Events from the year 1943 in Canada .
Provincial governments [ edit ]
Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
Territorial governments [ 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.
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
Nancy Greene
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 )
Joe Handley
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 [ edit ]
David Peterson in 2005
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
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 )
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]
^ "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
1943 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories