1943 in Canada

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Events from the year 1943 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – King George VI (consort – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon)

Federal government

• Governor general – Alexander Cambridge (viceregal consort – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone)
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• 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

• 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

Commissioners

• Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell

Events

• 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.
• December 20 - December 27 - Battle of Ortona rages in Italy.

Births

January to March

• January 9 - Elmer MacFadyen, politician (d.2007)
• January 18 - 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 15 - David Cronenberg, filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional actor
• March 25 - Loyola Hearn, politician and Minister

April to June

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 22 - Edwin Tchorzewski, politician (d.2008)
• May 11 - Nancy Greene, alpine skier, Olympic gold medalist and World Champion, Senator
• June 5 - Jean-Claude Lord, Canadian director and screenwriter
• June 21 - Diane Marleau, politician and Minister (d.2013)

July to September

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

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
• 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 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 medalist

Deaths

• 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)