1944 In Canada

Events

• March 20 - Henry Duncan Graham Crerar becomes chief of the Canadian Army
• June 6 - WWII: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division lands at Juno Beach, part the Invasion of Normandy
• June 15 - Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a landslide majority, defeating William Patterson's Liberals
• July 10 - Tommy Douglas becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing William Patterson
• August 1 - The House of Commons approves the Family Allowance Act
• August 8 - Alberta election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a third consecutive majority
• August 17 - WWII: The Canadian Army liberates Falaise
• August 30 - Maurice Duplessis becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Adlard Godbout
• October 1 - The Battle of the Scheldt Estuary begins
• December 24 - HMCS Clayoquot sunk off Halifax by a German U-boat
• Conscription Crisis of 1944

Births

• January 6 - John Efford, politician
• March 26 - Benjamin Chee Chee, artist
• March 29 - Terry Jacks, Manitoba politician
• April 12 - Glen Cummings, Manitoba politician
• April 17 - Bobby Curtola, musician
• May 20 - Elinor Caplan, politician
• May 28 - Rita MacNeil, singer-songwriter
• June 1 - Aileen Carroll, politician
• June 29 - Bob Kilger, politician
• June 29 - Charlie Watt, Inuit leader
• July 5 - Norma McCormick, Manitoba politician
• July 5 - Robbie Robertson, musician
• August 11 - Alexa McDonough, politician
• August 18 - David Newman, Manitoba politician
• August 24 - Conrad Black, newspaper owner
• September 20 - Phil Fontaine, Native leader
• September 30 - B. P. Nichol, poet
• September 30 - Diane Dufresne, singer
• November 17 - Lorne Michaels, TV producer and writer
• December 4 - Anna McGarrigle, musician
• December 12 - Peter Goldring, politician
• December 16 - Judy Sgro, politician
• December 16 - Mike Radcliffe, Manitoba politician
• December 24 - Daniel Johnson, Jr, Premier of Quebec
• December 24 - Dan Miller, British Columbia politician

Deaths

• September 14 - John Kenneth Macalister, WWII hero
• September 14 - Frank Pickersgill, WWII hero
• September 14 - Romo Sabourin, WWII hero
• September 21 - Oleksander Koshetz, Ukrainian conductor

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