1974 in Canada

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Events from the year 1974 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II (consort – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)

Federal government

• Governor general – Roland Michener (until January 14) then Jules Léger (viceregal consort – Norah Michener then Gabrielle Léger)
• Prime minister – Pierre Trudeau

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Grant MacEwan (until July 2) then Ralph Steinhauer
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Stewart Owen
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William John McKeag
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hédard Robichaud
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Ewart John Arlington Harnum (until July 2) then Gordon Arnaud Winter
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Clarence Gosse
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Ross Macdonald (until April 10) then Pauline Mills McGibbon
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – John George MacKay (until October 21) then Gordon Lockhart Bennett (from October 24)
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Hugues Lapointe
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Stephen Worobetz

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Peter Lougheed
• Premier of British Columbia – Dave Barrett
• Premier of Manitoba – Edward Schreyer
• Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield
• Premier of Newfoundland – Frank Moores
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Gerald Regan
• Premier of Ontario – Bill Davis
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alexander B. Campbell
• Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Allan Blakeney

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – James Smith
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Stuart Milton Hodgson

Events

• January 1 - The Canadian Stock Exchange merges with the Montreal Stock Exchange
• January 7 - Bora Laskin sworn in as Chief Justice of Canada
• January 14 - Jules Léger is sworn in as Governor General
• January 17 - Pauline McGibbon of Ontario becomes Canada's first female Lieutenant Governor of a province.
• January 26 - The Global Television network begins broadcasting
• May 23 - New Brunswick becomes the first province to be officially bilingual
• June 29 - Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects in Toronto
• July 2 - Ralph Steinhauer becomes the first Aboriginal person to be a Canadian 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 (370.4 km)
• 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 their plane is shot down by Syria
• September 17 - The RCMP decides to allow female members for the first time
• November 29 - An aircraft is hijacked over Saskatchewan. It is recovered in Saskatoon

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

• Bill Bissett - Living with the vishyun
• Irving Layton - The Pole-Vaulter
• Margaret Atwood - You Are Happy
• Alice Munro - Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
• Margaret Laurence - The Diviners

Awards

• See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Donald Jack, That's Me in the Middle
• Vicky Metcalf Award: Jean Little

Births

Robert Ghiz

January to March

• January 14 - Hugues Legault, swimmer
• January 19 - Diane Cummins, middle distance runner
• January 21 - Robert Ghiz, politician and 31st Premier of Prince Edward Island
• January 23 - Joel Bouchard, ice hockey player
• January 25 - Robert Budreau, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• February 6 - Layne Roland, ice hockey player
• February 7 - Steve Nash, basketball player
• March 20 - Kevin Sullivan, runner and coach

April to June

• April 11 - Tricia Helfer, model and actress
• April 26 - Jacinthe Pineau, swimmer
• May 9 - Stéphane Yelle, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 10 - Jon Beare, rower and Olympic bronze medalist
• May 16 - Yannick Keith Lizé, water polo player and scientist
• May 18 - Chantal Kreviazuk, singer-songwriter
• May 18 - Carolyn Russell, squash player
• June 1 - Alanis Morissette, singer-songwriter, record producer and actress
• June 6 - Anson Carter, ice hockey player
• June 9 - Jackie Lance, softball player

July to September

• July 6 - Steve Sullivan, ice hockey player
• July 7 - Patrick Lalime, ice hockey player
• July 13 - Deborah Cox, singer-songwriter and actress
• August 9 - Mara Jones, rower
• August 15 - Natasha Henstridge, actress and model
• September 8 - Becky Price, field hockey player
• September 18 - Nicole Haynes, heptathlete
• September 28 - Alison Parrott, murder victim (d. 1986)

October to December

• October 6 - Madonna Gimotea, rhythmic gymnast
• October 10 - Chris Pronger, ice hockey player
• October 11 - Jason Arnott, ice hockey player
• October 16 - Paul Kariya, ice hockey player
• October 22 - Paul Duerden, volleyball player
• November 4 - Amy MacFarlane, field hockey player
• November 21 - Casey Patton, boxer
• November 25 - David Cadieux, boxer

Deaths

• February 21 - Tim Horton, ice hockey player and businessman (b.1930)
• April 2 - Douglass Dumbrille, actor (b.1889)
• April 5 - A. Y. Jackson, painter, one of the Group of Seven (b.1882)
• April 8 - James Charles McGuigan, Cardinal (b.1894)
• August 25 - Major James Coldwell, politician (b.1888)