1978 in Canada

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

Incumbents

Events

January 24: Cosmos 954 a Soviet satellite breaks up over northern Canada.
June 26: Air Canada DC-9 overruns runway in Toronto, 2 people die.
August 4: 41 are killed when a bus plunges into a lake near Eastman, Quebec.
September 15: The Sudbury Strike of 1978 begins.
September 18: Bennett Campbell becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Alexander B. Campbell
October 5: John MacLennan Buchanan becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Gerald Regan
October 16: Fifteen federal by-elections are held across the country. The governing Liberals lose five seats, which leads to a general election the following May.
October 18: Saskatchewan election: Allan Blakeney's NDP win a third consecutive majority
Supreme Court of Canada declares unilingual legislatures and courts unconstitutional
Chris Pearson becomes government leader of Yukon as responsible government is instituted
Under the new immigration act homosexuals are no longer an inadmissible class
VIA Rail is established
The Commonwealth Games are held in Edmonton, Alberta
Despite accusations of marital infidelity, Colin Thatcher, who would later become famous for his involvement in the murder of his ex-wife, is re-elected to the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly.
The CBC became the first broadcaster in the world to use an orbiting satellite for television service, linking Canada “from east to west to north.”

Arts and literature

New Works

Margaret Atwood: Up in the Tree
Mordecai Richler: The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays
John Newlove: The Fat Man: Selected Poems (1962–1972)
John Gray and Eric Peterson: Billy Bishop Goes to War
Henry Beissel: Goya

Awards

Alice Munro's Who Do You Think You Are? is nominated for the Booker Prize
See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Stephen Leacock Award: Ernest Buckler, Whirligig
Vicky Metcalf Award: Lyn Cook

Births

January 3 — Daryn Jones, actor
February 20 — Andrea Moody, freestyle swimmer
February 26 — Kyle Hamilton, Olympic rower
March 9 — Chris Phillips, ice hockey player
April 6 — Thomas Herschmiller, Olympic rower
April 26 — Tyler Labine, actor
May 12 — Amy Sloan, actress
May 15 — Dwayne De Rosario, soccer player
May 15 — Caroline Dhavernas, actress
June 2 — Shane Niemi, track and field athlete
June 13 — Matt Bradley, ice hockey player
June 14 — Steve Bégin, ice hockey player
July 4 — Marie Luc Arpin, water polo player
July 15 — Kim Buker, field hockey player
July 22 — A. J. Cook, actor
June 28 — Simon Larose, tennis player
September 1 — Joe Stankevicius, Olympic rower
September 5 — Laura Bertram, actor
September 6 — Amy Agulay, field hockey international
September 7 — Matt Cooke, ice hockey player
September 7 — Devon Sawa, actor
September 20 — Jason Bay, baseball player
September 21 — Paulo Costanzo, actor
September 22 — Steve Moore, ice hockey player
December 2 — Nelly Furtado, singer
December 23 — Esthero, musician
Rebecca Blaikie, politician

Deaths

March 25: Charles Alexander Best, politician
March 31: Charles Best, co-discoverer of insulin
April 13: Jack Chambers, artist
September 9: Jack Warner, studio mogul

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