1965 in Canada

"See also:"
1964 in Canada,
other events of 1965,
1966 in Canada and the
Timeline 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

* January 1: Trans-Canada Airlines is renamed Air Canada
* January 16: The Canada-United States Automotive Agreement is signed
* January 28: The Queen issues a royal proclamation, effective February 15, making the Maple Leaf flag the National Flag 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: 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 that calls for a stop to the bombing of North Vietnam, infuriating President Lyndon Johnson
* June 7: Navy, army, and air force commands are replaced by six functional commands
* 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 Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (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.
* November 29: "Alouette 2" is launched.
* Eligibility age for pensions is lowered from 70 to 65
* The new Toronto City Hall is opened

Arts 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 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 Ančerl replaces Seiji Ozawa as artistic director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Film
* Christopher Plummer stars as Captain von Trapp in the "The Sound of Music"
* William Shatner stars in "Incubus"

Births

* 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 cyclist

Deaths

* Dorothy Gish, actor