Deaths
- January 26 – Barbara Hanley, first woman to be elected a mayor in Canada (b.1882)
- February 11 – Harry James Barber, politician (b.1875)
- February 13 – Thomas Laird Kennedy, politician and 15th Premier of Ontario (b.1878)
- March 3 – Philémon Cousineau, politician (b.1874)
- March 17 – Sidney Earle Smith, academic and 7th President of the University of Toronto (b.1897)
- April 8 – George Croil, first Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (b.1893)
- June 3 – Filip Konowal, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient in 1917 (b.1888)
- June 9 - Lynne Harper, murder victim (b.1946)
- September 7 – Maurice Duplessis, politician and 16th Premier of Quebec (b.1890)
- October 25 – Samuel Lawrence, politician and trade unionist (b.1879)
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