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Events from the year 1955 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II
• Governor General: Vincent Massey
• Prime Minister: Louis Saint Laurent
• Premier of Alberta: Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia: W.A.C. Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba: Douglas Campbell
• Premier of New Brunswick: Hugh John Flemming
• Premier of Newfoundland: Joey Smallwood
• Premier of Nova Scotia: Henry Hicks
• Premier of Ontario: Leslie Frost
• Premier of Prince Edward Island: Alex Matheson
• Premier of Quebec: Maurice Duplessis
• Premier of Saskatchewan: Tommy Douglas

Events

• January 7 - The first television broadcast of the opening of parliament
• February 1 - The Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank merge to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank
• April 2 - The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge connecting Halifax to Dartmouth opens.
• June 9 - Ontario general election, 1955: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fourth consecutive majority
• June 29 - Alberta general election, 1955: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a sixth consecutive majority.
• July 11 - Seven teenagers die in a mountaineering accident on Mount Temple in Banff National Park.
• Cape Breton Island is connected to the mainland by the Canso Causeway

Arts and literature

New books

• Gabrielle Roy: Rue Deschambault

Awards

• See 1955 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice

Music

• Glenn Gould's first recording of the Goldberg Variations is made.

Sport

• March 17 - A riot erupts in Montreal when Maurice Richard is suspended.
• The Canadian Sports Hall of Fame is created.

Births

January to June

• January 4 - John Nunziata, politician
• January 28 - Odette Lapierre, long-distance runner
• February 23 - Jerry Holland, fiddler
• February 25 - Camille Thériault, politician and 29th Premier of New Brunswick
• February 27 - MaryAnn Mihychuk, politician
• March 16 - Andy Scott, politician and Minister
• April 6 - Cathy Jones, comedian and writer
• April 25 - Jane Stewart, politician and Minister
• May 12 - Yvon Godin, politician
• May 14 - Marie Chouinard, dancer, choreographer and dance company director
• June 14 - Joe Preston, politician

July to December

Dalton McGuinty

• July 7 - Gord Mackintosh, politician
• July 13 - Hubert Lacroix, lawyer and President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• July 17 - Geneviève Cadieux, artist
• July 19 - Dalton McGuinty, lawyer, politician and 24th Premier of Ontario
• August 6 - Gilles Bernier, politician
• August 12 - Tooker Gomberg, politician and environmental activist (d.2004)
• August 19 - Bev Desjarlais, politician
• August 31 - Sidney McKnight, boxer

Stéphane Dion

• September 28 - Stéphane Dion, politician and Minister
• October 12 - Issa, singer-songwriter
• November 4 - Rodger Cuzner, politician
• November 10 - Ken Holland, ice hockey player
• December 13 - Pat Martin, politician

Full date unknown

• Vatche Arslanian, Canadian Red Cross worker, killed in Iraq (d.2003)
• Kim Morrissey, poet and playwright

Deaths

• April 24 - Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor (b.1876)
• April 26 - Lyman Duff, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (b.1865)
• May 10 - Tommy Burns, only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer (b.1881)
• June 16 - Ozias Leduc, painter (b.1864)
• August 5 - Izaak Walton Killam, financier (b.1885)
• August 7 - Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1871)
• October 1 - Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner (b.1880)