- 1965 in Canada
"See also:"
1964 in Canada ,
other events of 1965,1966 in Canada and theTimeline 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
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January 1 : Trans-Canada Airlines is renamedAir Canada
*January 16 : TheCanada-United States Automotive Agreement is signed
*January 28 : The Queen issues a royal proclamation, effective February 15, making the Maple Leaf flag the NationalFlag 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 : CanadianRoman Catholic churches celebratemass in the vernacular for the first time due to the reforms ofVatican 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 atTemple University in theUnited States that calls for a stop to the bombing ofNorth Vietnam , infuriating PresidentLyndon Johnson
* June 7: Navy, army, and air force commands are replaced by six functional commands
*July 8 : A crash of aCanadian Pacific Airlines flight in British Columbia kills 52.
*July 9 : TheHope Slide , the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada, kills four
*September 9 : TheFowler Report is released. It advocates creation of theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
*October 13 : TheCanadian Film Development Agency is formed
*November 8 : Federal election:Lester Pearson 's Liberals win a second consecutive minority
*November 9 : A failure at anOntario power station causes the 1965 Blackout that stretches fromFlorida toChicago and all of southern Ontario.
*November 29 : "Alouette 2 " is launched.
* Eligibility age for pensions is lowered from 70 to 65
* The newToronto City Hall is openedArts 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"
*Hubert Aquin : "Prochain épisode": Awards
*Gordon R. Dickson 's "Soldier, Ask Not" wins aHugo Award
* See1965 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 Ančerl replacesSeiji Ozawa as artistic director of theToronto Symphony Orchestra : Film
*Christopher Plummer stars as Captain von Trapp in the "The Sound of Music"
*William Shatner stars in "Incubus"Births
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January 8 :Wendy Fuller , diver
*January 21 :Brian Bradley , ice hockey player
*January 24 :Ross MacDonald , sailor
*January 23 :Tim Berrett , race walker
*January 28 :Stéphane Bergeron , politician
* January 28:Tom Ponting , butterfly swimmer
*January 31 :Ofra Harnoy , cellist
*March 1 :Stewart Elliott , jockey
*March 15 :Marcel Gery , butterfly swimmer
*March 23 :Daren Puppa , ice hockey goalie
*April 11 :Chris Pridham , tennis player
*April 21 :Ed Belfour , ice hockey goaltender
*May 9 :Steve Yzerman , ice hockey player
*May 10 :Linda Evangelista , model
*May 19 :James Bezan , politician
*May 21 :Scott Browning , entrepreneur
*June 19 :Gary Vandermeulen , freestyle swimmer
*June 25 :Julie Daigneault , freestyle swimmer
*June 26 :Gaye Porteous , field hockey player
*July 26 :Michael Rascher , rower
*August 9 : Mark Andrews, freestyle swimmer
*August 11 :Marc Bergevin , ice hockey player
*August 22 :Patricia Hy-Boulais , tennis 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 23 :David Bédard , diver
*October 29 :Christy Clark , politician
*November 5 :Andrew Crosby , rower
*November 20 : John Graham, track and field athlete
*November 21 : Jon Kelly, butterfly swimmer
*November 27 :Kathleen Heddle , rower
*December 1 :Jamie Pagendam , boxer
*December 10 :Jennifer Wyatt , golfer
*December 18 : Brian Walton, track cyclistDeaths
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Dorothy Gish , actor
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