1958 in Canada

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Events from the year 1958 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II (consort – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)

Federal government

• Governor general – Vincent Massey (viceregal consort – Alice Massey)
• Prime minister – John Diefenbaker

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Frank Mackenzie Ross
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Stewart McDiarmid
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren (until June 5) then Joseph Leonard O'Brien
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Campbell Leonard Macpherson
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser (until January 15) then Edward Chester Plow
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Keiller MacKay
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse (until March 31) then Frederick Walter Hyndman
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux (until February 14) then Onésime Gagnon
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson (until February 3) then Frank Lindsay Bastedo

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell (until June 30) then Dufferin Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Hugh John Flemming
• Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Robert Stanfield
• Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alex Matheson
• Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Howard Collins
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

Events

• January 16 – Louis St. Laurent is replaced by Lester B. Pearson as leader of the Liberal Party
• February 19–20 – Rt Hon Ellen Fairclough first woman of the role of Prime Minister for two days during John Diefenbaker's absence from the country.
• March 25 – The Avro Arrow flies for the first time
• March 31 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a massive election victory.
• April 5 – The Seymour Narrows is made more easily passable after Ripple Rock was destroyed in one of the largest planned non-nuclear explosions
• May 12 – The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
• June 17 – The Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver collapses killing 18.
• June 30 – Duff Roblin sworn in as premier of Manitoba
• July 1 – Canada-wide television broadcasting starts
• July 1 – The Lost Villages in Ontario are permanently flooded as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway construction project.
• October 22 – Canada appoints, Margaret Meagher, the country's first female ambassador, to Israel.^[1]
• October 23 – The third Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 74.

Full date unknown

• Ellen Fairclough becomes Canada's first federal female cabinet minister.
• Department of Physical Education started at the University of Saskatchewan

Arts and literature

• July 16 – The Manitoba Theatre Centre opens.

New works

• John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society
• Farley Mowat's Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great Adventure
• Antonine Maillet's first novel Pointe-aux-Coques

Awards

• See 1958 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Eric Nicol, Girdle Me A Globe

Film

• Morley Callaghan's Now That April's Here is made into a feature film
• Allan Dwan directs his last film Enchanted Island

Music

• Paul Anka has four hit singles and becomes one of the most popular singers in the world.

Sport

• Grey Cup – Winnipeg Blue Bombers win 35–28 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
• Stanley Cup – Montreal Canadiens win 4–2 over the Boston Bruins.
• NASCAR Grand National Series – American race car driver Lee Petty wins the 1958 Jim Mideon 500.^[2]

Births

January to June

• January 29 – Glen Cochrane, ice hockey player and scout
• February 15 – Peter Butler, long-distance runner
• February 23 – Bob Stephen, Canadian football player (d.2009)

Jean Charest

• March 8 – Raymond Simard, politician
• April 7 – Ted Nolan, ice hockey player and coach
• April 17 – Laslo Babits, javelin thrower
• May 10 – Gaétan Boucher, speed skater and double Olympic gold medalist
• May 18 – Bob Chaperon, snooker and billiards player
• June 24 – Jean Charest, lawyer and politician, 29th Premier of Quebec

July to September

Terry Fox

• July 12 – Tonya Lee Williams, actress
• July 28 – Terry Fox, humanitarian, athlete and cancer treatment activist (d.1981)
• August 6 – Lorne Saxberg, television journalist and news anchor (d.2006)
• August 15 – Craig MacTavish, ice hockey player and coach
• August 17 – Kirk Stevens, snooker player
• August 19 – Darryl Sutter, ice hockey player and coach
• August 22 - Colm Feore, American-born stage, film and television actor
• August 29 – Linda Staudt, long-distance runner
• September 16 – Jennifer Tilly, actress and poker player
• September 17 – Monte Solberg, politician and Minister
• September 28 – Angella Taylor-Issajenko, sprinter

October to December

• October 8 – Neile Graham, poet and scholar
• November 3 – Kevin Sorenson, politician
• November 6 – Kevin Doherty, judoka
• November 19 – Joe Jordan, politician
• December 12 – Lucie Guay, canoe racer
• December 25 – Alannah Myles, singer-songwriter

Full date unknown

• Kim Rabot (d.1975)
• Gordon Stewart Anderson, writer (d.1991)

Deaths

Robert W. Service, c.1905

January to June

• January 7 – Margaret Anglin, actress, director and producer (b.1876)
• January 16 – Charles Bélec, politician (b.1872)
• April 1 – J. Arthur Ross, politician (b.1893)
• May 12 – Lewis St. George Stubbs, judge and politician (b.1878)
• June 26 – George Orton, middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist, first Canadian to win an Olympic medal (b.1873)

July to December

George Stewart Henry

• July 21 – Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger, politician and lawyer (b.1888)
• September 2 – George Stewart Henry, politician and 10th Premier of Ontario (b.1871)
• September 11 – Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (b.1889)
• September 11 – Robert W. Service, poet and writer (b.1874)
• October 2 – Charles Avery Dunning, politician, Minister and university chancellor (b.1885)
• November 10 – Billy Boucher, ice hockey player (b.1899)

References

1. ↑ "Canada appoints first woman ambassador". CBC News. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010. 
2. ↑ "1958 Jim Mideon 500 information". Racing Reference. Retrieved 2011-02-16. 

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