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 This amendment was repealed in 1977.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:
“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)