Events from the year 1955 in Canada.
Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II (consort – The Duke of Edinburgh)
Governor general – Vincent Massey (viceregal consort – Alice Massey)
Prime minister – Louis Saint Laurent
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clarence Wallace (until October 3) then Frank Mackenzie Ross
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Stewart McDiarmid
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Louis 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 – W.A.C. Bennett
Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
Premier of New Brunswick – Hugh John Flemming
Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
Premier of Nova Scotia – Henry Hicks
Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alex Matheson
Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas
Commissioner of Yukon – Wilfred George Brown (until June 8) then Frederick Howard Collins
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson
January 7 – The first television broadcast of the opening of parliament
February 1 – The Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank merge to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank
March 17- Richard Riot
April 2 – The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge connecting Halifax to Dartmouth opens.
June 9 – Ontario general election, 1955: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fourth consecutive majority
June 29 – Alberta general election, 1955: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a sixth consecutive majority.
July 11 – Seven teenagers die in a mountaineering accident on Mount Temple in Banff National Park.
Cape Breton Island is connected to the mainland by the Canso Causeway
Gabrielle Roy: Rue Deschambault
See 1955 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Stephen Leacock Award: Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice
Glenn Gould's first recording of the Goldberg Variations is made.
March 17 – A riot erupts in Montreal when Maurice Richard is suspended.
The Canadian Sports Hall of Fame is created.
January 4 – John Nunziata, politician
January 10 - Eva Aariak, politician, and 2nd Premier of Nunavut
January 28 – Odette Lapierre, long-distance runner
February 23 – Jerry Holland, fiddler
February 25 – Camille Thériault, politician and 29th Premier of New Brunswick
February 27 – MaryAnn Mihychuk, politician
March 16 – Andy Scott, politician and Minister
April 6 – Cathy Jones, comedian and writer
April 25 – Jane Stewart, politician and Minister
May 12 – Yvon Godin, politician
May 14 – Marie Chouinard, dancer, choreographer and dance company director
June 14 – Joe Preston, politician
June 16 – J. Jill Robinson, writer
July 7 – Gord Mackintosh, politician
July 13 – Hubert Lacroix, lawyer and President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
July 17 – Geneviève Cadieux, artist
July 19 – Dalton McGuinty, lawyer, politician and 24th Premier of Ontario
August 6 – Gilles Bernier, politician
August 12 – Tooker Gomberg, politician and environmental activist (d.2004)
August 19 – Bev Desjarlais, politician
August 31 – Sidney McKnight, boxer
September 28 – Stéphane Dion, politician and Minister
October 12 – Issa, singer-songwriter
November 4 – Rodger Cuzner, politician
November 10 – Ken Holland, ice hockey player
December 13 – Pat Martin, politician
Vatche Arslanian, Canadian Red Cross worker, killed in Iraq (d.2003)
Kim Morrissey, poet and playwright
April 24 – Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor (b.1876)
April 26 – Lyman Duff, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (b.1865)
May 10 – Tommy Burns, only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer (b.1881)
June 16 – Ozias Leduc, painter (b.1864)
August 5 – Izaak Walton Killam, financier (b.1885)
August 7 – Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1871)
October 1 – Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner (b.1880)
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