Events from the year 1951 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 - J. Walter Jones
• Premier of Quebec - Maurice Duplessis
• Premier of Saskatchewan - Tommy Douglas

[edit] Events

• April 22-25 - Korean War: In the Battle of Kapyong, the Canadians hold off the Chinese.
• June 1 - The Massey Report into Canadian culture is released
• July 10 - A formal peace agreement between Canada and Germany is signed
• October 20 - Philip Duke of Edinburgh and The Princess Elizabeth Duchess of Edinburgh attend an Edmonton Eskimos home game.
• October 27 - The cobalt bomb cancer therapy is first tested in London, Ontario
• November 22 - Ontario general election, 1951: Leslie Frost's PCs win a third consecutive majority
• December 12 - The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority is established.

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• Canada's immigration rate rises. Population is 14,009,429.
• The Indian Act of Canada is revised to limit coverage of Aboriginal people, excluding Aboriginal women who married non-Aboriginal men.
• Louis St. Laurent moves into 24 Sussex Drive, the new official residence of the Prime Minister
• Labatt Blue is introduced

[edit] Arts and Literature

• November 12 - The National Ballet of Canada gives its first performance.

[edit] New books

• Morley Callaghan - The Loved and the Lost
• Harold Innis - The Bias of Communication

[edit] Awards

• See 1951 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Eric Nicol, The Roving I

[edit] Births

[edit] January to March

• January 3 - Claude Bachand, politician
• January 17 - Carol Marguerite Anderson, choreographer
• January 21 - W. Yvon Dumont, politician
• February 22 - Elaine Tanner, swimmer
• March 12 - Susan Musgrave, poet and children's writer
• March 16 - Kate Nelligan, actress
• March 21 - Lesley Choyce, novelist, poet and children's writer
• March 25 - Ethel Blondin-Andrew, politician
• March 28 - Karen Kain, ballet dancer
• March 31 - Lawrence O'Brien, politician (d.2004)

[edit] April to June

• April 5 - Guy Vanderhaeghe, author
• April 18 - Pierre Pettigrew, politician
• May 2 - Andrew Barron, ice speed skater
• May 7 - Janina Fialkowska, pianist
• May 9 - Christopher Dewdney, poet, author and professor
• June 2 - Larry Robinson, ice hockey player and coach
• June 19 - Bill Blaikie, politician

[edit] July to September

• July 4 - Beverly Boys, diver
• July 5 - Penny Werthner, track and field athlete
• July 20 - Paulette Bourgeois, children's writer
• July 27 - Shawn Murphy, politician
• August 3 - Marcel Dionne, ice hockey player
• August 10 - Judy Wasylycia-Leis, politician
• August 17 - Robert Joy, actor
• September 14 - Elizabeth Carruthers, diver
• September 19 - Daniel Lanois, record producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter
• September 20 - Guy Lafleur, ice hockey player

[edit] October to December

• October 9 - Joe Tascona, lawyer and politician
• October 11 - Jim Carr, politician
• October 16 - Brenda Eisler, long jumper
• October 26 – Willie P. Bennett, folk music singer-songwriter (d.2008)
• October 27 - Roger Fortin, boxer
• October 29 - Camille Huard, boxer
• October 31 - Doug Bennett, singer, musician and music video director (d.2004)
• November 10 - Marlene Jennings, politician
• November 13 - Robert Hilles, poet and novelist
• December 6 - Tomson Highway, playwright, novelist and children's author
• December 22 - Charles de Lint, fantasy author and Celtic folk musician

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• Robert Priest, poet and children's author

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• January 1 - Frank Scott Hogg, astrophysicist (b.1904)
• January 3 - Richard Langton Baker, politician (b.1870)
• January 16 - Seymour J. Farmer, politician (b.1878)
• February 7 - Edna Diefenbaker, first wife of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (b.1899)
• February 27 - Leland Payson Bancroft, politician (b.1880)
• April 14 - Al Christie, film director, producer and screenwriter (b.1881)

[edit] July to December

• August 26 - Bill Barilko, ice hockey player (b.1927)
• September 1 - Nellie McClung, feminist, politician and social activist (b.1873)
• September 14 - James Langstaff Bowman, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b.1879)
• September 20 - William Henry Wright, prospector and newspaper owner (b.1876)
• October 8 - Charles William Jefferys, artist and historian (b.1869)

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• Harry Cassidy, academic, social reformer and civil servant (b.1900)