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Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – Elizabeth II^[1]

Federal government

Governor General – Roland Michener (until January 14), then Jules Léger^[2]
Prime Minister – Pierre Trudeau
Chief Justice – Gérald Fauteux (until January 7), then Bora Laskin
Parliament – 29th (until 9 May) then 30th (from 30 September)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Grant MacEwan (until July 2) then Ralph Steinhauer
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Stewart Owen
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William John McKeag
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hédard Robichaud
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Ewart John Arlington Harnum (until July 2) then Gordon Arnaud Winter
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Clarence Gosse
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Ross Macdonald (until April 10) then Pauline Mills McGibbon
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – John George MacKay (until October 21) then Gordon Lockhart Bennett (from October 24)
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Hugues Lapointe
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Stephen Worobetz

Premiers

Premier of Alberta – Peter Lougheed
Premier of British Columbia – Dave Barrett
Premier of Manitoba – Edward Schreyer
Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield
Premier of Newfoundland – Frank Moores
Premier of Nova Scotia – Gerald Regan
Premier of Ontario – Bill Davis
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alexander B. Campbell
Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa
Premier of Saskatchewan – Allan Blakeney

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Events

January 1
- Maurice Nadon is appointed as the 16th commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), becoming the first French Canadian to hold the post.^[3]^[4]
- The Canadian Stock Exchange merges with the Montreal Stock Exchange, with the merged entity operating under the latter name.^[5]^[6]
- Woodsworth College at the University of Toronto is founded, formally integrating part-time degree students into the University.^[7]
January 6 – Global Television becomes Canada's third English-language television network when it begins broadcasting in southern Ontario.^[8]
January 7 – Bora Laskin is sworn in as the 14th chief justice of Canada to replace the retiring Gérald Fauteux. In appointing Laskin, Prime Minister Trudeau breaks with tradition by passing over the more senior justice, Ronald Martland.^[9]
January 14 – Jules Léger is sworn in as the 21st governor general of Canada, succeeding the retiring Roland Michener.^[10]
January 15 – The Knight Street Bridge opens, joining Vancouver and Richmond, British Columbia.^[11]
January 17 – Pauline McGibbon of Ontario becomes the first female lieutenant governor of a province.
March 13 – A treaty between Canada and Denmark is ratified, establishing the maritime border between Ellesmere Island (Canada) and Greenland (Denmark). Measuring approximately 1,449.4 nautical miles (2,684.3 km; 1,667.9 mi), it is the longest negotiated international continental shelf boundary. However, the boundary line has a gap around Hans Island, with both nations claiming sovereignty.^[12]^[13]^[14]
April 3 – A tornado strikes Windsor, Ontario, killing 9 people. The tornado was part of the 1974 Super Outbreak.
May 23
- New Brunswick becomes the first province to be officially bilingual.
- The RCMP accepts applications from women for regular police duties for the first time. The first 32 women formed Troop 17, were sworn in on September 16, 1974, and graduated on March 3, 1975. Beverly Busson, a member of Troop 17, became the first female RCMP commissioner on December 16, 2006.^[15]^[16]^[17]
June 29 – Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects in Toronto.
July 2 – Ralph Steinhauer becomes the first Aboriginal person to be a lieutenant governor when he is appointed lieutenant governor of Alberta.
July 3 – Canada first demands that its territorial waters be extended to 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi).
Vote of no-confidence in parliament forces election.
July 8 – Federal election: Pierre Trudeau's Liberals win a majority.
July 31 – Bill 22 is passed making French the official language of government and business in Quebec.
August 1 – The Elections Act is passed, limiting campaign contributions.
August 9 – Nine Canadians are killed when Buffalo 461 is shot down during a peacekeeping mission in Syria.
September 1 - CFVO-TV commences Broadcasting but later gains a regional scandal.
November 29 – An aircraft is hijacked over Saskatchewan. It is recovered in Saskatoon.^[18]

Full date unknown

Dorothea Crittenden of Ontario becomes Canada's first female deputy minister, Ministry of Community & Social Services.
Paul Joseph Martin made president of Canada Steamship Lines.
The Waffle disbands.
The report of the Le Dain Commission argues marijuana should be decriminalized.
Robert Cliche chairs a Royal Commission investigating corruption in Quebec's construction industry. Brian Mulroney, later to become prime minister, first comes to national attention as a panelist on the commission.

Arts and literature

New works

bill bissett – Living with the vishyun
Irving Layton – The Pole-Vaulter
Margaret Atwood – You Are Happy
Alice Munro – Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Margaret Laurence – The Diviners

Awards

See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Stephen Leacock Award: Donald Jack, That's Me in the Middle
Vicky Metcalf Award: Jean Little

Sport

March 16 – The Waterloo Warriors win their first University Cup by defeating the Sir George Williams Georgians, 6 to 5. The final game was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
May 12 – The Regina Pats win their fourth Memorial Cup by defeating the Quebec Remparts, 7 to 4. The final game is played at the Stampede Corral in Calgary.
May 19 – Montreal's Bernie Parent of the Philadelphia Flyers is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy.
September 22 – Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario.
November 21 – The Western Ontario Mustangs win their second Vanier Cup by defeating the Toronto Varsity Blues by a score of 19–15.
November 24 – The Montreal Alouettes win their third Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Eskimos, 20 to 7. The 62nd Grey Cup was played at Empire Stadium in Vancouver. Montreal's Don Sweet won the game's Most Valuable Player award and Edmonton's Don Barker won the game's Most Valuable Canadian award.

