Events from the year 1946 in Canada.

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• January 21 – The Bluenose sinks off Haiti.
• May 14 – The Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946 is passed. It creates Canadian citizenship separate from the British.
• May 31 – All Japanese-Canadians ordered deported to Japan.
• April 12 – Sir Harold Alexander appointed the new Governor General of Canada, replacing the Earl of Athlone.
• June 23 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake affects Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia.
• June 27 – Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 is enacted, defining a Canadian citizen and including a reference to being a British subject.
• July 15 – A royal commission investigates a Soviet spy ring in Canada. Secret information was found to be leaked and among the Canadians held suspect was the one parliamentary delegate of the Labor-Progressive (Communist) Party.
• August 3 – A Canadian wheat agreement provided for British purchases of large amounts of Canadian wheat at prices considerably below the world market.
• October 14 – Canada Savings Bonds introduced for the first time.
• November 8 - Viola Desmond refuses to leave her seat in a movie theatre and is arrested.
• The Canadian Army Command and Staff College is established.

• January 8 – Betty Beaumont, Canadian American site-specific artist, all media
• August 29 – Leona Gom, Canadian poet and novelist
• October 28 – Sharon Thesen, Canadian poet
• November 7 – Diane Francis, Canadian journalist and author

• April 9 - The Montreal Canadiens win their sixth Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins four games to one. The deciding Game 5 was played at the Montreal Forum.
• April 27 - The Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Monarchs win their third (and final) Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association Toronto St. Michael's Majors 4 games to 3. All games were played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
• November - The New York Knicks win the first National Basketball Association game by defeating the Toronto Huskies 68–66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
• November 30 - The Toronto Argonauts win their seventh Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 28 to 6 in the 34th Grey Cup at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.

• February 15 – Ernest Howard Armstrong, journalist, politician and Premier of Manitoba (b.1864)
• February 21 – Howard Ferguson, politician and 9th Premier of Ontario (b.1870)
• August 17 – John Patrick Barry, politician and lawyer (b.1893)
• September 9 – Aimé Boucher, politician and notary (b.1877)
• October 23 – Ernest Thompson Seton, author and wildlife artist (b.1860)
• December 6 – Charles Stewart, politician and 3rd Premier of Alberta (b.1868)
• December 25 – Charles Ernest Gault, politician (b.1861)
• December 27 – John Babington Macaulay Baxter, lawyer, jurist and 18th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1868)
• December 29 – James Thomas Milton Anderson, politician and 5th Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1878)

Canadian issues in postwar Germany include pacification and recovery, export trade, reparations, and punishment of war crimes^[3]

British Prime Minister asks PM King not to withdraw occupation forces from Germany, arguing U.K. should not be expected to do all^[4]

"Purely and simply the extermination of allied airmen" - evidence that captured flyers accused of "terroristic attacks" were murdered^[5]

Testimony against SS physician conducting biological experiments at Dachau concentration camp^[6]

Nazis fought "an intellectual battle, the goal of which was the destruction of Christianity and the church"^[7]

"A giant quantity of valuables" - testimony that SS profited from clothing, jewellery and other belongings of murdered Jews^[8]

PM King announces royal commission to report on leaks of secrets, including to "a foreign mission in Ottawa"^[9]

Soviets say PM's announcement tied to "unbridled anti-soviet campaign[...]in the Canadian press and on[...]radio"^[10]

"In knowledge, with a sense of proportion" - editorial says there should be no hysteria in hunt for communists^[11]

In charge to jury at first espionage trial, judge says conspiracy "touches the very nerve centre of our national existence"^[12]

Royal Commission on Espionage final report alleges "spy rings" include federal government employees and military officers^[13]

Parsing reaction to Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, Lester Pearson finds U.S. hardening toward U.S.S.R. "depressing if not dangerous"^[14]

Real possibility that food situation in Europe, India, China and elsewhere will worsen from "low caloric intake" to starvation^[15]

To help end world crisis, Canadians should conserve food and expect less meat, dairy, beer and spirits^[16]

Canadian Wheat Board supports giving U.K. priority for wheat over UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration^[17]

"Selective attraction[, not] repulsion" - Senate committee wants end to Immigration Act centred on exclusion ("Asiatic" excepted)^[18]

Once veterans' employment has been seen to, Canadians should expect refugee Poles, Ukrainians, Mennonites and ethnic Germans^[19]

English woman and baby make voyage with 1,000 other war brides to Halifax and take train to her husband in Calgary^[20]

Canadian citizenship, separate from British subject status, created by act specifying how it can be earned and lost, plus status of aliens^[21]

Head of U.S. atomic research criticizes U.S.A.-U.K.-Canada agreement to jointly develop atomic energy for peace^[22]

U.S.A. asks that Loran network, useful for navigation, guided missiles and early warning, continue in North (request accepted)^[23]

Responses from several reserves (Nanaimo to Shubenacadie) to Parliament's query about treaty rights, bands, schools, franchise etc.^[24]

Indian residential school principal asks for small tractor to give practical experience to grade 7-9 boys taking mechanics course^[25]

Joey Smallwood advocates Newfoundland entering Confederation by laying out federal government's "New Deal" offer to provinces^[26]

Film: sleighs loaded and pulled by tractor across Great Slave Lake to Yellowknife^[27]

Painting: Portrait of Black member of Canadian Women’s Army Corps^[28]