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==Events==
* January 1: The [[CBC News|CBSCBC News Service]] officially begins operations in English; operations in French begin the following day. [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]'s board of governors determined that a national news service will assist in reporting the war.<ref>Ross Eaman, ''Historical Dictionary of Journalism'' (Scarecrow Press, 2009), p. 100.</ref>
* March 4: The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] begin to register [[Japanese Canadian]]s; registration is completed by the end of August.<ref>Mitsuo Yesaki, ''Sutebusuton: A Japanese Village on the British Columbia Coast'' (Peninsula Publishing, 2003), p. 100.</ref>
* April 29: Quebec, the last province to exclude women from the legal profession, allow women to practice law. The first Quebec woman lawyer is Elizabeth Monk, who is [[called to the bar]] the next year.<ref>Fiona M. Kay & Joan Brockman, "Barriers to Gender Equality in the Canadian Legal Establishment" in ''Women in the World's Legal Professions'' (eds. Ulrike Schultz & Gisela Shaw; Hart Publishign, 2003), p. 52.</ref><ref>Joan Brockman, ''Gender in the Legal Profession: Fitting or Breaking the Mould'' (UBC Press, 2001), pp. 6-7.</ref>