1958 in Canada - 1958 in Canada See also: 1957 in Canada, other events of 1958, 1959 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Arts and Literature 3 Births 4 Deaths Events January 16 - Louis St. Laurent is replaced by Lester B. Pearson as leader of the Liberal Party March 31 - John Diefenbaker leads the Tory party to a massive election victory. May 12 - The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. July 1 - Canada-wide television broadcasting starts July 16 - Duff Roblin sworn in as premier of Manitoba Spring Hill Mine Disaster occurs Department of Physical Education started at the University of Saskatchewan Golden Retriever Club of Canada.
Her Majesty's official opposition (Canada) - Her Majesty's official opposition (Canada) Her Majesty's official opposition in Canada is usually the largest political party or coalition which is not a member of the government. This is usually the second-largest party in a legislative house, although in certain unusual circumstances it may be a third or fourth party. The current official opposition is the Conservative Party of Canada. They are viewed as the party tasked with keeping the government in check. They are also generally viewed as the alternative government. The Official Opposition maintains a shadow cabinet of MPs that have the same portfolios as actual ministers. There are some official benefits to being official oppostion. It is the party that gets to speak first after the government, and gets more time in question period than any other.
U.S.-Canada relations - U.S.-Canada relations The bilateral relationship between the United States and Canada is perhaps the closest and most extensive in the world. It is reflected in the staggering volume of trade--over $1.4 billion a day--and people--over 200 million a year--crossing the U.S.-Canadian border. In fields ranging from environmental cooperation to free trade, the two countries have set the standard by which many other countries measure their own progress. In addition to their close bilateral ties, Canada and the U.S. also work closely through multilateral fora. Although Canada views its relationship with the U.S. as crucial to a wide range of interests, it also occasionally pursues policies at odds with the United States. This is particularly true of Cuba, with regard to which the U.S. and Canada have.
1958 - 1958 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Years: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 - 1958 - 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 See also: 1958 in film 1958 in literature 1958 in music 1958 in sports 1958 in television 1958 in Canada Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes Events January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957) January 8 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship January 28 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and.
1958 in sports - 1958 in sports See also: 1957 in sports, other events of 1958, 1959 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Auto Racing 2 Baseball 3 Basketball 4 Boxing 5 Cycling 6 Figure Skating 7 Football (Soccer) 8 Football (American) 9 Canadian Football League 10 Golf 11 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 12 Harness Racing 13 Ice Hockey 14 Skiing 15 Tennis 16 General sporting events 17 Births 18 Deaths Auto Racing NASCAR Championship - Lee Petty Indianapolis 500 - Jimmy Bryan USAC Racing - Tony Bettenhausen won the season championship Formula One Championship - Mike Hawthorn of Great Britain February 23 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio. 24 hours of Le Mans: the team of Olivier Gendebien.
1959 in Canada - 1959 in Canada See also: 1958 in Canada, other events of 1959, 1960 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths Events June 11 - Ontario election: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fifth consecutive majority June 18 - Alberta election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a seventh consecutive majority September 7 - Maurice Duplessis, Premier of Quebec, dies in office September 11 - Paul Sauvé becomes premier of Quebec September 16 - Walter Shaw becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Alex Matheson Avro Arrow project is terminated St. Lawrence Seaway opens National Energy Board of Canada is created Births August 29 - Chris Hadfield, astronaut November 5 - Bryan Adams, singer Deaths September 7 -.
1957 in Canada - 1957 in Canada See also: 1956 in Canada, other events of 1957, 1958 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Births 4 Deaths Events June 10 - Federal election: John Diefenbaker's PCs win a minority, defeating Louis Saint Laurent's Liberals June 21 - John Diefenbaker becomes prime minister, replacing Louis Saint Laurent Arts and literature Births February 17 - Loreena McKennitt, singer Deaths.
