1946 in Canada

See also: 1945 in Canada, other events of 1946, 1947 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Events

• January 21 – The Bluenose sinks off Haiti
• May 14 – The Canadian Citizenship Act is passed. It creates a Canadian citizenship separate from the British.
• May 31 – All Japanese-Canadians ordered deported to Japan
• April 12 – Sir Harold Alexander appointed the new Governor General of Canada, replacing the Earl of Athlone
• June 27 – Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 is enacted, recognized the definition of a Canadian citizen which included a reference to being a British subject
• July 15 – A royal commission investigates a Soviet spy group in Canada. Secret information was found to be leaked and among the Canadians involved was the one parliamentary delegate of the Labour-Progressive (Communist) Party
• August 3 – An Anglophone Canadian wheat agreement provided for British purchases of large amounts of Canadian wheat at prices considerably below the world market
• October 14 – Canada Savings Bonds introduced for the first time
• December 12 – The Canadian Army, Navy and Ariforce are reintegrated into a single organization

Births

• January 15 – Veronica Tennant, ballet dancer
• January 22 – Serge Savard, hockey player
• February 6 – Kate McGarrigle, musician
• March 6 – Marcel Proulx, politician
• March 11 – Paul DeVillers, politician
• March 22 – Rivka Golani, viola player
• April 11 – Donald Orchard, Manitoba politician
• April 15 – David Chatters, politician
• April 28 – Ginette Reno, singer
• May 30 – Don Ferguson, comedian
• June 6 – Judy Jarvis, dancer
• June 17 – Ernie Eves, Ontario premier
• June 24 – David Collenette, politician
• June 25 – Andy Anstett, Manitoba politician
• June 25 – Roméo Dallaire, general
• July 1 – Rosalie Abella, jurist
• July 5 – Pierre-Marc Johnson, Quebec politician
• July 10 – Roger Abbott, comedian
• July 15 – Steven Langdon, politician
• July 19 – Dennis Mills, politician
• August 8 – Richard Johnston, Ontario politician
• September 4 – Greg Sorbara, Ontario politician
• September 9 – Lawrence MacAulay, politician
• September 23 – Anne Wheeler, filmmaker
• October 11 – Leona Gom, poet and novelist
• October 16 – Elizabeth Witmer, Ontario politician
• October 28 – Sharon Thesen, poet
• November 4 – Robert Davidson, artist
• November 12 – Peter Milliken, politician
• November 17 – Petra Burka, figure skater
• November 26 – Andreas Schroeder, author
• December 5 – Andy Kim, musician
• December 14 – Paul Forseth, politician
• December 17 – Eugene Levy, comedian

Deaths