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Events from the year 1965 in Canada.

[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 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)

Toronto City Hall opens

• 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.

[edit] Full date unknown

• Eligibility age for pensions is lowered from 70 to 65
• The new Toronto City Hall is opened

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Music

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

[edit] Film

• October 13 - The Canadian Film Development Agency is formed
• Christopher Plummer stars as Captain von Trapp in the The Sound of Music
• William Shatner stars in Incubus

[edit] Sport

• March 11 - The NHL admits six new teams and doubles in size.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to March

• January 8 - Wendy Fuller, diver
• January 8 - Eric Wohlberg, racing cyclist
• January 21 - Brian Bradley, ice hockey player
• January 23 - Tim Berrett, race walker
• January 27 - Ross MacDonald, sailor and Olympic silver medalist
• January 28 - Stéphane Bergeron, politician
• January 28 - Tom Ponting, swimmer and double Olympic silver medalist
• January 31 - Ofra Harnoy, cellist
• March 1 - Stewart Elliott, jockey
• March 15 - Marcel Gery, swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist
• March 23 - Daren Puppa, ice hockey player

[edit] April to June

• April 11 - Chris Pridham, tennis player
• April 21 - Ed Belfour, ice hockey player
• April 22 - Peter Zezel, ice hockey player (d.2009)
• May 7 - Owen Hart, wrestler (d.1999)
• May 9 - Steve Yzerman, ice hockey player
• May 10 - Linda Evangelista, supermodel
• May 19 - James Bezan, politician
• May 21 - Scott Browning, entrepreneur
• June 19 - Gary Vandermeulen, swimmer
• June 25 - Julie Daigneault, swimmer
• June 26 - Gaye Porteous, field hockey player

[edit] July to September

• July 26 - Michael Rascher, rower and Olympic gold medalist

Peter MacKay attending the 45th Munich Security Conference

• August 11 - Marc Bergevin, ice hockey player
• August 22 - Patricia Hy-Boulais, tennis player
• August 28 - Shania Twain, singer-songwriter
• September 8 - Mark Andrews, swimmer
• September 27 - Bernard Lord, politician and 30th Premier of New Brunswick
• September 27 - Peter MacKay, lawyer, politician and Minister

[edit] October to December

• 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 and Olympic gold medalist
• November 20 - John Graham, track and field athlete
• November 21 - Jon Kelly, swimmer
• November 27 - Kathleen Heddle, rower and triple Olympic gold medalist
• December 1 - Jamie Pagendam, boxer
• December 10 - Jennifer Wyatt, golfer
• December 18 - Brian Walton, road and track cyclist and coach

[edit] Deaths

• January 17 - Austin Claude Taylor, politician (b.1893)
• April 1 - Harry Crerar, General (b.1888)
• June 7 - John Stewart McDiarmid, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1882)
• August 23 - George Black, politician (b.1873)
• August 28 - Jacob Penner, politician (b.1880)
• September 10 - S. E. Rogers, politician (b.1888)