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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Canadian Grand Prix 1978 | Formula One Art & Genius
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Events from the year 1978 in Canada.


Video 1978 in Canada



Incumbents

Crown

  • Head of state (monarch) - Queen Elizabeth II (consort - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)

Federal government

  • Governor general - Jules Léger (viceregal consort - Gabrielle Léger)
  • Prime minister - Pierre Trudeau
  • Chief Justice - Bora Laskin (Ontario)
  • Parliament - 30th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Alberta - Ralph Steinhauer
  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia - Walter Stewart Owen (until May 18) then Henry Pybus Bell-Irving
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba - Francis Lawrence Jobin
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick - Hédard Robichaud
  • Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland - Gordon Arnaud Winter
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - Clarence Gosse (until December 23) then John Elvin Shaffner
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario - Pauline Mills McGibbon
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island - Gordon Lockhart Bennett
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec - Hugues Lapointe (until April 27) then Jean-Pierre Côté
  • Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan - George Porteous (until February 6) then Irwin McIntosh (from February 22)

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed
  • Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett
  • Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon
  • Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield
  • Premier of Newfoundland - Frank Moores
  • Premier of Nova Scotia - Gerald Regan (until October 5) then John Buchanan
  • Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island - Alexander B. Campbell (until September 18) then Bennett Campbell
  • Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque
  • Premier of Saskatchewan - Allan Blakeney

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Commissioner of Yukon - Arthur MacDonald Pearson (until November 1) then Frank Fingland (interim)
  • Commissioner of Northwest Territories - Stuart Milton Hodgson

Premiers

  • Premier of Yukon - Chris Pearson (from November 20)

Maps 1978 in Canada



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

Full date unknown

  • 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
  • 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.

1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (small 2nd portrait) - Canada â€
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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
Nitzy's Hockey Den: 1978 Team Canada Juniors, Rare Photos
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Sport

  • March 19 - Alberta Golden Bears won their Fourth University Cup by defeating the Toronto Varsity Blues 6-5. The Final game was played at Moncton Coliseum
  • May 13 - New Westminster Bruins won the Second(consecutive) Memorial Cup by defeating the Peterborough Petes 7-4. The Final game was played at Sudbury Community Arena
  • May 22 - Winnipeg Jets won their second Avco Cup by defeating the New England Whalers 4 games to 0.
  • May 25 - Montreal Canadiens won their Twenty First (Third consecutive) Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2. Winchester, Ontario's Larry Robinson was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
  • July 15 - Commonwealth Stadium opens in Edmonton
  • August 3 to 12 - The Commonwealth Games are held in Edmonton
  • October 10 - Wayne Gretzky plays his First professional game for the Indianapolis Racers and would be traded to the Edmonton Oilers after 25 games
  • November 18 - Queen's Golden Gaels won their Second Vanier Cup by defeating the UBC Thunderbirds 16-3 in the 14th Vanier Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
  • November 26 - Edmonton Eskimos won their Fifth Grey Cup by defeating the Montreal Alouettes 20-13 in the 66th Grey Cup played at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. Hamilton, Ontario's Angelo Santucci was awarded the Game's Most Valuable Canadian

Grande Prêmio do Canadá 1978 (Canadian Grand Prix 1978) - YouTube
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Births

January to March

  • January 1 - Jean-Pierre Dumont, ice hockey player
  • January 3 - Daryn Jones, comedian and television and radio personality
  • January 27 - Pete Laforest, Canadian-American baseball player and manager
  • February 20 - Andrea Moody, swimmer
  • February 26 - Kyle Hamilton, rower, Olympic gold medalist and World Champion
  • March 9 - Chris Phillips, ice hockey player

April to June

  • April 6 - Thomas Herschmiller, rower, Olympic silver medalist and World Champion
  • April 18 - Alexis Mazurin, comedian and radio personality (d.2005)
  • April 26 - Tyler Labine, actor
  • May 3 - Autumn Kelly the wife of Peter Phillips
  • May 12 - Amy Sloan, actress
  • May 15 - Dwayne De Rosario, soccer player
  • May 15 - Caroline Dhavernas, actress
  • June 2 - Shane Niemi, sprint athlete
  • June 13 - Matt Bradley, ice hockey player
  • June 14 - Steve Bégin, ice hockey player
  • June 28 - Simon Larose, tennis player

July to December

  • July 4 - Marie Luc Arpin, water polo player
  • July 11 - Kathleen Edwards, singer-songwriter
  • July 15 - Kim Buker, field hockey player
  • July 22 - A. J. Cook, actress
  • August 4 - Karine Legault, swimmer
  • September 1 - Joe Stankevicius, rower and World Champion
  • September 5 - Laura Bertram, actress
  • September 6 - Amy Agulay, field hockey player
  • 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
  • October 17 - Erin Karpluk, actress
  • November 2 - Nelly Furtado, singer-songwriter, record producer and actress
  • November 16 - Steve Omischl, freestyle skier
  • November 17 - Rachel McAdams, actress
  • December 23 - Esthero, singer-songwriter

1 Dollar, Canada Dollar, 1978, Elizabeth II, XI Commonwealth Games ...
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Deaths

  • March 25 - Charles Alexander Best, politician (b.1931)
  • March 31 - Charles Best, medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin (b.1899)
  • April 13 - Jack Chambers, artist and filmmaker (b.1931)
  • July 18 - Claude P. Dettloff, photographer (b. 1899)
  • September 9 - Jack L. Warner, studio mogul (b.1892)
  • September 28 - Thane Campbell, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1895)
  • October 23 - Joe Greene, politician (b.1920)

Full date unknown

  • Carl Ray, artist (b.1943)

Ultra-rare! Triumph live at Canada Jam - Mosport Park - 1978 - YouTube
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See also

  • 1978 in Canadian television
  • List of Canadian films

1978 Canadian Penny Cent missing Queen error - YouTube
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References

Source of article : Wikipedia