1952 in Canada

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Events from the year 1952 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – King George VI (until February 6) then Queen Elizabeth II (consort – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon then Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)

Federal government

• Governor general – Earl Alexander of Tunis then Vincent Massey (viceregal consort – Margaret Alexander, Countess Alexander of Tunis then Alice Massey)
• Prime minister – Louis Saint Laurent

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clarence Wallace
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy (until September 1) then Alistair Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Ray Lawson (until February 18) then Louis Orville Breithaupt
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia – Byron Johnson (until August 1) then W.A.C. Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
• Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair (until October 8) then Hugh John Flemming
• Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Macdonald
• Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones
• Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Fraser (until November 5) then Wilfred George Brown
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Hugh Andrew Young

Events

• January 24 – Vincent Massey appointed first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada
• February 6 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen of Canada upon the death of her father George VI.
• June 11 – Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a third consecutive majority
• May 25 – Korean War: Canadian troops are dispatched to the troubled Geoje POW Camp
• August 1 – W.A.C. Bennett becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Byron Johnson
• August 5 – Alberta election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a fifth consecutive majority
• September 6 – The first CBC Television station, CBFT, goes on the air in Montreal, Quebec
• September 8 – CBLT (CBC Toronto) goes on air
• September 11 – Volkswagen of Canada is founded.
• September 16 – The Boyd Gang is captured
• October 2 – Korean War: HMCS Iroquois, while shelling an enemy train in Korea, is hit by return fire from shore batteries. Three sailors were killed and 10 wounded: the only Royal Canadian Navy casualties of the war.
• October 8 – Hugh John Flemming becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing John McNair
• October 14 – Lester B. Pearson is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Full date unknown

• Fighting in the Korean War drags on as the factions attempt to negotiate an armistice.
• The pension system is reformed with the introduction of the Old Age Security Act.
• Roy Thomson acquires The Scotsman and emigrates to Britain
• Painters Eleven founded.
• Atomic Energy Canada founded.
• Manitoba women were first permitted to serve on juries. (New Brunswick women become jurors in 1954, and PEI women in 1966).

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas B. Costain: The Silver Chalice

Awards

• See 1952 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Jan Hilliard, The Salt Box

Sport

• February 14-February 25: Winter Olympics in Oslo, Canada wins men's hockey gold.
• February 24 – At the 1952 Winter Olympics the Canadian hockey team wins gold.
• The Detroit Red Wings sweep the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup.

Births

Kathy Dunderdale in May 31, 2011

January to June

• February – Kathy Dunderdale, politician and 10th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
• February 3 – Wayne Erdman, judoka
• February 18 – Bernard Valcourt, politician and lawyer
• February 27 – Maureen McTeer, author and lawyer
• March 4 – Svend Robinson, politician, Canada's first openly homosexual elected official and prominent activist for gay rights
• May 13 – Mary Walsh, actress and comedian
• May 17 – Howard Hampton, politician
• June 2 – Ferron, folk singer-songwriter and poet
• June 6 – Jean Hamel, ice hockey player
• June 22 – Graham Greene, actor
• June 29 – David Dingwall, politician, Minister and civil servant

July to September

• July 1 – Dan Aykroyd, comedian, actor, screenwriter and musician
• July 1 – Sam George, native rights activist (d.2009)
• July 1 – Deborah Grey, politician
• July 3 – Rohinton Mistry, author
• July 6 – George Athans, world-champion water skier
• July 7 – David Milgaard, wrongfully convicted of murder
• July 25 – Nancy Allan, politician
• August 9 – Gary Kowalski, politician
• September 8 – Sue Barnes, politician
• September 10 – Vic Toews, politician
• September 12 – Neil Peart, drummer and author

October to December

Lorne Calvert

• October 2 – Marie Deschamps, jurist and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
• October 4 – Angela Coughlan, swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (d.2009)
• October 22 – Peggy Baker, dancer
• November 10 – Jim Maloway, politician
• November 16 – Candas Jane Dorsey, poet and science fiction novelist
• November 27 – Sheila Copps, journalist and politician
• December 12 – Herb Dhaliwal, politician and Minister
• December 24 – Lorne Calvert, politician and 13th Premier of Saskatchewan

Full date unknown

• Di Brandt, poet and literary critic
• David Macfarlane, journalist, playwright and novelist
• Bob McLeod, politician and 12th Premier of the Northwest Territories

Deaths

• June 21 – Wilfrid R. "Wop" May, World War I flying ace and pioneering bush pilot (b.1896)
• July 6 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, politician and 14th Premier of Quebec (b.1867)
• August 31 – Henri Bourassa, politician and publisher (b.1868)
• October 6 – Walter Stanley Monroe, businessman, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b.1871)
• October 18 – Joseph-Mathias Tellier, politician (b.1861)
• November 8 – Harold Innis, professor of political economy and author (b.1894)

Full date unknown

• James Breakey, politician (b.1865)