King's Royal Rifle Corps - the 60th Royal American Regiment. They fought their first major battles in Canada at Louisbourg in 1758 and Quebec in 1759 against the French. They fought during the American War of Independence, withdrawing to Canada following the surrender. During the Napoleonic Wars the unit played a part in the Peninsular War. The unit's name was not changed until after the Napoleonic Wars; first to The Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps and then in 1830 to the King's Royal Rifle Corps. In 1858 the Rifle Depot at Winchester was made their headquarters. During the rest of the 1800s the unit was active in China, Canada, Afghanistan, India, Burma and South Africa. In World War I the unit was expanded to twenty-two battalions and saw much action on the Western Front. Over.
Knights of the Garter (after 1899) - Seal (1906) King Haakon VII of Norway, son-in-law of King Edward VII (1906) Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe (1908) William George Spencer Scott Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton (1908) John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham (1909) William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, 1st Lord of the Admiralty, High Commissioner of South Africa (1909) King Manuel II of Portugal (1909) Queen Mary, Consort of King George V (1910) Gilbert John Elliot, 4th Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, Governor-General of Canada (1910) Prince Luitpold, Regent of Bavaria (1911) Edward, Prince of Wales, eldest son of King George V (1911) Grand Duke Adolf Frederick V of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1911) John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, son-in-law of Queen Victoria, Governor-General of Canada (1911) Alexander William George Duff,.
January 26 - tunnel (†1879) 1826 - Julia Dent Grant, First Lady of the United States 1831 - Mary Mapes Dodged, writer (†1907) 1880 - Douglas MacArthur, general (†1964) 1901 - Stuart Symington, politician (†1988) 1904 - Ancel Keys, scientist 1905 - Bernhard Minetti, actor 1905 - Maria von Trapp, singer (†1987) 1908 - Stéphane Grappelli, musician, composer (†1997) 1918 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (†1989) 1918 - Philip Jose Farmer, science fiction writer 1923 - Anne Jeffreys, actress 1925 - Paul Newman, actor 1926 - Ralph Brance, baseball star 1928 - Eartha Kitt, singer and actress 1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (†2000) 1929 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, writer 1932 - Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, Jamaican record producer 1941 - Henry.
January 28 - first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court. 1917 - United States ends search for Pancho Villa. 1918 - Civil War in Finland begins. 1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Shanghai. 1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion. 1938 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont. 1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road. 1946 - Bluenose founders on a Haitian reef. 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister. 1973 - Barnaby Jones premieres on CBS. 1982 - James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades. 1986 - Space Shuttle.
January 11 - - The Whiskey-a-Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. 1964 - United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous for one's health. First such statement from US government. 1972 - East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh. 1973 - Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial. 1980 - Nigel Short, 14 years old, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master. 1990 - Massive (300,000) demonstration in favor of Lithuanian independence. 1992 - Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott. Births 1757 - Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury (†1804) 1757 - Samuel Bentham, mechanical engineer (†1831) 1815 - John A. Macdonald, first.
January 24 - Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax void. 1922 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie. 1924 - St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad. 1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca. 1952 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada. 1962 - Brian Epstein signs to manage The Beatles. 1966 - An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117 1972 - Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier, is discovered on Guam. 1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale. 1986 - Voyager 2 passes within 50,679 miles of Uranus. 1987 - In Lebanon, gunmen.
