1954 in Canada

Events from the year 1954 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 1 – Metropolitan Toronto comes into being to coordinate services among the various municipalities around Toronto.
January 8 – The first oil from Alberta arrives in Sarnia through the new pipeline
March 30 – The Yonge St. subway, the first subway system in Canada, opens in Toronto
April 13 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia, dies in office
April 14 – Harold Connolly becomes premier of Nova Scotia
May 31 – Winnipeg's first television station, CBWT a CBC Television owned and operated station, begins broadcasting
August 10 – The groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway begins
September 9 - The 1954 Series of banknotes is introduced.
September 9 – Marilyn Bell becomes the first person to swim Lake Ontario
September 18 – Marie-Victorin Statue unveiled
September 30 – Henry Hicks becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Harold Connolly
October 15 – Hurricane Hazel hits Toronto killing 81.

Canada contributes to a peacekeeping force in Indochina
Sir Adam Beck Generating Station built on the Canadian side of the Niagara River
Pinetree Line radar system completed
Yahtzee is invented by a Canadian couple
Jean Drapeau first elected mayor of Montreal
Streetcars leave Winnipeg

See 1954 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Stephen Leacock Award: Joan Walker, ''Pardon My Parka''

July 6 – Brian Pallister, politician
July 9 – Kevin O'Leary, businessman, television personality, and political candidate
July 18 – Audrey Vandervelden, volleyball player
August 11 – Gulzar Singh Cheema, politician
August 16 – James Cameron, film director, producer and screenwriter
September 3 – Avis Gray, politician
September 18 – Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist
September 26 – Don Irvine, sprint canoer
October 21 – Brian Tobin, politician
November 7 – Guy Gavriel Kay, fantasy fiction author
November 12 – Dave Edge, long-distance runner
November 24 – Stuart Murray, politician
December 14 – Steven MacLean, astronaut
December 20 – John Kinch, football player
December 28 – Lanny Poffo, wrestler

January 24 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat
February 13 – Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada
March 15 – Charles MacOdrum, politician
March 31 – John Walter Jones, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
April 4 – Abraham Albert Heaps, politician and labor leader
April 8 – Winnifred Eaton, author
April 13 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia
June 18 – Welland Gemmell, politician and minister
June 21 – Rod Keller, general
August 6 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets
November 26 – Wallace Rupert Turnbull, engineer and inventor