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Monarch – Elizabeth II^[1]

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Lieutenant governors

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Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Stewart Owen
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Premier of Alberta – Peter Lougheed
Premier of British Columbia – Bill Bennett
Premier of Manitoba – Edward Schreyer
Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield
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Premier of Nova Scotia – Gerald Regan
Premier of Ontario – Bill Davis
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alexander B. Campbell
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Premier of Saskatchewan – Allan Blakeney

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Commissioner of Yukon – James Smith (until July 1) then Arthur MacDonald Pearson
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Stuart Milton Hodgson

Events

January 14 – The Eaton's catalogue is discontinued.
January 28 – The government of Saskatchewan takes over the province's potash industry.
February 4 – The Supreme Court rules provinces cannot censor movies.
February 7 – Joe Clark is elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, replacing Robert Stanfield.
March 23 – The Norman Bethune Memorial unveiled in Montreal
April 1 – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is given the power to regulate Canadian television and radio.
April 15 – Dome Petroleum is given approval to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea.
May 2 – Time's Canadian edition is discontinued.
June 25 – The CN Tower opens to the public in Toronto.^[3]
June 30 – St. Anne's Residential School closes.
June 30 – Parliament votes to abolish the death penalty.
July 17 – Opening Ceremony of the Montreal Summer Olympic.^[4]
October 14 – Over a million workers stage a one-day strike to protest wage and price controls.
November 15 – In the Quebec election, René Lévesque's Parti Québécois wins a majority, defeating Robert Bourassa's Parti libéral du Québec.
November 25 – René Lévesque becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Robert Bourassa.

Full date unknown

The Timbit is introduced (April 1976)
L'Express de Toronto is created
Tannereye Ltd company is established

Arts and literature

New works

Marian Engel: Bear
Hugh Hood: Dark Glasses
Joy Fielding: The Transformation
Farley Mowat: Canada North Now: The Great Betrayal

Awards

See 1976 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Stephen Leacock Award: Harry J. Boyle, The Luck of the Irish
Vicky Metcalf Award: Suzanne Martel

Film

The Man Who Skied Down Everest becomes the first Canadian dramatic film to win an Academy Award

Television

Second City Television premiers

Main article: 1976 in Canadian television

Sport

February 7 - Toronto Maple Leafs star Darryl Sittler scores ten points in one game.
March 14 - Toronto Varsity Blues won their University Cup by defeating the Guelph Gryphons 7–2 at Varsity Arena in Toronto
May 16 - Montreal Canadiens won their nineteenth Stanley Cup by defeating the Philadelphia Flyers 4 games to 0. Riverton, Manitoba's Reggie Leach became the first player to be awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy in a losing effort.
May 16 - Hamilton Fincupswon their only Memorial Cup by defeating the New Westminster Bruins 5–2. All games were played at the Montreal Forum
July 17 - Canada hosted its First Olympics when the 1976 Summer Olympics opened at Olympic Stadium in Montreal
May 27 - Winnipeg Jets won their First Avco Cup by defeating the Houston Aeros 4 games to 0. The deciding Game 4 was played at Winnipeg Arena
August 28 - Toronto Metros-Croatia won their only Soccer Bowl defeating the Minnesota Kicks 3–0 at Soccer Bowl '76 played at the Kingdome, in Seattle, Washington
November 19 - Western Ontario Mustangs won their Third Vanier Cup by defeating the Acadia Axemen 29–13 in the 12th Vanier Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
November 28 - Ottawa Rough Riders won their Ninth (and Final) Grey Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Roughriders by the score 23 to 20 in the 64th Grey Cup played at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto.

Full date unknown

Walter Wolf Racing becomes first Canadian Formula One constructor.

Births

January to March

January 7 - Éric Gagné, baseball player
January 23 - Phillip Boudreault, boxer
February 19 - Brian Price, coxswain, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion
February 23 - Jeff O'Neill, ice hockey player
February 27 - Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, actor
March 9 - Ben Mulroney, television host
March 15 - Cara Pifko, actor
March 19 - Rachel Blanchard, actress
March 23 - Nolan Baumgartner, ice hockey player

April to June

April 3 - Daniel Lewis, volleyball player
April 15 - Jason Bonsignore, ice hockey player
April 16 - Maxime Giroux, film director
May 8 - Martha Wainwright, American folk-pop singer
May 10 - Kristen French, murder victim (d.1992)
May 11 - Kardinal Offishall, rap musician and producer
May 13 - Bobbi Jo Steadward, field hockey player
May 19 - Jason Botterill, ice hockey player and manager
June 5 - Marc Worden, voice actor
June 6 - Emilie-Claire Barlow, actress and singer
June 10 - James Moore, politician and Minister
June 13 - Mark Versfeld, swimmer
June 25 - Michelle Bowyer, field hockey player
June 26 - Ed Jovanovski, ice hockey player

July to September

July 3 - Wade Belak, ice hockey player
July 5
- Leslie Mahaffy, murder victim (d.1991)
- Jamie Elman, American actor
July 12 - Dan Boyle, ice hockey player
July 13 - Sheldon Souray, ice hockey player
August 4 - David Lewis, actor
August 5 - Jeff Friesen, ice hockey player
August 17 - Eric Boulton, ice hockey player
August 27 - Sarah Chalke, actress
August 29 - Kasia Kulesza, Polish-born synchronised swimmer^[5]
September 5 - Pat Thornton, comedian
September 13 - José Théodore, ice hockey player
September 17 - Zac Bierk, ice hockey player
September 20 - Enuka Okuma, actress
September 26 - Jean-François Marceau, judoka

October to December

October 1 - Denis Gauthier, ice hockey player
October 10 - Shane Doan, ice hockey player
October 19 - Dan Smith, ice hockey player
October 22 - Lisa Simes, artistic gymnast^[6]
October 23 - Ryan Reynolds, actor
November 6 - Catherine Clark, television broadcaster
November 20 - Laura Harris, actress
November 24 - Christian Laflamme, ice hockey player
November 26 - Mathieu Darche, ice hockey player
December 7 - Georges Laraque, ice hockey player
December 26
- Nadia Litz, actress
- Jake Wetzel, rower, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion
December 27 - Fernando Pisani, ice hockey player

Deaths

January to June

February 9 - Percy Faith, band-leader, orchestrator and composer (b.1908)
March 3 - Alexander Wallace Matheson, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1903)
April 5 - Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon (b.1891)
April 11 - Art Alexandre, ice hockey player (b.1909)
May 28 - William Ross Macdonald, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and 21st Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1891)
June 10 - William John Patterson, politician and 6th Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1886)

July to December

August 4 - Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur (b.1894)
August 8 - Wilson Duff, anthropologist (b.1925)
August 28 - Lloyd Stinson, politician (b.1904)
September 28 - Raymond Collishaw, World War I flying ace (b.1893)
November 14 - Jean-Paul Beaulieu, politician and chartered accountant (b.1902)
November 29 - Steve Peters, politician (b.1912)
December 4 - Paul Gouin, politician (b.1898)
December 16 - Réal Caouette, politician (b.1917)
December 22 - Olive Diefenbaker, wife of John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1902)

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.
^ "Towering over us for 40 years". Toronto Sun. 25 June 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
^ "1976: African countries boycott Olympics". BBC. 17 July 1976. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
^ "Kasia KULESZA - Olympic Synchronized Swimming | Canada". International Olympic Committee. 18 June 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
^ "Artist Information: Lisa Simes". Cirque Tribune. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2011.

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