1954 in Canada
Events from the year 1954 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Full date unknown
Arts and literature
New books
Awards
Sport
Births
O'Hara photographed by Jerry Avenaim , 2005
January to June
January 11 – Jim Wych , snooker player and sports announcer
January 29 – Doug Risebrough , ice hockey player and coach
February 3 – Tiger Williams , ice hockey player
February 24 – Sid Meier , Canadian-American programmer
March 2 – Ed Johnstone , ice hockey player
March 4 – Catherine O'Hara , actress
April 5 - Claude-André Lachance , politician and son of Georges-C. Lachance
April 7 – Clark Gillies , ice hockey player (d. 2022)
April 17 – Roddy Piper , wrestler and actor (d. 2015)
April 20 – Gilles Lupien , ice hockey player and agent (d. 2021)
May 4 – Sylvia Burka , ice speed skater and World Champion, cyclist
May 10 – Eleni Bakopanos , politician
May 13 – David Bissett , field hockey player
May 14 – Danny Gare , ice hockey player
May 16 – Dafydd Williams , physician and astronaut
May 26 – Aritha Van Herk , writer, critic, editor and university professor
May 28 – John Tory , businessman, politician and broadcaster
June 3 – Wally Weir , Canadian ice hockey player
June 28 – Jean-Serge Brisson , politician
July to December
Steven MacLean
August 16 – James Cameron , film director, producer and screenwriter
September 3 – Avis Gray , politician
September 18 – Steven Pinker , cognitive psychologist
October 21 – Brian Tobin , politician
November 7 – Guy Gavriel Kay , fantasy fiction author
November 12 – Dave Edge , long-distance runner
November 24 – Stuart Murray , politician
December 14 – Steven MacLean , astronaut
December 20 – John Kinch , football player (d. 2022)
December 28 – Lanny Poffo , wrestler (d. 2023)
Full date unknown
Agnes Macphail
Deaths
January 24 – H. H. Wrong , diplomat (b. 1894 )
February 13 – Agnes Macphail , politician, first woman to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1890 )
March 15 – Charles MacOdrum , politician
March 31 – John Walter Jones , politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1878 )
April 4 – Abraham Albert Heaps , politician and labor leader (b. 1885 )
April 8 – Winnifred Eaton , author (b. 1875 )
April 13 – Angus Lewis Macdonald , lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890 )
June 18 – Welland Gemmell , politician and Minister
August 6 – Emilie Dionne , one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b. 1934 )
November 26 – Wallace Rupert Turnbull , engineer and inventor (b. 1870 )
Full date unknown
See also
References
1954 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories