1950 in Canada

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Years:	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953

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Events from the year 1950 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

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

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen (until February 1) then John J. Bowlen
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Charles Arthur Banks (until October 1) then Clarence Wallace
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Ray Lawson
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Joseph Alphonsus Bernard (until October 4) then Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Eugène Fiset (until October 3) then Gaspard Fauteux
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – John Michael Uhrich

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Commissioner of Yukon – John Edward Gibben (until August 15) then Andrew Harold Gibson
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside (until November 14) then Hugh Andrew Young

Events

January 14 - The first non-stop trans-Canada flight is made
February 14 - Nancy Hodges of BC becomes the first woman in the Commonwealth elected speaker of a legislature in Canadian history.
Early May - The Winnipeg Flood along the Red River causes immense damage and one death in Winnipeg
May 29 - The St. Roch becomes the first vessel to circumnavigate North America
August 7 - Canada joins a United Nations force to fight in Korean War
August 22 – August 30 - Rail workers strike shuts down much of the Canadian economy
29 October – 7 November 1956 - The Suez Crisis
October 31 - The oil pipeline linking Edmonton to Sarnia is completed
November 28 - Canada joins onto the Colombo Plan
December 18 - Korean War: First Canadian troops arrive in Korea.

Full date unknown

Cité libre magazine is first published
British Columbia Provincial Police are disestablished.

Arts and literature

Awards

See 1950 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and nominees for those awards.
Stephen Leacock Award: Earle Birney, Turvey

Births

January to March

John Manley

January 5 - John Manley, lawyer, businessman, politician and Minister
January 13 - Joe Fontana, politician
January 17 - Jean Poirier, politician
January 18 - Gilles Villeneuve, motor racing driver (d.1982)
February 8 - Keith Milligan, politician
February 9 - Tom Wappel, politician
February 12 - Michael Ironside, actor, voice actor, producer, film director and screenwriter
March 6 - Bruce Simpson, pole vaulter
March 17 - Jackson Davies, actor
March 23 - Jerry Storie, politician
March 23 - Ralph Eichler, politician
March 26 - Martin Short, comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer

April to June

April 1 - Daniel Paillé, leader of the Bloc Québécois
April 19 - Gérard Asselin, politician and MP for Charlevoix and Manicouagan (1993-2011) (d. 2013)
May 2 - Jose Kusugak, Inuit politician (d. 2011)
May 12 - Louise Portal, actress, singer, and director
May 27 - Brent St. Denis, politician
June 1 - Perrin Beatty, corporate executive and politician
June 7 - John Wood, Olympic canoeist (d. 2013)
June 21 - Anne Carson, poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics and comparative literature

July to September

Jack Layton

July 5 - Deepak Obhrai, politician
July 6 - Hélène Scherrer, politician and Minister
July 7 - Leon Benoit, politician
July 18 - Jack Layton, politician, leader of New Democratic Party of Canada (2003-2011) and Leader of the Official Opposition (2011) (d.2011)
August 2 - Sue Rodriguez, advocate for assisted suicide (d.1994)
August 6 - Carole Pope, rock singer-songwriter
August 15 - Ron Lemieux, ice hockey player and politician
August 16 - Stockwell Day, politician
August 31 - Anne McLellan, academic, politician, Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
September 8 - Richard Henry Bain, criminal who is charged with the September 4, 2012, Montreal, Quebec, shooting that killed Denis Blanchette.
September 9 - Janis Babson (d.1961)
September 16 - Sheila Fraser, Auditor General of Canada
September 18 - Darryl Sittler, ice hockey player

October to December

Dennis Fentie

October 17 – Val Ross, writer and journalist (d.2008)
October 31 - John Candy, comedian and actor (d.1994)
November 2 - Wendy Lill, playwright and politician
November 2 - Daryl Reid, politician
November 5 - Susan Nattrass, sport shooter
November 8 - Dennis Fentie, politician and 7th Premier of the Yukon
November 14 - Colleen Peterson, singer (d.1996)
December 18 - Martha Johnson, pop singer and songwriter
December 20 - Carolyn Bennett, politician
December 21 - Lap-Chee Tsui, geneticist

Full date unknown

David Barr, Commander of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command
Denis Simpson, singer and actor (d. 2010)

Deaths

January to June

February 7 - Thomas Langton Church, politician and Mayor of Toronto (b.1870)
April 7 - Walter Huston, actor (b.1884)

William Lyon Mackenzie King

May 15 - Hervé-Edgar Brunelle, politician and lawyer (b.1891)
June 28 - James Allison Glen, politician, Minister and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b.1877)

July to December

July 22 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, lawyer, economist, university professor, civil servant, journalist, politician and 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1874)
July 25 - Gleason Belzile, politician (b.1898)
August 1 - Humphrey Mitchell, politician and trade unionist (b.1894)
August 2 - Pierre-François Casgrain, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b.1886)
November 11 - John Knox Blair, politician, physician and teacher (b.1875)

Full date unknown

William Sanford Evans, politician (b.1869)

List of years in Canada

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