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Events from the year 1957 in Canada.

## Incumbents

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### Crown

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* Monarch – Elizabeth II[1]

### Federal government

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* Governor General – Vincent Massey[2]
* 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)

### Provincial governments

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#### Lieutenant governors

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* 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

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* 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

### Territorial governments

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#### Commissioners

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* Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Howard Collins
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

## Events

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* 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 2 – Elvis Presley performs in Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
* April 3 – Elvis Presley performs in Ottawa.
* 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
* August 31 – Elvis Presley performs at Empire Stadium in Vancouver.
* 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[3]
* Thanksgiving is moved to its current date, the second Monday in October
* Equalization payments are established.

## Sport

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* 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 – The 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

## Arts and literature

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### New works

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* 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

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* 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

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* Front Page Challenge premiers on CBC

## Births

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### January to June

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Danny Antonucci

* 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
* February 27 – Danny Antonucci, animator, director and writer
* 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
* Mike Bullard, comedian and broadcaster (d. 2024)
* Benedict Campbell, actor
* June 28 – Lance Nethery, ice hockey player

### July to September

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Bret Hart Darrell Dexter

* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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)

## See also

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* 1957 in Canadian television
* List of Canadian films

## References

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1. ^ "Queen Elizabeth II | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
2. ^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 142\. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
3. ^ Long, Tania (15 October 1957). "Queen in Coronation Gown Opens Ottawa Parliament; Ermine and Television QUEEN IS RADIANT AT OTTAWA RITES Chamber Long Filled Duke in Uniform Heat Becomes Oppressive". The New York Times. Page 1, columns 2-5. Retrieved 29 May 2023.

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