1943 in Canada

• January 8 - Stuart Garson becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing John Bracken, who had governed for 21 years
• May 11 - J. Walter Jones becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Thane Campbell
• May 18 - Harry Nixon becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Gordon Conant
• May 23 - William Aberhart, premier of Alberta, dies in office
• May 31 - Ernest Manning becomes premier of Alberta
• July - The 1st Canadian Infantry Division is part of the invasion of Sicily.
• August 4 - Ontario election: George Drew's PCs win a minority, defeating Harry Nixon's Liberals
• August 17 - George Drew becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Harry Nixon
• August 19 - The Quebec Agreement is signed in Quebec City, between Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
• December 20 - December 27 - Battle of Ortona rages in Italy.

• April 28 - Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Winnipeg Rangers won their Second Memorial Cup by defeating Ontario Hockey Association's Oshawa Generals 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
• November 27 - Hamilton Flying Wildcats won their only Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg RCAF Bombers 23 to 14 in the 31st Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

• February 9 - Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Newfoundland (b.1875)
• May 23 - William Aberhart, politician and 8th Premier of Alberta (b.1878)
• July 2 - Robert James Manion, politician (b.1881)
• July 4 - Gordon Sidney Harrington, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1883)
• July 12 - Joseph Boutin Bourassa, politician (b.1853)
• October 18 - Albert Charles Saunders, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1874)
• November 26 - Charles G.D. Roberts, poet and prose writer (b.1860)
• November 29 - Robert Hamilton Butts, politician (b.1871)
• December 9 - Peter Dmytruk, World War II military hero (b.1920)
• December 23 - Edgar Sydney Little, politician (b.1885)

• List of Canadian films

Slightly confused 1st Infantry Division invades Sicily against "bewildered" and "sorry looking" Italian defenders[2]

Cartoon: Axis forces quickly retreating from "Sicilian landings"[3]

Command crucial, but battles are won "by human beings displaying judgment, coolness and courage" (and in Sicily's "unending heat")[4]

Seaforth Highlanders take Monte San Marco in Italy, despite steep, muddy terrain and intense German fire[5]

Top German generals recognize disadvantages fighting Allies in Italy, including "Canadians clever at making use of terrain"[6]

Canadian infantry and tanks press "a literally yard-by-yard advance" through Ortona streets, houses, and even rooms[7]

Germans leave Ortona and their dead - "Civilians[...]too dazed to realize the enemy had gone; Canadians[...]too tired to care"[8]

Newspaper illustration of RCAF Spitfire planes strafing freight trains in Europe[9]

Photo: Canadians in joint landing operation with U.S. forces against Japanese invaders on Kiska Island, Alaska[10]

"The Jewish reservoir of the East, which was able to counterbalance the western assimilation, no longer exists"[11]

At end of fourth year of war, Prime Minister King calls for greater effort and sacrifice to defeat faltering Axis[12]

National registration certificate of Mrs. Ethel Louise Buck, Spirit River, Alberta[13]

"We are few, very few" - Quebecker laments that there are not enough pacifists in province to even produce their newsletter[14]

Advisory group chair foresees postwar period of more skilled labour, greater production, new products and technology, and huge demand[15]

U.S.-U.K. agreement creates executive committee with Canadian representation to guide nuclear development[16]

Canada wants multilateral general agreement to reduce tariffs, and to encourage U.S.A. and Canada to "buy in order to sell"[17]

Report with proposed economic reforms for benefit of Prairie provinces, adjacent U.S.A., and world at large[18]

Canada threatens to step back if not given more say in new UN Relief and Rehabilitation Organization[19]

Lester Pearson complains to External Affairs about U.S. censorship of official's call from legation in Washington to Ottawa[20]

Government returns about 15% of seized Japanese-Canadian fishing fleet to owners[21]

"So reactionary to Liberal principles" - PM King depressed by cabinet's close-minded attitude to steelworker strike[22]

Cartoon: Hitler says of strikers, "They are really working for me!"[23]

Communist Tim Buck's submission on labour relations to National War Labor Board emphasizes wage policy and collective bargaining[24]

As they fund-raise for bombers, London's Women's Voluntary Services thanks Manitobans for gifts of clothes and mobile canteens[25]

"You can't refuse this cake, it was sent me all the way from Canada" - touring WVS speaker enjoys local hospitality[26]

"Defend[ing] freedom and culture of humanity" - Shostakovich's thank-you for Toronto performance of his Seventh Symphony[27]