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词条 1944 in Canada
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  1. Incumbents

      Crown    Federal government    Provincial governments    Lieutenant governors    Premiers    Territorial governments    Commissioners  

  2. Events

  3. Arts and literature

  4. Sports

  5. Births

     January to June  July to September  October to December  Full date unknown 

  6. Deaths

     January to June  July to December 
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Events from the year 1944 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Head of state (monarch) – George VI

Federal government

  • Governor general – Alexander Cambridge
  • Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
  • Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia) (until 7 January) then Thibaudeau Rinfret (Quebec)
  • 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 – Ernest Manning
  • Premier of British Columbia – John Hart
  • Premier of Manitoba – Stuart Garson
  • Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – A.S. MacMillan
  • Premier of Ontario – George A. Drew
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones
  • Premier of Quebec – Adélard Godbout (until August 30) then Maurice Duplessis
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson (until July 10) then Tommy Douglas

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
  • Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell

Events

  • March 20 - Henry Duncan Graham Crerar becomes chief of the Canadian Army
  • June 6 - World War II: The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division lands at Juno Beach, part of the Invasion of Normandy
  • June 15 - Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a landslide majority, defeating William John Patterson's Liberals
  • July 10 - Tommy Douglas becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing William Patterson
  • July 23 - The First Canadian Army is activated in Normandy, becoming the largest combat force to ever be placed under Canadian command.
  • August 1 - The House of Commons approves the Family Allowance Act
  • August 8 - Alberta election: Ernest Manning's Alberta Social Credit Party wins a third consecutive majority
  • August 17 - World War II: The Canadian Army liberates Falaise
  • August 30 - Maurice Duplessis becomes Premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Adélard Godbout
  • October 1 - The Battle of the Scheldt estuary begins
  • October 13 - 1st Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada suffers significant casualties in the action known in regimental lore as Black Friday
  • October 21 - Smokey Smith earns the Victoria Cross on the Savio River in Italy.
  • December 24 - HMCS Clayoquot sunk off Halifax by a German U-boat
  • Conscription Crisis of 1944

Arts and literature

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Sports

  • April 13 – Montreal Canadiens win their fifth Stanley Cup by defeating the Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 0. The deciding Game 4 was played at the Montreal Forum
  • April 22 – Ontario Hockey Association's Oshawa Generals win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Western Kootenay Junior Hockey League's Trail Smoke Eaters 4 games to 0. The deciding Game 4 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
  • November 25 – St. Hyacinthe–Donnacona Navy win their only Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Flying Wildcats 7 to 6 in the 32nd Grey Cup played at Civic Stadium

Births

January to June

  • January 6 - John Efford, politician
  • February 27 - André Roy, writer
  • March 15 - Francis Mankiewicz, film director, screenwriter and producer (d.1993)
  • March 26 - Benjamin Chee Chee, artist (d.1977)
  • March 29 - Terry Jacks, singer, songwriter, record producer and environmentalist
  • April 12 - Glen Cummings, politician
  • April 17 - Bobby Curtola, singer
  • May 20 - Elinor Caplan, politician and businesswoman
  • May 28 - Rita MacNeil, singer-songwriter
  • June 1 - Aileen Carroll, politician
  • June 29 - Bob Kilger, politician
  • June 29 - Charlie Watt, Senator

July to September

  • July 5 - Norma McCormick, politician
  • July 5 - Robbie Robertson, singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • July 30 - Mendelson Joe, singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter
  • August 11 - Alexa McDonough, politician
  • August 18 - David Newman, politician
  • August 25 - Conrad Black, historian, columnist and publisher, appealing a fraud conviction in the United States
  • September 3 - Brian Linehan, television host (d.2004)
  • September 20 - Phil Fontaine, Aboriginal Canadian leader
  • September 30 - bpNichol, poet (d.1988)
  • September 30 - Diane Dufresne, singer and painter

October to December

  • November 17 -Lorne Michaels, television producer, writer and comedian
  • December 4 - Anna McGarrigle, singer-songwriter
  • December 12 - Peter Goldring, politician
  • December 16 - Judy Sgro, politician
  • December 16 - Mike Radcliffe, politician
  • December 19 - Zal Yanovsky, rock musician (d.2002)
  • December 24 - Daniel Johnson, Jr., politician and 25th Premier of Quebec
  • December 24 - Dan Miller, politician and 32nd Premier of British Columbia

Full date unknown

  • Jorge Zontal, artist and co-founder of the artistic collective General Idea (b.1994)

Deaths

January to June

  • January 9 - John Wesley Dafoe, journalist and author (b.1866)
  • February 6 - Arthur Sauvé, politician (b.1874)
  • March 9 - Roy Brown, World War I flying ace (b.1893)
  • March 28 - Stephen Leacock, writer and economist (b.1869)

July to December

  • July 27 - Clifford William Robinson, lawyer, businessman, politician and 11th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1866)
  • September 5 - Gustave Biéler, Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b.1904)
  • September 9 - John Stuart Foster, physicist (b.1890)
  • September 14 - John Kenneth Macalister, World War II hero (b.1914)
  • September 14 - Frank Pickersgill, World War II hero (b.1915)
  • September 14 - Roméo Sabourin, World War II hero (b.1923)
  • September 27 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (b.1890)
  • October 1 - William Mulock, politician and Minister (b.1844)
  • November 3 - Jack Miner, conservationist (b.1865)
  • November 26 - Henry Cockshutt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1868)
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