Events from the year 1968 in Canada .
Provincial governments [ edit ] Lieutenant governors [ edit ] Territorial governments [ edit ] Arts and literature [ edit ] 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 Shawn Graham in 2007 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 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 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 [ edit ] 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 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 ) ^ "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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