# 1958 in Canada

Events from the year 1958 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – Elizabeth II

### Federal government

* Governor General – Vincent Massey
* Prime Minister – John Diefenbaker
* Chief Justice – Patrick Kerwin (Ontario)
* Parliament – 23rd (until 1 February) then 24th (from 12 May)

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John J. Bowlen
* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Frank Mackenzie Ross
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Stewart McDiarmid
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – David Laurence MacLaren (until June 5) then Joseph Leonard O'Brien
* Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Campbell Leonard Macpherson
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alistair Fraser (until January 15) then Edward Chester Plow
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Keiller MacKay
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas William Lemuel Prowse (until March 31) then Frederick Walter Hyndman
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gaspard Fauteux (until February 14) then Onésime Gagnon
* Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – William John Patterson (until February 3) then Frank Lindsay Bastedo

#### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
* Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
* Premier of Manitoba – Douglas Campbell (until June 30) then Dufferin Roblin
* Premier of New Brunswick – Hugh John Flemming
* Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
* Premier of Nova Scotia – Robert Stanfield
* 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 – Frederick Howard Collins
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

## Events

* January 16 – Louis St. Laurent is replaced by Lester B. Pearson as leader of the Liberal Party
* February 19–20 – Rt Hon Ellen Fairclough first woman to assume the duties of Prime Minister for two days during John Diefenbaker's absence from the country.
* March 25 – The Avro Arrow flies for the first time
* March 31 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a massive election victory.
* April 5 – The Seymour Narrows is made more easily passable after Ripple Rock was destroyed in one of the largest planned non-nuclear explosions
* May 12 – The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
* June 17 – The Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver collapses killing 18.
* June 30 – Duff Roblin sworn in as premier of Manitoba
* July 1 – Canada-wide television broadcasting starts
* July 1 – The Lost Villages in Ontario are permanently flooded as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway construction project.
* October 22 – Canada appoints, Margaret Meagher, the country's first female ambassador, to Israel.
* October 23 – The third Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 74.

### Full date unknown

* Ellen Fairclough becomes Canada's first federal female cabinet minister.
* Department of Physical Education started at the University of Saskatchewan

## Arts and literature

* July 16 – The Manitoba Theatre Centre opens.

### New works

* John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society
* Farley Mowat's Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great Adventure
* Antonine Maillet's first novel Pointe-aux-Coques

### Awards

* See 1958 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
* Stephen Leacock Award: Eric Nicol, Girdle Me A Globe

### Film

* Morley Callaghan's Now That April's Here is made into a feature film
* Allan Dwan directs his last film Enchanted Island

### Music

* Paul Anka has four hit singles and becomes one of the most popular singers in the world.

### Television
## Sport

* January 17 - The Canadian Football League is established with 9 teams (Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Ottawa Rough Riders, Toronto Argonauts, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Edmonton Eskimos, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders, and BC Lions)
* April 20 – Montreal Canadiens won their Tenth (and Third consecutive) Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2.
* May 6 - Ottawa-Hull Canadiens won their Second (and only in Ottawa) Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at Ottawa Auditorium
* November 29 – Winnipeg Blue Bombers won their Fourth Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 35–28 in the 46th Grey Cup played at Empire Stadium in Vancouver

## Births
### January to June

* January 10 – Terrence Scammell, voice director and voice actor
* January 29 – Glen Cochrane, ice hockey player and scout
* February 15 – Peter Butler, long-distance runner
* February 23
** Norm Spencer, actor (d. 2020)
** Bob Stephen, Canadian football player (d. 2009)
* March 8 – Raymond Simard, politician
* March 30 – Maurice LaMarche, voice actor
* April 7 – Ted Nolan, ice hockey player and coach
* April 15 – Keith Acton, ice hockey player and coach
* April 17 – Laslo Babits, javelin thrower
* May 10 – Gaétan Boucher, speed skater and double Olympic gold medallist
* May 13 – Claire Backhouse-Sharpe, badminton player
* May 18 – Bob Chaperon, snooker and billiards player
* June 24 – Jean Charest, lawyer and politician, 29th Premier of Quebec

### July to September

* July 12 – Tonya Williams, actress
* July 28 – Terry Fox, humanitarian, athlete and cancer treatment activist (d. 1981)
* August 6 – Lorne Saxberg, television journalist and news anchor (d. 2006)
* August 15 – Craig MacTavish, ice hockey player and coach
* August 17 – Kirk Stevens, snooker player
* August 19 – Darryl Sutter, ice hockey player and coach
* August 22
** Lyle Bauer, Canadian football player and executive (d. 2024)
** Colm Feore, American-born stage, film and television actor
* August 29 – Linda Staudt, long-distance runner
* September 7 – Peter Mettler, filmmaker
* September 8 – Stevie Vallance, actress, voice actress, stage performer, singer, casting director and voice director
* September 11 – Jeffrey A. Hutchings, fisheries scientist (d. 2022)
* September 14 – Rob McCall, ice dancer (d. 1991)
* September 16
** Diane Deans, politician (d. 2024)
** Jennifer Tilly, actress and poker player
* September 17 – Monte Solberg, politician and businessman
* September 28 – Angella Taylor-Issajenko, sprinter

### October to December

* October 8 – Neile Graham, poet and scholar
* November 3 – Kevin Sorenson, politician
* November 6 – Kevin Doherty, judoka
* November 19 – Joe Jordan, politician
* December 10 – David Paul Grove, actor and voice actor
* December 12 – Lucie Guay, canoe racer
* December 24 – Lyse Doucet, journalist and broadcaster
* December 25 – Alannah Myles, singer-songwriter

### Full date unknown

* John Colapinto, journalist, author and novelist
* Kim Rabot (d. 1975)
* Gordon Stewart Anderson, writer (d. 1991)

## Deaths
### January to June

* January 7 – Margaret Anglin, actress, director and producer (b. 1876)
* January 8 – John Duff, race car driver (b. 1895)
* January 16 – Charles Bélec, politician (b. 1872)
* April 1 – J. Arthur Ross, politician (b. 1893)
* May 12 – Lewis Stubbs, judge and politician (b. 1878)
* June 26 – George Orton, middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medallist, first Canadian to win an Olympic medal (b. 1873)

### July to December

* July 21 – Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger, politician and lawyer (b. 1888)
* September 2 – George Stewart Henry, politician and 10th Premier of Ontario (b. 1871)
* September 11
** Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (b. 1889)
** Robert W. Service, poet and writer (b. 1874)
* October 2 – Charles Avery Dunning, politician, Minister and university chancellor (b. 1885)
* November 10 – Billy Boucher, ice hockey player (b. 1899)
* December 12 – Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1900)