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Events from the year 1942 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

Crown[]

  • Monarch – George VI

Federal government[]

  • Governor General – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone[1]
  • Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
  • Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
  • Parliament – 19th

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 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.
  • June 20 – The Japanese submarine I-26 shells the Estevan Point lighthouse in BC.
  • 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  • August – The National Resources Mobilization Act is repealed as a result of the April plebiscite.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 – The German submarine U-69 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.

Arts and literature[]

Sport[]

  • April 18 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their fourth Stanley Cup by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3 after being down to the Red Wings 3–0. The deciding Game 7 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
  • April 20 – The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Portage la Prairie Terriers win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Oshawa Generals 3 games to 1. The deciding Game 4 was played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
  • December 5 – The Toronto RCAF Hurricanes win their only Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg RCAF Bombers 8 to 5 in the 30th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

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 - , dancer

April to June[]

  • April 8 - Harold Gilleshammer, politician
  • April 10 - Nick Auf der Maur, journalist and politician (died 1998)
  • April 21 - Pierre Lorrain, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2004)
  • 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) (died 2011)
  • May 8 - Pierre Morency, Canadian poet and playwright
  • May 29 - Larry Mavety, ice hockey player and coach (died 2020)
  • June 9 - John Gerretsen, politician
  • June 10 - Preston Manning, politician
  • June 15 - Ian Greenberg, media businessman (died 2022)
  • June 21 - Jeannette Corbiere 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 - , 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 (died 2019)
  • 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[]

  • Yves Lever, film critic and historian
  • 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)[2]
  • 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)

See also[]

Historical Documents[]

Canadian Press reporter's landing craft "under intense Nazi fire" from boats, planes and infantry at Dieppe[3]

Official study details objectives, heroism and failures of combined commando raid on Dieppe, France[4]

Canadian soldier in Dieppe raid describes prisoner-of-war camp life in Germany[5]

"Considerable excitement and tension" - HMCS Oakville rams U-boat while on convoy duty in Caribbean Sea[6]

"Blasted from a cosy state room to a cold, icy water" - Survivors' tales of torpedoed Sydney–to–Port-aux-Basques ferry Caribou[7]

Pubnico, Nova Scotia children salvage flour, cigarettes and candy bars from torpedoed freighters in harbour[8]

To maintain status quo with Vichy France, Allies manoeuvre to get Free French forces off St. Pierre and Miquelon[9]

Minister of Finance says Canadians not working for themselves or their families, but for victory[10]

In U.S. government profile of Allies, Canada noted for contributions like 2 billion pounds of food and "54% of everyone's income"[11]

"Has Canada fully mobilized her material resources [and] man and woman power to wage total war?" - Opposition Leader's 7-point plan[12]

Federal agriculture minister James Gardiner lists supports and goals for producers, and praises farm men, women and children[13]

PM King broadcasts enhanced plan of men's, women's and youth's service to achieve "total effort for total war"[14]

"The most sacred understanding" - PM King asks voters for release from pledge of no conscription for overseas military service[15]

Canadians vote "yes" in conscription plebiscite by large majorities in 8 provinces, with strong "no" in Quebec[16]

"A systemic policy of annihilation" - Zionist congress of Switzerland reports millions of Jews killed[17]

"Defensive measures of the racial brotherhood" - "Final Solution" should include sterilization of "half-Jews"[18]

Eviction from coastal British Columbia creates many social problems for people of Japanese origin[19]

Young interned Japanese Canadians seek pen pals to "sling some ink our way"[20]

Japanese Canadian George Tanaka experiences feeling of freedom in Toronto, along with both sympathy and racism[21]

Canadian diplomat in Washington strongly suspects U.S. government is eavesdropping on his communications[22]

Drills and training part of Manitoba's Air Raid Precaution campaign, though federal government calls it unnecessary[23]

As part of Victory Bonds campaign, Winnipeg stages "If Day" mock German invasion including arrest of premier and mayor[24]

Film: newsreel report on If Day in Winnipeg[25]

"Death and Destruction!" - Victory Bonds promotion page shows Hamilton, Ont. after bomber attack[26]

Hamilton hydro commission prohibits commercial and decorative lighting, and dims street lights to 60%[27]

"Environments created by war foster dangerous inclinations and tendencies" - PM King urges temperance as part of war effort[28]

"Prophet of a new idea" - Journalist Bruce Hutchison's tribute to late CCF leader and co-founder J.S. Woodsworth[29]

"There is work for everyone" - Whitehorse, Yukon transformed by industrial development[30]

Wife of U.S. Army general enjoys settling in Whitehorse (Note: "squaw" and rape mentioned)[31]

Brief film of Alberta oil sands being quarried and refined[32]

After three decades and 1.6 billion feet of lumber cut, Fort Frances, Ont. mill closes with banquet and dance for employees[33]

Future Netherlands queen Juliana's Ottawa maternity suite declared outside Canadian jurisdiction for birth of her third child[34]

References[]

