Events from the year 1964 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Federal government
Governor General – Georges Vanier
Prime Minister – Lester B. Pearson
Chief Justice – Robert Taschereau (Quebec) Parliament – 26th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John Percy Page
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – George Pearkes
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Errick Willis
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Joseph Leonard O'Brien
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Fabian O'Dea
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Henry Poole MacKeen
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Earl Rowe
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Willibald Joseph MacDonald
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Paul Comtois
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Robert Hanbidge
Premiers
Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
Premier of Manitoba – Dufferin Roblin
Premier of New Brunswick – Louis Robichaud
Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
Premier of Nova Scotia – Robert Stanfield
Premier of Ontario – John Robarts
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Walter Shaw
Premier of Quebec – Jean Lesage
Premier of Saskatchewan – Woodrow Lloyd (until May 2) then Ross Thatcher
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Commissioner of Yukon – Gordon Robertson Cameron
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Bent Gestur Sivertz
Events
March 13 – Canada begins a decades-long peacekeeping mission in Cyprus
March 23 – George Stanley first describes and sketches the proposal for Canada's new flag that is eventually accepted March 26 – The White Paper on Defence is tabled. March 27 – Several towns in coastal British Columbia, including Prince Rupert, Tofino, Port Alberni and Zeballos, suffer damage from tsunamis associated with the Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. Overall damage is estimated at $10 million. April – Canadians are issued Social Insurance cards for the first time April 22 – Saskatchewan election: Ross Thatcher's Liberals win a majority, defeating Woodrow Lloyd's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, ending almost 20 years of CCF rule over the province. May 2 – W. Ross Thatcher is sworn in as Premier of Saskatchewan May 27 – The Prime Minister unveils the "Pearson Pennant", his preferred, but ultimately unsuccessful, design for a new national flag. June 15 – The Great Canadian Flag Debate begins in the House of Commons. June 19 - The Hall Commission Report recommending the creation of Canada's medicare programme was tabled in the House of Commons. July 16 – Canada extends its exclusive fishing zone to off-shore July 17 – Operation Snowball, a 0.5 kiloton conventional explosive test at Suffield Experimental Station in Alberta August 22 – The Beatles play at Empire Stadium in Vancouver, their first performance in Canada. September 7 – The Beatles play at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto September 8 – The Beatles play at the Montreal Forum September 10 – After almost three months of debate in the Commons, the flag question is referred to an all-party committee. September 17 – The flag committee meets for the first time. October 5 – Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, begin an eight-day visit to Canada. October 22 – The flag committee makes its final selection of the design that will become the national flag. November 9 - Max Saltsman wins Waterloo South by-election, campaigning against a mere flag taking priority over important social issues such as medicare November 30 – John Diefenbaker launches a filibuster to try to prevent the introduction of a new Canadian flag December 16 – A resolution creating the new Flag of Canada is passed in the House of Commons after much controversy.
Full date unknown
Canada pulls its peacekeepers out of Zaire
Glenn Gould gives up doing live performances
Governor General Georges Vanier hosts the "Canadian Conference of the Family" Innis College founded at the University of Toronto Canada passes act to change Air Canada's name.