Events
- January 7 – The first television broadcast of the opening of parliament
- February 1 – The Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank merge to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank
- March 17- Richard Riot
- April 2 – The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge connecting Halifax to Dartmouth opens.
- June 9 – Ontario general election, 1955: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fourth consecutive majority
- June 29 – Alberta general election, 1955: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a sixth consecutive majority.
- July 11 – Seven teenagers die in a mountaineering accident on Mount Temple in Banff National Park.
- Cape Breton Island is connected to the mainland by the Canso Causeway
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“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)
“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)