1965 in Canada - Definition and Overview

Contents

1 Incumbents

Incumbents

January 1 - Trans-Canada Airlines is renamed Air Canada
January 16 - The Canada-US Autopact is signed
February 15 - The Maple Leaf becomes the National Flag of Canada.
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 which called for a stop to the bombing of North Vietnam, infuriating President Lyndon Johnson
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 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

New Books

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 Ancerl replaces Seiji Ozama as artistic director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Film

Copyright 2009 WordIQ.com - Privacy Policy :: Terms of Use :: Contact Us :: About Us
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the this Wikipedia article.