1965 in Canada

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See also: 1964 in Canada, other events of 1965, 1966 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II
• Governor General - Georges Vanier
• Prime Minister - Lester B. Pearson
• Premier of Alberta - Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia - W.A.C. Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba - Duff Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick - Louis Robichaud
• Premier of Newfoundland - Joey Smallwood
• Premier of Nova Scotia - Robert Stanfield
• Premier of Ontario - John Robarts
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - Walter Shaw
• Premier of Quebec - Jean Lesage
• Premier of Saskatchewan - W. Ross Thatcher

[edit] Events

• January 1 - Trans-Canada Airlines is renamed Air Canada
• January 16 - The Canada-United States Automotive Agreement is signed
• January 28 - The Queen issues a royal proclamation, effective February 15, making the Maple Leaf flag the National Flag of Canada.
• February 15 - Marked by ceremonies across the Dominion, the Maple Leaf becomes the National Flag.
• March 2 - Lucien Rivard escapes from a Montreal area jail
• March 7 - Canadian Roman Catholic churches celebrate mass in the vernacular for the first time due to the reforms of Vatican II
• March 11 - The NHL admits six new teams and doubles in size.
• March 20 - Peter Lougheed is elected leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party
• April 2 - Lester Pearson gives a speech at Temple University in the United States that calls for a stop to the bombing of North Vietnam, infuriating President Lyndon Johnson
• June 7 - Navy, army, and air force commands are replaced by six functional commands
• July 8 - A crash of a Canadian Pacific Airlines flight in British Columbia kills 52.
• July 9 - The Hope Slide, the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada, kills four
• September 9 - The Fowler Report is released. It advocates creation of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
• October 13 - The Canadian Film Development Agency is formed
• November 8 - Federal election: Lester Pearson's Liberals win a second consecutive minority
• November 9 - A failure at an Ontario power station causes the 1965 Blackout that stretches from Florida to Chicago and all of southern Ontario.
• November 29 - Alouette 2 is launched.
• Eligibility age for pensions is lowered from 70 to 65
• The new Toronto City Hall is opened

[edit] Arts and literature

New Books

• George Grant - Lament for a Nation
• John Newlove - Moving in Alone
• Robert Kroetsch - But We are Exiles
• Farley Mowat - West Viking
• Gilles Archambault - La vie à trois
• Hubert Aquin - Prochain épisode

Awards

• Gordon R. Dickson's Soldier, Ask Not wins a Hugo Award
• See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Gregory Clark, War Stories
• Vicky Metcalf Award: Roderick Haig-Brown

Music

Karel Ančerl replaces Seiji Ozawa as artistic director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Film

• Christopher Plummer stars as Captain von Trapp in the The Sound of Music
• William Shatner stars in Incubus

[edit] Births

• January 21 – Brian Bradley, ice hockey player
• January 24 – Ross MacDonald, sailor
• January 23 – Tim Berrett, race walker
• January 28 – Stéphane Bergeron, politician
• January 28 – Tom Ponting, butterfly swimmer
• January 31 – Ofra Harnoy, cellist
• March 1 – Stewart Elliott, jockey
• March 15 – Marcel Gery, butterfly swimmer
• March 23 – Daren Puppa, ice hockey goalie
• April 11 – Chris Pridham, tennis player
• April 21 – Ed Belfour, ice hockey goaltender
• May 9 – Steve Yzerman, ice hockey player
• May 10 – Linda Evangelista, model
• May 19 – James Bezan, politician
• May 21 – Scott Browning, entrepreneur
• June 19 – Gary Vandermeulen, freestyle swimmer
• June 26 – Gaye Porteous, field hockey player
• July 26 — Michael Rascher, rower
• August 9 – Mark Andrews, freestyle swimmer
• August 11 – Marc Bergevin, ice hockey player
• August 22 – Patricia Hy-Boulais, tennis player
• August 28 – Shania Twain, singer and songwriter
• September 27 – Bernard Lord, Premier of New Brunswick
• September 27 – Peter MacKay, Tory leader
• October 5 – Mario Lemieux, ice hockey player
• October 5 – Patrick Roy, ice hockey player
• October 23 – David Bédard, diver
• October 29 – Christy Clark, politician
• November 5 – Andrew Crosby, rower
• November 20 — John Graham, track and field athlete
• November 21 – Jon Kelly, butterfly swimmer
• November 27 – Kathleen Heddle, rower
• December 1 – Jamie Pagendam, boxer
• December 10 – Jennifer Wyatt, golfer
• December 18 – Brian Walton, track cyclist

[edit] Deaths

• Dorothy Gish, actorfr:1965 au Canada