1946 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George VI

  Federal government

• Governor general – Alexander Cambridge then Earl Alexander of Tunis
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Thibaudeau Rinfret
• Parliament – 20th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – William C Woodward then Charles Arthur Banks
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Henry Ernest Kendall
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Albert Edward Matthews then Ray Lawson
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Joseph Alphonsus Bernard
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Eugène Fiset
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Reginald John Marsden Parker

  Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia – John Hart
• Premier of Manitoba – Stuart Garson
• Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Macdonald
• Premier of Ontario – George A. Drew
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones
• Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

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

  Events

• January 21 – The Bluenose sinks off Haiti.
• May 14 – The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 is passed. It creates a Canadian citizenship separate from the British.
• May 31 – All Japanese-Canadians ordered deported to Japan.
• April 12 – Sir Harold Alexander appointed the new Governor General of Canada, replacing the Earl of Athlone.
• June 23 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake affects Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia.
• June 27 – Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 is enacted, defining a Canadian citizen and including a reference to being a British subject.
• July 15 – A royal commission investigates a Soviet spy ring in Canada. Secret information was found to be leaked and among the Canadians held suspect was the one parliamentary delegate of the Labor-Progressive Party.
• August 3 – A Canadian wheat agreement provided for British purchases of large amounts of Canadian wheat at prices considerably below the world market.
• October 14 – Canada Savings Bonds introduced for the first time.
• November 1946 - Viola Desmond refuses to leave her seat in the movie theater and is arrested.
• The Canadian Army Command and Staff College is established.

  Arts and literature

Sport

• April 9 - The Montreal Canadiens won their sixth Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins four games to one. The deciding Game 5 was played at the Montreal Forum.
• April 27 - The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs won their third Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association Toronto St. Michael's Majors 4 games to 3. All games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
• November - The New York Knicks won the first National Basketball Association game by defeating the Toronto Huskies 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
• November 30 - The Toronto Argonauts won their seventh Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 28 to 6 in the 34th Grey Cup at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.

  Births

January to March

• January 10 – Alexis Nihon, Jr., real estate businessman, Olympic wrestler for The Bahamas
• January 15 – Veronica Tennant, ballet dancer and dance and performance film producer and director
• January 17 – Domenic Troiano, rock guitarist
• January 22 – Serge Savard, ice hockey player
• January 30 – Jean-Paul Daoust, writer
• February 6 – Kate McGarrigle, folk music singer-songwriter
• March 1 – Gerry Boulet, rock singer
• March 5 – Richard Bell, musician
• March 6 – Marcel Proulx, politician
• March 11 – Paul DeVillers, politician
• March 22 – Rivka Golani, viola player

  April to June

• April – Doug Christie, lawyer and free speech activist
• April 11 – Donald Orchard, politician
• April 15 – David Chatters, politician
• April 26 – Lorne Nystrom, politician
• April 28 – Ginette Reno, author, composer, singer and actress
• May 17 – Joan Barfoot, novelist
• May 30 – Don Ferguson, actor and comedian
• June 6 – Judy Jarvis, dancer
• June 17 – Ernie Eves, politician and 33rd Premier of Ontario
• June 24 – David Collenette, politician
• June 25 – Andy Anstett, politician
• June 25 – Roméo Dallaire, senator, humanitarian, author and retired general

  July to September

• July 1 – Rosalie Abella, jurist
• July 5 – Pierre-Marc Johnson, lawyer, physician, politician and 24th Premier of Quebec
• July 10 – Roger Abbott, comedian
• July 19 – Dennis Mills, politician and businessman
• August 8 – Richard Johnston, politician, educator and administrator
• August 29 – Leona Gom, poet and novelist
• August 31 – Lynne Harper, murder victim
• September 4
• * Eric Malling, television journalist
• * Greg Sorbara, politician
• September 9 – Lawrence MacAulay, politician

  October to December

• October 16 – Elizabeth Witmer, politician
• October 28 – Sharon Thesen, poet
• November 4 – Robert Davidson, artist
• November 12 – Peter Milliken, lawyer and politician
• November 17 – Petra Burka, figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist, World Champion and coach
• November 17 – Bob McBride, singer
• November 22 – Anne Wheeler, film and television writer, producer and director
• November 26 – Andreas Schroeder, poet, novelist and nonfiction writer
• December 14 – Paul Forseth, politician
• December 17 – Eugene Levy, actor, television director, producer, musician and writer

  Deaths

• February 15 – Ernest Howard Armstrong, journalist, politician and Premier of Manitoba
• February 21 – Howard Ferguson, politician and 9th Premier of Ontario
• August 17 – John Patrick Barry, politician and lawyer
• September 9 – Aimé Boucher, politician and notary
• October 23 – Ernest Thompson Seton, author and wildlife artist
• December 6 – Charles Stewart, politician and 3rd Premier of Alberta
• December 25 – Charles Ernest Gault, politician
• December 27 – John Babington Macaulay Baxter, lawyer, jurist and 18th Premier of New Brunswick
• December 29 – James Thomas Milton Anderson, politician and 5th Premier of Saskatchewan

  Full date unknown

• John Queen, politician