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April 1 - Joey Smallwood becomes the first premier of Newfoundland as a Canadian province. April 4 - Canada joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) May 4 - Leslie Frost becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Thomas Kennedy. June 27 - Federal election: Louis Saint Laurent 's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority.
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1949 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1949th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 949th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1940s decade.
"Canada" was adopted as the legal name of the new country and the word "Dominion" was conferred as the country's title. Over the next eighty-two years, Canada expanded by incorporating other parts of British North America, finishing with Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949.
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The 1949 Queen Charlotte Islands earthquake was caused by a rupture on the Queen Charlotte Fault, which forms part of the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates. This fault runs from northern Vancouver Island, west of Haida Gwaii, up to the Gulf of Alaska. The earthquake ruptured the fault for a distance more than 500 km (311 mi).
