1957 in Canada

Events from the year 1957 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Vincent Massey
 * Prime Minister – Louis St. Laurent (until June 21) then John Diefenbaker
 * Chief Justice – Patrick Kerwin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 22nd (until 12 April) then 23rd (from 14 October)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Frank Mackenzie Ross
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Stewart McDiarmid
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge (until December 16) then Campbell Leonard Macpherson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Louis Orville Breithaupt (until December 30) then John Keiller MacKay
 * 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 – Robert Stanfield
 * 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 – Frederick Howard Collins
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

Events

 * January 1 – The first Canadian peacekeepers arrive in Egypt after the Suez Crisis
 * January 17 – HMCS Bonaventure, Canada's third and last aircraft carrier, is commissioned
 * March 6 – Quebec's Padlock Law is ruled unconstitutional
 * March 20 – The seven-month-long Murdochville Strike begins
 * March 28 – The Canada Council is established
 * April 15 - White Rock secedes from Surrey, British Columbia, following a referendum.
 * April 27 - The SS Moyie takes her final voyage.
 * June 10 – Federal election: John Diefenbaker's PCs win a minority, defeating Louis Saint Laurent's Liberals
 * June 21 – John Diefenbaker becomes prime minister, replacing Louis Saint Laurent
 * July 31 – The DEW Line begins operation
 * September 12 – Canada and the United States sign the NORAD agreement
 * October 4 – The first prototype Avro Arrow is presented to the media. The rollout is completely overshadowed by the flight of Sputnik I the same day.
 * October 12 – Foreign Minister Lester B. Pearson wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Suez Crisis
 * October 14:
 * Elizabeth II opens the Canadian parliament, the first monarch to do so
 * Thanksgiving is moved to its current date, the second Monday in October
 * Equalization payments are established.

Sport

 * April 16 – The Montreal Canadiens win their ninth Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 4 games to 1. The deciding Game 5 was played at the Montreal Forum
 * May 6 – Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Flin Flon Bombers win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Independent Ottawa-Hull Canadiens 4 games to 3. The deciding Game 7 was played at the Regina Exhibition Stadium
 * June 14 – Édouard Carpentier (Édouard Ignacz Weiczorkiewicz) defeats Lou Thesz to become the 2nd Canadian NWA World Heavyweight Champion
 * November 30 – The Hamilton Tiger-Cats win their 2nd Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 32–7 in the 45th Grey Cup at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

New works

 * F. R. Scott – The Eye of the Needle: Satire, Sorties, Sundries
 * Mordecai Richler – A Choice of Enemies
 * W.L. Morton – Manitoba: The Birth of a Province
 * Farley Mowat – The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
 * Northrop Frye – Anatomy of Criticism

Awards

 * See 1957 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Robert Thomas Allen The Grass Is Never Greener

Television

 * Front Page Challenge premiers on CBC

January to June

 * January 8 - Wendy Mesley, broadcast journalist
 * January 22 – Mike Bossy, ice hockey player (d. 2022)
 * January 28 – Michael Baker, politician (d. 2009)
 * February 17 – Loreena McKennitt, singer, composer, harpist and pianist
 * March 10 – Shannon Tweed, actress
 * March 24 - Olivia Chow, politician and widow of Jack Layton
 * April 20 – Bryan Illerbrun, football player (d. 2013)
 * April 29 – Leona Dombrowsky, politician
 * May 4 – Kathy Kreiner, alpine skier and Olympic gold medallist
 * May 14 – Gilles Bisson, politician
 * May 17 – Todd Hardy, leader of the Yukon New Democratic Party from 2002 to 2009 (d. 2010)
 * June 12 – Benedict Campbell, actor

July to September

 * July 2 – Bret Hart, wrestler and actor
 * July 6 – Ron Duguay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 * July 9 – George Nagy, swimmer
 * July 15 – Craig Martin, soccer player and coach
 * July 22 - Michèle Dionne, wife of Jean Charest, 29th Prime Minister of Quebec
 * July 26 – Mark Paré, National Hockey League linesman
 * August 6 – Francesca Gagnon, singer
 * August 11 – Tony Valeri, politician
 * August 15 – David L. Anderson, politician
 * August 15 - Richard Ayres, Business owner, Mechanic, Carpenter, Great Father
 * August 16 – Mark Evans, rower and Olympic gold medallist
 * August 16 – J. Michael Evans, rower and Olympic gold medallist
 * August 20 – Cindy Nicholas, athlete and politician
 * August 23 – Georges Farrah, politician
 * August 26 – Rick Hansen, paraplegic athlete and activist for people with spinal cord injuries
 * September 10 – Darrell Dexter, politician and 27th Premier of Nova Scotia
 * September 23 – Sylvie Garant, model

October to December

 * October 9 – Art Boileau, long-distance runner
 * October 26 – Glen Murray, politician
 * October 30 – Joseph Cordiano, politician and Minister
 * November 12 – Andrée A. Michaud, writer
 * November 16 – Ferg Hawke, ultra-distance runner
 * November 18 – Kim Rudd, politician and businesswoman (d. 2024)
 * November 20 – Sophie Lorain, actress, director and producer
 * November 22 – Glen Clark, politician and 31st Premier of British Columbia
 * November 30 – Colin Mochrie, comedian and actor
 * December 4 – Rob Shick, ice hockey referee
 * December 5 – Paul Steele, rower and Olympic gold medallist
 * December 6 – Louis Jani, judoka
 * December 12 – Robert Lepage, playwright, actor and film director
 * December 31 – Sonya Biddle, actress and politician (d. 2022)

Full date unknown

 * Daniel J. Caron, national librarian of Library and Archives Canada
 * Robert Poulin, murderer responsible for the St. Pius X High School shooting (d. 1975)
 * Nancy Richler, novelist

Deaths

 * January 16 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, 16th Governor General of Canada (b. 1874)
 * August 21 – Nels Stewart, ice hockey player (b. 1902)
 * August 26 – Joseph Tyrrell, geologist, cartographer and mining consultant (b. 1858)
 * October 21 – Arthur Puttee, politician (b. 1868)
 * October 31 – Martha Black, politician and the second woman elected to the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1866)
 * December 10 – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b. 1874)
 * December 29 – Humphrey T. Walwyn, naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1879)