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1946 in Canada

Events from the year 1946 in Canada.

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Canadian issues in postwar Germany include pacification and recovery, export trade, reparations, and punishment of war crimes[3]

British Prime Minister asks PM King not to withdraw occupation forces from Germany, arguing U.K. should not be expected to do all[4]

"Purely and simply the extermination of allied airmen" - evidence that captured flyers accused of "terroristic attacks" were murdered[5]

Testimony against SS physician conducting biological experiments at Dachau concentration camp[6]

Nazis fought "an intellectual battle, the goal of which was the destruction of Christianity and the church"[7]

"A giant quantity of valuables" - testimony that SS profited from clothing, jewellery and other belongings of murdered Jews[8]

PM King announces royal commission to report on leaks of secrets, including to "a foreign mission in Ottawa"[9]

Soviets say PM's announcement tied to "unbridled anti-soviet campaign[...]in the Canadian press and on[...]radio"[10]

"In knowledge, with a sense of proportion" - editorial says there should be no hysteria in hunt for communists[11]

In charge to jury at first espionage trial, judge says conspiracy "touches the very nerve centre of our national existence"[12]

Royal Commission on Espionage final report alleges "spy rings" include federal government employees and military officers[13]

Parsing reaction to Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, Lester Pearson finds U.S. hardening toward U.S.S.R. "depressing if not dangerous"[14]

Real possibility that food situation in Europe, India, China and elsewhere will worsen from "low caloric intake" to starvation[15]

To help end world crisis, Canadians should conserve food and expect less meat, dairy, beer and spirits[16]

Canadian Wheat Board supports giving U.K. priority for wheat over UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration[17]

"Selective attraction[, not] repulsion" - Senate committee wants end to Immigration Act centred on exclusion ("Asiatic" excepted)[18]

Once veterans' employment has been seen to, Canadians should expect refugee Poles, Ukrainians, Mennonites and ethnic Germans[19]

English woman and baby make voyage with 1,000 other war brides to Halifax and take train to her husband in Calgary[20]

Canadian citizenship, separate from British subject status, created by act specifying how it can be earned and lost, plus status of aliens[21]

Head of U.S. atomic research criticizes U.S.A.-U.K.-Canada agreement to jointly develop atomic energy for peace[22]

U.S.A. asks that Loran network, useful for navigation, guided missiles and early warning, continue in North (request accepted)[23]

Responses from several reserves (Nanaimo to Shubenacadie) to Parliament's query about treaty rights, bands, schools, franchise etc.[24]

Indian residential school principal asks for small tractor to give practical experience to grade 7-9 boys taking mechanics course[25]

Joey Smallwood advocates Newfoundland entering Confederation by laying out federal government's "New Deal" offer to provinces[26]

Film: sleighs loaded and pulled by tractor across Great Slave Lake to Yellowknife[27]

Painting: Portrait of Black member of Canadian Women’s Army Corps[28]

