1955 in Canada

Events from the year 1955 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Vincent Massey
 * Prime Minister – Louis St. Laurent
 * Chief Justice of Canada – Patrick Kerwin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 22nd

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clarence Wallace (until October 3) then Frank Mackenzie Ross
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Stewart McDiarmid
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Louis Orville Breithaupt
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Hugh John Flemming
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Henry Hicks
 * Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alex Matheson
 * Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Wilfred George Brown (until June 8) then Frederick Howard Collins
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

Events

 * January 7 – The first television broadcast of the opening of parliament
 * February 1 – The Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank merge to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank
 * February 23 - Military exercise Operation Bulldog III in Yellowknife.
 * March 17- Richard Riot
 * April 2 – The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge connecting Halifax to Dartmouth opens.
 * June 9 – 1955 Ontario general election: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fourth consecutive majority
 * June 29 – 1955 Alberta general election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a sixth consecutive majority.
 * July 11 – Seven teenagers die in a mountaineering accident on Mount Temple in Banff National Park.
 * Cape Breton Island is connected to the mainland by the Canso Causeway

New books

 * Gabrielle Roy: Rue Deschambault

Awards

 * See 1955 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice

Music

 * Glenn Gould's first recording of the Goldberg Variations is made.

Sport

 * March 17 – A riot erupts in Montreal when Maurice Richard is suspended.
 * April 14 - Detroit Red Wings won their Seventh (and last until 1997) Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 3.
 * April 29 - Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros won their Second (and First since 1929) Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 4 games to 1.All games were played at Regina Exhibition Stadium
 * November 26 - Edmonton Eskimos won their Second(consecutive) Grey Cup by defeating the Montreal Alouettes by the score of 34 to 19 in the 43rd Grey Cup played at Empire Stadium in Vancouver
 * The Canadian Sports Hall of Fame is created.

January to June

 * January 1 – Precious, wrestler and manager
 * January 4 – John Nunziata, politician
 * January 6 – Alex Forsyth, ice hockey player
 * January 8 – Joan Kingston, nurse, educator, and politician
 * January 10 - Eva Aariak, politician, and 2nd Premier of Nunavut
 * January 28 – Odette Lapierre, long-distance runner
 * February 23 – Jerry Holland, fiddler
 * February 25 – Camille Thériault, politician and 29th Premier of New Brunswick
 * February 27 – MaryAnn Mihychuk, politician
 * March 16 – Andy Scott, politician and Minister
 * April 6 – Cathy Jones, comedian and writer
 * April 25 – Jane Stewart, politician and Minister
 * May 10 – Robert Woodbury, Canadian former sailor athlete
 * May 12 – Yvon Godin, politician
 * May 14 – Marie Chouinard, dancer, choreographer and dance company director
 * June 14 – Joe Preston, politician
 * June 16 – J. Jill Robinson, writer

July to December
October 30-Metis and Reform Member of Parliament (MP) James A. Hart was born in Edmonton, Alberta
 * July 7 – Gord Mackintosh, politician
 * July 13 – Hubert Lacroix, lawyer and President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 * July 17 – Geneviève Cadieux, artist
 * July 19 – Dalton McGuinty, lawyer, politician and 24th Premier of Ontario
 * August 6 – Gilles Bernier, politician
 * August 12 – Tooker Gomberg, politician and environmental activist (d. 2004)
 * August 19 – Bev Desjarlais, politician
 * August 31 – Sidney McKnight, boxer
 * September 28 – Stéphane Dion, politician and Minister
 * October 12 – Issa, singer-songwriter
 * November 4 – Rodger Cuzner, politician
 * November 10 – Ken Holland, ice hockey player
 * November 11 – Teri York, diver
 * December 13 – Pat Martin, politician

Full date unknown

 * Vatche Arslanian, Canadian Red Cross worker, killed in Iraq (d. 2003)
 * Kim Morrissey, poet and playwright

Deaths

 * April 24 – Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor (b. 1876)
 * April 26 – Lyman Duff, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1865)
 * May 10 – Tommy Burns, only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer (b. 1881)
 * June 16 – Ozias Leduc, painter (b. 1864)
 * August 5 – Izaak Walton Killam, financier (b. 1885)
 * August 7 – Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1871)
 * October 1 – Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner (b. 1880)