1946 in Canada

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Events from the year 1946 in Canada.

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January 21 - The Bluenose sinks off Haiti
May 14 - The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 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 23 - The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake affects Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia
June 27 - Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 is enacted, defining a Canadian citizen and including a reference to being a British subject
July 15 - A royal commission investigates a Soviet spy ring in Canada. Secret information was found to be leaked and among the Canadians held suspect was the one parliamentary delegate^{[clarification needed]} of the Labour-Progressive (Communist) Party.
August 3 - A 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.

Kate McGarrigle at the 2008 Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame gala

January 15 - Veronica Tennant, ballet dancer and dance and performance film producer and director
January 17 - Domenic Troiano, rock guitarist (d.2005)
January 22 - Serge Savard, ice hockey player
February 6 - Kate McGarrigle, folk music singer-songwriter (d.2010)
March 1 - Gerry Boulet, rock singer (d.1990)
March 5 - Richard Bell, musician (d.2007)
March 6 - Marcel Proulx, politician
March 11 - Paul DeVillers, politician
March 22 - Rivka Golani, viola player

July 1 - Rosalie Abella, jurist
July 5 - Pierre-Marc Johnson, lawyer, physician, politician and 24th Premier of Quebec
July 10 - Roger Abbott, comedian
July 19 - Dennis Mills, politician and businessman
August 8 - Richard Johnston, politician, educator and administrator
August 29 - Leona Gom, poet and novelist
September 4 - Eric Malling, television journalist (d.1998)
September 4 - Greg Sorbara, politician
September 9 - Lawrence MacAulay, politician

October 16 - Elizabeth Witmer, politician
October 28 - Sharon Thesen, poet
November 4 - Robert Davidson, artist
November 12 - Peter Milliken, lawyer and politician
November 17 - Petra Burka, figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist, World Champion and coach
November 17 - Bob McBride, singer (d.1998)
November 22 - Anne Wheeler, film and television writer, producer and director
November 26 - Andreas Schroeder, poet, novelist and nonfiction writer
December 14 - Paul Forseth, politician
December 17 - Eugene Levy, actor, television director, producer, musician and writer

Howard Ferguson

February 15 - Ernest Howard Armstrong, journalist, politician and Premier of Manitoba (b.1864)
February 21 - Howard Ferguson, politician and 9th Premier of Ontario (b.1870)
August 17 - John Patrick Barry, politician and lawyer (b.1893)
September 9 - Aimé Boucher, politician and notary (b.1877)
October 23 - Ernest Thompson Seton, author and wildlife artist (b.1860)
December 6 - Charles Stewart, politician and 3rd Premier of Alberta (b.1868)
December 25 - Charles Ernest Gault, politician (b.1861)
December 27 - John Babington Macaulay Baxter, lawyer, jurist and 18th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1868)
December 29 - James Thomas Milton Anderson, politician and 5th Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1878)