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.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 4 Births 5 Deaths

[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 25: Julie Daigneault, 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, actor