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Incumbents

Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II

Governor General - Roland Michener

Prime Minister - Lester B. Pearson then Pierre Trudeau

Premier Of Alberta - Ernest Manning then Harry Strom

Premier Of British Columbia - W.A.C. Bennett

Premier Of Manitoba - Walter Weir

Premier Of New Brunswick - Louis Robichaud

Premier Of Newfoundland - Joey Smallwood

Premier Of Nova Scotia - George Smith

Premier Of Ontario - John Robarts

Premier Of Prince Edward Island - Alexander B. Campbell

Premier Of Quebec - Daniel Johnson, Sr. then Jean-Jacques Bertrand

Premier Of Saskatchewan - W. Ross Thatcher

EVENTS

February 1 - The three branches of the Canadian Forces are merged into one

April 1 - The CRTC is formed

April 6 - Pierre Trudeau wins 1968 Liberal Party Leadership Convention

April 20 - Pierre Trudeau becomes prime minister, replacing Lester Pearson

May 14 - The grand opening of the Toronto-Dominion Centre is held

May 27 - Montreal is awarded a Major League Baseball franchise that would eventually be the Montreal Expos

June 24 - Separatists riot in Montreal on St-Jean-Baptiste Day

win a majority

July 1 - The laws creating Canada's Medicare system come into effect

July 18 - August 9 - Canada Post is on strike

August 20 - Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the " Prague Spring " of political liberalization. Thousands of refugees flee to Canada.

August 28 - Michel Tremblay 's ''Les Belles-Sœurs'' premiers in Montreal

September 26 - Daniel Johnson, Sr , Premier Of Quebec , dies in office

October 2 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand becomes premier of Quebec

October 15 - The Mouvement Souveraineté-Association merges with the Ralliement National to create the Parti Québécois , René Lévesque is selected as the party's first leader

December 12 - Harry Strom becomes premier of Alberta , replacing Ernest Manning

December 18 - Henry Moore donates hundreds of works to the Art Gallery Of Ontario

December 31 - Quebec 's Legislative Assembly is renamed the National Assembly

IMAX technique invented

Canada's new Divorce Act introduces No Fault Divorce

The Rochdale College experiment begins in Toronto

ARTS AND LITERATURE

:New Works

Alice Munro - ''Dance of the Happy Shades''

Michel Tremblay - ''Les Belles-Sœurs''

Mordecai Richler - ''Hunting Tigers Under Glass''

Margaret Atwood - ''The Animals in That Country''

Robert Fulford - ''This Was Expo''

John Newlove - ''Black Night Window''

Kildare Dobbs - ''Reading the Time''

Robert Kroetsch - ''Alberta''

Marian Engel - ''No Clouds of Glory''

Gordon R. Dickson - ''Soldier, Ask Not''

Farley Mowat - ''This Rock Within the Sea: A Heritage Lost''

Harold Cardinal - ''The Unjust Society''

David Suzuki wins UNESCO 's Kalinga Prize for science writing

See 1968 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''And Now...Here's Max''

BIRTHS

January 5 - Joe Juneau , hockey player

January 13 - Pat Onstad , soccer player

January 28 - Sarah McLachlan , musician

February 1 - Mark Recchi , hockey player

February 22 - Shawn Graham , actor

February 27 - Matt Stairs , baseball player

March 30 - Céline Dion , singer

April 18 - David Hewlett , actor

May 30 - Jason Kenney , politician

June 10 - Susan Haskell , actor

June 27 - Pascale Bussières , actor

June 29 - Theoren Fleury , hockey player

September 20 - Leah Pinsent , actor

October 2 - Glen Wesley , hockey player

October 26 - Tom Cavanagh , actor

November 25 - Jill Hennessy , actor

December 3 - Brendan Fraser , actor

December 17 - Paul Tracy , racing car driver

Evan Solomon

DEATHS

September 26 - Daniel Johnson, Sr., Premier of Quebec