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INCUMBENTS

Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II

Governor General - Georges Vanier

Prime Minister - John Diefenbaker

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 - Woodrow Lloyd

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. An indecisive Diefenbaker refuses to put Canadian forces on alert, angering the U.S. government.

December 1 - December 2 - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers win the Grey Cup in the famous Fog Bowl

December 11 - The last three Hanging s 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''

See 1962 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Jake and the Kid''

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premieres on CBC

The first Shaw Festival opens

BIRTHS

January 17 - Jim Carrey , comedian and actor

January 22 - Kevin Lamoureux , Manitoba politician

February 27 - Susie Moloney , novelist

March 27 - Jann Arden , musician

July 1 - Michelle Wight , singer

August 27 - Adam Oates , hockey player

September 18 - John Mann , musician

September 24 - Nia Vardalos , filmmaker

September 28 - Grant Fuhr , hockey goalie

October 16 - Dan McTeague , politician

October 30 - Rex Harrington , ballet dancer

November 8 - Cliff Cullen , Manitoba politician

November 21 - Martin Cauchon , politician

DEATHS