1952 in Canada - Events

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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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)

    “We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “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.”
    —Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)