1977 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

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.

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  • The Eaton Centre opens in Toronto.
  • Prime Minister Trudeau separates from his wife Margaret Sinclair.
  • Quebec becomes the first jurisdiction (larger than a city or county) in the world to prohibit discrimination in the public and private sectors based on sexual orientation.
  • Etobicoke introduces the Reduce Impaired Driving in Etobicoke programme which, eventually, spreads across the province as Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere.

Arts and literature

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Awards

Sport

Births

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April to June

July to September

October to December

Deaths

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See also

References
  1. "Jacinthe TAILLON - Olympic Synchronized Swimming | Canada". International Olympic Committee. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
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