1962 in Canada

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Events from the year 1962 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II (consort – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)

Federal government

Governor general – Georges Vanier (viceregal consort – Pauline Vanier)
Prime minister – John Diefenbaker

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Howard Collins (until May 1) then Gordon Robertson Cameron
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Robert Gordon Robertson

Events

March 21 – The birth-defect-causing drug thalidomide is banned
May 2 – The Canadian dollar is pegged to the U.S. currency
June 15 – Canada is the third power to reach space with the launch of scientific satellite
June 18 – In the 1962 Federal election John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is reduced to a minority government
July 1 – First medicare plan is launched in Saskatchewan to great protest by doctors
July 30 – Trans-Canada Highway opens
August 6 – A Premiers Conference is held in Victoria, British Columbia
September 1 – Place Ville Marie opens in Montreal
September 29 – Alouette 1, Canada's first satellite is launched.
October 25 – The Bedford Institute of Oceanography opens in Nova Scotia
October 25-November 12 – The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs. Diefenbaker refuses to put Canadian forces on alert, angering the U.S. government.
December 11 – The last three hangings in Canada take place.
The Globe and Mail adds the Report on Business section

Arts and literature

New books

Max Aitken – The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George
W. O. Mitchell – The Kite
Marshall McLuhan – The Gutenberg Galaxy
George Woodcock – Anarchism
Farley Mowat – The Black Joke
Thomas B. Costain – The Last Plantagenets

Awards

See 1962 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Stephen Leacock Award: W. O. Mitchell, Jake and the Kid

Television

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premieres on CBC

Theatre

The first Shaw Festival opens

Sport

December 1-December 2 – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers win the Grey Cup in the famous fog bowl.

Births

Unknown date

Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (2014-present)

January to June

January 17 – Jim Carrey, comedian and actor
January 22 – Kevin Lamoureux, politician
February 4 – Michael Riley, actor
February 23 – John Hatch, basketball player
February 27 – Susie Moloney, novelist
March 27 – Jann Arden, singer-songwriter
April 1 – John Wallace, rower and Olympic gold medallist
May 31 – Corey Hart, musician
June 23
- Chris Collins, politician
- Patrick Kelly, ice speed skater

July to December

July 7 – Ross Rutledge, field hockey player (died 2004)
July 12 – Camilla Scott, actress and television host
July 14 – Diane Ratnik, volleyball player
July 21 – Lee Aaron, rock and jazz singer
August 23 – Martin Cauchon, politician and Minister
August 27 – Adam Oates, ice hockey and lacrosse player
August 31 – Wanda Guenette, volleyball player
September 15 – Brad Willock, volleyball player
September 18 – John Mann, rock musician and actor
September 22 – Normand D'Amour, actor
September 24 – Nia Vardalos, actress, screenwriter and producer
September 28 – Grant Fuhr, ice hockey player
October 16 – Dan McTeague, politician
October 30 – Rex Harrington, ballet dancer
November 8 – Cliff Cullen, politician
November 12– Mark Hunter, ice hockey player, coach, and manager

Deaths

January 12 – James Garfield Gardiner, politician, Minister and Premier of Saskatchewan (born 1883)
January 24 – James Charles Brady, politician (born 1876)
March 3 – Cairine Wilson, Canada's first female Senator (born 1885)
August 20 – Joseph-Arsène Bonnier, politician (born 1879)
August 26 – Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer and ethnologist (born 1879)
October 23 – John Thomas Haig, politician (born 1877)
November 13 – Télesphore-Damien Bouchard, politician (born 1881)
November 21 – Frank Amyot, sprint canoer and Olympic gold medalist (born 1904)
December 8 – Allison Dysart, politician, lawyer, judge and 21st Premier of New Brunswick (born 1880)
December 22 – Solon Earl Low, politician (born 1900)

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