Events from the year 1958 in Canada.
Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II (consort – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)
Governor general – Vincent Massey (viceregal consort – Alice Massey)
Prime minister – John Diefenbaker
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Frank Mackenzie Ross
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Stewart McDiarmid
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren (until June 5) then Joseph Leonard O'Brien
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Campbell Leonard Macpherson
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser (until January 15) then Edward Chester Plow
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Keiller MacKay
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse (until March 31) then Frederick Walter Hyndman
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux (until February 14) then Onésime Gagnon
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson (until February 3) then Frank Lindsay Bastedo
Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell (until June 30) then Dufferin Roblin
Premier of New Brunswick – Hugh John Flemming
Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
Premier of Nova Scotia – Robert Stanfield
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 – Frederick Howard Collins
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson
January 16 – Louis St. Laurent is replaced by Lester B. Pearson as leader of the Liberal Party
February 19–20 – Rt Hon Ellen Fairclough first woman of the role of Prime Minister for two days during John Diefenbaker's absence from the country.
March 25 – The Avro Arrow flies for the first time
March 31 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a massive election victory.
April 5 – The Seymour Narrows is made more easily passable after Ripple Rock was destroyed in one of the largest planned non-nuclear explosions
May 12 – The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
June 17 – The Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver collapses killing 18.
June 30 – Duff Roblin sworn in as premier of Manitoba
July 1 – Canada-wide television broadcasting starts
July 1 – The Lost Villages in Ontario are permanently flooded as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway construction project.
October 22 – Canada appoints, Margaret Meagher, the country's first female ambassador, to Israel.
October 23 – The third Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 74.
Ellen Fairclough becomes Canada's first federal female cabinet minister.
Department of Physical Education started at the University of Saskatchewan
Arts and literature
July 16 – The Manitoba Theatre Centre opens.
John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society
Farley Mowat's Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great Adventure
Antonine Maillet's first novel Pointe-aux-Coques
See 1958 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Stephen Leacock Award: Eric Nicol, Girdle Me A Globe
Morley Callaghan's Now That April's Here is made into a feature film
Allan Dwan directs his last film Enchanted Island
Paul Anka has four hit singles and becomes one of the most popular singers in the world.
Grey Cup – Winnipeg Blue Bombers win 35–28 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Stanley Cup – Montreal Canadiens win 4–2 over the Boston Bruins.
NASCAR Grand National Series – American race car driver Lee Petty wins the 1958 Jim Mideon 500.
January 29 – Glen Cochrane, ice hockey player and scout
February 15 – Peter Butler, long-distance runner
February 23 – Bob Stephen, Canadian football player (d.2009)
March 8 – Raymond Simard, politician
April 7 – Ted Nolan, ice hockey player and coach
April 17 – Laslo Babits, javelin thrower
May 10 – Gaétan Boucher, speed skater and double Olympic gold medalist
May 18 – Bob Chaperon, snooker and billiards player
June 24 – Jean Charest, lawyer and politician, 29th Premier of Quebec
July 12 – Tonya Lee Williams, actress
July 28 – Terry Fox, humanitarian, athlete and cancer treatment activist (d.1981)
August 6 – Lorne Saxberg, television journalist and news anchor (d.2006)
August 15 – Craig MacTavish, ice hockey player and coach
August 17 – Kirk Stevens, snooker player
August 19 – Darryl Sutter, ice hockey player and coach
August 22 - Colm Feore, American-born stage, film and television actor
August 29 – Linda Staudt, long-distance runner
September 16 – Jennifer Tilly, actress and poker player
September 17 – Monte Solberg, politician and Minister
September 28 – Angella Taylor-Issajenko, sprinter
October 8 – Neile Graham, poet and scholar
November 3 – Kevin Sorenson, politician
November 6 – Kevin Doherty, judoka
November 19 – Joe Jordan, politician
December 12 – Lucie Guay, canoe racer
December 25 – Alannah Myles, singer-songwriter
Kim Rabot (d.1975)
Gordon Stewart Anderson, writer (d.1991)
January 7 – Margaret Anglin, actress, director and producer (b.1876)
January 16 – Charles Bélec, politician (b.1872)
April 1 – J. Arthur Ross, politician (b.1893)
May 12 – Lewis Stubbs, judge and politician (b.1878)
June 26 – George Orton, middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist, first Canadian to win an Olympic medal (b.1873)
July 21 – Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger, politician and lawyer (b.1888)
September 2 – George Stewart Henry, politician and 10th Premier of Ontario (b.1871)
September 11 – Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (b.1889)
September 11 – Robert W. Service, poet and writer (b.1874)
October 2 – Charles Avery Dunning, politician, Minister and university chancellor (b.1885)
November 10 – Billy Boucher, ice hockey player (b.1899)
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