Events
- February 4: Defence Minister Douglas Harkness resigns after Prime Minister Diefenbaker refuses to accept nuclear weapons from the United States
- February 5: The Diefenbaker government collapses over the missile issue and an election is called
- March 1: Simon Fraser University is founded
- April 8: Federal election: Lester Pearson's Liberals win a minority, defeating John Diefenbaker's PCs
- April 9: Canadian Recording Industry Association is established
- April 20: The Front de libération du Québec sets off its first bombs in Quebec
- April 22: Lester Pearson becomes Prime Minister, replacing John Diefenbaker
- May 27: The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology opens
- June 17: Alberta general election, 1963: Ernest Manning's Alberta Social Credit Party wins an eighth consecutive majority
- July 22: The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism is announced
- September 21: Place des Arts opens in Montreal
- September 25: Ontario general election, 1963: John Robarts's PCs win a sixth consecutive majority
- November 29: 118 are killed in the Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crash near Ste-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec
- December 23: plans to build the National Arts Centre are approved
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