1942 in Canada

Crown

Head of state (monarch) – King George VI (consort – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon)

Federal government

Governor general – Alexander Cambridge (viceregal consort – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone)

Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King

Lieutenant governors

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 – Frederick F. Mathers (until November 17) then 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

Premiers

Premier of Alberta – William Aberhart

Premier of British Columbia – John Hart

Premier of Manitoba – John Bracken

Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair

Premier of Nova Scotia – A.S. MacMillan

Premier of Ontario – Mitchell Hepburn (until October 21) then Gordon Daniel Conant

Premier of Prince Edward Island – Thane Campbell

Premier of Quebec – Adélard Godbout

Premier of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

Commissioners

Controller of Yukon – George A. Jeckell

Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell

Events

January 10 - Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Pilon become the first female lawyers in Quebec

February 26 - Japanese Canadians are interned and moved further inland.

April 27 - A national plebiscite is held on the issue of conscription. Most English-Canadians are in favour, while most French-Canadians are not.

July - The Official Food Rules is published, for the first time.

August - The National Resources Mobilization Act is repealed as a result of the April plebiscite.

August 19 - Dieppe Raid

September 9 - The Canadian government establishes the Wartime Information Board, a government agency responsible for pro-conscription propaganda.

October 14 - A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137.

October 21 - Gordon Conant becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Mitchell Hepburn

December 12 - A fire at the Knights of Columbus Hall in St John's, Newfoundland kills 99.

January to March

January 12 - Hilary Weston, businessperson and 26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

January 16 - René Angélil, husband and manager of Céline Dion

January 19 - John Reynolds, politician

February 5 - Tim Sale, politician

February 19 - Norm Sterling, politician

February 20 - Phil Esposito, ice hockey player

February 22 - Gerard Jennissen, politician

March 3 - Menaka Thakka, dancer

April to June

April 8 - Harold Gilleshammer, politician

April 10 - Nick Auf der Maur, journalist and politician (died 1998)

April 22 - Sandra Birdsell, novelist and short story writer

April 26 - Sharon Carstairs, politician and Senator

May 1 - Becky Barrett, politician

May 3 - Earl McRae, journalist (Ottawa Sun), apparent heart attack (died 2011)

May 8 - Pierre Morency, Canadian poet and playwright

June 9 - John Gerretsen, politician

June 10 - Preston Manning, politician

June 21 - Jeannette Lavell, Native rights advocate

June 25 - Michel Tremblay, novelist and playwright

July to September

July 1 - Geneviève Bujold, actress

July 4 - Len Harapiak, politician

July 11 - Terry Carisse, singer, guitarist, and songwriter (died 2005)

July 11 - Nancy Zerg, poet

July 22 - Anita Neville, politician

July 24 - Gloria George, Native leader

August 10 - Jim Downey, politician

August 18 - Jim Abbott, politician

August 24 - Gary Filmon, politician and 19th Premier of Manitoba

August 24 - Tony Hunt, artist

August 30 - Rick Salutin, novelist, playwright and critic

September 4 - George Baker, politician and Senator

September 13 - Michael Breaugh, politician

September 13 - Michel Côté, businessman and politician

October to December

October 10 - Roy Miki, poet and scholar

October 11 - Dianne Brushett, politician

November 1 - Ralph Klein, politician and 12th Premier of Alberta (died 2013)

November 19 - Jim Ernst, politician

November 20 - Raymond Bonin, politician

December 1 - Charlie Penson, politician

December 19 - John Godfrey, educator, journalist and politician

December 30 - Matt Cohen, writer (died 1999)

Full date unknown

Dermot O'Reilly, musician, producer and songwriter (died 2007)

Jay Roberts, football player, lung cancer (died 2010)

Deaths

January 16 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, 10th Governor General of Canada (born 1850)

January 30 - Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, politician and 1st Premier of the Northwest Territories (born 1857)

February 4 - Louis-Adolphe Paquet, theologian (born 1859)

March 11 - Raoul Dandurand, politician (born 1861)

March 15 - Edgar Nelson Rhodes, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia (born 1877)

March 21 - J. S. Woodsworth, politician (born 1874)

April 24 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, author (born 1874)

May 18 - Herménégilde Boulay, politician (born 1861)

June 17 - Charles Fitzpatrick, lawyer, politician and 5th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1853)

October 6 - Ella Cora Hind, journalist and women's rights activist (born 1861)

December 26 - Frank Dawson Adams, geologist (born 1859)