1979 In Canada

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INCUMBENTS

Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II

Governor General - Jules Léger then Edward Richard Schreyer

Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau then Joe Clark

Premier Of Alberta - Peter Lougheed

Premier Of British Columbia - W.R. Bennett

Premier Of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon

Premier Of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield

Premier Of Newfoundland - Frank Moores then Brian Peckford

Premier Of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan

Premier Of Ontario - Bill Davis

Premier Of Prince Edward Island - Bennett Campbell then Angus MacLean

Premier Of Quebec - René Lévesque

Premier Of Saskatchewan - Allan Blakeney

EVENTS

January 17 - Edward Richard Schreyer replaces Jules Léger as Governor General

February 1 - The first Winterlude is held in Ottawa

's PCs win a third consecutive majority

March 26 - Brian Peckford becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Frank Moores

May 3 - Angus MacLean becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Bennett Campbell

May 22 - Canadians go to the polls in the Federal Election . They defeat Pierre Trudeau 's Liberals and elect Joe Clark 's PCs , but only with a minority

June 4 - Joe Clark becomes Canada 's sixteenth, and youngest ever, Prime Minister

June 22 - The World Hockey Association folds. Four teams -- the Edmonton Oilers , Winnipeg Jets , Quebec Nordiques , and Hartford Whalers -- survive and move to the NHL

September 5 - Canada's first Gold Bullion coin goes on sale

November 10 - 1979 Mississauga Train Derailment a train carrying chemicals derails in Mississauga, Ontario and hundreds of thousands have to be evacuated

December 13 - Supreme Court declares Quebec and Manitoba 's provincial legislatures to be unconstitutional because of their use of only one language.

December 13 - The government is defeated on a Non-confidence Motion and Prime Minister Clark calls an election

December 31 - A fire a Le Club Opemiska in Chaplais, Quebec kills 42 at a New Year's Eve party

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup defeating the New York Rangers 4 games to 1.

Chris Haney and Scott Abbott invent Trivial Pursuit

Petro-Canada buys U.S.-controlled Pacific Petroleums

The first women enroll in Canadian Military College s

ARTS AND LITERATURE

:New Works

Irving Layton - ''The Tightrope Dancer''

Margaret Atwood - ''Life Before Man''

Steve McCaffery - ''Intimate Distortions''

Roch Carrier - ''Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune''

Joy Fielding - ''Trance''

Gabrielle Roy - ''Courte-Queue''

Gordon R. Dickson - ''The Spirit of Dorsai''

Farley Mowat - ''And No Birds Sang''

Antonine Maillet wins the French Prix Goncourt for her novel '' Pélagie-la-Charette ''

See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''True Confessions''

Lorne Michaels starts Broadway Video a company that goes on to produce shows like The '' Kids In The Hall ''

You Can't Do That On Television premiers

BIRTHS

January 2 — Kathleen Edwards , musician

January 8 — Sarah Polley , actor

January 9 — Jenny Johnson , field hockey midfielder

January 15 — Nick Boynton , ice hockey player

February 8 — Adam Trupish , boxer

February 21 — Andre Noble , actor

March 15 — Azelia Liu , field hockey goalkeeper

April 4 — Roberto Luongo , ice hockey goaltender

April 17 — Eric Brewer , ice hockey player

July 2 — Joe Thornton , ice hockey player

August 3 — Evangeline Lilly , actor

August 22 — Jennifer Finnigan , actor

August 31 — Mark Johnston , freestyle swimmer

September 15 — Patrick Marleau , ice hockey player

October 7 — Shawn Ashmore , actor

October 7 — Aaron Ashmore , actor

November 21 — Alex Tanguay , ice hockey player

December 10 — Andrea Rushton , field hockey player

DEATHS

February 23 - W.A.C. Bennett , former premier of British Columbia

May 29 - Mary Pickford , actress, studio founder

August 16 - former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker

December 19 - Donald Creighton , historian

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