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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