1944 in Canada

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• June 6 - 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 8 - Alberta election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a third consecutive majority
• August 30 - Maurice Duplessis becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Adélard Godbout
• Conscription Crisis of 1944

• November 17 - Lorne Michaels, TV producer and writer

• September 14 - John Kenneth Macalister, WWII hero
• September 14 - Frank Pickersgill, WWII hero
• September 14 - Roméo Sabourin, WWII hero