1976 in Canada

Events from the year 1976 in Canada.

Incumbents

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 3–21 – 1976 CASAW wildcat strike in Kitimat, British Columbia, against Alcan management and wage and price controls.
June 25 – The CN Tower opens to the public in Toronto.
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.
October 14 – the 1976 Canadian general strike: 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.

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

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

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

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