Deaths
- January 31 – George Arthur Brethen, politician (b.1877)
- February 5 – Frances Loring, sculptor (b.1887)
- February 13 – Portia White, singer (b.1911)
- February 16 – Healey Willan, organist and composer (b.1880)
- February 17 – Ernest Charles Drury, politician, writer and 8th Premier of Ontario (b.1878)
- April 29 – Aubin-Edmond Arsenault, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1870)
- May 30 – Charles Gavan Power, politician, Minister and Senator (b.1888)
- June 14 – John B. McNair, lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (b.1889)
- August 1 – Maurice Spector, Chairman of the Communist Party of Canada (b.1898)
- September 26 – Daniel Johnson, Sr., politician and 20th Premier of Quebec (b.1915)
- December 15 – Antonio Barrette, politician and 18th Premier of Quebec (b.1899)
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