1962 in Canada
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| Years: | 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 |
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Events from the year 1962 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II (consort – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)
Federal government
- Governor general – Georges Vanier (viceregal consort – Pauline Vanier)
- Prime minister – John Diefenbaker
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John Percy Page
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – George Pearkes
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Errick Willis
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Joseph Leonard O'Brien
- Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Campbell Leonard Macpherson
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Edward Chester Plow
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Keiller MacKay
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frederick Walter Hyndman
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Paul Comtois
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Frank Lindsay Bastedo
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
- Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
- Premier of Manitoba – Dufferin 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 – Woodrow Lloyd
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Howard Collins (until May 1) then Gordon Robertson Cameron
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson
Events
- March 21 – The birth-defect-causing drug thalidomide is banned
- May 2 – The Canadian dollar is pegged to the U.S. currency
- June 15 – Canada is the third power to reach space with the launch of scientific satellite
- June 18 – In the 1962 Federal election John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is reduced to a minority government
- July 1 – First medicare plan is launched in Saskatchewan to great protest by doctors
- July 30 – Trans-Canada Highway opens
- August 6 – A Premiers Conference is held in Victoria, British Columbia
- September 1 – Place Ville Marie opens in Montreal
- September 29 – Alouette 1, Canada's first satellite is launched.
- October 25 – The Bedford Institute of Oceanography opens in Nova Scotia
- October 25-November 12 – The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs. Diefenbaker refuses to put Canadian forces on alert, angering the U.S. government.
- December 11 – The last three hangings in Canada take place.
- The Globe and Mail adds the Report on Business section
Arts and literature
New books
- Max Aitken – The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George
- W. O. Mitchell – The Kite
- Marshall McLuhan – The Gutenberg Galaxy
- George Woodcock – Anarchism
- Farley Mowat – The Black Joke
- Thomas B. Costain – The Last Plantagenets
Awards
- See 1962 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Stephen Leacock Award: W. O. Mitchell, Jake and the Kid
Television
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premieres on CBC
Theatre
- The first Shaw Festival opens
Sport
- December 1-December 2 – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers win the Grey Cup in the famous fog bowl.
Births
Unknown date
- Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (2014-present)
January to June
- January 17 – Jim Carrey, comedian and actor
- January 22 – Kevin Lamoureux, politician
- February 23 – John Hatch, basketball player
- February 27 – Susie Moloney, novelist
- March 27 – Jann Arden, singer-songwriter
- April 1 – John Wallace, rower and Olympic gold medallist
- May 31 – Corey Hart, musician
- June 23
- Chris Collins, politician
- Patrick Kelly, ice speed skater
July to December
- July 7 – Ross Rutledge, field hockey player (died 2004)
- July 12 – Camilla Scott, actress and television host
- July 14 – Diane Ratnik, volleyball player
- July 21 – Lee Aaron, rock and jazz singer
- August 23 – Martin Cauchon, politician and Minister
- August 27 – Adam Oates, ice hockey and lacrosse player
- August 31 – Wanda Guenette, volleyball player
- September 15 – Brad Willock, volleyball player
- September 18 – John Mann, rock musician and actor
- September 22 – Normand D'Amour, actor
- September 24 – Nia Vardalos, actress, screenwriter and producer
- September 28 – Grant Fuhr, ice hockey player
- October 16 – Dan McTeague, politician
- October 30 – Rex Harrington, ballet dancer
- November 8 – Cliff Cullen, politician
Deaths
- January 12 – James Garfield Gardiner, politician, Minister and Premier of Saskatchewan (born 1883)
- January 24 – James Charles Brady, politician (born 1876)
- March 3 – Cairine Wilson, Canada's first female Senator (born 1885)
- August 20 – Joseph-Arsène Bonnier, politician (born 1879)
- August 26 – Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer and ethnologist (born 1879)
- October 23 – John Thomas Haig, politician (born 1877)
- November 13 – Télesphore-Damien Bouchard, politician (born 1881)
- November 21 – Frank Amyot, sprint canoer and Olympic gold medalist (born 1904)
- December 8 – Allison Dysart, politician, lawyer, judge and 21st Premier of New Brunswick (born 1880)
- December 22 – Solon Earl Low, politician (born 1900)
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