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1946 in Canada

1946 in Canada

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

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Events

* January 21 - The Bluenose sinks off Haiti
* May 14 - The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 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.

Births

* January 15 - Veronica Tennant, ballet dancer
* January 22 - Serge Savard, hockey player
* February 6 - Kate McGarrigle, musician
* March 1 - Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer (Offenbach)
* 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 14 - Paul Forseth, politician
* December 17 - Eugene Levy, comedian

Deaths

* August 17 - John Patrick Barry, politician
* September 9 - Aimé Boucher, politician

Marriages

* August 25 - Gerald Sweeney and Madeline Carbage, Bell Island, Newfoundland


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