Events from the year1943 in Canada .
Provincial governments [ edit ] Lieutenant governors [ edit ] Territorial governments [ edit ] 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. 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 Nancy Greene 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 ) Joe Handley 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 to December [ edit ] David Peterson in 2005 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 ) Historical documents [ edit ] Slightly confused1st Infantry Division invades Sicily against "bewildered" and "sorry looking" Italian defenders[ 3]
Film: Canadian andU.S. troops train for Italian invasion[ 4]
Film: Canadian soldiers andnurses embark for Italian invasion[ 5]
Cartoon : Axis forces quickly retreating from "Sicilian landings"[ 6]
Command crucial, but battles are won "by human beings displaying judgment, coolness and courage" (and inSicily's "unending heat" )[ 7]
Seaforth Highlanders take Monte San Marco in Italy, despite steep, muddy terrain and intense German fire[ 8]
Top German generals recognize disadvantagesfighting Allies in Italy , including "Canadians clever at making use of terrain"[ 9]
Canadianinfantry andtanks press "a literally yard-by-yard advance" throughOrtona streets, houses, and even rooms[ 10]
Film: Canadian troops fighting inOrtona [ 11]
Germans leaveOrtona and their dead – "Civilians[...]too dazed to realize the enemy had gone; Canadians[...]too tired to care"[ 12]
Guide forbattlefield first aid emphasizes combat practicality, like common sense, self-reliance, improvisation, effective care and carrying on fight[ 13]
Newspaper illustration ofRCAF Spitfire planesstrafing freight trains in Europe[ 14]
Photo: Canadians in joint landing operation with U.S. forces againstJapanese invaders on Kiska Island , Alaska[ 15]
"TheJewish reservoir of the East , which was able to counterbalance thewestern assimilation , no longer exists"[ 16]
At end of fourth year of war, Prime Minister King calls for greater effort and sacrifice to defeatfaltering Axis [ 17]
National registration certificate of Mrs. Ethel Louise Buck, Spirit River, Alberta[ 18]
"We are few, very few" – Quebecker laments that there are not enoughpacifists in province to even produce their newsletter[ 19]
Advisory groupchair foresees postwar period of moreskilled labour , greater production, new products and technology, and hugedemand [ 20]
U.S.-U.K.agreement creates executive committee with Canadian representation to guide nuclear development[ 21]
Canada wants multilateral general agreement to reducetariffs , and to encourage U.S.A. and Canada to "buy in order to sell"[ 22]
Report with proposed economic reforms for benefit ofPrairie provinces ,adjacent U.S.A. , and world at large[ 23]
Canada threatens to step back if not given more say in newUN Relief and Rehabilitation Organization [ 24]
Lester Pearson complains to External Affairs about U.S. censorship of official's call from legation in Washington to Ottawa[ 25]
Government returns about 15% of seizedJapanese-Canadian fishing fleet to owners[ 26]
"So reactionary toLiberal principles " – PM King depressed by cabinet's close-minded attitude to steelworker strike[ 27]
Cartoon : Hitler says of strikers, "They are really working for me!"[ 28]
CommunistTim Buck 's submission on labour relations to National War Labor Board emphasizes wage policy and collective bargaining[ 29]
Because of their difficulty finding housing and jobs,British Columbia MLA raises funds forhalfway house for women discharged from mental institutions[ 30]
As they fund-raise for bombers, London'sWomen's Voluntary Services thanksManitobans for gifts of clothes and mobile canteens[ 31]
"You can't refuse this cake, it was sent me all the way from Canada" – touringWVS speaker enjoys local hospitality[ 32]
"Defend[ing] freedom and culture of humanity" –Shostakovich 's thank-you for Toronto performance of hisSeventh Symphony [ 33]
Photo:RCAF member meets famed actor who plays"Rochester" onJack Benny 'sradio comedy show[ 34]
^ "King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia" .www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved4 December 2022 .^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014).Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2 ^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters,"Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 127, November 16, 1944), pgs. 1-4. Accessed 15 July 2020 ^ British Pathé,"How They Prepared" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020 ^ British Pathé,"Canadians Sail To Mediterranean" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020 ^ John Collins,"The Boys From Syracuse" The (Montreal) Gazette (1943). Accessed 17 July 2020 ^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters,"Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 135, May 4, 1945), pgs. 2-3. Accessed 15 July 2020 ^ Historical Section (G.S.), Department of National Defence,"Canadian Operations in Italy, October–November, 1943" (Report No. 161, October 16, 1946), pgs. 22-3. Accessed 15 July 2020 ^ Armed Forces Operations Staff, "Material for the Lecture by the Chief of Armed Forces Operations Staff[...]; Position in Italy" (translation; November 2, 1943), Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Volume VII (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 948-9 (PDF pgs. 953-4). Accessed 5 August 2020https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Volume 7) ^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters,"Canadian Operations in Italy, September–December, 1943: Preliminary Report" (Report No. 129, November 25, 1944), pgs. 12-14. Accessed 15 July 2020 ^ British Pathé,"Canadians Fight Germans Through Streets of Italy" (1944). Accessed 27 July 2020 ^ Douglas Amaron,"Only German Dead Left In Shambles of Ortona" The Globe and Mail (December 31, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020 ^ Notes for Instructors in Battle First Aid (1943). (See alsoFirst Aid in the Royal Canadian Navy, 1942 ) Accessed 17 May 2022^ Montague Black (artist),"R.C.A.F. and R.A.F. fighter squadrons...." Star Weekly (March 6, 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 15 July 2020^ United States Navy,"Landing to find the little men not there" (August 15, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020 ^ "Four Years of World War" (translation), Israelitisches Wochenblatt (August 27, 1943), in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 1234-5 (PDF pgs. 1259-60). Accessed 5 August 2020https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A) ^ William Lyon Mackenzie King,"Four Years of War" (September 10, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020 ^ Dominion of Canada; National Registration Regulations, 1940;Registration Certificate (dated June 29, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020 ^ Marie I. Stewart, "Quebec Pacifists," The Canadian C.O., Vol. 1, No. 6 (August 1943), pg. 6. Accessed 17 July 2020https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/milton-good-library/newsletters-alternative-service (scroll down to The Canadian C.O.; August, 1943) ^ "Minutes of Evidence" (March 31, 1943), Proceedings of the [Senate] Special Committee on Economic Re-Establishment and Social Security, pgs. 10-11. Accessed 6 October 2020^ "Article of Agreement Governing Collaboration Between the Authorities of the U.S.A. and the U.K. in the Matter of Tube Alloys" (August 19, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020^ United States Department of State,"The Chargé in Canada (Clark) to the Secretary of State" Foreign Relations of the United States; Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 1104-5. Accessed 16 July 2020 ^ The University of Manitoba and the University of Minnesota,"The Midcontinent and the Peace; The Interests of Western Canada and Central Northwest United States in the Peace Settlements" (1943). Accessed 16 July 2020 ^ United States Department of State,"Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Acheson)" Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 881-3. Accessed 16 July 2020 ^ Letter of Lester Pearson (March 24, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020^ "Fishing Fleet Becomes Alive" Granada Pioneer (Amache, Colorado, March 17, 1943), pg. 4. Accessed 15 February 2020 (See photo"Impounded Japanese Canadian vessels requisitioned for military use readied for shipment" )^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1943 (January 14 ), pgs. 32-4. Accessed 16 July 2020 ^ John Collins,"How It's Spelled in Wartime" The (Montreal) Gazette (August 4, 1943). Accessed 17 February 2020 ^ "A Labor Policy for Victory; Submission presented by Tim Buck on behalf of The Dominion Communist-Labor Total War Committee to The National War Labor Board Inquiry Into Labor Relations; May 28th, 1943." Accessed 16 July 2020^ "'Family Care' Sought For Mental Patients" Vancouver Sun (August 11, 1943), pg. 9. Accessed 14 August 2022^ Letter to Margaret Konantz (January 22, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020^ Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence,"A Tour with a Travelling Officer" The Bulletin, No. 41 (March 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 7 August 2020 ^ Letter of Dmitri Shostakovich (June 23, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020^ "Windsor Airman Meets 'Rochester'" Windsor Star (February 17, 1943). Accessed 20 March 2021
1943 in North America
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