1965 in Canada in Encyclopedia

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 National Flag of Canada Day, 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 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
May 16 Cross Country Checkup debuts on radio
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)

Toronto City Hall opens

September 13 - The new Toronto City Hall is opened.^[1]
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.

Arts and literature

January 28
- St phane Bergeron, politician
- Tom Ponting, swimmer and double Olympic silver medalist
January 31 Ofra Harnoy, cellist
March 1 Stewart Elliott, jockey
March 7 - Alison Redford, politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta
March 15 Marcel Gery, swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist
March 23 Daren Puppa, ice hockey player

Peter MacKay attending the 45th Munich Security Conference

Christy Clark

September 27
- Bernard Lord, politician and 30th Premier of New Brunswick
- Peter MacKay, lawyer, politician and Minister

October 5
- Mario Lemieux, ice hockey player
- Patrick Roy, ice hockey player
October 23 David B dard, diver

Brad Wall on October 30, 2007

October 29 Christy Clark, politician and 35th and current Premier of British Columbia
November 5 Andrew Crosby, rower and Olympic gold medalist
November 20 John Graham, track and field athlete
November 21 Jon Kelly, swimmer
November 24 Brad Wall, politician and 14th Premier of Saskatchewan
November 27 Kathleen Heddle, rower and triple Olympic gold medalist
December 1 Jamie Pagendam, boxer
December 10 Jennifer Wyatt, golfer
December 18 Brian Walton, road and track cyclist and coach
December 29 - Manon Perreault, politician

January 17 Austin Claude Taylor, politician (b.1893)
April 1 Harry Crerar, General (b.1888)
June 7 John Stewart McDiarmid, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1882)
August 23 George Black, politician (b.1873)
August 28 Jacob Penner, politician (b.1880)
September 10 S. E. Rogers, politician (b.1888)