Events from the year 1950 in Canada.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch: King George VI
• Governor General: Earl Alexander of Tunis
• Prime Minister: Louis Saint Laurent
• Premier of Alberta: Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia: Byron Johnson
• Premier of Manitoba: Douglas Campbell
• Premier of New Brunswick: John McNair
• Premier of Newfoundland: Joey Smallwood
• Premier of Nova Scotia: Angus Macdonald
• Premier of Ontario: Leslie Frost
• Premier of Prince Edward Island: Walter Jones
• Premier of Quebec: Maurice Duplessis
• Premier of Saskatchewan: Tommy Douglas

[edit] Events

• January 14 - The first non-stop trans-Canada flight is made
• Early May - The Winnipeg Flood along the Red River causes immense damage and one death in Winnipeg
• May 29 - The St. Roch becomes the first vessel to circumnavigate North America
• August 7 - Canada joins a United Nations force to fight in Korean War
• August 22 – August 30 - A rail workers strike shuts down much of the Canadian economy
• October 31 - The oil pipeline linking Edmonton to Sarnia is completed
• November 28 - Canada joins on to the Colombo Plan
• December 18 - Korean War: First Canadian troops arrive in Korea.

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• Cité libre magazine is first published
• British Columbia Provincial Police are disestablished.

[edit] Arts and Literature

[edit] Awards

• See 1950 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and nominees for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Earle Birney, Turvey

[edit] Births

[edit] January to March

John Manley

• January 5 - John Manley, lawyer, businessman, politician and Minister
• January 13 - Joe Fontana, politician

Gilles Villeneuve

• 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

• April 19 - Gérard Asselin, politician
• May 2 - Roger Grimes, politician and 8th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
• May 27 - Brent St. Denis, politician
• June 1 - Perrin Beatty, corporate executive and politician
• June 21 - Anne Carson, poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics and comparative literature

[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

• October 17 – Val Ross, writer and journalist (d.2008)
• October 31 - John Candy, comedian and actor (d.1994)
• November 2 - Wendy Lill, playwright and politician
• November 2 - Daryl Reid, politician
• November 5 - Susan Nattrass, sport shooter
• November 14 - Colleen Peterson, singer (d.1996)
• December 18 - Martha Johnson, pop singer and songwriter
• December 20 - Carolyn Bennett, politician
• December 21 - Lap-Chee Tsui, geneticist

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• David Barr, Commander of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• February 7 - Thomas Langton Church, politician and Mayor of Toronto (b.1870)
• April 7 - Walter Huston, actor (b.1884)

William Lyon Mackenzie King

• May 15 - Hervé-Edgar Brunelle, politician and lawyer (b.1891)
• June 28 - James Allison Glen, politician, Minister and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b.1877)

[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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• William Sanford Evans, politician (b.1869)