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Events from the year1943 in Canada.

• Monarch –George VI^[1]

• Governor General –Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone^[2]
• Prime Minister –William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice –Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia)
• Parliament –19th

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta –John C. Bowen
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia –William Culham Woodward
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba –Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick –William George Clark
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia –Henry Ernest Kendall
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario –Albert Edward Matthews
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island –Bradford William LePage
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec –Eugène Fiset
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan –Archibald Peter McNab

• Premier of Alberta –William Aberhart (until May 23) thenErnest Manning (from May 31)
• Premier of British Columbia –John Hart
• Premier of Manitoba –John Bracken (until January 14) thenStuart Garson
• Premier of New Brunswick –John McNair
• Premier of Nova Scotia –A.S. MacMillan
• Premier of Ontario –Gordon Daniel Conant (until May 18) thenHarry Nixon (May 18 to August 17) thenGeorge A. Drew
• Premier of Prince Edward Island –Thane Campbell (until May 11) thenJ. Walter Jones
• Premier of Quebec –Adélard Godbout
• Premier of Saskatchewan –William John Patterson

• Controller of Yukon –George A. Jeckell
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories –Charles Camsell

• January 8 –Stuart Garson becomes premier ofManitoba, replacingJohn Bracken, who had governed for 21 years.
• May 11 –J. Walter Jones becomes premier ofPrince Edward Island, replacingThane Campbell.
• May 18 –Harry Nixon becomes premier ofOntario, replacingGordon Conant.
• May 23 –William Aberhart, premier ofAlberta, dies in office.
• May 31 –Ernest Manning becomes premier of Alberta.
• July – The1st Canadian Infantry Division is part of the invasion ofSicily.
• August 4 –Ontario election:George Drew's PCs win a minority, defeatingHarry Nixon's Liberals.
• August 17 – George Drew becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Harry Nixon.
• August 19 – TheQuebec Agreement is signed inQuebec City, between Canada, theUnited Kingdom and theUnited States.
• October 21 –HMCS Chedabucto sinks nearRimouski after an accidental collision with another ship.
• October 22 – The crew ofGerman submarine U-537 set upWeather Station Kurt near Martin Bay in Labrador.
• December 20 – December 27 –Battle of Ortona rages in Italy.

• April 28 – TheManitoba Junior Hockey League'sWinnipeg Rangers win their secondMemorial Cup by defeating theOntario Hockey Association'sOshawa Generals 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played atMaple Leaf Gardens inToronto.
• November 27 – TheHamilton Flying Wildcats win their onlyGrey Cup by defeating theWinnipeg RCAF Bombers 23 to 14 in the31st Grey Cup played atVarsity Stadium in Toronto.

• January 9 –Elmer MacFadyen, politician (d.2007)
• January 10 –Carl Ray, artist (d.1978)
• January 23 –Bill Cameron, news anchor, television producer, columnist and author (d.2005)
• January 28 –Paul Henderson, ice hockey player
• February 19 –Art Hanger, politician
• February 23 –Charles Dalfen, chairperson of theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (d.2009)
• February 27 –Gordon Earle, politician
• March 7 –Billy MacMillan, ice hockey coach and player (d.2023)
• March 11 –Bob Plager, ice hockey player (d.2021)
• March 15 –David Cronenberg, filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional actor
• March 25 –Loyola Hearn, diplomat and politician

• April 1 –Shirley Render, politician
• April 2 –Alan Tonks, politician
• April 3 –Richard Manuel, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist (d.1986)
• April 12 –Jenny Meldrum, hurdler and heptathlete
• April 17 –Bobby Curtola, singer (d.2016)
• April 22 –Edwin Tchorzewski, politician (d.2008)
• May 11 –Nancy Greene Raine, alpine skier, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion, Senator
• June 5 –Jean-Claude Lord, film director and screenwriter (d.2022)
• June 21 –Diane Marleau, politician and Minister (d.2013)

• July 15 –John H. Bryden, politician, journalist and historian
• July 30 –Jean Friesen, politician
• July 31 –Ryan Larkin, animator, artist and sculptor (d.2007)
• August 9 –Joe Handley, politician and 10thPremier of the Northwest Territories
• August 12 –Anne Cools, Senator
• August 29 –Arthur B. McDonald, astrophysicist,Nobel Prize in Physics winner
• September 9 –Daurene Lewis, politician and nation's first black female mayor (d.2013)
• September 12 –Alain Dostie, cinematographer, film director and screenwriter
• September 12 –Michael Ondaatje, novelist and poet
• September 19 –Lyle Vanclief, politician and Minister
• September 22 –Maurice Baril, General andChief of the Defence Staff
• September 27 –Randy Bachman, guitarist and songwriter

• October 16 –Paul Rose, convicted of murder and kidnapping ofPierre Laporte in1970 and leader ofPDS (1996–2002) (d.2013)
• October 24 –Frank Pitura, politician (d.2019)
• October 26 –Diane Gerace, high jumper
• November 7 –Joni Mitchell, musician, songwriter and painter
• November 13 –André-Gilles Fortin, politician (d.1977)
• November 18 –Michael H. Rayner, public servant (d.2004)
• November 22 –Yvan Cournoyer, ice hockey player
• November 27 –Nicole Brossard, poet and novelist
• December 2 –Larry Grossman, politician (d.1997)
• December 13 –Ferguson Jenkins, baseball player
• December 14 –Linda McIntosh, politician
• December 21 –André Arthur, radio host and politician (d.2022)
• December 23 –Margaret MacMillan, historian
• December 28 –David Peterson, politician and 20thPremier of Ontario
• December 29 –Rick Danko, musician and singer (d.1999)
• December 30 –Linda Thom, shooter and Olympic gold medallist

• February 9 –Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister ofNewfoundland (b.1875)
• May 23 –William Aberhart, politician and 8thPremier of Alberta (b.1878)
• July 2 –Robert James Manion, politician (b.1881)
• July 4 –Gordon Sidney Harrington, politician and Premier ofNova Scotia (b.1883)
• July 12 –Joseph Boutin Bourassa, politician (b.1853)
• October 18 –Albert Charles Saunders, jurist, politician and Premier ofPrince Edward Island (b.1874)
• November 26 –Charles G.D. Roberts, poet and prose writer (b.1860)
• November 29 –Robert Hamilton Butts, politician (b.1871)
• December 9 –Peter Dmytruk,World War II military hero (b.1920)
• December 23 –Edgar Sydney Little, politician (b.1885)

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