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Events from the year 1944 in Canada.

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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
July 23 - The 1st Canadian Army is activated in Normandy, becoming the largest combat force to ever be placed under Canadian command.
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

January 6 - John Efford, politician
March 15 - Francis Mankiewicz, film director, screenwriter and producer (d.1993)
March 26 - Benjamin Chee Chee, artist (d.1977)
March 29 - Terry Jacks, singer, songwriter, record producer and environmentalist
April 12 - Glen Cummings, politician
April 17 - Bobby Curtola, singer
May 20 - Elinor Caplan, politician and businesswoman
May 28 - Rita MacNeil, singer-songwriter
June 1 - Aileen Carroll, politician
June 29 - Bob Kilger, politician
June 29 - Charlie Watt, Senator

July 5 - Norma McCormick, politician
July 5 - Robbie Robertson, singer-songwriter and guitarist
July 30 - Mendelson Joe, singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter
August 11 - Alexa McDonough, politician
August 18 - David Newman, politician
August 25 - Conrad Black, historian, columnist and publisher, appealing a fraud conviction in the United States
September 3 - Brian Linehan, television host (d.2004)
September 20 - Phil Fontaine, Aboriginal Canadian leader
September 30 - bpNichol, poet (d.1988)
September 30 - Diane Dufresne, singer and painter

Daniel Johnson, Jr.

Jorge Zontal, artist and co-founder of the artistic collective General Idea (b.1994)

Stephen Leacock

July 27 - Clifford William Robinson, lawyer, businessman, politician and 11th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1866)
September 5 - Gustave Biéler, Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b.1904)
September 9 - John Stuart Foster, physicist (b.1890)
September 14 - John Kenneth Macalister, World War II hero (b.1914)
September 14 - Frank Pickersgill, World War II hero (b.1915)
September 14 - Roméo Sabourin, World War II hero (b.1923)
September 27 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (b.1890)
October 1 - William Mulock, politician and Minister (b.1844)
November 3 - Jack Miner, conservationist (b.1865)
November 26 - Henry Cockshutt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1868)