A V-E Day parade on Sparks Street, Ottawa (May 8, 1945)
Events from the year 1945 in Canada.
[edit] Events
- January 8 - Brantford, Ontario becomes the first Canadian community to fluoridate its water supply.
- 1944-1945: World War II: Japan's Special Balloon Regiment drops 9,000 balloon bombs over the Pacific Northwest, intended to cause panic, by starting forest fires. Six casualties, a woman and her five children in the American state of Oregon, were reported. The ten metre-wide balloons contained 540 cubic metres of hydrogen and reached as far inland as Manitoba. The event was declared a failure and abandoned, after six months.[1]
- January 20 - World War II: The first conscripted Canadian soldiers arrive overseas
- February 8 - World War II: The Anglo-Canadian Operation Veritable launched in the Netherlands
- February 24 - Radio Canada International begins operation
- February 25 - Sergeant Aubrey Cosens posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross
- March 1 - Major Frederick Tilston wins the Victoria Cross
- March 29 - The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan is shut down
- April 16 - World War II: HMCS Esquimalt is sunk off Halifax by a German U-boat.
- May 8 - VE Day sees celebrations across the nation, but also the Halifax Riot.
- June 4 - Ontario general election, 1945: George Drew's PCs win a majority
- June 11 - Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a third consecutive majority
- June 26 - Canada is a founding member of the United Nations
- August 2 - The Canadian Armoured Corps becomes the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
- August 15 - VJ Day marks the end of the Second World War. Over a million Canadians had fought in the conflict and 42,000 were killed.
- September 5 - The defection of Soviet embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko reveals a Soviet spy ring in Canada.
- September 8 - Angus Macdonald becomes premier of Nova Scotia for the second time, replacing Alexander MacMillan
- September 12 - The Ford Motor employees in Windsor, Ontario go on strike.
[edit] Full date unknown
[edit] Arts and literature
- February 25 - Maurice Richard sets a new record for the most goals in a single ice hockey season.
[edit] Births
[edit] January to March
- January 15 - Bonnie Burnard, novelist
- January 18 - Steven Truscott, murderer
- January 21 - Len Derkach, politician
- January 23 - Mike Harris, politician and 22nd Premier of Ontario
- January 27
- February 2 - Pauline Vaillancourt, singer
- February 5 - Nancy McCredie, track and field athlete
- February 19 - Bill Casey, politician
- February 20 - Donald McPherson, figure skater (d.2001)
- March 4 - Patrick Boyer, politician and university professor
- March 26 - Diane McGifford, politician
- March 17 - Dave Bailey, track and field athlete
[edit] April to June
[edit] July to September
[edit] October to December
[edit] Full date unknown
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ "Japan bombs Saskatchewan". CBC.ca. http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/second_world_war/clips/12762/. Retrieved 2011-03-18.
