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Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson
Events[]
February 10 – Wilbert Coffin is hanged
May 1 – The Trades and Labour Congress of Canada merges with the Canadian Congress of Labour to form the Canadian Labour Congress.
May 8 – The controversial bill to create the TransCanada pipeline is introduced in the House of Commons.
May 15 – A CF-100 crashes into a Grey Nuns convent outside of Ottawa killing fifteen.
June 20 – Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a fourth consecutive majority
September 30 – Winnipeg connects to TransCanada Telephone System's microwave radio relay via MTS, bringing same day programming from CBC Television.
November 1 – The second Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 39.
November 4 – Lester B. Pearson proposes a successful resolution to the Suez Crisis, this will win him a Nobel Peace Prize.
November 20 – Robert Stanfield becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Henry Hicks
December 9 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 (9), a Canadair Northstar, crashes on Slesse Mountain near Chilliwack during heavy weather. The plane carried five members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers and fans on their way home from an all-star game in Vancouver. Bodies were not found until the following late summer due to severe terrain and high altitude and unknown location of the crash. This was one of the worst civilian air disasters in the world at the time.
December 14 – John Diefenbaker is elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
March 15 - Whipper Billy Watson (William John Potts) becomes the first Canadian to hold the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship by defeating Lou Thesz in Toronto
April 10 - The Montreal Canadiens win their 8th Stanley Cup championship by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 1. The deciding Game 5 was played at the Montreal Forum
May 6 - The Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros won their third (and second consecutive) Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 4 games to 0 (with 1 tie). All games at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
November 24 - The Edmonton Eskimos win their third (consecutive) Grey Cup by defeating the Montreal Alouettes by the score of 50 to 27 in the 44th Grey Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
Arts and literature[]
New books[]
Milton Acorn – In Love and Anger
Pierre Berton – The Mysterious North
Max Aitken – Men and Power
Leonard Cohen – Let Us Compare Mythologies
Harold Innis – Essays in Canadian Economic History