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Events from the year 1968 in Canada.
Video 1968 in Canada
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) - Queen Elizabeth II (consort - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)
Federal government
- Governor general - Roland Michener (viceregal consort - Norah Michener)
- Prime minister - Lester B. Pearson (until April 20) and then Pierre Trudeau
- Chief Justice - John Robert Cartwright (Ontario)
- Parliament - 27th (until April 23) then 28th (from September 12)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta - Grant MacEwan
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia - George Pearkes (until July 2) then John Robert Nicholson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba - Richard Spink Bowles
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick - John B. McNair (until January 31) then Wallace Samuel Bird
- Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland - Fabian O'Dea
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - Henry Poole MacKeen (until July 22) then Victor de Bedia Oland
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario - William Earl Rowe (until July 4) then William Ross Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island - Willibald Joseph MacDonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec - Hugues Lapointe
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan - Robert Hanbidge
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta - Ernest Manning (until December 12) and 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 - G.I. Smith
- Premier of Ontario - John Robarts
- Premier of Prince Edward Island - Alexander B. Campbell
- Premier of Quebec - Daniel Johnson, Sr. (until September 26) and then Jean-Jacques Bertrand (from October 2)
- Premier of Saskatchewan - Ross Thatcher
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon - James Smith
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories - Stuart Milton Hodgson
Maps 1968 in Canada
Events
January to June
- February 1 - The three branches of the Canadian Forces are merged into one, adopting a common green uniform and Army-derived ranks
- February 20 - Prime Minister Pearson gives the first ever televised address to the nation as he tells Canadians that he will table a confidence motion the next day to prove his party still has control. After a week of filibustering by the Opposition, the motion passes.
- April 1 - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is formed
- April 6 - Pierre Trudeau wins 1968 Liberal Party leadership election
- May 14 - The grand opening of the Toronto-Dominion Centre is held
- June 1 - The flag of Alberta is authorized
- June 24 - Separatists riot in Montreal on St-Jean-Baptiste Day
- June 25 - Federal election: Pierre Trudeau's Liberals win a majority
July to December
- July 1 - The laws creating Canada's Medicare system come into effect
- July 18-August 9 - Canada Post workers represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers go on strike
- August 20 - Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization. Thousands of refugees flee to Canada.
- 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 31 - Quebec's Legislative Assembly is renamed the National Assembly
Full date unknown
- IMAX technique invented
- Canada's new Divorce Act introduces no fault divorce
- The Rochdale College experiment begins in Toronto
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Arts and literature
New works
- Alice Munro - Dance of the Happy Shades
- 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
- Mordecai Richler - Cocksure
- 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
Poetry
- Mary Alice Downie and Barbara Robertson, editors, The Wind Has Wings, anthology of 77 Canadian poems for children (anthology)
- Dennis Lee, editor, T. O. Now, anthology of 13 "apprentice poets living in Toronto" (anthology)
- Joe Rosenblatt, Winter of the Luna Moon
- Irving Layton, The Shattered Plinths, 60 new poems
- Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
- Al Purdy, Wild Grape Wine
- Dorothy Livesay, The Documentaries, poems from the 1930s and 1940s, and including "Roots", a long poem
Awards
- 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.
- Stephen Leacock Award: Max Ferguson, And Now...Here's Max
- Vicky Metcalf Award: Lorraine McLaughlin
Theatre
- August 28 - Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs premiers in Montreal.
Art
- December 18 - Henry Moore donates hundreds of works to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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Sport
- March 10 - Alberta Golden Bears won their Second Memorial Cup be defeating the Loyola Warriors 5 to 4. The Final game was played at the Montreal Forum
- May 11 - Montreal Canadiens won their Fifteenth Stanley Cup by defeating the St. Louis Blues 4 games to 0. The deciding Game 4 was played at the Montreal Forum. Jean Beliveau wins his Second Conn Smythe Trophy
- May 27 - Montreal Expos are established as Major League Baseball's First Canadian team.
- November 22 - Queen's Golden Gaels won their First Vanier Cup by defeating the Waterloo Lutheran Golden Hawks by a score of 42-14 in the 4th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
- November 29 - Ottawa Rough Riders won their Sixth Grey Cup defeated the Calgary Stampeders 24 to 21 in the 56th Grey Cup played at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto
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Births
January to March
- January 5 - Joé Juneau, ice hockey player
- January 7 - Tara Croxford, field hockey player
- January 13 - Pat Onstad, international soccer player
- January 14 - Michael Meldrum, swimmer
- January 28 - Sarah McLachlan, musician, singer and songwriter
- February 1 - Mark Recchi, ice hockey player
- February 9 - Joel Brough, field hockey player
- February 22 - Shawn Graham, politician and 31st Premier of New Brunswick
- February 27 - Matt Stairs, baseball player
- March 17 - Patty Sullivan, television personality
- March 30 - Celine Dion, singer, songwriter and actress
April to June
- April 18 - David Hewlett, actor who was born in the United Kingdom before emigrating to Canada
- April 20 - Evan Solomon, writer, magazine publisher and television host
- May 8 - Louise Stratten, actress and younger sister of the murdered actress Dorothy Stratten
- May 12 - Jane Kerr, swimmer
- May 20 - William Irwin, boxer
- May 30 - Jason Kenney, politician and Minister
- June 7 - Macha Grenon, actress
- June 10 - Susan Haskell, actress
- June 16 - Lyne Poirier, judoka
- June 27 - Pascale Bussières, actress
- June 29 - Theoren Fleury, ice hockey player
July to September
- July 2 - Mark Tewksbury, swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
- July 11 - Michael Cram, actor and singer-songwriter
- July 22 - Harry Taylor, swimmer
- August 20 - Jody Holden, beach volleyball player
- September 19 - Shawn Doyle, actor
- September 20 - Leah Pinsent, actress
- September 22 - Lisa Alexander, synchronised swimmer
- September 23 - Donna McGinnis, swimmer
October to December
- October 2 - Sandy Goss, swimmer
- October 2 - Glen Wesley, ice hockey player
- October 26 - Tom Cavanagh, actor
- November 1 - Andrea Nugent, swimmer
- November 14 - Serge Postigo, actor
- November 19 - Gord Fraser, road racing cyclist
- November 25 - Jill Hennessy, actress and musician, and Jacqueline Hennessy, actress and journalist
- December 2 - Darren Ward, swimmer
- December 3 - Brendan Fraser, actor
- December 10 - Caroline Wittrin, hammer thrower
- December 17 - Paul Tracy, racing car driver
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Deaths
- January 31 - George Arthur Brethen, politician (b.1877)
- February 5 - Frances Loring, sculptor (b.1887)
- February 13 - Portia White, singer (b.1911)
- February 16 - Healey Willan, organist and composer (b.1880)
- February 17 - Ernest Charles Drury, politician, writer and 8th Premier of Ontario (b.1878)
- April 29 - Aubin-Edmond Arsenault, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1870)
- May 30 - Charles Gavan Power, politician, Minister and Senator (b.1888)
- June 14 - John B. McNair, lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (b.1889)
- August 1 - Maurice Spector, Chairman of the Communist Party of Canada (b.1898)
- September 26 - Daniel Johnson, Sr., politician and 20th Premier of Quebec (b.1915)
- December 15 - Antonio Barrette, politician and 18th Premier of Quebec (b.1899)
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See also
- 1968 in Canadian television
- List of Canadian films
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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