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:
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)