Canada-related events during the year of 1943
Events from the year 1943 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
January 8 –
Stuart Garson becomes premier of
Manitoba , replacing
John Bracken , who had governed for 21 years
May 11 –
J. Walter Jones becomes premier of
Prince Edward Island , replacing
Thane Campbell
May 18 –
Harry Nixon becomes premier of
Ontario , replacing
Gordon Conant
May 23 –
William Aberhart , premier of
Alberta , dies in office
May 31 –
Ernest Manning becomes premier of Alberta
July – The
1st Canadian Infantry Division is part of the invasion of
Sicily .
August 4 –
Ontario election :
George Drew 's PCs win a minority, defeating
Harry Nixon 's Liberals
August 17 – George Drew becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Harry Nixon
August 19 – The
Quebec Agreement is signed in
Quebec City , between Canada, the
United Kingdom and the
United States .
October 22 – The crew of
German submarine U-537 set up
Weather Station Kurt near Martin Bay in Labrador
December 20 – December 27 –
Battle of Ortona rages in Italy.
Sport
Births
January to March
January 9 –
Elmer MacFadyen , politician (d.
2007 )
January 10 –
Carl Ray , artist (d.
1978 )
January 23 –
Bill Cameron , news anchor, television producer, columnist and author (d.
2005 )
January 28 –
Paul Henderson , ice hockey player
February 19 –
Art Hanger , politician
February 23 –
Charles Dalfen , chairperson of the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (d.
2009 )
February 27 –
Gordon Earle , politician
March 7 –
Billy MacMillan , ice hockey coach and player (d.
2023 )
March 11 –
Bob Plager , ice hockey player (d.
2021 )
March 15 –
David Cronenberg , filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional actor
March 25 –
Loyola Hearn , diplomat and politician
April to June
Nancy Greene
April 1 –
Shirley Render , politician
April 2 –
Alan Tonks , politician
April 3 –
Richard Manuel , composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist (d.
1986 )
April 12 –
Jenny Meldrum , hurdler and heptathlete
April 17 –
Bobby Curtola , singer (d.
2016 )
April 22 –
Edwin Tchorzewski , politician (d.
2008 )
May 11 –
Nancy Greene Raine , alpine skier, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion, Senator
June 5 –
Jean-Claude Lord , film director and screenwriter (d.
2022 )
June 21 –
Diane Marleau , politician and Minister (d.
2013 )
July to September
Joe Handley
July 15 –
John H. Bryden , politician, journalist and historian
July 30 –
Jean Friesen , politician
July 31 –
Ryan Larkin , animator, artist and sculptor (d.
2007 )
August 9 –
Joe Handley , politician and 10th
Premier of the Northwest Territories
August 12 –
Anne Cools , Senator
August 29 –
Arthur B. McDonald , astrophysicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics winner
September 9 –
Daurene Lewis , politician and nation's first black female mayor (d.
2013 )
September 12 –
Alain Dostie , cinematographer, film director and screenwriter
September 12 –
Michael Ondaatje , novelist and poet
September 19 –
Lyle Vanclief , politician and Minister
September 22 –
Maurice Baril , General and
Chief of the Defence Staff
September 27 –
Randy Bachman , guitarist and songwriter
October to December
David Peterson in 2005
October 16 –
Paul Rose , convicted of murder and kidnapping of
Pierre Laporte in
1970 and leader of
PDS (1996–2002) (d.
2013 )
October 24 –
Frank Pitura , politician (d.
2019 )
October 26 –
Diane Gerace , high jumper
November 7 –
Joni Mitchell , musician, songwriter and painter
November 13 –
André-Gilles Fortin , politician (d.
1977 )
November 18 –
Michael H. Rayner , public servant (d.
2004 )
November 22 –
Yvan Cournoyer , ice hockey player
November 27 –
Nicole Brossard , poet and novelist
December 2 –
Larry Grossman , politician (d.
1997 )
December 13 –
Ferguson Jenkins , baseball player
December 14 –
Linda McIntosh , politician
December 21 –
André Arthur , radio host and politician (d.
2022 )
December 23 –
Margaret MacMillan , historian
December 28 –
David Peterson , politician and 20th
Premier of Ontario
December 29 –
Rick Danko , musician and singer (d.
1999 )
December 30 –
Linda Thom , shooter and Olympic gold medallist
Deaths
February 9 –
Albert Hickman , politician and 17th Prime Minister of
Newfoundland (b.
