1943 in Canada
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Events from the year 1943 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 – 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 (until May 23) then Ernest Manning (from May 31)
- Premier of British Columbia – John Hart
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken (until January 14) then Stuart Garson
- Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
- Premier of Nova Scotia – A.S. MacMillan
- Premier of Ontario – Gordon Daniel Conant (until May 18) then Harry Nixon (May 18 to August 17) then George A. Drew
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Thane Campbell (until May 11) then J. Walter Jones
- 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 8 - Stuart Garson becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing John Bracken, who had governed for 21 years
- May 11 - J. Walter Jones becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Thane Campbell
- May 18 - Harry Nixon becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Gordon Conant
- May 23 - William Aberhart, premier of Alberta, dies in office
- May 31 - Ernest Manning becomes premier of Alberta
- July - The 1st Canadian Infantry Division is part of the invasion of Sicily.
- August 4 - Ontario election: George Drew's PCs win a minority, defeating Harry Nixon's Liberals
- August 17 - George Drew becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Harry Nixon
- August 19 - The Quebec Agreement is signed in Quebec City, between Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- December 20 - December 27 - Battle of Ortona rages in Italy.
Arts and literature[]
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Sport[]
- April 28 – The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Rangers win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Oshawa Generals 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
- November 27 – The Hamilton Flying Wildcats win their only Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg RCAF Bombers 23 to 14 in the 31st Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
Births[]
January to March[]
- January 9 - Elmer MacFadyen, politician (d.2007)
- January 10 - Carl Ray, artist (d.1978)
- January 23 - Bill Cameron, news anchor, television producer, columnist and author (d.2005)
- January 28 - Paul Henderson, ice hockey player
- February 19 - Art Hanger, politician
- February 23 - Charles Dalfen, chairperson of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (d.2009)
- February 27 - Gordon Earle, politician
- March 11 - Bob Plager, ice hockey player (d.2021)
- March 15 - David Cronenberg, filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional actor
- March 25 - Loyola Hearn, politician and Minister
April to June[]
Nancy Greene
- April 1 - Shirley Render, politician
- April 2 - Alan Tonks, politician
- April 3 - Richard Manuel, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist (d.1986)
- April 12 - Jenny Meldrum, hurdler and heptathlete
- April 22 - Edwin Tchorzewski, politician (d.2008)
- May 11 - Nancy Greene Raine, alpine skier, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion, Senator
- June 5 - Jean-Claude Lord, film director and screenwriter (d.2022)
- June 21 - Diane Marleau, politician and Minister (d.2013)
July to September[]
Joe Handley
- July 15 - John H. Bryden, politician, journalist and historian
- July 30 - Jean Friesen, politician
- July 31 - Ryan Larkin, animator, artist and sculptor (d.2007)
- August 9 - Joe Handley, politician and 10th Premier of the Northwest Territories
- August 12 - Anne Cools, Senator
- August 29 - Arthur B. McDonald, astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
- September 9 - Daurene Lewis, politician and nation's first black female mayor (d.2013)
- September 12 - Alain Dostie, cinematographer, film director and screenwriter
- September 12 - Michael Ondaatje, novelist and poet
- September 19 - Lyle Vanclief, politician and Minister
- September 22 - Maurice Baril, General and Chief of the Defence Staff
- September 27 - Randy Bachman, guitarist and songwriter
October to December[]
David Peterson in 2005
- October 16 - Paul Rose, convicted of murder and kidnapping of Pierre Laporte in 1970 and leader of PDS (1996–2002) (d.2013)
- October 24 - Frank Pitura, politician
- October 26 - Diane Gerace, high jumper
- November 7 - Joni Mitchell, musician, songwriter and painter
- November 13 - André-Gilles Fortin, politician (d.1977)
- November 18 - Michael H. Rayner, public servant (d.2004)
- November 22 - Yvan Cournoyer, ice hockey player
- November 27 - Nicole Brossard, poet and novelist
- December 2 - Larry Grossman, politician (d.1997)
