1955_in_Canada Knowpia

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Events from the year 1955 in Canada.

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January 7 – The first television broadcast of the opening of parliament
February 1 – The Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank merge to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank
February 23 - Military exercise Operation Bulldog III in Yellowknife.
March 17- Richard Riot
April 2 – The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge connecting Halifax to Dartmouth opens.
June 9 – 1955 Ontario general election: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fourth consecutive majority
June 29 – 1955 Alberta general election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a sixth consecutive majority.
July 11 – Seven teenagers die in a mountaineering accident on Mount Temple in Banff National Park.
Cape Breton Island is connected to the mainland by the Canso Causeway

See 1955 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Stephen Leacock Award: Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice

March 17 – A riot erupts in Montreal when Maurice Richard is suspended.
April 14 - Detroit Red Wings won their Seventh (and last until 1997) Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 3.
April 29 - Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros won their Second (and First since 1929) Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 4 games to 1.All games were played at Regina Exhibition Stadium
November 26 - Edmonton Eskimos won their Second(consecutive) Grey Cup by defeating the Montreal Alouettes by the score of 34 to 19 in the 43rd Grey Cup played at Empire Stadium in Vancouver
The Canadian Sports Hall of Fame is created.

Eva Aariak

Dalton McGuinty

July 7 – Gord Mackintosh, politician
July 13 – Hubert Lacroix, lawyer and President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
July 17 – Geneviève Cadieux, artist
July 19 – Dalton McGuinty, lawyer, politician and 24th Premier of Ontario
August 6 – Gilles Bernier, politician
August 12 – Tooker Gomberg, politician and environmental activist (d. 2004)
August 19 – Bev Desjarlais, politician
August 31 – Sidney McKnight, boxer

Stéphane Dion

October 30-Metis and Reform Member of Parliament (MP) James A. Hart was born in Edmonton, Alberta

April 24 – Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor (b. 1876)
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 (b. 1871)
October 1 – Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner (b. 1880)

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