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Events from the year 1943 in Canada.
Incumbents
[edit]Crown
[edit]- Monarch – George VI[1]
Federal government
[edit]- Governor General – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone[2]
- Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
- Parliament – 19th
Provincial governments
[edit]Lieutenant governors
[edit]- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – William Culham Woodward
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William George Clark
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Henry Ernest Kendall
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Albert Edward Matthews
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Bradford William LePage
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Eugène Fiset
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Archibald Peter McNab
Premiers
[edit]- Premier of Alberta – William Aberhart (until May 23) then Ernest Manning (from May 31)
- Premier of British Columbia – John Hart
- Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken (until January 14) then Stuart Garson
- Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
- Premier of Nova Scotia – A.S. MacMillan
- Premier of Ontario – Gordon Daniel Conant (until May 18) then Harry Nixon (May 18 to August 17) then George A. Drew
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Thane Campbell (until May 11) then J. Walter Jones
- Premier of Quebec – Adélard Godbout
- Premier of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson
Territorial governments
[edit]Commissioners
[edit]- Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell
Events
[edit]- January 8 – Stuart Garson becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing John Bracken, who had governed for 21 years.
- May 11 – J. Walter Jones becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Thane Campbell.
- May 18 – Harry Nixon becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Gordon Conant.
- May 23 – William Aberhart, premier of Alberta, dies in office.
- May 31 – Ernest Manning becomes premier of Alberta.
- July – The 1st Canadian Infantry Division is part of the invasion of Sicily.
- August 4 – Ontario election: George Drew's PCs win a minority, defeating Harry Nixon's Liberals.
- August 17 – George Drew becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Harry Nixon.
- August 19 – The Quebec Agreement is signed in Quebec City, between Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- October 21 – HMCS Chedabucto sinks near Rimouski after an accidental collision with another ship.
- October 22 – The crew of German submarine U-537 set up Weather Station Kurt near Martin Bay in Labrador.
- December 20 – December 27 – Battle of Ortona rages in Italy.
Sport
[edit]- April 28 – The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Rangers win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Oshawa Generals 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
- November 27 – The Hamilton Flying Wildcats win their only Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg RCAF Bombers 23 to 14 in the 31st Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.
Births
[edit]January to March
[edit]- January 9 – Elmer MacFadyen, politician (d. 2007)
- January 10 – Carl Ray, artist (d. 1978)
- January 23 – Bill Cameron, news anchor, television producer, columnist and author (d. 2005)
- January 28 – Paul Henderson, ice hockey player
- February 19 – Art Hanger, politician
- February 23 – Charles Dalfen, chairperson of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (d. 2009)
- February 27 – Gordon Earle, politician
- March 7 – Billy MacMillan, ice hockey coach and player (d. 2023)
- March 11 – Bob Plager, ice hockey player (d. 2021)
- March 15 – David Cronenberg, filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional actor
- March 25 – Loyola Hearn, diplomat and politician
April to June
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- April 1 – Shirley Render, politician
- April 2 – Alan Tonks, politician
- April 3 – Richard Manuel, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist (d. 1986)
- April 12 – Jenny Meldrum, hurdler and heptathlete
- April 17 – Bobby Curtola, singer (d. 2016)
- April 22 – Edwin Tchorzewski, politician (d. 2008)
- May 11 – Nancy Greene Raine, alpine skier, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion, Senator
- June 5 – Jean-Claude Lord, film director and screenwriter (d. 2022)
- June 21 – Diane Marleau, politician and Minister (d. 2013)
July to September
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- July 15 – John H. Bryden, politician, journalist and historian
- July 30 – Jean Friesen, politician
- July 31 – Ryan Larkin, animator, artist and sculptor (d. 2007)
- August 9 – Joe Handley, politician and 10th Premier of the Northwest Territories
- August 12 – Anne Cools, Senator
- August 29 – Arthur B. McDonald, astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
- September 9 – Daurene Lewis, politician and nation's first black female mayor (d. 2013)
- September 12 – Alain Dostie, cinematographer, film director and screenwriter
- September 12 – Michael Ondaatje, novelist and poet
- September 19 – Lyle Vanclief, politician and Minister
- September 22 – Maurice Baril, General and Chief of the Defence Staff
- September 27 – Randy Bachman, guitarist and songwriter