- December 13 - Ferguson Jenkins, baseball player
- December 14 - Linda McIntosh, politician
- December 21 - André Arthur, Canadian journalist and politician
- December 28 - David Peterson, politician and 20th Premier of Ontario
- December 29 - Rick Danko, musician and singer (d.1999)
- December 30 - Linda Thom, shooter and Olympic gold medallist
Deaths[]
- February 9 - Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b.1875)
- May 23 - William Aberhart, politician and 8th Premier of Alberta (b.1878)
- July 2 - Robert James Manion, politician (b.1881)
- July 4 - Gordon Sidney Harrington, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1883)
- July 12 - Joseph Boutin Bourassa, politician (b.1853)
- October 18 - Albert Charles Saunders, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1874)
- November 26 - Charles G.D. Roberts, poet and prose writer (b.1860)
- November 29 - Robert Hamilton Butts, politician (b.1871)
- December 9 - Peter Dmytruk, World War II military hero (b.1920)
- December 23 - Edgar Sydney Little, politician (b.1885)
See also[]
Historical documents[]
Slightly confused 1st Infantry Division invades Sicily against "bewildered" and "sorry looking" Italian defenders[2]
Film: Canadian and U.S. troops train for Italian invasion[3]
Film: Canadian soldiers and nurses embark for Italian invasion[4]
Cartoon: Axis forces quickly retreating from "Sicilian landings"[5]
Command crucial, but battles are won "by human beings displaying judgment, coolness and courage" (and in Sicily's "unending heat")[6]
Seaforth Highlanders take Monte San Marco in Italy, despite steep, muddy terrain and intense German fire[7]
Top German generals recognize disadvantages fighting Allies in Italy, including "Canadians clever at making use of terrain"[8]
Canadian infantry and tanks press "a literally yard-by-yard advance" through Ortona streets, houses, and even rooms[9]
Film: Canadian troops fighting in Ortona[10]
Germans leave Ortona and their dead - "Civilians[...]too dazed to realize the enemy had gone; Canadians[...]too tired to care"[11]
Newspaper illustration of RCAF Spitfire planes strafing freight trains in Europe[12]
Photo: Canadians in joint landing operation with U.S. forces against Japanese invaders on Kiska Island, Alaska[13]
"The Jewish reservoir of the East, which was able to counterbalance the western assimilation, no longer exists"[14]
At end of fourth year of war, Prime Minister King calls for greater effort and sacrifice to defeat faltering Axis[15]
National registration certificate of Mrs. Ethel Louise Buck, Spirit River, Alberta[16]
"We are few, very few" - Quebecker laments that there are not enough pacifists in province to even produce their newsletter[17]
Advisory group chair foresees postwar period of more skilled labour, greater production, new products and technology, and huge demand[18]
U.S.-U.K. agreement creates executive committee with Canadian representation to guide nuclear development[19]
Canada wants multilateral general agreement to reduce tariffs, and to encourage U.S.A. and Canada to "buy in order to sell"[20]
Report with proposed economic reforms for benefit of Prairie provinces, adjacent U.S.A., and world at large[21]
Canada threatens to step back if not given more say in new UN Relief and Rehabilitation Organization[22]
Lester Pearson complains to External Affairs about U.S. censorship of official's call from legation in Washington to Ottawa[23]
Government returns about 15% of seized Japanese-Canadian fishing fleet to owners[24]
"So reactionary to Liberal principles" - PM King depressed by cabinet's close-minded attitude to steelworker strike[25]
Cartoon: Hitler says of strikers, "They are really working for me!"[26]
Communist Tim Buck's submission on labour relations to National War Labor Board emphasizes wage policy and collective bargaining[27]
As they fund-raise for bombers, London's Women's Voluntary Services thanks Manitobans for gifts of clothes and mobile canteens[28]
"You can't refuse this cake, it was sent me all the way from Canada" - touring WVS speaker enjoys local hospitality[29]
"Defend[ing] freedom and culture of humanity" - Shostakovich's thank-you for Toronto performance of his Seventh Symphony[30]
Photo: RCAF member meets famed actor who plays "Rochester" on Jack Benny's radio comedy show[31]
References[]
- ^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
- ^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 127, November 16, 1944), pgs. 1-4. Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ British Pathé, "How They Prepared" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020
- ^ British Pathé, "Canadians Sail To Mediterranean" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020
