Events
- January 24 – Vincent Massey appointed first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada
- February 6 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen of Canada upon the death of her father George VI.
- June 11 – Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a third consecutive majority
- May 25 – Korean War: Canadian troops are dispatched to the troubled Geoje POW Camp
- August 1 – W.A.C. Bennett becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Byron Johnson
- August 5 – Alberta election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a fifth consecutive majority
- September 6 – The first CBC Television station, CBFT, goes on the air in Montreal, Quebec
- September 8 – CBLT (CBC Toronto) goes on air
- September 11 – Volkswagen of Canada is founded.
- September 16 – The Boyd Gang is captured
- October 2 – Korean War: HMCS Iroquois, while shelling an enemy train in Korea, is hit by return fire from shore batteries. Three sailors were killed and 10 wounded: the only Royal Canadian Navy casualties of the war.
- October 8 – Hugh John Flemming becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing John McNair
- October 14 – Lester B. Pearson is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.
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