October to December
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- October 16 – Paul Rose, convicted of murder and kidnapping of Pierre Laporte in 1970 and leader of PDS (1996–2002) (d. 2013)
- October 24 – Frank Pitura, politician (d. 2019)
- October 26 – Diane Gerace, high jumper
- November 7 – Joni Mitchell, musician, songwriter and painter
- November 13 – André-Gilles Fortin, politician (d. 1977)
- November 18 – Michael H. Rayner, public servant (d. 2004)
- November 22 – Yvan Cournoyer, ice hockey player
- November 27 – Nicole Brossard, poet and novelist
- December 2 – Larry Grossman, politician (d. 1997)
- December 13 – Ferguson Jenkins, baseball player
- December 14 – Linda McIntosh, politician
- December 21 – André Arthur, radio host and politician (d. 2022)
- December 23 – Margaret MacMillan, historian
- December 28 – David Peterson, politician and 20th Premier of Ontario
- December 29 – Rick Danko, musician and singer (d. 1999)
- December 30 – Linda Thom, shooter and Olympic gold medallist
Deaths
[edit]- February 9 – Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b. 1875)
- May 23 – William Aberhart, politician and 8th Premier of Alberta (b. 1878)
- July 2 – Robert James Manion, politician (b. 1881)
- July 4 – Gordon Sidney Harrington, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1883)
- July 12 – Joseph Boutin Bourassa, politician (b. 1853)
- October 18 – Albert Charles Saunders, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1874)
- November 26 – Charles G.D. Roberts, poet and prose writer (b. 1860)
- November 29 – Robert Hamilton Butts, politician (b. 1871)
- December 9 – Peter Dmytruk, World War II military hero (b. 1920)
- December 23 – Edgar Sydney Little, politician (b. 1885)
See also
[edit]- List of Canadian films
Historical documents
[edit]Slightly confused 1st Infantry Division invades Sicily against "bewildered" and "sorry looking" Italian defenders[3]
Film: Canadian and U.S. troops train for Italian invasion[4]
Film: Canadian soldiers and nurses embark for Italian invasion[5]
Cartoon: Axis forces quickly retreating from "Sicilian landings"[6]
Command crucial, but battles are won "by human beings displaying judgment, coolness and courage" (and in Sicily's "unending heat")[7]
Seaforth Highlanders take Monte San Marco in Italy, despite steep, muddy terrain and intense German fire[8]
Top German generals recognize disadvantages fighting Allies in Italy, including "Canadians clever at making use of terrain"[9]
Canadian infantry and tanks press "a literally yard-by-yard advance" through Ortona streets, houses, and even rooms[10]
Film: Canadian troops fighting in Ortona[11]
Germans leave Ortona and their dead – "Civilians[...]too dazed to realize the enemy had gone; Canadians[...]too tired to care"[12]
Guide for battlefield first aid emphasizes combat practicality, like common sense, self-reliance, improvisation, effective care and carrying on fight[13]
Newspaper illustration of RCAF Spitfire planes strafing freight trains in Europe[14]
Photo: Canadians in joint landing operation with U.S. forces against Japanese invaders on Kiska Island, Alaska[15]
"The Jewish reservoir of the East, which was able to counterbalance the western assimilation, no longer exists"[16]
At end of fourth year of war, Prime Minister King calls for greater effort and sacrifice to defeat faltering Axis[17]
National registration certificate of Mrs. Ethel Louise Buck, Spirit River, Alberta[18]
"We are few, very few" – Quebecker laments that there are not enough pacifists in province to even produce their newsletter[19]
Advisory group chair foresees postwar period of more skilled labour, greater production, new products and technology, and huge demand[20]
U.S.-U.K. agreement creates executive committee with Canadian representation to guide nuclear development[21]
Canada wants multilateral general agreement to reduce tariffs, and to encourage U.S.A. and Canada to "buy in order to sell"[22]
Report with proposed economic reforms for benefit of Prairie provinces, adjacent U.S.A., and world at large[23]
Canada threatens to step back if not given more say in new UN Relief and Rehabilitation Organization[24]
Lester Pearson complains to External Affairs about U.S. censorship of official's call from legation in Washington to Ottawa[25]
Government returns about 15% of seized Japanese-Canadian fishing fleet to owners[26]
"So reactionary to Liberal principles" – PM King depressed by cabinet's close-minded attitude to steelworker strike[27]
Cartoon: Hitler says of strikers, "They are really working for me!"[28]
Communist Tim Buck's submission on labour relations to National War Labor Board emphasizes wage policy and collective bargaining[29]
Because of their difficulty finding housing and jobs, British Columbia MLA raises funds for halfway house for women discharged from mental institutions[30]
As they fund-raise for bombers, London's Women's Voluntary Services thanks Manitobans for gifts of clothes and mobile canteens[31]
"You can't refuse this cake, it was sent me all the way from Canada" – touring WVS speaker enjoys local hospitality[32]
"Defend[ing] freedom and culture of humanity" – Shostakovich's thank-you for Toronto performance of his Seventh Symphony[33]
Photo: RCAF member meets famed actor who plays "Rochester" on Jack Benny's radio comedy show[34]
References
