1977 in Canada

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Arts and literature
4 Births
5 Deaths

Incumbents

Events

January 1: Canada's offshore exclusive economic zone is extended to 200 nautical miles (370 km).
February 6: René Lévesque is embroiled in scandal after he, while driving in a car with a woman who is not his wife, hits and kills a homeless man .
February 27: Royal Canadian Mounted Police raid Keith Richards's Toronto hotel suite while he is sleeping and seize 22 grams of heroin, 5 grams of cocaine, and narcotics paraphernalia.
February 28: Canadian passenger rail services are amalgamated into VIA Rail.
April 7: The Toronto Blue Jays play their first game, defeating the Chicago White Sox.
May 5: Willie Adams becomes the first Inuk to enter Parliament when he is appointed to the Senate.
May 9: The final report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry is released.
June: Queen Elizabeth II tours Canada as part of her Jubilee goodwill tour.
June 9: Ontario election: Bill Davis's PCs win a second consecutive minority.
August: Murder of Emanuel Jaques.
August 26: The Charter of the French Language is passed by the Parti Québécois.
September 3 to September 5: All Canadian road signs are converted to metric units.
October 18: Deliberations of the House of Commons are televised for the first time making Canada the first country to broadcast the complete proceedings of its national legislature.
November 21: Gerald Hannon's controversial article "Men Loving Boys Loving Men" is published in The Body Politic
November 24: Sterling Lyon becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Edward Schreyer.
The Eaton Centre opens in Toronto.
Prime Minister Trudeau separates from his wife Margaret Sinclair.
Quebec becomes the first jurisdiction (larger than a city or county) in the world to prohibit discrimination in the public and private sectors based on sexual orientation.

Arts and literature

New works

Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls
Elizabeth Smart: A Bonus
Timothy Findley: The Wars
Irving Layton: The Covenant
Roch Carrier: Il n'ya pas de pays sans grand-père
Gabrielle Roy: Ces Enfants de ma vie
Morley Callaghan: Close to the Sun Again
Antonine Maillet: La Veuve enragée
Mordecai Richler: Home Sweet Home
Marshall McLuhan: City as Classroom: Understanding Language and Media

Awards

See 1977 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Books in Canada First Novel Award: Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter
Stephen Leacock Award: Ray Guy, That Far Greater Bay
Vicky Metcalf Award: James Houston

Births

February 11: Stephanie Richardson, swimmer
March 13: Barney Williams, rower
March 27: Buffy-Lynne Williams, Olympic rower
March 28: Trevor Stewardson, boxer
May 4: Emily Perkins, actor
May 16: Jean-Sébastien Giguère, ice hockey goaltender
April 5: Zach Whitmarsh, track and field athlete
April 21: Jamie Salé, figure skater
April 26: Craig Adams, hockey player
June 12: Wade Redden, ice hockey player
June 27: Kristen Taunton, field hockey forward
July 1: Jarome Iginla, ice hockey player
August 1: Marc Denis, ice hockey goaltender
August 14: Tonya Verbeek, Olympic wrestler
August 15: Martin Biron, ice hockey goalie
August 24: Murray Grapentine, volleyball player
September 17: Kim Sarrazin, Olympic softballer
September 29: Wade Brookbank, ice hockey player
October 3: Kristy Odamura, Olympic softballer
October 6: Daniel Brière, ice hockey player
October 18: Paul Stalteri, soccer player
October 27: Erin White, Olympic softballer
October 29: Matt Higgins, ice hockey player
December 16: Éric Bélanger, ice hockey player
December 29: Christin Petelski, breaststroke swimmer

Deaths

January 24: Jack Bush, painter
February 17: Edward LeRoy Bowerman, politician
June 24: André-Gilles Fortin, politician
November 3: William Korelek, artist
November 5 : Guy Lombardo, bandleader
November 25: Tommy Prince, Second World War hero
Alfred Henry Bence, politician

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