1954 in Canada

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Events from the year 1954 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 1 – Metropolitan Toronto comes into being to coordinate services among the various municipalities around Toronto.
January 8 – The first oil from Alberta arrives in Sarnia through the new pipeline
March 30 – The Yonge St. subway, the first subway system in Canada, opens in Toronto
April 13 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia, dies in office
April 14 – Harold Connolly becomes premier of Nova Scotia
May 31 – Winnipeg's first television station, CBWT a CBC Television owned and operated station, begins broadcasting
August 10 – The groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway begins
September 9 - The 1954 Series of banknotes is introduced.
September 9 – Marilyn Bell becomes the first person to swim Lake Ontario
September 18 – Marie-Victorin Statue unveiled
September 30 – Henry Hicks becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Harold Connolly
October 15 – Hurricane Hazel hits Toronto killing 81.

Canada contributes to a peacekeeping force in Indochina
Sir Adam Beck Generating Station built on the Canadian side of the Niagara River
Pinetree Line radar system completed
Yahtzee is invented by a Canadian couple
Jean Drapeau first elected mayor of Montreal
Streetcars leave Winnipeg

See 1954 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Stephen Leacock Award: Joan Walker, Pardon My Parka

April 16 – The Detroit Red Wings win their sixth Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 3.
May 16 – The Ontario Hockey Association's St. Catharines Teepees win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Central Alberta Hockey League's Edmonton Oil Kings 4 games to 0 (with 1 tie). All games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
July 30 – The Miracle Mile is run at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. Empire Stadium is opened on the same day.
August 28 – The BC Lions are established, the fifth team in the Western Interprovincial Football Union.
November 27 – The Edmonton Eskimos win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Montreal Alouettes 26 to 25 in the 42nd Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

July 6 – Brian Pallister, politician
July 9 – Kevin O'Leary, businessman, television personality, and political candidate
July 18 – Audrey Vandervelden, volleyball player
August 11 – Gulzar Singh Cheema, politician

January 24 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat (b. 1894)
February 13 – Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1890)
March 15 – Charles MacOdrum, politician
March 31 – John Walter Jones, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1878)
April 4 – Abraham Albert Heaps, politician and labor leader (b. 1885)
April 8 – Winnifred Eaton, author (b. 1875)
April 13 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890)
June 18 – Welland Gemmell, politician and minister
June 21 – Rod Keller, general (b. 1900)^[3]
August 6 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b. 1934)
November 26 – Wallace Rupert Turnbull, engineer and inventor (b. 1870)