1979 in Canada
See also: 1978 in Canada, other events of 1979, 1980 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
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Events
- March 14 - Alberta election: Peter Lougheed's PCs win a third consecutive majority
- March 26 - Brian Peckford becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Frank Moores
- May 3 - Angus MacLean becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Bennett Campbell
- May 22 - Canadians go to the polls in the 1979 Canadian election. They defeat Pierre Trudeau's Liberals and elect Joe Clark's Tories, but only with a minority
- June 4 - Joe Clark becomes Canada's sixteenth, and youngest ever, prime minister
- September 5 - Canada's first gold bullion coin goes on sale
- November 10 - a train carrying chemicals derails in Mississauga, Ontario and hundreds of thousands have to be evacuated
- December 13 - Supreme Court delcares Quebec and Manitoba's provincial legislatures to be unconstitutional because of their use of only one language.
- Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup defeating the New York Rangers 4 games to 1.
- Lorne Michaels starts Broadway Video a company that goes on to produce shows like The Kids in the Hall
- Brian Peckford replaces Frank D. Moores as premier of Newfoundland
- Chris Haney and Scott Abbott invent Trivial Pursuit
- Antonine Maillet wins the French Prix Goncourt for her novel Pélagie-la-Charette
Births
Deaths
- February 23 - W.A.C. Bennett, former premier of British Columbia
- May 29 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder
- August 16 - former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
- December 19 - Donald Creighton, historian