Events
- February 10 – Wilbert Coffin is hanged
- May 1 – The Trades and Labour Congress of Canada merges with the Canadian Congress of Labour to form the Canadian Labour Congress.
- May 8 – The controversial bill to create the TransCanada pipeline is introduced in the House of Commons.
- May 15 – A CF-100 crashes into a Grey Nuns convent outside of Ottawa killing fifteen.
- June 20 – Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a fourth consecutive majority
- September 30 – Winnipeg connects to TransCanada Telephone System's microwave radio relay via MTS, bringing same day programming from CBC Television.
- November 1 – The second Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 39.
- November 4 – Lester B. Pearson proposes a successful resolution to the Suez Crisis, this will win him a Nobel Peace Prize.
- November 20 – Robert Stanfield becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Henry Hicks
- December 9 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 (9), a Canadair Northstar, crashes on Slesse Mountain near Chilliwack during heavy weather. The plane carried the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers and fans on the their way home from a game in Vancouver. Bodies were not found until the following late summer due to severe terrain and high altitude and unknown location of the crash. This was one of the worst civilian air disasters in the world at the time.
- December 14 – John Diefenbaker is elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
- René Lévesque begins hosting Point de Mire
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“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“At all events there is in Brooklyn
something that makes me feel at home.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)