Events
- January 1: The Canada Pension Plan and the Quebec Pension Plan both begin operation
- February 25: Toronto Transit Commission inaugurates the Bloor-Danforth Subway line.
- March 4: The Munsinger Affair is Canada's first major political sex scandal
- May 1: Army camps, RCAF stations, and the RCN's land-based installations become Canadian Forces bases. Training schools and the pay system are unified.
- May 18: Paul Joseph Chartier is killed when a bomb he is carrying goes off on Parliament Hill
- June 5: The Union Nationale under Daniel Johnson, Sr. is elected in Quebec.
- June 16: Daniel Johnson, Sr., becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Jean Lesage
- July 28: Alexander B. Campbell becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Walter Shaw
- September 1: The CBC becomes the first Canadian television network to broadcast in colour, followed within days by the private-sector CTV Television Network.
- October 14: Montreal inaugurates its metro system (see Montreal Metro).
- October 17: The Montreal Metro opens
- November 4: Bill C-243, The Canadian Forces Reorganization Act, is introduced in Parliament.
- December 31: The Centennial Flame in front of Parliament Hill is lit
- The Revolutionary Strategy and the Role of the Avant-Garde outlining the strategy of the FLQ is written.
- The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is established.
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“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
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“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
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