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Canada-related events during the year of 1954
Events from the year
1954 in Canada
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Incumbents
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Crown
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Federal government
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Provincial governments
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Lieutenant governors
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Premiers
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Territorial governments
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Commissioners
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Events
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Arts and literature
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New books
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Awards
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Sport
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Births
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January to June
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- January 11 ?
Jim Wych
, snooker player and sports announcer
- January 29 ?
Doug Risebrough
, ice hockey player and coach
- February 3 ?
Tiger Williams
, ice hockey player
- February 24 ?
Sid Meier
, Canadian-American programmer
- March 2 ?
Ed Johnstone
, ice hockey player
- March 4 ?
Catherine O'Hara
, actress
- April 5 -
Claude-Andre Lachance
, politician and son of
Georges-C. Lachance
- April 7 ?
Clark Gillies
, ice hockey player (d. 2022)
- April 17 ?
Roddy Piper
, wrestler and actor (d. 2015)
- April 20 ?
Gilles Lupien
, ice hockey player and agent (d. 2021)
- May 4 ?
Sylvia Burka
, ice speed skater and World Champion, cyclist
- May 10 ?
Eleni Bakopanos
, politician
- May 13 ?
David Bissett
, field hockey player
- May 14 ?
Danny Gare
, ice hockey player
- May 16 ?
Dafydd Williams
, physician and astronaut
- May 26 ?
Aritha Van Herk
, writer, critic, editor and university professor
- May 28 ?
John Tory
, businessman, politician and broadcaster
- June 3 ?
Wally Weir
, Canadian ice hockey player
- June 28 ?
Jean-Serge Brisson
, politician
July to December
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- August 16 ?
James Cameron
, film director, producer and screenwriter
- September 3 ?
Avis Gray
, politician
- September 18 ?
Steven Pinker
, cognitive psychologist
- October 21 ?
Brian Tobin
, politician
- November 7 ?
Guy Gavriel Kay
, fantasy fiction author
- November 12 ?
Dave Edge
, long-distance runner
- November 24 ?
Stuart Murray
, politician
- December 14 ?
Steven MacLean
, astronaut
- December 20 ?
John Kinch
, football player (d. 2022)
- December 28 ?
Lanny Poffo
, wrestler (d. 2023)
Full date unknown
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Deaths
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- January 24 ?
H. H. Wrong
, diplomat (b.
1894
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- February 13 ?
Agnes Macphail
, politician, first woman to be elected to the
House of Commons of Canada
(b.
1890
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- March 15 ?
Charles MacOdrum
, politician
- March 31 ?
John Walter Jones
, politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island
(b.
1878
)
- April 4 ?
Abraham Albert Heaps
, politician and labor leader (b.
1885
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- April 8 ?
Winnifred Eaton
, author (b.
1875
)
- April 13 ?
Angus Lewis Macdonald
, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th
Premier of Nova Scotia
(b.
1890
)
- June 18 ?
Welland Gemmell
, politician and Minister
- August 6 ?
Emilie Dionne
, one of the
Dionne Quintuplets
(b.
1934
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- November 26 ?
Wallace Rupert Turnbull
, engineer and inventor (b.
1870
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Full date unknown
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See also
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References
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