Events from the year 1949 in Canada.

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• March 31 - Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province at a fraction of a second from April 1.
• April 1 - Joey Smallwood becomes the first premier of Newfoundland as a Canadian province
• April 4 - Canada joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• May 4 - Leslie Frost becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Thomas Kennedy
• June 27 - Federal election: Louis Saint Laurent's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority
• August 22 - Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
• September 9 - Albert Guay affair: in-flight bombing of a Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 en route from Quebec City to Baie-Comeau
• September 14 - The Noronic, the largest Canadian passenger ship on the Great Lakes, is destroyed by a fire while docked in Toronto, killing 118.

• April 16 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their eighth (third consecutive) Stanley Cup by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 0. The deciding Game 4 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
• May 16 – The Quebec Junior Hockey League's Montreal Royals win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Brandon Wheat Kings 4 games to 3 (with 1 tie). The deciding game was played Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
• November 26 – The Montreal Alouettes win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Calgary Stampeders 28–15 in the 37th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

• List of Canadian films

Illingworth cartoon depicts Stalin-shaped mushroom cloud overshadowing western Europe and North America^[4]

Joint US-Canadian defence strategy must address not only huge Soviet force in Europe, but its recently revealed atomic weapon capability^[5]

"This struggle [with Communism] is coming closer and closer" - Canada should be aware that it has U.S.S.R. on its northern border^[6]

Denial of NATO "automatic commitment" comes from old idea of U.S.A. and Canada as "producers and not consumers of security"^[7]

Despite disapproval, Canada would strengthen its Article 2 on cultural, economic and social collaboration in draft NATO treaty^[8]

After prolonged objection to NATO treaty Article 2 by U.S. Senators, they publicly praise it as one reason for ratification^[9]

U.S.A. undermines Canada's export economy and aid to European recovery, and unfairly criticizes defence spending^[10]

Discussion of suggested USA-UK-Canada federation, UK's place in Europe, and Europe's economic decline as world industrializes^[11]

"Spectre of starvation, not only of the body, but also of the mind" - Canadians organize for cultural reconstruction of Europe^[12]

Canada raises $1 million for aid to devastated countries, including 5,000 school food boxes, 30,000 library books, and artists' equipment^[13]

PM Nehru explains India's "championship of freedom and racial equality in Asia" and asks Canada's support for liberty and against want^[14]

National Film Board's history of independent international distribution bothers Department of External Affairs^[15]

"(UNESCO should reject) projects not likely to achieve immediately useful results" - Example of Canada's role as helpful fixer^[16]

Letters of appreciation about (and from) displaced persons brought from Europe by government to work in Canada^[17]

Cabinet orders immigration officials to "deal favourably" with German husbands, wives, children (under 18) and senior parents of legal residents^[18]

Given their unpopularity in Canada, External Affairs urged to be judicious about allowing Germans in^[19]

"Running a war and a wide-open immigration policy at the same time[ – there's] no alternative" - Newspaper columnist on Israel^[20]

Canadian leadership tries to settle dispute in refugee organization over Jewish emigration to Palestine conflict zone^[21]

Canadian diplomat on elimination of corruption and black market and other positive changes in China following Communist takeover^[22]

"Undesirable contacts" - Federal official is leery about stationing Black U.S. troops near Inuit^[23]

Hydro-electricity, boundary waters, roads and railways: Canada wants information on U.S. interest in northwestern North America^[24]

Historical and diplomatic reasons for retaining "Alert" name for joint U.S.-Canadian weather station on Ellesmere Island^[25]

"You are joining a good country" - Prime Minister St. Laurent's speech on Newfoundland's entry into Confederation^[26]

"The Catholic Syndicates appear to have shunned [a] settlement" - Violence and unspoken motivation behind Quebec's Asbestos Strike^[27]

Film: newsreel of strikers, strikebreakers and police in Asbestos, Quebec^[28]

"The most powerful social and moral authority in the community" - Sociologist says unions are replacing church in Windsor, Ont.^[29]

Discussions between George Hislop and Jim Egan are roots of Toronto-area gay liberation^[30]

Fearing recent total war effort may result in permanent checks on individual rights, senator introduces draft bill of rights^[31]

"A more complete[...]Canadian democracy" - Canadian Jewish Congress promotes national institutions for cultural understanding^[32]

Massey Commission suggests questions on influences and possibilities to Ernest MacMillan for his critical study of Canadian music^[33]

"A cultural renaissance[...]from the grass roots" - Calgary Allied Arts Council urges Massey Commission to back community arts^[34]

"A new and gifted player" - Jazz at the Philharmonic presents Oscar Peterson's debut at Carnegie Hall, New York^[35]

Film: newsreel of cruise ship burning in Toronto harbour with scores of lives lost^[36]

Advertisement: CP Air staged flight to Australia with Honolulu and Fiji stopovers^[37]