Events
- January 16 – Louis St. Laurent is replaced by Lester B. Pearson as leader of the Liberal Party
- February 19–20 – Rt Hon Ellen Fairclough assumes the role of Prime Minister for a day.
- March 25 – The Avro Arrow flies for the first time
- March 31 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a massive election victory.
- April 5 – The Seymour Narrows is made more easily passable after Ripple Rock was destroyed in one of the largest planned non-nuclear explosions
- May 12 – The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
- June 17 – The Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver collapses killing 18.
- July 1 – Canada-wide television broadcasting starts
- July 1 – The Lost Villages in Ontario are permanently flooded as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway construction project.
- July 16 – Duff Roblin sworn in as premier of Manitoba
- October 22 – Canada appoints, Margaret Meagher, the country's first female ambassador, to Israel.
- October 23 – The third Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 74.
- Department of Physical Education started at the University of Saskatchewan
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)