← → Events from the year 1949 in Canada.

Illingworth cartoon depicts Stalin-shaped mushroom cloud overshadowing western Europe and North America[4] Joint US-Canadian defence strategy must address not only huge Soviet force in Europe, but its recently revealed atomic weapon capability[5] "This struggle [with Communism] is coming closer and closer" - Canada should be aware that it has U.S.S.R. on its northern border[6] Denial of NATO "automatic commitment" comes from old idea of U.S.A. and Canada as "producers and not consumers of security"[7] Despite disapproval, Canada would strengthen its Article 2 on cultural, economic and social collaboration in draft NATO treaty[8] After prolonged objection to NATO treaty Article 2 by U.S.

Senators, they publicly praise it as one reason for ratification[9] U.S.A. undermines Canada's export economy and aid to European recovery, and unfairly criticizes defence spending[10] Discussion of suggested USA-UK-Canada federation, UK's place in Europe, and Europe's economic decline as world industrializes[11] "Spectre of starvation, not only of the body, but also of the mind" - Canadians organize for cultural reconstruction of Europe[12] Canada raises $1 million for aid to devastated countries, including 5,000 school food boxes, 30,000 library books, and artists' equipment[13] PM Nehru explains India's "championship of freedom and racial equality in Asia" and asks Canada's support for liberty and against want[14] National Film Board's history of independent international distribution bothers Department of External Affairs[15] "(UNESCO should reject) projects not likely to achieve immediately useful results" - Example of Canada's role as helpful fixer[16] Letters of appreciation about (and from) displaced persons brought from Europe by government to work in Canada[17] Cabinet orders immigration officials to "deal favourably" with German husbands, wives, children (under 18) and senior parents of legal residents[18] Given their unpopularity in Canada, External Affairs urged to be judicious about allowing Germans in[19] "Running a war and a wide-open immigration policy at the same time[ – there's] no alternative" - Newspaper columnist on Israel[20] Canadian leadership tries to settle dispute in refugee organization over Jewish emigration to Palestine conflict zone[21] Canadian diplomat on elimination of corruption and black market and other positive changes in China following Communist takeover[22] "Undesirable contacts" - Federal official is leery about stationing Black U.S. troops near Inuit[23] Hydro-electricity, boundary waters, roads and railways: Canada wants information on U.S. interest in northwestern North America[24] Historical and diplomatic reasons for retaining "Alert" name for joint U.S.-Canadian weather station on Ellesmere Island[25] "You are joining a good country" - Prime Minister St. Laurent's speech on Newfoundland's entry into Confederation[26] "The Catholic Syndicates appear to have shunned [a] settlement" - Violence and unspoken motivation behind Quebec's Asbestos Strike[27] Film: newsreel of strikers, strikebreakers and police in Asbestos, Quebec[28] "The most powerful social and moral authority in the community" - Sociologist says unions are replacing church in Windsor, Ont.

[29] Discussions between George Hislop and Jim Egan are roots of Toronto-area gay liberation[30] Fearing recent total war effort may result in permanent checks on individual rights, senator introduces draft bill of rights[31] "A more complete[...]Canadian democracy" - Canadian Jewish Congress promotes national institutions for cultural understanding[32] Massey Commission suggests questions on influences and possibilities to Ernest MacMillan for his critical study of Canadian music[33] "A cultural renaissance[...]from the grass roots" - Calgary Allied Arts Council urges Massey Commission to back community arts[34] "A new and gifted player" - Jazz at the Philharmonic presents Oscar Peterson's debut at Carnegie Hall, New York[35] Film: newsreel of cruise ship burning in Toronto harbour with scores of lives lost[36] Advertisement: CP Air staged flight to Australia with Honolulu and Fiji stopovers[37]