1965 in Canada

See also: 1964 in Canada, other events of 1965, 1966 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Arts and literature
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 Categories

Incumbents

Lester B. Pearson (photo from 1964) showing the new flag of Canada

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 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