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Events from the year 1950 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

Crown[]

  • Monarch – George VI

Federal government[]

  • Governor General – the Viscount Alexander of Tunis[1]
  • Prime Minister – Louis St. Laurent
  • Chief Justice – Thibaudeau Rinfret (Quebec)
  • Parliament – 21st

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[]

  • Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
  • Premier of British Columbia – Byron Johnson
  • Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
  • Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
  • Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Macdonald
  • Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones
  • Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

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 British Columbia 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
  • 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[]

Arts and literature[]

Awards[]

Sport[]

  • April 23 - The Detroit Red Wings win their fourth Stanley Cup by defeating the New York Rangers 4 games to 3. Due to scheduling conflicts at Madison Square Garden, all of the Rangers' home games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
  • May 6 - The Quebec Junior Hockey League's Montreal Junior Canadiens win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 4 games to 1. All games were held at Montreal Forum.
  • November 25 - The Toronto Argonauts win their ninth Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 13–0 in the 38th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

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 16 - Robert Dutil, Canadian businessman and politician
  • April 19 - Gérard Asselin, politician and MP for Charlevoix and Manicouagan (1993-2011) (d. 2013)
  • May 2 - Jose Kusugak, Inuit politician (d. 2011)
  • May 10 – Dale Wilson, voice actor
  • 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 2 - Lee Maracle, writer and academic (d.2021)
  • July 5 - Deepak Obhrai, politician (d.2019)
  • 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)
  • July 20 - Lucille Lemay, archer[2]
  • 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

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 House of Commons of Canada (b.1886)
  • October 19 - Charles Ballantyne, politician, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (b. 1867)
  • November 11 - John Knox Blair, politician, physician and teacher (b.1873)

Full date unknown[]

  • William Sanford Evans, politician (b.1869)

See also[]

Historical documents[]

North Korea invades South and Opposition Leader says Canada is involved through UN role and because of immediacy of modern world [3]

Moral, not strategic, stakes require defeat of North Korea, so that "naked aggression" will not destroy state created by UN [4]

Film: newsreel of Canadian airmen leaving for Korea as U.S. troops fight on defensive near Pusan invasion beachhead [5]

Canada and U.S.A. agree to further defence industry mobilization at level of cooperation seen in Second World War [6]

"It is the function of diplomacy to seek accommodation" - Canada and allies send in diplomats as well as military to end Korean War [7]

Canadian troops arrive by ship at Pusan, Korea and U.S. Army band plays "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake" [8]

"Uneasy equilibrium" - In countering Chinese attack in Korean War, Canada and allies must not provoke U.S.S.R. to start world war[9]

"Growing atmosphere of fear, suspicion, frustration, and isolation" - Authorities in Eastern Bloc countries harass diplomats [10]

"Our first duty to civilization is[...]sufficient military strength" - Prime Minister St. Laurent on liberalism against totalitarianism [11]

For federal-provincial accord on bill of rights, Senate committee says "control within Canada of the Canadian Constitution" is required[12]

Though "coloured troops introduced venereal disease[...]during the war," Canada can hardly refuse Black GIs since U.S. military integration [13]

Pakistani PM says idea that "commonwealth ties are mainly religious, historical or racial must be regarded as having outlived its use"[14]

"There is discrimination against Indians in the matter of immigration[...]and admission of relatives of Indians already settled" [15]

With Canada's "serious shortage of female domestics and nurses' aids," loans should go to Europeans in "this class of immigrant" [16]

"We can ASK...CRUSADE...DEMAND...and WIN" - Alton C. Parker and other Windsor, Ont. Blacks organize to oppose segregation [17]

Photo: Emily General from Six Nations of the Grand River shows Haldimand Treaty to members of UN Commission on Human Rights [18]

"Vast volume of water into every stream" - Signs of major flood event noted before Red River flood surge enters Manitoba [19]

Film: newsreel of Winnipeg flood extent and evacuations [20]

"Small measure of our gratitude for all the help we have had" - Britons donate unique household items to flood victims [21]

"Too willing to accept people at their face value" - RCMP security report on Canadian diplomat Herbert Norman [22]

Film: 30-minute short on cancer research and treatment includes laboratory, hospital and classroom shots, plus animation[23]

Film: newsreel of parachute personnel jumping from Dakota aircraft on practice rescue mission out of RCAF Station Trenton [24]

