1965 in Canada
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See also: 1964 in Canada, other events of 1965, 1966 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.
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Incumbents
- Premier of Alberta - Ernest Manning
- Premier of British Columbia - W.A.C. Bennett
- Premier of Manitoba - Duff Roblin
- Premier of New Brunswick - Louis Robichaud
- Premier of Newfoundland - Joey Smallwood
- Premier of Nova Scotia - Robert Stanfield
- Premier of Ontario - John Robarts
- Premier of Prince Edward Island - Walter Shaw
- Premier of Quebec - Jean Lesage
- Premier of Saskatchewan - W. Ross Thatcher
Events
- January 1 - Trans-Canada Airlines is renamed Air Canada
- January 16 - The Canada-US Autopact is signed
- February 15 - The Maple Leaf becomes the National Flag of Canada.
- March 2 - Lucien Rivard escapes from a Montreal area jail
- March 7 - Canadian Roman Catholic churches celebrate mass in the vernacular for the first time due to the reforms of Vatican II
- March 11 - The NHL admits six new teams and doubles in size.
- March 20 - Peter Lougheed is elected leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party
- April 2 - Lester Pearson gives a speech at Temple University in the United States which called for a stop to the bombing of North Vietnam, infuriating President Lyndon Johnson
- July 8 - A crash of a Canadian Pacific Airlines flight in British Columbia kills 52.
- July 9 - The Hope Slide, the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada, kills four
- September 9 - The Fowler Report is released. It advocates creation of the CRTC
- October 13 - The Canadian Film Development Agency is formed
- November 8 - Federal election: Lester Pearson's Liberals win a second consecutive minority
- November 9 - A failure at an Ontario power station causes the 1965 Blackout that stretches from Florida to Chicago and all of southern Ontario.
- November 29 - Alouette 2 is launched.
- Eligibility age for pensions is lowered from 70 to 65
- The new Toronto City Hall is opened
Arts and literature
- New Books
- George Grant - Lament for a Nation
- John Newlove - Moving in Alone
- Robert Kroetsch - Moving in Alone
- Farley Mowat - West Viking
- Gilles Archambault - La vie à trois
- Awards
- Gordon R. Dickson's Soldier, Ask Not wins a Hugo Award
- See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Stephen Leacock Award: Gregory Clark, War Stories
- Vicky Metcalf Award: Roderick Haig-Brown
- Music
Karel Ancerl replaces Seiji Ozama as artistic director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- Film
- Christopher Plummer stars as Captain von Trapp in the Sound of Music
- William Shatner stars in Incubus
Births
- January 21 - Brian Bradley, hockey player
- January 24 - Ross MacDonald, Olympic sailor
- January 28 - Stéphane Bergeron, politician
- January 31 - Ofra Harnoy, cellist
- March 1 - Stewart Elliott, jockey
- March 23 - Daren Puppa, hockey goalie
- April 21 - Ed Belfour, hockey goaltender
- May 9 - Steve Yzerman, ice hockey player
- May 10 - Linda Evangelista, model
- May 19 - James Bezan, politician
- August 11 - Marc Bergevin, hockey player
- August 28 - Shania Twain, singer and songwriter
- September 27 - Bernard Lord, Premier of New Brunswick
- September 27 - Peter MacKay, Tory leader
- October 5 - Mario Lemieux, ice hockey player
- October 5 - Patrick Roy, ice hockey player
- October 29 - Christy Clark, politician
- December 10 - Jennifer Wyatt, golfer
Deaths
- Dorothy Gish, actor