Events
- June 7 - Ontario election: George Drew's PCs win a second consecutive majority
- June 24 - Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a second consecutive majority
- November 7 - Douglas Campbell becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Stuart Garson
- November 15 - Louis Saint Laurent becomes prime minister, replacing Mackenzie King
- July 22 - The Dominion of Newfoundland votes 52% to 48% to join the foreign nation of Canada in a questionable referendum.
- August 17 - Alberta general election, 1948: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a fourth consecutive majority
- October 19 - Thomas Kennedy becomes premier of Ontario, replacing George Drew
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“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
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