15 – David L. Anderson, politician
- August 16 – Mark Evans, rower and Olympic gold medalist
- August 16 – Michael Evans, rower and Olympic gold medalist
- August 20 – Cindy Nicholas, athlete and politician
- August 23 – Georges Farrah, politician
- August 26 – Rick Hansen, paraplegic athlete and activist for people with spinal cord injuries
- September 10 – Darrell Dexter, politician and 27th Premier of Nova Scotia
- September 23 – Sylvie Garant, model
October to December[edit]
- October 10 – Art Boileau, long-distance runner
- October 26 – Glen Murray, politician
- October 30 – Joseph Cordiano, politician and Minister
- November 12 – Andrée A. Michaud, writer
- November 16 – Ferg Hawke, ultra-distance runner
- November 22 – Glen Clark, politician and 31st Premier of British Columbia
- November 30 – Colin Mochrie, comedian and actor
- December 4 – Rob Shick, ice hockey referee
- December 5 – Paul Steele, rower and Olympic gold medalist
- December 6 – Louis Jani, judoka
- December 12 – Robert Lepage, playwright, actor and film director
Full date unknown[edit]
- Daniel J. Caron, national librarian of Library and Archives Canada
- Robert Poulin, murderer responsible for the St. Pius X High School shooting (d.1975)
- Nancy Richler, novelist
Deaths[edit]
- January 16 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, 16th Governor General of Canada (b.1874)
- August 21 – Nels Stewart, ice hockey player (b.1902)
- August 26 – Joseph Tyrrell, geologist, cartographer and mining consultant (b.1858)
- October 21 – Arthur Puttee, politician (b.1868)
- October 31 – Martha Black, politician and the second woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons (b.1866)
- December 10 – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1874)
- December 29 – Humphrey T. Walwyn, naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland (b.1879)
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