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INCUMBENTS

Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II

Governor General - Roland Michener

Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau

Premier Of Alberta - Harry Strom then Peter Lougheed

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

Premier Of Manitoba - Edward Schreyer

Premier Of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield

Premier Of Newfoundland - Joey Smallwood

Premier Of Nova Scotia - Gerald Regan

Premier Of Ontario - John Robarts then Bill Davis

Premier Of Prince Edward Island - Alexander B. Campbell

Premier Of Quebec - Robert Bourassa

Premier Of Saskatchewan - Ross Thatcher then Allan Blakeney

EVENTS

March 1 - Bill Davis becomes premier of Ontario , replacing John Robarts

March 4 - Prime Minister Trudeau weds Margaret Sinclair

March 31 - FLQ terrorist Paul Rose is sentenced to life in prison

April 5 - The first CANDU Reactor begins operation at Gentilly, Quebec

May 4 - A Sinkhole destroys much of St.-Jean-Vianney, Québec and kills 31

May 22 - Ontario Place opens in Toronto

June 3 The controversial Spadina Expressway project is cancelled

June 11 - Jack Davis becomes Canada's first Minister Of The Environment , heading the new department of Environment Canada

June 14 - The Victoria Charter proposing constitutional reforms is written by the first ministers, it is later rejected by Robert Bourassa

's NDP wins a majority, defeating Ross Thatcher 's Liberals

June 30 - Allan Blakeney becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Ross Thatcher

July 29 - The '' Bluenose II '' is donated to the province of Nova Scotia

August 15 - The first Banff Festival Of The Arts opens

August 16 - Hurricane Beth hits Nova Scotia

August 28 - Canada's first Gay rights demonstration, organized by George Hislop , takes place on Parliament Hill

's PCs win a majority, defeating Harry Strom 's Social Credit Party, which had governed for 36 years

September 10 - Peter Lougheed becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Harry Strom

October 4 - Petroleum is found under Sable Island

October 21 - Ontario election: Bill Davis's PCs win an eighth consecutive majority

November 1 - The '' Toronto Sun '' begins publication

November 1 - '' The Body Politic '', Canada's first significant gay magazine, publishes its first issue.

November 2 - Gerhard Herzberg wins the Nobel Prize In Chemistry

November 12 - Paul Joseph Cini hijacks an Air Canada plane. He is later arrested without incident

December 1 - Moving subway train crashes into a second, parked train in Montreal , killing one person.

December 26 - An Air Canada plane was hijacked and flown to Cuba

Ontario Universities Application Centre founded

Harold Ballard gains full control of the Toronto Maple Leafs

The first edition of The Canadian Rockies Trail Guide is published

Conrad Black and David Radler buy the '' Sherbrooke Record ''

Statistics Canada is formed to replace the Dominion Bureau Of Statistics

ARTS AND LITERATURE

:New Works

Alice Munro - ''Lives of Girls and Women''

Margaret Atwood - ''Power Politics''

Milton Acorn - ''I Shout Love and On Shaving Off His Beard''

Mordecai Richler - ''St. Urbain's Horseman''

Joan Haggerty - ''Daughters of the Moon''

Gordon R. Dickson - ''Tactics of Mistake''

Brian Fawcett - ''Friends''

See 1971 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Allen Wives, Children & Other Wild Life''

BIRTHS

January 9 - Sandra Oh , actor

January 18 - Seamus O'Regan , journalist

January 27 - Patrice Brisebois , hockey player

March 8 - Bob Boughner , hockey player

March 27 - Nathan Fillion , actor

April 9 - Jacques Villeneuve , automobile racing driver

June 16 - Derek R. Audette , Artist, poet and musician

June 17 - Bif Naked , singer

July 2 - Evelyn Lau , poet

July 10 - Adam Foote , hockey player

July 17 - Cory Doctorow , writer and activist

June 26 - Christine Nordhagen , Olympic wrestler

July 30 - Tom Green , actor

September - Chris Klein-Beekman , aid worker

September 6 - Fiona Milne , Olympic rower

November 1 - Glen Murray , hockey player

November 24 - Keith Primeau , hockey player

December 9 - Petr Nedved , hockey player

December 25 - Justin Trudeau , Prime Minister's son

DEATHS

January 5 - Douglas Shearer , sound designer

July 10 - Samuel Bronfman , businessman

July 22 - W. Ross Thatcher , premier of Saskatchewan