1951 in Canada

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Events from the year 1951 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George VI
• Governor General – The Earl Alexander of Tunis
• Prime Minister – Louis Saint Laurent
• Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia – Byron Johnson
• Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
• Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
• Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Macdonald
• Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones
• Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

Events

• April 22–25 – Korean War: In the Battle of Kapyong, the Canadians hold off the Chinese.
• June 1 – The Massey Report into Canadian culture is released
• July 10 – A formal peace agreement between Canada and Germany is signed
• October 27:
  • The cobalt bomb cancer therapy is first tested in London, Ontario
  • The Duke of Edinburgh, and The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (now Elizabeth II), attend an Edmonton Eskimos home game. In the western semi-final, Edmonton beat Winnipeg 4–1
• November 22 – Ontario general election, 1951: Leslie Frost's PCs win a third consecutive majority
• December 12 – The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority is established.

Full date unknown

• Canada's immigration rate rises. Population is 14,009,429.
• The Indian Act of Canada is revised to limit coverage of Aboriginal people, excluding Aboriginal women who married non-Aboriginal men.
• Louis St. Laurent moves into 24 Sussex Drive, the new official residence of the Prime Minister
• Labatt Blue is introduced
• The Wartime Prices and Trade Board is abolished.

Arts and literature

• November 12 – The National Ballet of Canada gives its first performance.

New books

• Morley Callaghan – The Loved and the Lost
• Harold Innis – The Bias of Communication

Awards

• See 1951 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Eric Nicol, The Roving I

Births

Greg Selinger in 2010

January to March

• January 3 – Claude Bachand, politician
• January 17 – Carol Marguerite Anderson, choreographer
• January 21 – W. Yvon Dumont, politician
• February 16 – Greg Selinger, politician and 21st Premier of Manitoba
• February 22 – Elaine Tanner, swimmer
• March 12 – Susan Musgrave, poet and children's writer
• March 16 – Kate Nelligan, actress
• March 21 – Lesley Choyce, novelist, poet and children's writer
• March 25 – Ethel Blondin-Andrew, politician
• March 28 – Karen Kain, ballet dancer
• March 31 – Lawrence O'Brien, politician (d.2004)

April to June

Ed Stelmach in 2009

• April 5 – Guy Vanderhaeghe, author
• April 15 – Paul Snider, murder (d.1980)
• April 18 – Pierre Pettigrew, politician
• May 2 – Andrew Barron, ice speed skater
• May 3 – Dianne Whalen, politician, MHA for Conception Bay East – Bell Island (2003–2010) (d. 2010)
• May 7 – Janina Fialkowska, pianist
• May 9 – Christopher Dewdney, poet, author and professor
• May 11 – Ed Stelmach, farmer, politician and 13th Premier of Alberta
• June 2 – Larry Robinson, ice hockey player and coach
• June 19 – Bill Blaikie, politician

July to September

• July 4 – Beverly Boys, diver
• July 5 – Penny Werthner, track and field athlete
• July 20 – Paulette Bourgeois, children's writer
• July 26 – Rick Martin, ice hockey player (d. 2011)
• July 27 – Shawn Murphy, politician
• August 3 – Marcel Dionne, ice hockey player
• August 10 – Judy Wasylycia-Leis, politician
• August 17 – Robert Joy, actor
• September 14 – Elizabeth Carruthers, diver
• September 19 – Daniel Lanois, record producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter
• September 20 – Guy Lafleur, ice hockey player
• September 28 – Rick Gibson, artist

October to December

• October 9 – Joe Tascona, lawyer and politician
• October 11 – Jim Carr, politician
• October 16 – Brenda Eisler, long jumper
• October 26 – Willie P. Bennett, folk music singer-songwriter (d.2008)
• October 27 – Roger Fortin, boxer
• October 29 – Camille Huard, boxer
• October 31 – Doug Bennett, singer, musician and music video director (d.2004)
• November 10 – Marlene Jennings, politician
• November 13 – Robert Hilles, poet and novelist
• December 6 – Tomson Highway, playwright, novelist and children's author
• December 22 – Charles de Lint, fantasy author and Celtic folk musician

Full date unknown

• Robert Priest, poet and children's author

Deaths

January to June

• January 1 – Frank Scott Hogg, astrophysicist (b.1904)
• January 3 – Richard Langton Baker, politician (b.1870)
• January 16 – Seymour J. Farmer, politician (b.1878)
• February 7 – Edna Diefenbaker, first wife of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (b.1899)
• February 27 – Leland Payson Bancroft, politician (b.1880)
• April 14 – Al Christie, film director, producer and screenwriter (b.1881)

July to December

• August 26 – Bill Barilko, ice hockey player (b.1927)
• September 1 – Nellie McClung, feminist, politician and social activist (b.1873)
• September 14 – James Langstaff Bowman, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b.1879)
• September 20 – William Henry Wright, prospector and newspaper owner (b.1876)
• October 8 – Charles William Jefferys, artist and historian (b.1869)

Full date unknown

• Harry Cassidy, academic, social reformer and civil servant (b.1900)

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