Events
- January 8 - Brantford, Ontario becomes the first Canadian community to fluoridate its water supply.
- 1944-1945: World War II: Japan's Special Balloon Regiment drops 9,000 balloon bombs over the Pacific Northwest, intended to cause panic, by starting forest fires. Six casualties, a woman and her five children in the American state of Oregon, were reported. The ten metre-wide balloons contained 540 cubic metres of hydrogen and reached as far inland as Manitoba. The event was declared a failure and abandoned, after six months.
- January 20 - World War II: The first conscripted Canadian soldiers arrive overseas
- February 8 - World War II: The Anglo-Canadian Operation Veritable launched in the Netherlands
- February 24 - Radio Canada International begins operation
- February 25 - Sergeant Aubrey Cosens posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross
- March 1 - Major Frederick Albert Tilston wins the Victoria Cross
- March 29 - The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan is shut down
- April 16 - World War II: HMCS Esquimalt is sunk off Halifax by a German U-boat.
- May 8 - VE Day sees celebrations across the nation, but also the Halifax Riot.
- June 4 - Ontario general election, 1945: George Drew's PCs win a majority
- June 11 - Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a third consecutive majority
- June 26 - Canada is a founding member of the United Nations
- August 2 - The Canadian Armoured Corps becomes the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
- August 15 - VJ Day marks the end of the Second World War. Over a million Canadians had fought in the conflict and 42,000 were killed.
- September 5 - The defection of Soviet embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko reveals a Soviet spy ring in Canada.
- September 8 - Angus Macdonald becomes premier of Nova Scotia for the second time, replacing Alexander MacMillan
- September 12 - The Ford Motor employees in Windsor, Ontario go on strike.
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“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them.
Still, you can’t listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)