Events
- January 1: The news division of CBC is founded
- March 4: All Japanese Canadians are registered by the government
- July 16: The highest temperature ever recorded in British Columbia is measured in Lytton, when the temperature hit an all time high of 44.4 degrees Celsius.
- July 24: Alcan workers go on strike in Arvida, Quebec
- August 9-12: The Atlantic Conference meeting in Argentia, Dominion of Newfoundland between Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins is held, to discuss the Atlantic Charter
- August 12: All Japanese Canadians are ordered to carry a registration card
- August 13: The Wartime Prices and Trade Board responsible department is moved from the Labour Department to the Finance Department.
- August 13: The Canadian Women's Army Corps is established
- August 14: The Atlantic Charter is signed off Halifax
- December 7: As a result of the Battle of Hong Kong Canada declares war on Japan. That same day Canada declares war on German allies Romania, Hungary, and Finland.
- December 8: The day after the Battle of Hong Kong all fishing boats owned by Japanese Canadians are impounded by the government. Japanese-language schools and newspapers are shut down.
- December 8–December 25: A large number of ill-trained Canadian troops, members of the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers, are killed or taken prisoner in the Battle of Hong Kong
- December 9: John Hart becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing Thomas Pattullo
- The R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant is completed
- Canada establishes a High Commission in St. John's, to deter concerns of a possible American takeover of the Dominion of Newfoundland
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)