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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
1954; 1953; 1956 in Canada: ... Events from the year 1956 in Canada. 1956 Canadian Pontiac Pathfinder Sedan Delivery. Like all Canadian-built Pontiacs of the era, ...
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 ...
The Shaping of Peace: Canada and the Search for World Order, 1943-1957 (2 vol. 1982) Granatstein, J. L., ed. Canadian foreign policy : historical readings (1986), excerpts from primary sources and scholars online free; MacMillan, Margaret Olwen, and David S. Sorenson, eds. Canada and NATO: Uneasy past, uncertain future (U of Waterloo Press, 1990).
Canada and U.S.A. agree to further defence industry mobilization at level of cooperation seen in Second World War [7] "It is the function of diplomacy to seek accommodation" - Canada and allies send in diplomats as well as military to end Korean War [8]
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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.
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