Events from the year 1950 in Canada. [edit] Incumbents [edit] Events [edit] Full date unknown [edit] Arts and Literature [edit] Awards [edit] Births [edit] January to March - January 18 - Gilles Villeneuve, motor racing driver (d.1982)
- February 8 - Keith Milligan, politician
- February 12 - Michael Ironside, actor, voice actor, producer, film director and screenwriter
- March 6 - Bruce Simpson, pole vaulter
- March 17 - Jackson Davies, actor
- March 23 - Jerry Storie, politician
- March 23 - Ralph Eichler, politician
- March 26 - Martin Short, comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer
[edit] April to June [edit] July to September - July 5 - Deepak Obhrai, politician
- July 6 - Hélène Scherrer, politician and Minister
- July 7 - Leon Benoit, politician
- August 2 - Sue Rodriguez, advocate for assisted suicide (d.1994)
- August 6 - Carole Pope, rock singer-songwriter
- August 15 - Ron Lemieux, ice hockey player and politician
- August 16 - Stockwell Day, politician
- August 31 - Anne McLellan, academic, politician, Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
- September 16 - Sheila Fraser, Auditor General of Canada
- September 18 - Darryl Sittler, ice hockey player
[edit] October to December [edit] Full date unknown [edit] Deaths [edit] January to June William Lyon Mackenzie King [edit] July to December - July 22 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, lawyer, economist, university professor, civil servant, journalist, politician and 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1874)
- July 25 - Gleason Belzile, politician (b.1898)
- August 1 - Humphrey Mitchell, politician and trade unionist (b.1894)
- August 2 - Pierre-François Casgrain, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b.1886)
- November 11 - John Knox Blair, politician, physician and teacher (b.1875)
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