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January 1 – Metropolitan Toronto comes into being to coordinate services among the various municipalities around Toronto. January 8 – The first oil from Alberta arrives in Sarnia through the new pipeline
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1954; 1953; 1956 in Canada: →. 1957 ... Events from the year 1956 in Canada. 1956 Canadian Pontiac Pathfinder Sedan Delivery.
April 26 – Lyman Duff, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1865) May 10 – Tommy Burns, only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer (b. 1881) June 16 – Ozias Leduc, painter (b. 1864) August 5 – Izaak Walton Killam, financier (b. 1885) August 7 – Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia ...
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June 2 – Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of Canada. In Korea the Canadian Army celebrates the coronation by firing red, white, and blue smoke shells at the enemy. July 13 – The Stratford Festival of Canada opens; July 27 – The Korean War ends. In total 314 Canadians were killed and 1211 wounded.
February 24 – Canada men's national ice hockey team (represented by the Edmonton Mercurys) win their 7th (consecutive and last until 2002) Gold Medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway April 15 – The Detroit Red Wings win their fifth Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 0.
July 10 – A formal peace agreement between Canada and Germany is signed; September 30 - Charlotte Whitton becomes mayor of Ottawa and Canada's first woman mayor of a major city. October 27: The cobalt bomb cancer therapy is first tested in London, Ontario