1977 in Canada

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Events from the year 1977 in Canada.

Incumbents

Events

• January 1 - Canada's offshore exclusive economic zone is extended to 200 nautical miles (370 km).
• February 6 - René Lévesque is embroiled in scandal after he, while driving in a car with a woman who is not his wife, hits and kills a homeless man.
• February 27 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police raid Keith Richards's Toronto hotel suite while he is sleeping and seize 22 grams of heroin, 5 grams of cocaine, and narcotics paraphernalia.
• February 28 - Canadian passenger rail services are amalgamated into Via Rail.
• May 5 - Willie Adams becomes the first Inuk to enter Parliament when he is appointed to the Senate.
• May 9 - The final report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry is released.
• June: Elizabeth II tours Canada as part of her Silver Jubilee goodwill tour.
• June 9 - Ontario election: Bill Davis's PCs win a second consecutive minority.
• July 28 – Emanuel Jaques, 12, is abducted after being lured into an apartment building under false pretenses on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. His strangled body is found several days later under a pile of wood on the building's rooftop. Four men are apprehended for the crime.
• August 26 - The Charter of the French Language is passed by the Parti Québécois.
• September 3 - September 5 - All Canadian road signs are converted to metric units.
• October 18 - Deliberations of the House of Commons are televised for the first time making Canada the first country to broadcast the complete proceedings of its national legislature.
• November 21 - Gerald Hannon's controversial article "Men Loving Boys Loving Men" is published in The Body Politic
• November 24 - Sterling Lyon becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Edward Schreyer.

Arts and literature

Sport

• March 13 – The Toronto Varsity Blues win their eighth University Cup by defeating the Alberta Golden Bears 4–1. The final game was played at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton
• April 7 – The Toronto Blue Jays become Major League Baseball's second Canadian team, when they defeat the Chicago White Sox in a game played at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto
• May 14 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 20th Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 4 games to 0. Thurso, Quebec's Guy Lafleur was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
• May 14 – The New Westminster Bruins win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Ottawa 67's 6 to 5. The final game was played Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver
• May 26 – The Quebec Nordiques win their first Avco Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Jets 4 games to 3. The deciding Game 7 was played at the Colisée de Québec
• July 16 – Gilles Villeneuve makes his Formula One debut, with Team McLaren, at the British Grand Prix. He is the first Canadian driver in the top formula.
• November 19 – The Western Ontario Mustangs win their fourth (second consecutive) Vanier Cup by defeating the Acadia Axemen 48–15 in the 13th Vanier Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
• November 27 – The Montreal Alouettes win their fourth Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Eskimos in a game played at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. Vancouver's Don Sweet won his second Most Valuable Canadian award and London, Ontario's Glen Weir won the games Defensive MVP award.

Births

Deaths

• January 24 - Jack Bush, painter (b.1909)
• February 17 - Edward LeRoy Bowerman, politician (b.1892)
• March 14 - Benjamin Chee Chee, artist (b.1944)
• May 5 - Stuart Garson, politician, Minister and 12th Premier of Manitoba (b.1898)
• June 24 - André-Gilles Fortin, politician (b.1943)
• July 3 - Hugh Le Caine, physicist, composer and instrument builder (b.1914)
• August - Emanuel Jaques, murder victim (b.1965)
• August 14 - Wilfred Curtis, Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (b.1893)
• November 3 - William Kurelek, artist and writer (b.1927)
• November 5 - Guy Lombardo, bandleader and violinist (b.1902)
• November 25 - Tommy Prince, one of Canada's most decorated First Nations soldiers (b.1915)

See also

• 1977 in Canadian television
• List of Canadian films

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