- ^ John Collins, "The Boys From Syracuse" The (Montreal) Gazette (1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
- ^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 135, May 4, 1945), pgs. 2-3. Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ Historical Section (G.S.), Department of National Defence, "Canadian Operations in Italy, October–November, 1943" (Report No. 161, October 16, 1946), pgs. 22-3. Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ Armed Forces Operations Staff, "Material for the Lecture by the Chief of Armed Forces Operations Staff[...]; Position in Italy" (translation; November 2, 1943), Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Volume VII (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 948-9 (PDF pgs. 953-4). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Volume 7)
- ^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Italy, September–December, 1943: Preliminary Report" (Report No. 129, November 25, 1944), pgs. 12-14. Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ British Pathé, "Canadians Fight Germans Through Streets of Italy" (1944). Accessed 27 July 2020
- ^ Douglas Amaron, "Only German Dead Left In Shambles of Ortona" The Globe and Mail (December 31, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
- ^ Montague Black (artist), "R.C.A.F. and R.A.F. fighter squadrons...." Star Weekly (March 6, 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ United States Navy, "Landing to find the little men not there" (August 15, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ "Four Years of World War" (translation), Israelitisches Wochenblatt (August 27, 1943), in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 1234-5 (PDF pgs. 1259-60). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A)
- ^ William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Four Years of War" (September 10, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ Dominion of Canada; National Registration Regulations, 1940; Registration Certificate (dated June 29, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
- ^ Marie I. Stewart, "Quebec Pacifists," The Canadian C.O., Vol. 1, No. 6 (August 1943), pg. 6. Accessed 17 July 2020 https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/milton-good-library/newsletters-alternative-service (scroll down to The Canadian C.O.; August, 1943)
- ^ "Minutes of Evidence" (March 31, 1943), Proceedings of the [Senate] Special Committee on Economic Re-Establishment and Social Security, pgs. 10-11. Accessed 6 October 2020
- ^ "Article of Agreement Governing Collaboration Between the Authorities of the U.S.A. and the U.K. in the Matter of Tube Alloys" (August 19, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ United States Department of State, "The Chargé in Canada (Clark) to the Secretary of State" Foreign Relations of the United States; Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 1104-5. Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ The University of Manitoba and the University of Minnesota, "The Midcontinent and the Peace; The Interests of Western Canada and Central Northwest United States in the Peace Settlements" (1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ United States Department of State, "Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Acheson)" Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 881-3. Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ Letter of Lester Pearson (March 24, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ "Fishing Fleet Becomes Alive" Granada Pioneer (Amache, Colorado, March 17, 1943), pg. 4. Accessed 15 February 2020 (See photo "Impounded Japanese Canadian vessels requisitioned for military use readied for shipment")
- ^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1943 (January 14), pgs. 32-4. Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ John Collins, "How It's Spelled in Wartime" The (Montreal) Gazette (August 4, 1943). Accessed 17 February 2020
- ^ "A Labor Policy for Victory; Submission presented by Tim Buck on behalf of The Dominion Communist-Labor Total War Committee to The National War Labor Board Inquiry Into Labor Relations; May 28th, 1943." Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ Letter to Margaret Konantz (January 22, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence, "A Tour with a Travelling Officer" The Bulletin, No. 41 (March 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 7 August 2020
- ^ Letter of Dmitri Shostakovich (June 23, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ "Windsor Airman Meets 'Rochester'" Windsor Star (February 17, 1943). Accessed 20 March 2021
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