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Canada-related events during the year of 1968
Events from the year 1968 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
January to June
July to December
Full date unknown
Arts and literature
New works
Poetry
Margaret Atwood – The Animals in That Country
Mary Alice Downie and
Barbara Robertson , editors, The Wind Has Wings , anthology of 77 Canadian poems for children (anthology)
Dennis Lee , editor, T. O. Now , anthology of 13 "apprentice poets living in Toronto" (anthology)
Joe Rosenblatt , Winter of the Luna Moon
Irving Layton , The Shattered Plinths , 60 new poems
Leonard Cohen , Selected Poems, 1956-1968
Al Purdy , Wild Grape Wine
Dorothy Livesay , The Documentaries , poems from the 1930s and 1940s, and including "Roots", a long poem
Awards
Theatre
Art
Sport
Births
Shawn Graham in 2007
January to March
January 1 –
Darren Greer , writer
January 5 –
Joé Juneau , ice hockey player
January 7 –
Tara Croxford , field hockey player
January 13 –
Pat Onstad , international soccer player
January 14 –
Michael Meldrum , swimmer
January 19 -
Matt Hill , voice actor
January 28 –
Sarah McLachlan , musician, singer and songwriter
February 1 –
Mark Recchi , ice hockey player
February 9 –
Joel Brough , field hockey player
February 22 –
Shawn Graham , politician and 31st
Premier of New Brunswick
February 27 –
Matt Stairs , baseball player
March 14 –
Megan Follows , Canadian-American actress
[5]
March 17 –
Patty Sullivan , television personality
March 30 –
Celine Dion , singer, songwriter and actress
[6]
April to June
April 12 –
Adam Graves , ice hockey player
April 18 –
David Hewlett , UK-born actor
April 20 –
Evan Solomon , writer, magazine publisher and television host
May 8 – Louise Stratten, actress and younger sister of the murdered actress
Dorothy Stratten
May 12 –
Jane Kerr , swimmer
May 14 –
Mary DePiero , diver
[7]
May 20 –
William Irwin , boxer
May 30 –
Jason Kenney , politician and Minister
June 1 –
Jeff Hackett , ice hockey player and coach
June 7 –
Macha Grenon , actress
June 10 –
Susan Haskell , actress
June 16 –
Lyne Poirier , judoka
June 27 –
Pascale Bussières , actress
June 29 –
Theoren Fleury , ice hockey player
[8]
July to September
July 2 –
Mark Tewksbury , swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
July 11 –
Michael Cram , actor and singer-songwriter
July 12 –
Paul Hopkins , actor
July 22 –
Harry Taylor , swimmer
July 23 –
Shawn Levy , director and producer
August 5 –
Terri Clark , country music singer
August 10 –
Greg Hawgood , ice hockey player
August 20 –
Jody Holden , beach volleyball player
September 9 –
Lisa Lougheed , singer and actress
September 19 –
Shawn Doyle , actor
September 20 –
Leah Pinsent , actress
September 22 –
Lisa Alexander , synchronised swimmer
September 23 –
Donna McGinnis , swimmer
October to December
October 2 –
Sandy Goss , swimmer
October 2 –
Glen Wesley , ice hockey player
October 26 –
Tom Cavanagh , actor
November 1 –
Andrea Nugent , swimmer
November 3 –
Debbie Rochon , actress
November 5 –
Terry McGurrin , actor, comedian and writer
November 14 –
Serge Postigo , actor
November 19 –
Gord Fraser , road racing cyclist
November 25 –
Jill Hennessy , actress and musician, and
Jacqueline Hennessy , actress and journalist
December 2 –
Darren Ward , swimmer
December 3 –
Brendan Fraser , actor
December 10 –
Caroline Wittrin , hammer thrower
December 17 –
Paul Tracy , racing car driver
Deaths
Ernest Charles Drury
January 31 –
George Arthur Brethen , politician (b.
1877 )
February 5 –
Frances Loring , sculptor (b.
1887 )
February 13 –
Portia White , singer (b.
1911 )
February 16 –
Healey Willan , organist and composer (b.
1880 )
February 17 –
Ernest Charles Drury , politician, writer and 8th
Premier of Ontario (b.
1878 )
March 10 -
William John Rose , historian
March 22 -
Margaret Duley , Newfoundland author
April 29 –
Aubin-Edmond Arsenault , politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island (b.
1870 )
May 30 –
Charles Gavan Power , politician, Minister and Senator (b.
1888 )
June 14 –
John B. McNair , lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of
New Brunswick (b.
1889 )
August 1 –
Maurice Spector , Chairman of the
Communist Party of Canada (b.
1898 )
August 14 -
Olivier Maurault , French-Canadian historian
August 21 –
Germaine Guèvremont , French-Canadian writer (b.
1893 )
[9]
September 26 –
Daniel Johnson, Sr. , politician and 20th
Premier of Quebec (b.
1915 )
December 15 –
Antonio Barrette , politician and 18th
Premier of Quebec (b.
1899 )
See also
References
^
"Queen Elizabeth II | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .
^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014).
Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 . Routledge. p. 143.
ISBN
978-1-134-26490-2 .
^
Idiot box channeling the Prime Ministers [
permanent dead link ]
^
"Pierre Elliott Trudeau." Prime Minister of Canada. August 26, 2013. Accessed April 8, 2015.
^ Hubbard, Linda S.; Steen, Sara; O'Donnell, Owen (1989).
Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television . Gale. p. 131.
ISBN
978-0-8103-2070-3 . Retrieved 17 March 2020 .
^
"Celine Dion | Biography, Songs, Awards, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 10 February 2020 .
^
"Mary DEPIERO - Olympic Diving | Canada" . International Olympic Committee . 17 June 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2019 .
^ Biographical information and career statistics from
^ Kuiper, Kathleen (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature . Springfield: Merriam-Webster. p. 498.
ISBN
978-0-87779-042-6 .
1968 in North America
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