1965 in Canada

Incumbents

January 1 - Trans-Canada Airlines is renamed Air Canada
January 16 - The Canada-US Autopact is signed
February 15 - The Maple Leaf becomes the National Flag of Canada.
March 2 - Lucien Rivard escpaes 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 which called for a stop to the bombing of North Vietnam, infuriating President Lyndon Johnson
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
November 8 - Federal election: Lester Pearson'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.
Eligibility age for pensions is lowered from 70 to 65
The new Toronto City Hall is opened

New Books

Awards

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.
Stephen Leacock Award: Gregory Clark, War Stories
Vicky Metcalf Award: Roderick Haig-Brown

Music

Karel Ancerl replaces Seiji Ozama as artistic director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Film


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