1875 )
May 23 –
William Aberhart , politician and 8th
Premier of Alberta (b.
1878 )
July 2 –
Robert James Manion , politician (b.
1881 )
July 4 –
Gordon Sidney Harrington , politician and Premier of
Nova Scotia (b.
1883 )
July 12 –
Joseph Boutin Bourassa , politician (b.
1853 )
October 18 –
Albert Charles Saunders , jurist, politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island (b.
1874 )
November 26 –
Charles G.D. Roberts , poet and prose writer (b.
1860 )
November 29 –
Robert Hamilton Butts , politician (b.
1871 )
December 9 –
Peter Dmytruk ,
World War II military hero (b.
1920 )
December 23 –
Edgar Sydney Little , politician (b.
1885 )
See also
Historical documents
Slightly confused
1st Infantry Division
invades Sicily against "bewildered" and "sorry looking" Italian defenders
[3]
Film: Canadian and
U.S. troops train for Italian invasion
[4]
Film: Canadian soldiers and
nurses embark for Italian invasion
[5]
Cartoon : Axis forces quickly retreating from "Sicilian landings"
[6]
Command crucial, but battles are won "by human beings displaying judgment, coolness and courage" (and in
Sicily's "unending heat" )
[7]
Seaforth Highlanders take Monte San Marco in Italy, despite steep, muddy terrain and intense German fire
[8]
Top German generals recognize disadvantages
fighting Allies in Italy , including "Canadians clever at making use of terrain"
[9]
Canadian
infantry and
tanks press "a literally yard-by-yard advance" through
Ortona streets, houses, and even rooms
[10]
Film: Canadian troops fighting in
Ortona
[11]
Germans leave
Ortona and their dead – "Civilians[...]too dazed to realize the enemy had gone; Canadians[...]too tired to care"
[12]
Guide for
battlefield first aid emphasizes combat practicality, like common sense, self-reliance, improvisation, effective care and carrying on fight
[13]
Newspaper illustration of
RCAF
Spitfire planes
strafing freight trains in Europe
[14]
Photo: Canadians in joint landing operation with U.S. forces against
Japanese invaders on Kiska Island , Alaska
[15]
"The
Jewish reservoir of the East , which was able to counterbalance the
western assimilation , no longer exists"
[16]
At end of fourth year of war, Prime Minister King calls for greater effort and sacrifice to defeat
faltering Axis
[17]
National registration certificate of Mrs. Ethel Louise Buck, Spirit River, Alberta
[18]
"We are few, very few" – Quebecker laments that there are not enough
pacifists in province to even produce their newsletter
[19]
Advisory group
chair foresees postwar period of more
skilled labour , greater production, new products and technology, and huge
demand
[20]
U.S.-U.K.
agreement creates executive committee with Canadian representation to guide nuclear development
[21]
Canada wants multilateral general agreement to reduce
tariffs , and to encourage U.S.A. and Canada to "buy in order to sell"
[22]
Report with proposed economic reforms for benefit of
Prairie provinces ,
adjacent U.S.A. , and world at large
[23]
Canada threatens to step back if not given more say in new
UN Relief and Rehabilitation Organization
[24]
Lester Pearson complains to External Affairs about U.S. censorship of official's call from legation in Washington to Ottawa
[25]
Government returns about 15% of seized
Japanese-Canadian fishing fleet to owners
[26]
"So reactionary to
Liberal principles " – PM King depressed by cabinet's close-minded attitude to steelworker strike
[27]
Cartoon : Hitler says of strikers, "They are really working for me!"
[28]
Communist
Tim Buck 's submission on labour relations to National War Labor Board emphasizes wage policy and collective bargaining
[29]
Because of their difficulty finding housing and jobs,
British Columbia MLA raises funds for
halfway house for women discharged from mental institutions
[30]
As they fund-raise for bombers, London's
Women's Voluntary Services thanks
Manitobans for gifts of clothes and mobile canteens
[31]
"You can't refuse this cake, it was sent me all the way from Canada" – touring
WVS speaker enjoys local hospitality
[32]
"Defend[ing] freedom and culture of humanity" –
Shostakovich 's thank-you for Toronto performance of his
Seventh Symphony
[33]
Photo:
RCAF member meets famed actor who plays
"Rochester" on
Jack Benny 's
radio comedy show
[34]
References
^
"King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .
^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014).
Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 . Routledge. p. 142.
