January 1 - Metric labelling comes into effect throughout Canada.
March 24 - The beaver becomes an official symbol of Canada (look around for their handy work as you search out this series)
April 2 - The CN tower is completed.
July 30 - Petro Canada is formed
November 10 - The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks (later Gordon Lightfoot makes a great ballad of this disaster). As a member of the RCN, I have rode out 50 foot waves on a destroyer in the Pacific...not fun.
November 18 - It is now law in Ontario to buckle up!