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Canada-related events during the year of 1970
Events from the year 1970 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
January to June
July to December
July 5 - 109 people are killed in the crash of an DC-8
.
August 2 - Three Canadians are killed when a ferry collides with a Soviet freighter off British Columbia
August 17 - Arthur Erickson is awarded[clarification needed ] at Expo '70 for his design of the Canadian pavilion
August 20 - The Sudbury, Ontario tornado event, with winds up to 100 miles per hour, hits
Sudbury and
Field ,
Ontario .
[3] It was one of the worst tornadoes in Canadian history — killing six people, injuring 200, and causing
C$ 17 million dollars in
property damage .
September 27 - TVOntario
begins broadcasting
October - Canada establishes People's Republic of China.
[4]
October 5 - FLQ
.
October 5 - Award-winning news & current affairs program, 24Hours starts on CBWT
in Winnipeg.
October 10 - October Crisis: Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by FLQ.
October 13 - Canada and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.
October 16 - October Crisis: Pierre Trudeau introduces the War Measures Act to deal with the FLQ threat. Trudeau also addresses the nation in a televised speech explaining why he invoked the War Measures Act .[5]
October 17 - October Crisis: The body of Pierre Laporte is found in the trunk of a car.
October 28 - .
November 6 - Police raid the hiding place of the FLQ's Chenier cell, arresting Bernard Lortie for the kidnapping and murder of Pierre Laporte.
November 12 - Richard Hatfield becomes Premier of New Brunswick after his Conservatives defeat Louis Robichaud 's Liberals in the 1970 election .
December 3 - October Crisis: James Cross is released unharmed by FLQ
December 28 - October Crisis: The FLQ kidnappers of Pierre Laporte are caught.
Full date unknown
Arts and literature
New books
New plays
Awards
Film
Music
June 23 - The first are held.
Sport
The Vancouver Canucks joined the National Hockey League on May 22
Births
January to March
January 6 - David Saint-Jacques , astronaut
January 19 - Donald Haddow , swimmer
January 24 - Lynn Coady , novelist and journalist
February 18 - Raine Maida , singer and songwriter
February 22 – Nicole Oliver , actress, voice actress, and singer
February 23 - Marie-Josée Croze , actress
March 5 - Paul Whelan , detainee in Russia
March 18 - Ian Bird , field hockey player
March 20 - Andrew Kishino , actor, voice actor, and rapper
April to June
Naomi Klein
April 8 - J. R. Bourne
, actor
April 11 - Trevor Linden , ice hockey player
May 3 - Marie-Soleil Tougas , Quebec actress and TV host (d. 1997 )
May 4
May 6 - Kavan Smith , actor
May 8 - Naomi Klein , author and activist[6]
May 11 - Heather Stefanson , politician
May 12 - Mike Weir , golfer
May 19
May 20 - Jason York , ice hockey player
June 2 - Patricia Noall , swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist
June 3 - Julie Masse , pop singer
June 4 - Donald Farley , cross-country skier (d. 2016 )
June 12 - Gordon Michael Woolvett , actor
June 23 - Kerri Buchberger , volleyball player
July to September
Chris Jericho
October to December
October 5 - Tina Poitras , race walker
October 8 - Heather Jones , field hockey player
November 9 - Chris Jericho , wrestler, actor, author, radio and television host and rock musician
November 10 - Sue Reid , field hockey player
November 12 - Sarah Harmer , singer-songwriter and activist
November 15 - Jeff Adams , wheelchair athlete, multiple Paralympic medalist and World Champion
December 15 - Michael Shanks , actor
December 18 - Victoria Pratt , actress and model
December 19 - Jonathan Cleveland , swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist
December 20 - Nicole de Boer , actress
December 22 - U.S. Senator from Texas
since 2013
December 23 - Catriona Le May Doan , speed skater, double Olympic gold medalist and World Champion
December 25 - Stu Barnes , ice hockey player and coach
Full date unknown
Deaths
January 23 - Nell Shipman , actress, screenwriter, producer, and animal trainer (b.1892 )
January 29 - Lawren Harris , Group of Seven painter (b.1885 )
February 21 - Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b.
1912 )
February 27 - Marie Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets (b.1934 )
March 11 - William Stewart Wallace
, historian
April 6 - Émile Coderre , French-Canadian poet
May 9 - Andrew Watson Myles , politician (b.1884 )
May 31 - Terry Sawchuk , ice hockey player (b.1929 )[7]
June 12 - John Keiller MacKay , soldier, jurist and 19th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1888 )
June 22 - William Melville Martin , politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1876 )
October 17 - Pierre Laporte , Quebec politician and Minister, kidnapped and murdered by Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) (b.1921 )
September 12 - Jacob Viner , economist (b.1892 )
See also
References
^ "Queen Elizabeth II | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 4 December 2022 .
.
^ "1970 Sudbury tornado" . Sunday Magazine , CBC Radio , August 23, 1970.
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
. 13 October 2010.
^ Pierre Trudeau's War Measures Act speech during the 1970 October Crisis . CBC Television News. 16 October 1970. Retrieved 27 October 2023 .
^ "Naomi Klein" . Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers . 25 March 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2021 .
^ John A. Drobnicki, "Sawchuk, Terrance Gordon ('Terry')," in The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: Sports Figures (Scribner's, 2002), Vol. 2, pp. 335-336.