Jacques Godbout - Quebec. Works: Poetry: Carton pâte - 1956 Les pavés secs - 1958 C'est la chaude loi des hommes - 1960 La grande murraille de Chine - 1969 Sovenirs Shop - poèmes et proses - 1984 Fiction L'aqarium - 1962 La couteau sur la table - 1965 (translated into English as The Knife on The Table) Salut Galarneau! - 1967 (winner of the 1967 Governor General's Award for Fiction) Hail Galarneau! - 1970 L'isle au dragon - 1976 (translated into English as Dragon Island) Les têtes à Papineau - 1981 Une histoire Américaine - 1986 D'amour P.Q. - 1991 Le temps des Galarneau - 1993 Opération Rimbaud - 1999 Non-Fiction Le réformiste: textes tranquilles - 1975 Le murmure marchaud - 1984 Abécédaier Québécois - 1988 L'écran du bonheur - 1990 L'écrivain de.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Network, with facilities in California's Mojave Desert, near Madrid, Spain, and near Canberra, Australia. The 177-acre JPL campus is actually located in the city of La Canada Flintridge, California, but JPL maintains a Pasadena address (4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109), for simplicity's sake. There are approximately 5,000 full-time employees, and typically a few thousand additional contractors work there on any given day. The lab has an open house once a year on a Saturday in May, when the public is invited to tour the facilities and see live demonstrations of JPL science and technology. More limited private tours are also available throughout the year if scheduled well in advance. Thousands of schoolchildren from around Southern California and elsewhere visit the lab every year. JPL dates back to the 1930s,.
Victor McLaglen - child. He left home at fourteen to join the army and fought in the Boer War. Four years later, he moved to Canada, where he earned a living as a wrestler and heavyweight boxer, with several notable wins in the ring. One of his most famous fights was against Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson, who defeated him in six rounds. Between bouts, he toured with a circus, which offered $25 to anyone who could go three rounds with him. He returned to England in 1913 and served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers during World War I. He also continued boxing, and was named Heavyweight Champ of the British Army in 1918. After the war, he began taking roles in British silent films. McLaglen's career took a turn in the 1920s, when he.
John Byrne - was born near West Bromwich, England, but immigrated with his family to Canada in 1958. He attended the Alberta College of Art in Calgary for a few years until Byrne and the school realized that his interests lay elsewhere. He made his first professional sale in 1971 to "The Monster Times". In 1974 he got his first assignment from Marvel Comics, in the form of a short story ("Dark Asylum") which eventually appeared in "Giant-Sized Dracula" #5, a year or so later. Meanwhile, editor Nic Cuti asked Byrne to do the fan character ROG-2000 for Charlton Comics , and this led to his first full title assignment Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch. "Wheelie" was followed in short order by "Doomsday+1", "Space: 1999" and a single issue of "Emergency". He eventually moved.
John Kenneth Galbraith - describing ways in which economic theory does not always mesh with real life. Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto and then got an M.S and Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. During World War II, Galbraith served a tenure as deputy head of the Office of Price Administration. After the war, he became an advisor to post-war administrations in Germany and Japan. In 1949, Galbraith was appointed professor of economics at Harvard University. He was a friend of President John F. Kennedy and was appointed by Kennedy as U.S. ambassador to India from 1961 to 1963. There he attempted to aid the Indian government with developing the economy. J.K. Galbraith is currently a teaching professor at the University of Texas at.
John F. Kennedy International Airport - is one of the largest airports in the world. JFK is best known as the city's international hub, with flights to Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia. Flights to Canada and other airports in the United States (especially the West Coast) also use JFK. JetBlue Airways has made JFK its principal hub since 2000: the airport is also a focus city for American Airlines and Delta Airlines, and a base for United Airlines. In previous years, the airport has been a hub for Pan Am, TWA, Eastern Airlines, and Flying Tigers. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Structure and Function 2.1 Terminal 1 2.2 Terminal 2 2.3 Terminal 3 2.4 Terminal 4 2.5 Terminal 6 2.6 Terminal 7 2.7 Terminal 8 2.8 Terminal 9 3 External Links History The.
John Lynch-Staunton - the first interim leader of the new Conservative Party of Canada. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Lynch-Staunton was educated at Collège Stanislas and Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Montreal. He then obtained a B.Sc. from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C in 1953, and a History degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario before pursuing a career in business. He was appointed to the Senate by Brian Mulroney on September 23, 1990, representing the Senatorial Division of Grandville. The following year, he was appointed Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, and became Leader of the Opposition in the Senate in December, 1993 following the Liberal victory in that year's general election. On December 8, 2003, with the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ratified by both parties,.