ISBN
978-1-134-26490-2 .
^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters,
"Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 127, November 16, 1944), pgs. 1-4. Accessed 15 July 2020
^ British Pathé,
"How They Prepared" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020
^ British Pathé,
"Canadians Sail To Mediterranean" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020
^ John Collins,
"The Boys From Syracuse" The (Montreal) Gazette (1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters,
"Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 135, May 4, 1945), pgs. 2-3. Accessed 15 July 2020
^ Historical Section (G.S.), Department of National Defence,
"Canadian Operations in Italy, October–November, 1943" (Report No. 161, October 16, 1946), pgs. 22-3. Accessed 15 July 2020
^ Armed Forces Operations Staff, "Material for the Lecture by the Chief of Armed Forces Operations Staff[...]; Position in Italy" (translation; November 2, 1943), Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Volume VII (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 948-9 (PDF pgs. 953-4). Accessed 5 August 2020
https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Volume 7)
^ Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters,
"Canadian Operations in Italy, September–December, 1943: Preliminary Report" (Report No. 129, November 25, 1944), pgs. 12-14. Accessed 15 July 2020
^ British Pathé,
"Canadians Fight Germans Through Streets of Italy" (1944). Accessed 27 July 2020
^ Douglas Amaron,
"Only German Dead Left In Shambles of Ortona" The Globe and Mail (December 31, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
^
Notes for Instructors in Battle First Aid (1943). (See also
First Aid in the Royal Canadian Navy, 1942 ) Accessed 17 May 2022
^
Montague Black (artist),
"R.C.A.F. and R.A.F. fighter squadrons...." Star Weekly (March 6, 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 15 July 2020
^ United States Navy,
"Landing to find the little men not there" (August 15, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020
^ "Four Years of World War" (translation), Israelitisches Wochenblatt (August 27, 1943), in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 1234-5 (PDF pgs. 1259-60). Accessed 5 August 2020
https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A)
^ William Lyon Mackenzie King,
"Four Years of War" (September 10, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020
^ Dominion of Canada; National Registration Regulations, 1940;
Registration Certificate (dated June 29, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
^ Marie I. Stewart, "Quebec Pacifists," The Canadian C.O., Vol. 1, No. 6 (August 1943), pg. 6. Accessed 17 July 2020
https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/milton-good-library/newsletters-alternative-service (scroll down to The Canadian C.O.; August, 1943)
^
"Minutes of Evidence" (March 31, 1943), Proceedings of the [Senate] Special Committee on Economic Re-Establishment and Social Security, pgs. 10-11. Accessed 6 October 2020
^
"Article of Agreement Governing Collaboration Between the Authorities of the U.S.A. and the U.K. in the Matter of Tube Alloys" (August 19, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
^ United States Department of State,
"The Chargé in Canada (Clark) to the Secretary of State" Foreign Relations of the United States; Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 1104-5. Accessed 16 July 2020
^ The University of Manitoba and the University of Minnesota,
"The Midcontinent and the Peace; The Interests of Western Canada and Central Northwest United States in the Peace Settlements" (1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
^ United States Department of State,
"Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Acheson)" Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 881-3. Accessed 16 July 2020
^
Letter of Lester Pearson (March 24, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
^
"Fishing Fleet Becomes Alive" Granada Pioneer (Amache, Colorado, March 17, 1943), pg. 4. Accessed 15 February 2020 (See photo
"Impounded Japanese Canadian vessels requisitioned for military use readied for shipment" )
^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1943 (
January 14 ), pgs. 32-4. Accessed 16 July 2020
^ John Collins,
"How It's Spelled in Wartime" The (Montreal) Gazette (August 4, 1943). Accessed 17 February 2020
^
"A Labor Policy for Victory; Submission presented by Tim Buck on behalf of The Dominion Communist-Labor Total War Committee to The National War Labor Board Inquiry Into Labor Relations; May 28th, 1943." Accessed 16 July 2020
^
"'Family Care' Sought For Mental Patients" Vancouver Sun (August 11, 1943), pg. 9. Accessed 14 August 2022
^
Letter to Margaret Konantz (January 22, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
^ Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence,
"A Tour with a Travelling Officer" The Bulletin, No. 41 (March 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 7 August 2020
^
Letter of Dmitri Shostakovich (June 23, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
^
"Windsor Airman Meets 'Rochester'" Windsor Star (February 17, 1943). Accessed 20 March 2021
1943 in North America
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