Sport
- February 16 - Police recover the Grey Cup after it was stolen the previous December.
- April 5 - Bobby Orr becomes the first National Hockey League (NHL) defencemen to win the scoring title.
- May 2 - Montreal is awarded the 1976 Summer Olympics.
- May 22 - The Vancouver Canucks join the National Hockey League.
- The first Arctic Winter Games commence in Yellowknife.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)