Arts and Literature
- July 1 - Joyce Wieland's "True Patriot Love" opens at the National Gallery of Canada. It is the Gallery's first solo exhibition devoted to the work of a living Canadian woman artist.
- August 15 - The first Banff Festival of the Arts opens.
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