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. ^ "Lucille LEMAY - Olympic Archery | Canada". International Olympic Committee. 15 June 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  3. ^ George Drew, "Supply; Department of National Defence" (June 26, 1950), House of Commons Debates, 21st Parliament, 2nd Session: Vol. 4, pg. 4119. Accessed 29 September 2020
  4. ^ "Secretary of State for External Affairs to All Missions Abroad" (August [sic; June?] 28, 1950), Chapter II, Korean Conflict; Part 1, Creation of United Nations' Unified Command, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 16, pg. 16. Accessed 30 September 2020
  5. ^ British Pathé, "Korea; Beach-Head Defences Strengthened" (1950). Accessed 27 July 2020
  6. ^ United States Department of State, Letter to Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair (September 22, 1950), Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950; The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere; Canada, pgs. 585-6. Accessed 29 September 2020
  7. ^ "17. Excerpts from a broadcast by the Secretary of State for External Affairs over the Trans-Canada Network, December 5, 1950," Documents on the Korean Crisis (1951), pgs. 16-17. Accessed 28 September 2020 http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/tribune/website/clippings/korea/Documents_on_the_Korean_Crisis18.shtml and http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/tribune/website/clippings/korea/Documents_on_the_Korean_Crisis19.shtml
  8. ^ War diary 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (December 18, 1950), PDF pg. 4; song. Accessed 28 September 2020
  9. ^ United States Department of State, "Korea: Action in the United Nations" (External Affairs memorandum, December 27, 1950), The Period from November 28 to December 31, 1950[...], Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950; Korea, pgs. 1618-19. Accessed 28 September 2020
  10. ^ External Affairs memorandum (March 2, 1950), Chapter I, Conduct of External Relations; Part 1, Diplomatic and Consular Representation; Section D, Iron Curtain Missions: Assessment, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 16, pg. 7. Accessed 29 September 2020
  11. ^ Louis St. Laurent, "The Preservation of Civilization" (October 27, 1950). Accessed 28 September 2020 https://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/h4-4017-e.html or http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/leaders/Louis_St_Laurent/Canada_and_The_Cold_War.html
  12. ^ "Report" (June 21, 1950), Proceedings of the Special Committee on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, pgs. 305-6. Accessed 7 October 2020
  13. ^ "Memorandum from Defence Liaison Division to Under Secretary of State for External Affairs" (August 25, 1950), Chapter VIII, Relations with the United States; Part 1, Defence Issues; Section G, Establishment of United States Northeast Command, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 16, pg. 847. Accessed 30 September 2020
  14. ^ "Appendix; Address of Honourable Liaquat Ali Khan" (May 31, 1950), House of Commons Debates, 21st Parliament, 2nd Session, Vol. 3, pg. 3044. Accessed 29 August 2021
  15. ^ "Memorandum of High Commission of India, November 7, 1950: Immigration of Indians into Canada" Chapter VII, Commonwealth Relations; Part 4, Relations with Individual Countries; Section B, India: Immigration, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 16, pg. 706. Accessed 30 September 2020
  16. ^ "Cabinet Document: Loans to Immigrants" (May 17, 1950), Chapter IX, Western Europe; Part 1, General; Section E, Immigration, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 16, pg. 964. Accessed 30 September 2020
  17. ^ Central Citizens' Association for the Advancement of Coloured People flyer (November 16, 1950). Accessed 28 September 2020
  18. ^ United Nations, "Indian Tribesmen Visit United Nations" Photo #140569 (May 8, 1950). Accessed 28 September 2020
  19. ^ "Background to Disaster" "Call 320;" A Documentary Record of the 1950 Manitoba Flood and Red Cross Activities in the Disaster, pgs. 7-11. Accessed 28 September 2020
  20. ^ British Pathé, "Winnipeg's Flood Peril Grows" (1950). Accessed 27 July 2020
  21. ^ Women's Voluntary Services, "Token Gifts for Canada" The W.V.S. Bulletin, No. 127 (July 1950), pg. 7. Accessed 7 August 2020
  22. ^ "RCMP Report on Norman" (November 27, 1950), "Death of a Diplomat: Herbert Norman & the Cold War" Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History. Accessed 28 September 2020
  23. ^ National Film Board of Canada, "Challenge: Science Against Cancer" (1950). Accessed 11 April 2021
  24. ^ British Pathé, "Air Rescue Practice Put To The Test" (1950). Accessed 27 July 2020
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