[edit]- ^ "King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
- ^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 127, November 16, 1944), pgs. 1-4. Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ British Pathé, "How They Prepared" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020
- ^ British Pathé, "Canadians Sail To Mediterranean" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020
- ^ John Collins, "The Boys From Syracuse" The (Montreal) Gazette (1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
- ^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 135, May 4, 1945), pgs. 2-3. Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ Historical Section (G.S.), Department of National Defence, "Canadian Operations in Italy, October–November, 1943" (Report No. 161, October 16, 1946), pgs. 22-3. Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ Armed Forces Operations Staff, "Material for the Lecture by the Chief of Armed Forces Operations Staff[...]; Position in Italy" (translation; November 2, 1943), Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Volume VII (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 948-9 (PDF pgs. 953-4). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Volume 7)
- ^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Italy, September–December, 1943: Preliminary Report" (Report No. 129, November 25, 1944), pgs. 12-14. Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ British Pathé, "Canadians Fight Germans Through Streets of Italy" (1944). Accessed 27 July 2020
- ^ Douglas Amaron, "Only German Dead Left In Shambles of Ortona" The Globe and Mail (December 31, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
- ^ Notes for Instructors in Battle First Aid (1943). (See also First Aid in the Royal Canadian Navy, 1942) Accessed 17 May 2022
- ^ Montague Black (artist), "R.C.A.F. and R.A.F. fighter squadrons...." Star Weekly (March 6, 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ United States Navy, "Landing to find the little men not there" (August 15, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ "Four Years of World War" (translation), Israelitisches Wochenblatt (August 27, 1943), in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 1234-5 (PDF pgs. 1259-60). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A)
- ^ William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Four Years of War" (September 10, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020
- ^ Dominion of Canada; National Registration Regulations, 1940; Registration Certificate (dated June 29, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
- ^ Marie I. Stewart, "Quebec Pacifists," The Canadian C.O., Vol. 1, No. 6 (August 1943), pg. 6. Accessed 17 July 2020 https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/milton-good-library/newsletters-alternative-service (scroll down to The Canadian C.O.; August, 1943)
- ^ "Minutes of Evidence" (March 31, 1943), Proceedings of the [Senate] Special Committee on Economic Re-Establishment and Social Security, pgs. 10-11. Accessed 6 October 2020
- ^ "Article of Agreement Governing Collaboration Between the Authorities of the U.S.A. and the U.K. in the Matter of Tube Alloys" (August 19, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ United States Department of State, "The Chargé in Canada (Clark) to the Secretary of State" Foreign Relations of the United States; Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 1104-5. Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ The University of Manitoba and the University of Minnesota, "The Midcontinent and the Peace; The Interests of Western Canada and Central Northwest United States in the Peace Settlements" (1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ United States Department of State, "Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Acheson)" Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 881-3. Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ Letter of Lester Pearson (March 24, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ "Fishing Fleet Becomes Alive" Granada Pioneer (Amache, Colorado, March 17, 1943), pg. 4. Accessed 15 February 2020 (See photo "Impounded Japanese Canadian vessels requisitioned for military use readied for shipment")
- ^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1943 (January 14), pgs. 32-4. Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ John Collins, "How It's Spelled in Wartime" The (Montreal) Gazette (August 4, 1943). Accessed 17 February 2020
- ^ "A Labor Policy for Victory; Submission presented by Tim Buck on behalf of The Dominion Communist-Labor Total War Committee to The National War Labor Board Inquiry Into Labor Relations; May 28th, 1943." Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ "'Family Care' Sought For Mental Patients" Vancouver Sun (August 11, 1943), pg. 9. Accessed 14 August 2022
- ^ Letter to Margaret Konantz (January 22, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence, "A Tour with a Travelling Officer" The Bulletin, No. 41 (March 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 7 August 2020
- ^ Letter of Dmitri Shostakovich (June 23, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
- ^ "Windsor Airman Meets 'Rochester'" Windsor Star (February 17, 1943). Accessed 20 March 2021
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