1947 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George VI

  Federal government

• Governor general – Earl Alexander of Tunis
• Prime minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Chief Justice – Thibaudeau Rinfret
• Parliament – 20th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Charles Arthur Banks
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Henry Ernest Kendall then J.A.D. McCurdy
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Ray Lawson
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Joseph Alphonsus Bernard
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Eugène Fiset
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Reginald John Marsden Parker

  Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia – John Hart then Boss Johnson
• Premier of Manitoba – Stuart Garson
• Premier of New Brunswick – John McNair
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Angus Macdonald
• Premier of Ontario – George A. Drew
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – J. Walter Jones
• Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Controller then Commissioner of Yukon – George A. Jeckell then John Edward Gibben
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Charles Camsell then Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside

  Events

• January 1 - Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect.
• January 2 - Dominion of Newfoundland switches to driving on the right from the left.
• January 27 - The cabinet order deporting Japanese-Canadians to Japan is repealed after widespread protests.
• February 13 - Oil is discovered near Leduc, Alberta.
• May 14 - The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 is repealed.
• June 15 - The laws limiting Asian immigration to Canada are repealed; Canadians of Asian descent are allowed to vote in federal elections.
• July 22 - Two new nuclear reactors go online at the Chalk River research facility.
• September 30 - The last group of personnel who had been on active service, for World War II, since September 1, 1939, :wikt:stand down|stood down.
• October 1 - New letters patent defining the office and powers of the governor general come into effect.
• December 29 - Boss Johnson becomes premier of British Columbia.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Harry L. Symons, Ojibway Melody.
• Federal law was changed such that Canadian women no longer lost their citizenship automatically if they married non-Canadians.

  New books

• Fearful Symmetry - Northrop Frye
• Who Has Seen the Wind? - W.O. Mitchell

  Sport

• April 19 - The Toronto Maple Leafs won their sixth Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played in Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
• April 22 - Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto St. Michael's Majors won their third Memorial Cup by defeating Southern Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Moose Jaw Canucks 4 games to 3. The deciding Game 7 was played at Regina Exhibition Stadium.
• November 29 - The Toronto Argonauts won their eighth Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 10 to 9 in the 35th Grey Cup played in Varsity Stadium in Toronto. This was the final Grey Cup played with all Canadian players.

  Births

January to March

• January 14 - Bill Werbeniuk, snooker player
• January 15 - Andrea Martin, actress and comedian
• January 23 - Clayton Manness, politician
• January 24 - Steve McCaffery, poet and scholar
• February 10 - Louise Arbour, jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• February 11 - Abby Hoffman, track and field athlete
• February 20 - Joy Smith, politician
• March 1 - Alan Thicke, actor, songwriter and game and talk show host
• March 10 - Chris Axworthy, politician
• March 10 - Kim Campbell, politician and 19th Prime Minister of Canada
• March 13 - Judith Marcuse, dancer
• March 24 - Louise Lanctôt, convicted kidnapper and writer

  April to June

• April 3 - Jonathan Welsh, actor
• April 27 - Pauline Picard, politician
• May 3 - Doug Henning, magician, illusionist and escape artist
• May 4 - John Bosley, politician
• May 12 - Micheline Lanctôt, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter
• May 20 - Oscar Lathlin, politician
• May 25 - Doug Martindale, politician
• May 28 - Lynn Johnston, cartoonist
• June 10 - Michel Bastarache, lawyer, businessman, puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
• June 14 - Vanessa Harwood, ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, teacher and actor
• June 14 - Patrick Moore, founder member of Greenpeace
• June 19 - John Ralston Saul, author and essayist
• June 22 - Aude, writer

  July to September

• July 13 - Rosella Bjornson, airline pilot, first female pilot for a commercial airline in North America
• July 18 - Steve Mahoney, politician and Minister
• July 22 - Gilles Duceppe, politician
• July 22 - Bill Matthews, politician
• August 8 - Ken Dryden, ice hockey player, politician, lawyer, businessman and author
• August 24 - Linda Hutcheon, literary critic and theorist
• August 30 - Allan Rock, politician and diplomat
• September 24 - R. H. Thomson, actor

  October to December

• October 3 - Carroll Morgan, boxer
• October 13 - Jon Gerrard, politician and medical doctor
• November 10 - Bryan Gibson, boxer
• November 17 - Inky Mark, politician
• November 22 - Jacques Saada, politician and Minister
• November 28 - Bonnie Mitchelson, politician
• December 27 - Mickey Redmond, ice hockey player and commentator
• December 31 - Burton Cummings, musician and songwriter

  Full date unknown

• Russ Germain, radio presenter
• John Martin, broadcaster

  Deaths

January to June

• January 7 - John Alexander Mathieson, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• January 11 - Eva Tanguay, singer and entertainer
• March 19 - Prudence Heward, painter
• June 10 - Alexander Bethune, politician and 12th Mayor of Vancouver
• June 25 - William Donald Ross, financier, banker and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• June 26 - R. B. Bennett, lawyer, businessman, politician, philanthropist and 11th Prime Minister of Canada

  July to December

• July 1 - Clarence Lucas, composer, lyricist, conductor and music professor
• November 14 - Walter Edward Foster, businessman, politician and 16th Premier of New Brunswick
• December 28 - Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley, lawyer, politician and 20th Premier of New Brunswick