Events
- January 16 – Louis St. Laurent is replaced by Lester B. Pearson as leader of the Liberal Party
- February 19–20 – Rt Hon Ellen Fairclough assumes the role of Prime Minister for a day.
- March 25 – The Avro Arrow flies for the first time
- March 31 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a massive election victory.
- April 5 – The Seymour Narrows is made more easily passable after Ripple Rock was destroyed in one of the largest planned non-nuclear explosions
- May 12 – The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
- June 17 – The Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver collapses killing 18.
- July 1 – Canada-wide television broadcasting starts
- July 1 – The Lost Villages in Ontario are permanently flooded as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway construction project.
- July 16 – Duff Roblin sworn in as premier of Manitoba
- October 22 – Canada appoints, Margaret Meagher, the country's first female ambassador, to Israel.
- October 23 – The third Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 74.
- Department of Physical Education started at the University of Saskatchewan
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“At all events there is in Brooklyn
something that makes me feel at home.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden into history, it is the stories we didn’t write, the questions we didn’t ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)