1944 IN CANADA

''See also:''
1943 in Canada,
other events of 1944,
1945 in Canada and the
Timeline of Canadian history.
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Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ March 20 - Henry Duncan Graham Crerar becomes chief of the Canadian Army

★ June 6 - World War II: The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division lands at Juno Beach, part of the Invasion of Normandy

★ June 15 - Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a landslide majority, defeating William John Patterson's Liberals

★ July 10 - Tommy Douglas becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing William Patterson

★ August 1 - The House of Commons approves the Family Allowance Act

★ August 8 - Alberta election: Ernest Manning's Alberta Social Credit Party wins a third consecutive majority

★ August 17 - World War II: The Canadian Army liberates Falaise

★ August 30 - Maurice Duplessis becomes Premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Adélard Godbout

★ October 1 - The Battle of the Scheldt estuary begins

★ October 21 - Smokey Smith earns the Victoria Cross on the Savio River in Italy.

★ December 24 - HMCS ''Clayoquot'' sunk off Halifax by a German U-boat

★ Conscription Crisis of 1944

Births

★ January 6 - John Efford, politician

★ March 26 - Benjamin Chee Chee, artist

★ March 29 - Terry Jacks, Manitoba politician

★ April 12 - Glen Cummings, Manitoba politician

★ April 17 - Bobby Curtola, musician

★ May 20 - Elinor Caplan, politician

★ May 28 - Rita MacNeil, singer-songwriter

★ June 1 - Aileen Carroll, politician

★ June 29 - Bob Kilger, politician

★ June 29 - Charlie Watt, Inuit leader

★ July 5 - Norma McCormick, Manitoba politician

★ July 5 - Robbie Robertson, musician

★ July 30 - Mendelson Joe, visual artist and musician

★ August 11 - Alexa McDonough, politician

★ August 18 - David Newman, Manitoba politician

★ August 24 - Conrad Black, newspaper owner

★ September 20 - Phil Fontaine, Native leader

★ September 30 - B. P. Nichol, poet

★ September 30 - Diane Dufresne, singer

★ November 17 - Lorne Michaels, TV producer and writer

★ December 4 - Anna McGarrigle, musician

★ December 12 - Peter Goldring, politician

★ December 16 - Judy Sgro, politician

★ December 16 - Mike Radcliffe, Manitoba politician

★ December 24 - Daniel Johnson, Jr, Premier of Quebec

★ December 24 - Dan Miller, British Columbia politician

Deaths

★ March 28 - Stephen Leacock, Writer, Thinker, Canadian

★ September 14 - John Kenneth Macalister, WWII hero

★ September 14 - Frank Pickersgill, WWII hero

★ September 14 - Roméo Sabourin, WWII hero

★ September 21 - Oleksander Koshetz, Ukrainian conductor