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Events from the year 1945 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• January 8 - Brantford, Ontario becomes the first Canadian community to fluoridate its water supply.
• January 20 - World War II: The first conscripted Canadian soldiers arrive overseas
• February 8 - World War II: The Anglo-Canadian Operation Veritable launched in the Netherlands
• February 24 - Radio Canada International begins operation
• February 25 - Sergeant Aubrey Cosens posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross
• March 1 - Major Frederick Tilston wins the Victoria Cross
• March 29 - The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan is shut down
• April 16 - World War II: HMCS Esquimalt is sunk off Halifax by a German U-boat.
• May 8 - VE Day sees celebrations across the nation, but also the Halifax Riot.
• June 4 - Ontario general election, 1945: George Drew's PCs win a majority
• June 11 - Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a third consecutive majority
• June 26 - Canada is a founding member of the United Nations
• August 15 - VJ Day marks the end of the Second World War. Over a million Canadians had fought in the conflict and 42,000 were killed.
• September 5 - The defection of Soviet embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko reveals a Soviet spy ring in Canada.
• September 8 - Angus Macdonald becomes premier of Nova Scotia for the second time, replacing Alexander MacMillan
• September 12 - The Ford Motor employees in Windsor, Ontario go on strike.

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• Family allowance payments is introduced.
• Canada has its first trade surplus with the United States.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

• February 25 - Maurice Richard sets a new record for the most goals in a single ice hockey season.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to March

Joe Ghiz

• January 15 - Bonnie Burnard, novelist
• January 21 - Len Derkach, politician
• January 23 - Mike Harris, politician and 22nd Premier of Ontario
• January 27 - Harold Cardinal, writer, political leader, teacher, negotiator and lawyer (d.2005)
• January 27 - Joe Ghiz, politician and 29th Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1996)
• February 2 - Pauline Vaillancourt, singer
• February 5 - Nancy McCredie, track and field athlete
• February 19 - Bill Casey, politician
• February 20 - Donald McPherson, figure skater (d.2001)
• March 4 - Patrick Boyer, politician and university professor
• March 26 - Diane McGifford, politician
• March 17 - Dave Bailey, track and field athlete

[edit] April to June

• May 27 - Bruce Cockburn, folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter
• June 11 - Robert Munsch, children's writer
• June 16 - Lucienne Robillard, politician and Minister
• June 20 - Anne Murray, singer

[edit] July to September

Bjarni Tryggvason

• August 4 - Ben Sveinson, politician
• August 11 - David Walsh, businessman, disgraced head of Bre-X (d.1998)
• August 12 - Mary Stewart, swimmer and world record breaker
• August 15 - Rosann Wowchuk, politician
• September 21 - Bjarni Tryggvason, engineer and astronaut

[edit] October to December

Roberta Bondar

• October 15 - John Murrell, playwright
• November 5 - Jacques Lanctôt, member of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ)
• November 11 - Norman Doyle, politician
• November 12 - Neil Young, singer-songwriter, musician and film director
• December 4 - Roberta Bondar, neurologist and Canada's first female astronaut

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• Felix Partz, artist and co-founder of the artistic collective General Idea (d.1994)

[edit] Deaths

• March 2 - Emily Carr, artist and writer (b.1871)
• March 23 - Walter Charles Murray, first President of the University of Saskatchewan (b.1866)
• October 24 - Franklin Carmichael, painter and Group of Seven member (b.1890)
• November 1 - Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, feminist and social activist (b.1867)