1946 in Canada

Events from the year 1946 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 21 – The Bluenose sinks off Haiti.
May 14 – The Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946 is passed. It creates Canadian citizenship separate from the British.
May 31 – All Japanese-Canadians ordered deported to Japan.
April 12 – Sir Harold Alexander appointed the new Governor General of Canada, replacing the Earl of Athlone.
June 23 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake affects Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia.
June 27 – Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 is enacted, defining a Canadian citizen and including a reference to being a British subject.
July 15 – A royal commission investigates a Soviet spy ring in Canada. Secret information was found to be leaked and among the Canadians held suspect was the one parliamentary delegate of the Labor-Progressive (Communist) Party.
August 3 – A Canadian wheat agreement provided for British purchases of large amounts of Canadian wheat at prices considerably below the world market.
October 14 – Canada Savings Bonds introduced for the first time.
November 8 - Viola Desmond refuses to leave her seat in a movie theatre and is arrested.
The Canadian Army Command and Staff College is established.

April 9 - The Montreal Canadiens win their sixth Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins four games to one. The deciding Game 5 was played at the Montreal Forum.
April 27 - The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs win their third Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association Toronto St. Michael's Majors four games to three. All games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
November - The New York Knicks win the first National Basketball Association game by defeating the Toronto Huskies 68–66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
November 30 - The Toronto Argonauts win their seventh Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 28 to 6 in the 34th Grey Cup at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.
Date unknown:
* The Western Interprovincial Football Union resumes play for the first time since 1942
* The Montreal Alouettes join the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union
* Herb Trawick of the Alouettes becomes the first black player of professional football in Canada

January 10 – Alexis Nihon, Jr., real estate businessman, Olympic wrestler for The Bahamas
January 15 – Veronica Tennant, ballet dancer and dance and performance film producer and director
January 17 – Domenic Troiano, rock guitarist
January 18 – Paul Shmyr, ice hockey player
January 22 – Serge Savard, ice hockey player
January 30 – Jean-Paul Daoust, writer
February 6 – Kate McGarrigle, folk music singer-songwriter
March 1 – Gerry Boulet, rock singer
March 5 – Richard Bell, musician
March 6 – Marcel Proulx, politician
March 7 – Elaine McCoy, politician
March 11 – Paul DeVillers, politician
March 19 – Donny Gerrard, singer
March 22 – Rivka Golani, viola player
March 26 – Marion Boyd, politician

July 1 – Rosalie Abella, jurist
July 5 – Pierre-Marc Johnson, lawyer, physician, politician and 24th Premier of Quebec
July 6 – John Honderich, businessman and editor
July 10 – Roger Abbott, comedian
July 19 – Dennis Mills, politician and businessman
August 8 – Richard Johnston, politician, educator and administrator
August 29 – Leona Gom, poet and novelist
September 4
* Eric Malling, television journalist
* Greg Sorbara, politician
September 9
* Lawrence MacAulay, politician
* Bruce Palmer, musician

October 16 – Elizabeth Witmer, politician
October 28 – Sharon Thesen, poet
November 4 – Robert Davidson, artist
November 12 – Peter Milliken, lawyer and politician
November 17 – Petra Burka, figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist, World Champion and coach
November 17 – Bob McBride, singer
November 22 – Anne Wheeler, film and television writer, producer and director
November 26 – Andreas Schroeder, poet, novelist and nonfiction writer
December 14 – Paul Forseth, politician
December 17
*Margot Lemire, writer, poet and playwright
*Eugene Levy, actor, television director, producer, musician and writer

January 21 – Napoleon Lemay, politician
February 15 – Ernest Howard Armstrong, journalist, politician and Premier of Manitoba
February 21 – Howard Ferguson, politician and 9th Premier of Ontario
April 20 – Egerton Reuben Stedman, politician
August 17 – John Patrick Barry, politician and lawyer
September 9 – Aimé Boucher, politician and notary
October 23 – Ernest Thompson Seton, author and wildlife artist
December 6 – Charles Stewart, politician and 3rd Premier of Alberta
December 25 – Charles Ernest Gault, politician
December 27 – John Babington Macaulay Baxter, lawyer, jurist and 18th Premier of New Brunswick
December 29 – James Thomas Milton Anderson, politician and 5th Premier of Saskatchewan