  1. ^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
  2. ^ "Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. ^ Ross Munro, "'I Saw Canadian Heroes Die at Dieppe'" The Vancouver Sun, Vol. LVI, No. 272 (August 20, 1942), pgs. 1, 10. Accessed 10 July 2020
  4. ^ Gillis Purcell, "First Full Exposition Of Dieppe Raid Given," The Globe and Mail (May 18, 1943). Accessed 8 July 2020 https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/operations/dieppe_e.html (scroll down to First Full Exposition Of Dieppe Raid Given)
  5. ^ Leslie Bernicky, "A Day in the Life of a Prisoner of War" Accessed 7 July 2020
  6. ^ Canadian Naval Forces, "Memorandum: To Naval Broadcasting Officer(...); Interview with Lieut. Cully" Accessed 8 July 2020
  7. ^ H. Thornhill, "A Sad and Bitter Tale Related by Mr. J. Lundrigan - A Survivor" and "The Tale of Mr. William Strickland" It Happened in October: The Tragic Sinking of the SS Caribou. Accessed 8 July 2020
  8. ^ Kelsey Sinclair (interviewer), "Madelyn Moffat" National Home Front Project. Accessed 7 August 2020
  9. ^ Letter and telegram of Secretary of State Cordell Hull (January 8, 1942), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President: The President's Secretary's File (PSF), 1933-1945, Series 1: Safe File, Box 2, France, (PDF pgs 78-88). Accessed 8 July 2020 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=collections/findingaid&id=502 (scroll down to Box 2, France)
  10. ^ J.L. Ilsley, "Canada Delivering The Goods - After Agonizing Years" (January 9, 1942 newspaper clipping). Accessed 8 July 2020
  11. ^ U.S. Office of War Information, "Canada" The Thousand Million, pgs. 5-7. Accessed 7 July 2020
  12. ^ "Governor General's Speech; Continuation of Debate on Address in Reply" (January 26, 1942), House of Commons Debates, 19th Parliament, 3rd Session: Vol. 1, pgs. 20-1. Accessed 13 July 2020
  13. ^ "Farm Forum: Feeding an entire army" (November 9, 1942), National Farm Radio Forum, Radio, CBC Programs, Archives. Accessed 21 January 2021 https://www.cbc.ca/player/archives/cbc%20programs/radio/national%20farm%20radio%20forum (scroll through "National Farm Radio Forum - 10 videos")
  14. ^ William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Canada and the War: Manpower and a Total War Effort" (August 19, 1942). Accessed 13 July 2020
  15. ^ William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Address on the national security plebiscite, April 7, 1942" Accessed 9 July 2020
  16. ^ "Canada Keeps the Faith," The Hamilton Spectator (April 28, 1942). Accessed 8 July 2020 https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/canadawar/conscription_e.html (scroll down to Canada Keeps the Faith)
  17. ^ Translation from Israelitisches Wochenblatt, No. 48 (November 27, 1942), pg. 6, in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pg. 1230 (PDF pg. 1255). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A)
  18. ^ Letter of Dr. [Franz] Schlegelberger "RE: Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (translation; April 5, 1942), Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 814-16 (PDF pgs. 839-41). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A)
  19. ^ "Begin Steps on Second Phase of Evacuation; End of Removal Here but People Still Face Many Difficult Issues; Independent Work Basic" The New Canadian, Vol. XXV, No. 90 (October 17, 1942), pg. 1. Accessed 10 December 2019
  20. ^ "Letters to the Editor" Granada Pioneer (Amache, Colorado, November 7, 1942), pg. 5. Accessed 15 February 2020
  21. ^ "Wartime Toronto and Japanese Canadians" Polyphony (Summer 1984), pgs. 199-200. Accessed 10 July 2020
  22. ^ Letter of Hume Wrong to Department of External Affairs (February 16, 1942). Accessed 7 July 2020
  23. ^ "'Guinea Pig' Company To Test A.R.P. Methods" (January 17, 1942) and "Manitoba A.R.P. Area; Work To Start Despite 'Not Necessary' Verdict" (January 23, 1942), The Winnipeg Tribune. Accessed 9 July 2020
  24. ^ Dick Sanburn, "If On A Black Morn Winnipeg Fell Under Nazi Heel" The Winnipeg Tribune, 53rd Year, No. 43 (February 19, 1942), pg. 1. Accessed 9 July 2020
  25. ^ British Pathé, "If Day In Winnipeg" (1942). Accessed 27 July 2020
  26. ^ "Death and Destruction!; What the Gore Could Look Like After a Dive-Bomber Blitz!" The Hamilton Spectator, Vol. XCVI, No. 31 (March 2, 1942), Second Section. Accessed 9 July 2020
  27. ^ Mayor Wm. Morrison, "WARNING To All Persons in Hamilton!" (1942). Accessed 8 July 2020
  28. ^ William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Canada and the War; Temperance and a Total War Effort" (December 16, 1942 broadcast). Accessed 9 July 2020
  29. ^ Bruce Hutchison, "Saint in Politics" The First Ten Years, 1932-1942; Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, pg. 2. Accessed 9 July 2020
  30. ^ "The Old Town Has Gone" The Whitehorse Star (May 8, 1942), pg. 2. Accessed 9 July 2020
  31. ^ Letter of Nettie Hodge (August 24, 1942). Accessed 9 July 2020
  32. ^ British Pathé, "Canada's New Oil Reserves" (Dublin Issue). Accessed 10 May 2020
  33. ^ "Shevlin-Clarke Co. Ltd. Ends 32 Years of Lumbering Operations in Fort Frances" Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald (April 23, 1942). Accessed 9 July 2020
  34. ^ "Proclamation" The Canada Gazette, Vol. LXXVI, No. 232, Extra (December 26, 1942). Accessed 7 July 2020
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