1958 in Canada

Events from the year 1958 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Vincent Massey
 * Prime Minister – John Diefenbaker
 * Chief Justice – Patrick Kerwin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 23rd (until 1 February) then 24th (from 12 May)

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 (until June 5) then Joseph Leonard O'Brien
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Campbell Leonard Macpherson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser (until January 15) then Edward Chester Plow
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Keiller MacKay
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse (until March 31) then Frederick Walter Hyndman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux (until February 14) then Onésime Gagnon
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson (until February 3) then Frank Lindsay Bastedo

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
 * Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell (until June 30) then Dufferin Roblin
 * 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 16 – Louis St. Laurent is replaced by Lester B. Pearson as leader of the Liberal Party
 * February 19–20 – Rt Hon Ellen Fairclough first woman to assume the duties of Prime Minister for two days during John Diefenbaker's absence from the country.
 * March 25 – The Avro Arrow flies for the first time
 * March 31 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a massive election victory.
 * April 5 – The Seymour Narrows is made more easily passable after Ripple Rock was destroyed in one of the largest planned non-nuclear explosions
 * May 12 – The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
 * June 17 – The Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver collapses killing 18.
 * June 30 – Duff Roblin sworn in as premier of Manitoba
 * July 1 – Canada-wide television broadcasting starts
 * July 1 – The Lost Villages in Ontario are permanently flooded as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway construction project.
 * October 22 – Canada appoints, Margaret Meagher, the country's first female ambassador, to Israel.
 * October 23 – The third Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 74.

Full date unknown

 * Ellen Fairclough becomes Canada's first federal female cabinet minister.
 * Department of Physical Education started at the University of Saskatchewan

Arts and literature

 * July 16 – The Manitoba Theatre Centre opens.

New works

 * John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society
 * Farley Mowat's Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great Adventure
 * Antonine Maillet's first novel Pointe-aux-Coques

Awards

 * See 1958 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Eric Nicol, Girdle Me A Globe

Film

 * Morley Callaghan's Now That April's Here is made into a feature film
 * Allan Dwan directs his last film Enchanted Island

Music

 * Paul Anka has four hit singles and becomes one of the most popular singers in the world.

Sport

 * January 17 - The Canadian Football League is established with 9 teams (Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Ottawa Rough Riders, Toronto Argonauts, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Edmonton Eskimos, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders, and BC Lions)
 * April 20 – Montreal Canadiens won their Tenth (and Third consecutive) Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2.
 * May 6 - Ottawa-Hull Canadiens won their Second (and only in Ottawa) Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at Ottawa Auditorium
 * November 29 – Winnipeg Blue Bombers won their Fourth Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 35–28 in the 46th Grey Cup played at Empire Stadium in Vancouver

January to June

 * January 10 – Terrence Scammell, voice director and voice actor
 * January 29 – Glen Cochrane, ice hockey player and scout
 * February 15 – Peter Butler, long-distance runner
 * February 23
 * Norm Spencer, actor (d. 2020)
 * Bob Stephen, Canadian football player (d. 2009)
 * March 8 – Raymond Simard, politician
 * March 30 – Maurice LaMarche, voice actor
 * April 7 – Ted Nolan, ice hockey player and coach
 * April 15 – Keith Acton, ice hockey player and coach
 * April 17 – Laslo Babits, javelin thrower
 * May 10 – Gaétan Boucher, speed skater and double Olympic gold medallist
 * May 13 – Claire Backhouse-Sharpe, badminton player
 * May 18 – Bob Chaperon, snooker and billiards player
 * June 24 – Jean Charest, lawyer and politician, 29th Premier of Quebec

July to September

 * July 12 – Tonya Williams, actress
 * July 28 – Terry Fox, humanitarian, athlete and cancer treatment activist (d. 1981)
 * August 6 – Lorne Saxberg, television journalist and news anchor (d. 2006)
 * August 15 – Craig MacTavish, ice hockey player and coach
 * August 17 – Kirk Stevens, snooker player
 * August 19 – Darryl Sutter, ice hockey player and coach
 * August 22
 * Lyle Bauer, Canadian football player and executive (d. 2024)
 * Colm Feore, American-born stage, film and television actor
 * August 29 – Linda Staudt, long-distance runner
 * September 7 – Peter Mettler, filmmaker
 * September 8 – Stevie Vallance, actress, voice actress, stage performer, singer, casting director and voice director
 * September 11 – Jeffrey A. Hutchings, fisheries scientist (d. 2022)
 * September 14 – Rob McCall, ice dancer (d. 1991)
 * September 16
 * Diane Deans, politician (d. 2024)
 * Jennifer Tilly, actress and poker player
 * September 17 – Monte Solberg, politician and businessman
 * September 28 – Angella Taylor-Issajenko, sprinter

October to December

 * October 8 – Neile Graham, poet and scholar
 * November 3 – Kevin Sorenson, politician
 * November 6 – Kevin Doherty, judoka
 * November 19 – Joe Jordan, politician
 * December 10 – David Paul Grove, actor and voice actor
 * December 12 – Lucie Guay, canoe racer
 * December 24 – Lyse Doucet, journalist and broadcaster
 * December 25 – Alannah Myles, singer-songwriter

Full date unknown

 * John Colapinto, journalist, author and novelist
 * Kim Rabot (d. 1975)
 * Gordon Stewart Anderson, writer (d. 1991)

January to June

 * January 7 – Margaret Anglin, actress, director and producer (b. 1876)
 * January 8 – John Duff, race car driver (b. 1895)
 * January 16 – Charles Bélec, politician (b. 1872)
 * April 1 – J. Arthur Ross, politician (b. 1893)
 * May 12 – Lewis Stubbs, judge and politician (b. 1878)
 * June 26 – George Orton, middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medallist, first Canadian to win an Olympic medal (b. 1873)

July to December

 * July 21 – Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger, politician and lawyer (b. 1888)
 * September 2 – George Stewart Henry, politician and 10th Premier of Ontario (b. 1871)
 * September 11 – Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (b. 1889)
 * September 11 – Robert W. Service, poet and writer (b. 1874)
 * October 2 – Charles Avery Dunning, politician, Minister and university chancellor (b. 1885)
 * November 10 – Billy Boucher, ice hockey player (b. 1899)