1965 In Canada

1964 In Canada ,
Other Events Of 1965 ,
1966 In Canada and the
Timeline Of Canadian History .

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

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 CRTC

October 13 - The Canadian Film Development Agency is formed

'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

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''

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.

, ''War Stories''

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

Christopher Plummer stars as Captain von Trapp in the '' Sound Of Music ''

William Shatner stars in '' Incubus ''

BIRTHS

January 21 - Brian Bradley , hockey player

January 24 - Ross MacDonald , Olympic sailor

January 28 - Stéphane Bergeron , politician

January 31 - Ofra Harnoy , cellist

March 1 - Stewart Elliott , jockey

March 23 - Daren Puppa , hockey goalie

April 21 - Ed Belfour , hockey goaltender

May 9 - Steve Yzerman , ice hockey player

May 10 - Linda Evangelista , model

May 19 - James Bezan , politician

August 11 - Marc Bergevin , hockey 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 29 - Christy Clark , politician

December 10 - Jennifer Wyatt , golfer

DEATHS

Dorothy Gish , actor

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