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Incumbents

• Prime Minister - Lester B. Pearson
• Governor General - Georges Vanier

• Premier of Alberta - Ernest Manning
• Premier of British Columbia - W.A.C. Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba - Duff Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick - Louis Robichaud
• Premier of Newfoundland - Joey Smallwood
• Premier of Nova Scotia - Robert Stanfield
• Premier of Ontario - John Robarts
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - Walter Shaw
• Premier of Quebec - Jean Lesage
• Premier of Saskatchewan - W. Ross Thatcher

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Events

• January 1 - Trans-Canada Airlines is renamed Air Canada
• January 16 - The Canada-United States Automotive Agreement is signed
• January 28 - The Queen issues a royal proclamation, effective February 15, making the Maple Leaf flag the National Flag of Canada.
• February 15 - Marked by ceremonies across the Dominion, the Maple Leaf becomes the National Flag.
• March 2 - Lucien Rivard escapes from a Montreal area jail
• March 7 - Canadian Roman Catholic churches celebrate mass in the vernacular for the first time due to the reforms of Vatican II
• March 11 - The NHL admits six new teams and doubles in size.
• March 20 - Peter Lougheed is elected leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party
• April 2 - Lester Pearson gives a speech at Temple University in the United States which called for a stop to the bombing of North Vietnam, infuriating President Lyndon Johnson
• July 8 - A crash of a Canadian Pacific Airlines flight in British Columbia kills 52.
• July 9 - The Hope Slide, the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada, kills four
• September 9 - The Fowler Report is released. It advocates creation of the CRTC
• October 13 - The Canadian Film Development Agency is formed
• November 8 - Federal election: Lester Pearson's Liberals win a second consecutive minority
• November 9 - A failure at an Ontario power station causes the 1965 Blackout that stretches from Florida to Chicago and all of southern Ontario.
• November 29 - Alouette 2 is launched.
• Eligibility age for pensions is lowered from 70 to 65
• The new Toronto City Hall is opened

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Arts and literature

New Books

• George Grant - Lament for a Nation
• John Newlove - Moving in Alone
• Robert Kroetsch - Moving in Alone
• Farley Mowat - West Viking
• Gilles Archambault - La vie à trois

Awards

• Gordon R. Dickson's Soldier, Ask Not wins a Hugo Award
• See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Gregory Clark, War Stories
• Vicky Metcalf Award: Roderick Haig-Brown

Music

Karel Ančerl replaces Seiji Ozawa as artistic director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra The George Grant Reader. ... John Newlove (June 13, 1938 - December 23, 2003) was a Canadian poet who lived in Ottawa, Ontario for several years before his death. ... Robert Kroetsch (born June 26, 1927) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and non-fiction writer. ... Farley Mowat O.C. (born May 12, 1921) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author. ... Gilles Archambault (September 19, 1933 - ) is a Canadian/Québécois novelist born in Montreal, Quebec. ... Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 - January 31, 2001) was a Canadian science fiction author. ... The Hugo Award is given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy stories of the previous year, and for related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation. ... Each winner of the 1965 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. ... The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour (usually the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour or just the Stephen Leacock Award) is an annual award presented to the best work of humorous literature written in English by a Canadian. ... The Vicky Metcalf Award is awarded to a writer whose body of work has been inspirational to Canadian youth. ... Alan Roderick Haig-Brown (born 1941) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer who lives in New Westminster, British Columbia. ... Photograph of Karel Ančerl. ... Seiji Ozawa (born September 1, 1935) is a Japanese conductor. ... The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is a leading Canadian orchestra. ...

Film

• Christopher Plummer stars as Captain von Trapp in the Sound of Music
• William Shatner stars in Incubus

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Births

• January 21 - Brian Bradley, hockey player
• January 24 - Ross MacDonald, Olympic sailor
• January 28 - Stéphane Bergeron, politician
• January 31 - Ofra Harnoy, cellist
• March 1 - Stewart Elliott, jockey
• March 23 - Daren Puppa, hockey goalie
• April 21 - Ed Belfour, hockey goaltender
• May 9 - Steve Yzerman, ice hockey player
• May 10 - Linda Evangelista, model
• May 19 - James Bezan, politician
• August 11 - Marc Bergevin, hockey player
• August 28 - Shania Twain, singer and songwriter
• September 27 - Bernard Lord, Premier of New Brunswick
• September 27 - Peter MacKay, Tory leader
• October 5 - Mario Lemieux, ice hockey player
• October 5 - Patrick Roy, ice hockey player
• October 29 - Christy Clark, politician
• December 10 - Jennifer Wyatt, golfer

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Deaths

• Dorothy Gish, actor