Births

January to March

January 14 – Hugues Legault, swimmer
January 19 – Diane Cummins, middle-distance runner
January 21 – Robert Ghiz, politician and 31st Premier of Prince Edward Island
January 23 – Joel Bouchard, ice hockey player
January 24 – Kristy Sargeant, pair skater
January 25 – Robert Budreau, director, producer, and screenwriter
January 29 – Kris Burley, artistic gymnast
January 31 – Anna Silk, actress^[19]
February 7 – Steve Nash, basketball player
February 21 – Mary Fuzesi, rhythmic gymnast
February 22 - David Pelletier, pair skater
March 14 - Grace Park, actress
March 20 – Kevin Sullivan, runner and coach

April to June

April 11 – Tricia Helfer, model and actress
April 26 – Jacinthe Pineau, swimmer
May 9 – Stéphane Yelle, Canadian ice hockey player
May 10 – Jon Beare, rower and Olympic bronze medalist
May 16 – Yannick Keith Lizé, water polo player and scientist
May 18 – Chantal Kreviazuk, singer-songwriter
May 18 – Carolyn Russell, squash player
June 1 – Alanis Morissette, singer-songwriter, record producer and actress
June 6 – Anson Carter, ice hockey player
June 9 – Jackie Lance, softball player

July to September

July 4 -Kevin Hanchard actor
July 6 – Steve Sullivan, ice hockey player
July 7
- Patrick Lalime, ice hockey player
- Jennifer Jones, curler
July 13 – Deborah Cox, singer-songwriter and actress
July 26 - Daniel Negreanu poker player
August 9 – Mara Jones, rower
August 15 – Natasha Henstridge, actress and model
September 6 - Sarah Strange actress and voice actress
September 8 – Becky Price, field hockey player
September 18 – Nicole Haynes, heptathlete
September 28 – Alison Parrott, murder victim (d. 1986)

October to December

October 6 – Madonna Gimotea, rhythmic gymnast
October 10 – Chris Pronger, ice hockey player
October 11 – Jason Arnott, ice hockey player
October 16 – Paul Kariya, ice hockey player
October 22 – Paul Duerden, volleyball player
November 4 – Amy MacFarlane, field hockey player
November 10 - Michael Greenspan filmmaker and writer
November 15 - Chad Kroeger singer
November 21 – Casey Patton, boxer
November 22 – David Pelletier, pair skater
November 25 – David Cadieux, boxer
December 7 - Nicole Appleton singer

Deaths

February 21 – Tim Horton, ice hockey player and businessman (b.1930)
February 28 – Harold Sherk, Mennonite minister and peace activist (b.1903)
April 2 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor (b.1889)
April 5 – A. Y. Jackson, painter, one of the Group of Seven (b.1882)
April 8 – James Charles McGuigan, Cardinal (b.1894)
June 21 - Merton Yarwood Williams, geologist and academic (b.1883)
August 25 – Major James Coldwell, politician (b.1888)

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.
^ "History of the RCMP: Former RCMP Commissioners". Retrieved April 13, 2019.
^ "The sovereign state of RCMP?". Maclean's. May 31, 1976. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
^ "Montreal stocks". Ottawa Citizen. The Canadian Press. January 2, 1974. p. 8. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
^ "Canadian Stock Exchange". TERMIUM Plus - Government of Canada. October 8, 1991. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
^ "45th Anniversary of Woodsworth College". University of Toronto: Woodsworth College. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
^ "Third network: Global stations start schedule". Ottawa Citizen. The Canadian Press. January 7, 1974. p. 18. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019 – via Google News Archive Search.
^ "Laskin to media: Pay attention to judgements". Ottawa Citizen. The Canadian Press. January 8, 1974. p. 16. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019 – via Google News Archive Search.
^ "Make way for the Governor-General". Ottawa Citizen. January 15, 1974. p. 1. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019 – via Google News Archive Search.
^ "The History of Metropolitan Vancouver: 1974 Chronology". Archived from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
^ "Agreement relating to the delimitation of the continental shelf between Greenland and Canada (with annexes); signed December 17, 1973; United Nations Treaty Series 13550" (PDF). United Nations. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
^ "Limits in the Seas No. 72 - Continental Shelf Boundary - Canada--Greenland" (PDF). United States Department of State. August 4, 1976. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
^ Frizzell, Sara (May 28, 2018). "Truce? Canada, Greenland, Denmark inch closer to settling decades-old spat over Hans Island". CBC News. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
^ "Women graduating from the RCMP Academy since 1975". Royal Canadian Mounted Police. March 8, 2017. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
^ "Trials and training: life at Depot for Troop 17". Royal Canadian Mounted Police. September 22, 2014. Archived from the original on July 14, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
^ "Beverley Busson to head RCMP". Vancouver Sun. Canwest News Service. December 16, 2006. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
^ Ernst, Ric (November 28, 2014). "Forty years ago Saskatoon got its first — and so far only — hijacked airplane". National Post. Postmedia Network. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
^ Rea, Darren (12 August 2011). "Anna Silk (Bo) – Lost Girl". Sci-fi Online. Retrieved 10 June 2020.

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