Events
- January 1 – The National Library of Canada is founded
- January 27 – The Canadian Dental Association approves the use of fluoride in drinking water
- May 25 – Alex Matheson becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing J. Walter Jones
- June 2 – Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of Canada. In Korea the Canadian Army celebrates the coronation by firing red, white, and blue smoke shells at the enemy.
- July 13 – The Stratford Festival of Canada opens
- July 27 – The Korean War ends. In total 314 Canadians were killed and 1211 wounded.
- August 10 – Federal election: Louis Saint Laurent's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.
- October 12 – Wilfrid Laurier Memorial unveiled
- October 15 – The Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline is completed
- October 25 – Canada's first privately-owned television station, CKSO, broadcasts in Sudbury.
- The federal Immigration Act is amended to prohibit homosexuals entry into Canada. This amendment was repealed in 1977.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)