Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index See also: 1963 in Canada, other events of 1964, 1965 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Arts and Literature 3 Births 4 Deaths Events April - Canadians are issued Social Insurance cards for the first time April 22 - Saskatchewan election: Ross Thatcher's Liberals win a majority, defeating Woodrow Lloyd's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation March 13 - Canada begins a decades long peacekeeping mission in Cyprus March 23 - George Stanley first describes the proposal for Canada's new flag that is eventually accepted May 2 - Northern Dancer wins the Kentucky Derby May 22 - W. Ross Thatcher is sworn in as Premier of Saskatchewan July 16 - Canada extends its exclusive fishing zone to 12 miles off-shore Summer - At the Olympic Games held in Tokyo, Japan Canada wins only a single Gold Medal October 5 - Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip begin an eight-day visit to Canada. November 30 - John Diefenbaker launches a fillibuster to try to prevent the introduction of a new Canadian flag December 16 - Bill creating the new Flag of Canada passed in the House of Commons after much controversy Canada pulls its peacekeepers out of Zaire Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs win 4-3 over the Detroit Red Wings Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions win 34-24 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Glenn Gould gives up doing live performances Governor General George Vanier hosts the "Canadian Conference of the Family" Innis College founded at the University of Toronto Arts and Literature New Books Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man - Marshall McLuhan The Circle Game - Margaret Atwood The Laughing Rooster - Irving Layton Flowers for Hitler - Leonard Cohen Awards See 1964 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Stephen Leacock Award: Harry J. Boyle, Homebrew and Patches Clarke Irwin Vicky Metcalf Award: John F. Hayes Televison October 4 - Controversial news show This Hour Has Seven Days premiers on CBC Births January 10 - Brad Roberts, musician, Crash Test Dummies January 31 - Sylvie Bernier, Olympic diver August 17 - Colin James, musician September 2 - Keanu Reeves, actor Diana Krall - Jazz musician Gary Barwin - author Gloria Reuben - actor Paul Bernardo - murderer Deaths June 9 - Lord Beaverbrook, business tycoon This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.