1955 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Elizabeth II

  Federal government

• Governor general – Vincent Massey
• Prime minister – Louis Saint Laurent
• Chief Justice – Patrick Kerwin
• Parliament – 22nd

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clarence Wallace then Frank Mackenzie Ross
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Stewart McDiarmid
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Leonard Outerbridge
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Louis Orville Breithaupt
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson

  Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell
• Premier of New Brunswick – Hugh John Flemming
• Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Henry Hicks
• Premier of Ontario – Leslie Frost
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alex Matheson
• Premier of Quebec – Maurice Duplessis
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – Wilfred George Brown then Frederick Howard Collins
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

  Events

• January 7 – The first television broadcast of the opening of parliament
• February 1 – The Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank merge to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank
• February 23 - Military exercise Operation Bulldog III in Yellowknife.
• March 17- Richard Riot
• April 2 – The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge connecting Halifax to Dartmouth opens.
• June 9 – 1955 Ontario general election: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fourth consecutive majority
• June 29 – 1955 Alberta general election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a sixth consecutive majority.
• July 11 – Seven teenagers die in a mountaineering accident on Mount Temple in Banff National Park.
• Cape Breton Island is connected to the mainland by the Canso Causeway

  Arts and literature

New books

• Gabrielle Roy: Rue Deschambault

  Awards

• See 1955 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice

  Music

• Glenn Gould's first recording of the Goldberg Variations is made.

  Sport

• March 17 – A riot erupts in Montreal when Maurice Richard is suspended.
• April 14 - Detroit Red Wings won their Seventh Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 3.
• April 29 - Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros won their Second Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 4 games to 1.All games were played at Regina Exhibition Stadium
• November 26 - Edmonton Eskimos won their Second Grey Cup by defeating the Montreal Alouettes by the score of 34 to 19 in the 43rd Grey Cup played at Empire Stadium in Vancouver
• The Canadian Sports Hall of Fame is created.

  Births

January to June

• January 1 – Precious, wrestler and manager
• January 4 – John Nunziata, politician
• January 6 – Alex Forsyth, ice hockey player
• January 8 – Joan Kingston, nurse, educator, and politician
• January 10 - Eva Aariak, politician, and 2nd Premier of Nunavut
• January 28 – Odette Lapierre, long-distance runner
• February 23 – Jerry Holland, fiddler
• February 25 – Camille Thériault, politician and 29th Premier of New Brunswick
• February 27 – MaryAnn Mihychuk, politician
• March 16 – Andy Scott, politician and Minister
• April 6 – Cathy Jones, comedian and writer
• April 25 – Jane Stewart, politician and Minister
• May 12 – Yvon Godin, politician
• May 14 – Marie Chouinard, dancer, choreographer and dance company director
• June 14 – Joe Preston, politician
• June 16 – J. Jill Robinson, writer

  July to December

• July 7 – Gord Mackintosh, politician
• July 13 – Hubert Lacroix, lawyer and President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• July 17 – Geneviève Cadieux, artist
• July 19 – Dalton McGuinty, lawyer, politician and 24th Premier of Ontario
• August 6 – Gilles Bernier, politician
• August 12 – Tooker Gomberg, politician and environmental activist
• August 19 – Bev Desjarlais, politician
• August 31 – Sidney McKnight, boxer
• September 28 – Stéphane Dion, politician and Minister
• October 12 – Issa, singer-songwriter
• November 4 – Rodger Cuzner, politician
• November 10 – Ken Holland, ice hockey player
• November 11 – Teri York, diver
• December 13 – Pat Martin, politician

Full date unknown

• Vatche Arslanian, Canadian Red Cross worker, killed in Iraq
• Kim Morrissey, poet and playwright

  Deaths

• April 24 – Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor
• April 26 – Lyman Duff, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• May 10 – Tommy Burns, only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer
• June 16 – Ozias Leduc, painter
• August 5 – Izaak Walton Killam, financier
• August 7 – Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
• October 1 – Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner