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Events from the year 1952 in Canada.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarchy in Canada: King George VI then Queen Elizabeth II
• Governor General: Earl Alexander of Tunis then Vincent Massey
• Prime Minister: Louis Saint Laurent
• Premier of Alberta: Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia: Byron Johnson then W.A.C. Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba: Douglas Campbell
• Premier of New Brunswick: John McNair then Hugh John Flemming
• 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

• January 24 - Vincent Massey appointed first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada
• February 6 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen of Canada upon the death of her father George VI.
• June 11 - Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a third consecutive majority
• May 25 - Korean War: Canadian troops are dispatched to the troubled Koje-Do POW facility
• August 1 - W.A.C. Bennett becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Byron Johnson
• August 5 - Alberta election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a fifth consecutive majority
• September 6 - The first CBC Television station, CBFT, goes on the air in Montreal, Quebec
• September 8 - CBLT (CBC Toronto) goes on air
• September 16 - The Boyd Gang is captured
• October 8 - Hugh John Flemming becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing John McNair
• October 14 - Lester B. Pearson is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.

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• Fighting in the Korean War drags on as the factions attempt to negotiate an armistice.
• The pension system is reformed with the introduction of the Old Age Security Act.
• Roy Thomson acquires The Scotsman and emigrates to Britain
• Painters Eleven founded
• Atomic Energy Canada founded

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New books

• Thomas B. Costain: The Silver Chalice

[edit] Awards

• See 1952 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Jan Hilliard, The Salt Box

[edit] Sport

• February 14-February 25: Winter Olympics in Oslo, Canada wins men's hockey gold.
• February 24 - At the 1952 Winter Olympics the Canadian hockey team wins gold.
• The Detroit Red Wings sweep the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• February 3 - Wayne Erdman, judoka
• February 18 - Bernard Valcourt, politician and lawyer
• February 27 - Maureen McTeer, author and lawyer
• March 4 - Svend Robinson, politician, Canada's first openly homosexual elected official and prominent activist for gay rights
• May 13 - Mary Walsh, actress and comedian
• May 17 - Howard Hampton, politician
• June 2 - Ferron, folk singer-songwriter and poet
• June 22 - Graham Greene, actor
• June 29 - David Dingwall, politician, Minister and civil servant

[edit] July to September

• July 1 - Dan Aykroyd, comedian, actor, screenwriter and musician
• July 1 - Sam George, native rights activist (d.2009)
• July 1 - Deborah Grey, politician
• July 3 - Rohinton Mistry, author
• July 6 - George Athans, world-champion water skier
• July 7 - David Milgaard, wrongfully convicted of murder
• July 25 - Nancy Allan, politician
• August 9 - Gary Kowalski, politician
• September 8 - Sue Barnes, politician
• September 10 - Vic Toews, politician
• September 12 - Neil Peart, drummer and author

[edit] October to December

Lorne Calvert

• October 2 - Marie Deschamps, jurist and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
• October 4 - Angela Coughlan, swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (d.2009)
• October 22 - Peggy Baker, dancer
• November 10 - Jim Maloway, politician
• November 16 - Candas Jane Dorsey, poet and science fiction novelist
• November 27 - Sheila Copps, journalist and politician
• December 12 - Herb Dhaliwal, politician and Minister
• December 24 - Lorne Calvert, politician and 13th Premier of Saskatchewan

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• Di Brandt, poet and literary critic
• David Macfarlane, journalist, playwright and novelist

[edit] Deaths

• June 21 - Wilfrid R. "Wop" May, World War I flying ace and pioneering bush pilot (b.1896)
• July 6 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, politician and 14th Premier of Quebec (b.1867)
• August 31 - Henri Bourassa, politician and publisher (b.1868)
• October 6 - Walter Stanley Monroe, businessman, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b.1871)
• October 18 - Joseph-Mathias Tellier, politician (b.1861)
• November 8 - Harold Innis, professor of political economy and author (b.1894)

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• James Breakey, politician (b.1865)