1974 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Events
  • January 1
  • January 6 – Global Television becomes Canada's third English-language television network when it begins broadcasting in southern Ontario.[6]
  • January 7 – Bora Laskin is sworn in as the 14th chief justice of Canada to replace the retiring Gérald Fauteux. In appointing Laskin, Prime Minister Trudeau breaks with tradition by passing over the more senior justice, Ronald Martland.[7]
  • January 14 – Jules Léger is sworn in as the 21st governor general of Canada, succeeding the retiring Roland Michener.[8]
  • January 15 – The Knight Street Bridge opens, joining Vancouver and Richmond, British Columbia.[9]
  • January 17 – Pauline McGibbon of Ontario becomes the first female lieutenant governor of a province.
  • March 13 – A treaty between Canada and Denmark is ratified, establishing the maritime border between Ellesmere Island (Canada) and Greenland (Denmark). Measuring approximately 1,449.4 nautical miles (2,684.3 km; 1,667.9 mi), it is the longest negotiated international continental shelf boundary. However, the boundary line has a gap around Hans Island, with both nations claiming sovereignty.[10][11][12]
  • April 3 – A tornado strikes Windsor, Ontario, killing 9 people. The tornado was part of the 1974 Super Outbreak.
  • May 23
    • New Brunswick becomes the first province to be officially bilingual.
    • The RCMP accepts applications from women for regular police duties for the first time. The first 32 women formed Troop 17, were sworn in on September 16, 1974, and graduated on March 3, 1975. Beverly Busson, a member of Troop 17, became the first female RCMP commissioner on December 16, 2006.[13][14][15]
  • June 29 – Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects in Toronto.
  • July 2 – Ralph Steinhauer becomes the first Aboriginal person to be a lieutenant governor when he is appointed lieutenant governor of Alberta.
  • July 3 – Canada first demands that its territorial waters be extended to 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi).
  • Vote of no-confidence in parliament forces election.
  • July 8 – Federal election: Pierre Trudeau's Liberals win a majority.
  • July 31 – Bill 22 is passed making French the official language of government and business in Quebec.
  • August 1 – The Elections Act is passed, limiting campaign contributions.
  • August 9 – Nine Canadians are killed when Buffalo 461 is shot down during a peacekeeping mission in Syria.
  • November 29 – An aircraft is hijacked over Saskatchewan. It is recovered in Saskatoon.[16]

Full date unknown
  • Dorothea Crittenden of Ontario becomes Canada's first female deputy minister, Ministry of Community & Social Services.
  • Paul Joseph Martin made president of Canada Steamship Lines.
  • The Waffle disbands.
  • The report of the Le Dain Commission argues marijuana should be decriminalized.
  • Robert Cliche chairs a Royal Commission investigating corruption in Quebec's construction industry. Brian Mulroney, later to become prime minister, first comes to national attention as a panelist on the commission.

Arts and literature

New works

Awards

Sport

Births
Robert Ghiz

January to March

April to June

July to September

October to December

Deaths

See also

References
  1. "History of the RCMP: Former RCMP Commissioners". Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  2. "The sovereign state of RCMP?". Maclean's. May 31, 1976. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  3. "Montreal stocks". Ottawa Citizen. The Canadian Press. January 2, 1974. p. 8. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
  4. "Canadian Stock Exchange". TERMIUM Plus - Government of Canada. October 8, 1991. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
  5. "45th Anniversary of Woodsworth College". University of Toronto: Woodsworth College. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  6. "Third network: Global stations start schedule". Ottawa Citizen. The Canadian Press. January 7, 1974. p. 18. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019 – via Google News Archive Search.
  7. "Laskin to media: Pay attention to judgements". Ottawa Citizen. The Canadian Press. January 8, 1974. p. 16. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019 – via Google News Archive Search.
  8. "Make way for the Governor-General". Ottawa Citizen. January 15, 1974. p. 1. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019 – via Google News Archive Search.
  9. "The History of Metropolitan Vancouver: 1974 Chronology".
  10. "Agreement relating to the delimitation of the continental shelf between Greenland and Canada (with annexes); signed December 17, 1973; United Nations Treaty Series 13550" (PDF). United Nations. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  11. "Limits in the Seas No. 72 - Continental Shelf Boundary - Canada--Greenland" (PDF). United States Department of State. August 4, 1976. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  12. Frizzell, Sara (May 28, 2018). "Truce? Canada, Greenland, Denmark inch closer to settling decades-old spat over Hans Island". CBC News. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  13. "Women graduating from the RCMP Academy since 1975". Royal Canadian Mounted Police. March 8, 2017. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  14. "Trials and training: life at Depot for Troop 17". Royal Canadian Mounted Police. September 22, 2014. Archived from the original on July 14, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  15. "Beverley Busson to head RCMP". Vancouver Sun. Canwest News Service. December 16, 2006. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  16. Ernst, Ric (November 28, 2014). "Forty years ago Saskatoon got its first — and so far only — hijacked airplane". National Post. Postmedia Network. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
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