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  1. ^ "King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
  3. ^ Letter of Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs to Head, Military Mission[...], Germany (January 29, 1946), Chapter II, Peace Settlement in Europe; Part 2, Germany; Section A, Occupation and Control, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 12, pg. 80. Accessed 19 August 2020 https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/faitc-aecic/history/2013-05-03/www.international.gc.ca/department/history-histoire/dcer/details-en.asp@intRefid=11361 (scroll down to "III. Canadian Interests in Germany")
  4. ^ Telegram to Secretary of State for External Affairs (January 3, 1946), Chapter II, Peace Settlement in Europe; Part 2, Germany; Section A, Occupation and Control, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 12, pg. 77. Accessed 19 August 2020
  5. ^ "Forty-Sixth Day: Wednesday, 30th January, 1946" The Trial of German Major War Criminals, Sitting at Nuremberg, Germany, Vol. 5, pgs. 295-8. Accessed 24 August 2020
  6. ^ "One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth Day: Saturday, 3rd August, 1946," The Trial of German Major War Criminals, Sitting at Nuremberg, Germany, Vol. 20, pgs. 258-9. Accessed 24 August 2020 http://www.nizkor.com/hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-20/tgmwc-20-194-04.shtml (scroll down to "Dr. Rascher")
  7. ^ "Twenty-Ninth Day: Tuesday, January 8th, 1946," The Trial of German Major War Criminals, Sitting at Nuremberg, Germany, Vol. 4, pgs. 46-7. Accessed 24 August 2020 http://www.nizkor.com/hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-04/tgmwc-04-29-01.shtml (scroll down to "Pastoral Letter")
  8. ^ "Affidavit of Oswald Pohl" (translation; July 15, 1946), Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A, pgs. 805-7 (PDF pgs. 830-2). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A)
  9. ^ Department of External Affairs press release (February 15, 1946), Chapter XII, Relations with Individual Countries; Part 18, Soviet Union, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 12, pg. 1245. Accessed 19 August 2020
  10. ^ Telegram of Chargé d'Affaires (Moscow, February 21, 1946), Chapter XII, Relations with Individual Countries; Part 18, Soviet Union, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 12, pg. 1247. Accessed 19 August 2020
  11. ^ "Let's Avoid Hysteria" (excerpts), Ottawa Journal (March 22, 1946). Accessed 24 August 2020
  12. ^ Canadian Press, "Mazerall Is Found Guilty In Soviet Espionage Plot(...)" The Montreal Gazette, Vol. CLXXV, No. 122 (May 23, 1946), pg. 1. Accessed 24 August 2020
  13. ^ Canadian Press, "Soviet 5th Column in Canada Charged; Probe Reveals Spy Activities" The Winnipeg Tribune, 57th Year, No. 166 (July 15, 1946), pg. 1. Accessed 24 August 2020
  14. ^ Despatch of Lester Pearson (Washington, March 11, 1946), Chapter XII, Relations with Individual Countries; Part 18, Soviet Union, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 12, pg. 1248. Accessed 19 August 2020
  15. ^ Memorandum of Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs (February 19, 1946), Chapter VII, Food Crisis, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 12, pg. 343. Accessed 19 August 2020
  16. ^ Privy Council Office, "World Food Problem" memorandum (February 7, 1946), Chapter VII, Food Crisis, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 12, pg. 339. Accessed 19 August 2020
  17. ^ Letter of Canadian Wheat Board chief commissioner (February 3, 1946), Chapter VII, Food Crisis, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 12, pg. 337. Accessed 19 August 2020
  18. ^ "Report; The Act" Proceedings of the Standing Committee on Immigration and Labour (August 13, 1946), pg. 310. Accessed 7 October 2020
  19. ^ Memorandum of Second Political Division (January 3, 1946), Chapter IV, Immigrants and Refugees; Part 1, General, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 12, pg. 211. Accessed 19 August 2020
  20. ^ Eswyn Lyster, "My Journey to Canada on the Mauretania II" Canadian War Brides. Accessed 24 August 2020
  21. ^ "An Act respecting Citizenship, Nationality, Naturalization and Status of Aliens" (June 27, 1946). Accessed 1 September 2020
  22. ^ United States Department of State, "Memorandum by the Commanding General, Manhattan Engineer District(...)" (February 13, 1946), Foreign Policy Aspects of United States Development of Atomic Energy, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946; Volume I, General; The United Nations, pgs. 1204-7. Accessed 25 August 2020
  23. ^ Cabinet Defence Committee, "Extension of Loran Program" memorandum (May 3, 1946), Chapter XI, Relations with the United States; Part 3, Defence; Section A, Sovereignty in the Arctic, Documents on Canadian External Relations, Volume 12, pg. 906. Accessed 19 August 2020
  24. ^ "Appendices" Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons Appointed to Examine and Consider the Indian Act; Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence, No. 21 (August 13, 1946), pg. vii. Accessed 7 October 2020
  25. ^ Letter of Principal P. Piche (March 1, 1946), National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Archives. Accessed 9 September 2021 https://archives.nctr.ca/R00011425 (click on Master file PDF)
  26. ^ Letter-to-the-editor of Joseph R. Smallwood The (St. John's, Newfoundland) Daily News (March 13, 1946). Accessed 25 August 2020
  27. ^ British Pathé, "Northern Canada" Accessed 10 May 2020
  28. ^ Molly Lamb Bobak, "Private Roy, Canadian Women’s Army Corps" (1946), Canadian War Museum. Accessed 18 May 2022
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