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Events from the year1952 in Canada.

• Monarch –George VI (until February 6),^[1] thenElizabeth II^[2]

• Governor General – theViscount Alexander of Tunis (until February 28), thenVincent Massey^[3]
• Prime Minister –Louis St. Laurent
• Chief Justice –Thibaudeau Rinfret (Quebec)
• Parliament –21st

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta –John J. Bowlen
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia –Clarence Wallace
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba –Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick –David Laurence MacLaren
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland –Leonard Outerbridge
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia –John Alexander Douglas McCurdy (until September 1) thenAlistair Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario –Ray Lawson (until February 18) thenLouis Orville Breithaupt
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island –Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec –Gaspard Fauteux
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan –William John Patterson

• Premier of Alberta –Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia –Byron Johnson (until August 1) thenW.A.C. Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba –Douglas Campbell
• Premier of New Brunswick –John McNair (until October 8) thenHugh John Flemming
• Premier of Newfoundland –Joey Smallwood
• Premier of Nova Scotia –Angus Macdonald
• Premier of Ontario –Leslie Frost
• Premier of Prince Edward Island –J. Walter Jones
• Premier of Quebec –Maurice Duplessis
• Premier of Saskatchewan –Tommy Douglas

• Commissioner of Yukon –Frederick Fraser (until November 5) thenWilfred George Brown
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories –Hugh Andrew Young

• January 24 –Vincent Massey appointed firstCanada-bornGovernor General of Canada
• February 6 –Elizabeth II becomesQueen of Canada upon the death of her fatherGeorge VI.
• June 11 –Saskatchewan election:Tommy Douglas'sCo-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a third consecutive majority
• May 25 –Korean War: Canadian troops are dispatched to the troubledGeoje POW Camp
• July 16 –Quebec election:Maurice Duplessis'Union Nationale wins a third consecutive majority
• August 1 –W.A.C. Bennett becomespremier of British Columbia, replacingByron Johnson
• August 5 –Alberta election:Ernest Manning'sSocial Credit Party wins a fifth consecutive majority
• September 6 – The firstCBC Television station,CBFT, goes on the air inMontreal, Quebec
• September 8 –CBLT (CBCToronto) goes on air
• September 11 – Volkswagen of Canada is founded.
• September 16 – TheBoyd Gang is captured
• October 2 –Korean War:HMCS Iroquois, while shelling an enemy train in Korea, is hit by return fire from shore batteries. Three sailors were killed and 10 wounded: the only Royal Canadian Navy casualties of the war.
• October 8 –Hugh John Flemming becomespremier of New Brunswick, replacingJohn McNair
• October 14 –Lester B. Pearson is electedPresident of the United Nations General Assembly.

• Fighting in theKorean War drags on as the factions attempt to negotiate an armistice.
• The pension system is reformed with the introduction of theOld Age Security Act.
• Roy Thomson acquiresThe Scotsman and emigrates to Britain
• Painters Eleven founded.
• Atomic Energy Canada founded.
• Manitoba women were first permitted to serve on juries. (New Brunswick women become jurors in 1954, and PEI women in 1966).^[4]

• Thomas B. Costain:The Silver Chalice

• See1952 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award:Jan Hilliard,The Salt Box

• February 24 –Canada men's national ice hockey team (represented by theEdmonton Mercurys) win their 7th (consecutive and last until 2002) Gold Medal at the1952 Winter Olympics inOslo, Norway
• April 15 – TheDetroit Red Wings win their fifthStanley Cup by defeating theMontreal Canadiens 4 games to 0.
• May 2 – TheOntario Hockey Association'sGuelph Biltmore Mad Hatters win their onlyMemorial Cup by defeating theSaskatchewan Junior Hockey League'sRegina Pats 4 games to 0. The deciding Game 4 was played atMaple Leaf Gardens inToronto
• November 29 – TheToronto Argonauts win their tenth (and last until 1983)Grey Cup by defeating theEdmonton Eskimos 21–11 in the40th Grey Cup played at Toronto'sVarsity Stadium

• January 1 –Rosario Marchese, Italian-Canadian educator and politician
• January 19 –Michel Plante, ice hockey left winger
• February –Kathy Dunderdale, politician and 10thPremier of Newfoundland and Labrador
• February 3 –Wayne Erdman, judoka
• February 18 –Bernard Valcourt, politician and lawyer
• February 27 –Maureen McTeer, author and lawyer
• March 4 –Svend Robinson, politician, Canada's first openly homosexual elected official and prominent activist for gay rights
• May 13 –Mary Walsh, actress and comedian
• May 17 –Howard Hampton, politician
• June 1 –Ferron, folk singer-songwriter and poet
• June 6 –Jean Hamel, ice hockey player
• June 22 –Graham Greene, actor (d. 2025)
• June 29 –David Dingwall, politician, Minister and civil servant

• July 1
  • Dan Aykroyd, comedian, actor, screenwriter and musician
  • Sam George, native rights activist (d.2009)
  • Deborah Grey, politician
• July 3 –Rohinton Mistry, author
• July 6 –George Athans, world-champion water skier
• July 7 –David Milgaard, wrongfully convicted of murder (d.2022)
• July 13 –Rosemary Dunsmore, actress
• July 25 –Nancy Allan, politician
• July 31 –Kent Angus, businessman (d.2021)
• August 9 –Gary Kowalski, politician
• September 8 –Sue Barnes, politician
• September 10 –Vic Toews, politician
• September 12 –Neil Peart, drummer and author (d.2020)

• October 2 –Marie Deschamps, jurist and puisne justice on theSupreme Court of Canada
• October 4 –Angela Coughlan, swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (d.2009)
• October 22 –Peggy Baker, dancer
• November 10 –Jim Maloway, politician
• November 16 –Candas Jane Dorsey, poet and science fiction novelist
• November 27 –Sheila Copps, journalist and politician
• December 12 –Herb Dhaliwal, politician and Minister
• December 24 –Lorne Calvert, politician and 13thPremier of Saskatchewan
• December 27 –Jay Hill, politician

• Di Brandt, poet and literary critic
• David Macfarlane, journalist, playwright and novelist
• Bob McLeod, politician and 12thPremier of the Northwest Territories

• February 6 –George VI, King of Canada (b.1895)
• June 21 –Wilfrid R. "Wop" May,World War I flying ace and pioneering bush pilot (b.1896)
• July 6 –Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, politician and 14thPremier of Quebec (b.1867)
• August 31 –Henri Bourassa, politician and publisher (b.1868)
• October 6 –Walter Stanley Monroe, businessman, politician and Prime Minister ofNewfoundland (b.1871)
• October 18 –Joseph-Mathias Tellier, politician (b.1861)
• November 8 –Harold Innis, professor of political economy and author (b.1894)

• James Breakey, politician (b.1865)

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