1968 in Canada

• Monarch – Elizabeth II{{cite web |title=Queen Elizabeth II {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/timeline/queen-elizabeth-ii |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |access-date=4 December 2022}}

• Governor General – Roland Michener{{cite book |last1=Lentz |first1=Harris M. |title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 |date=4 February 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26490-2 |page=143 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA143 |language=en}}
• Prime Minister – Lester B. Pearson (until April 20) then Pierre Trudeau
• Chief Justice – John Robert Cartwright (Ontario)
• Parliament – 27th (until April 23) then 28th (from September 12)

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Grant MacEwan
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – George Pearkes (until July 2) then John Robert Nicholson
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Richard Spink Bowles
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – John B. McNair (until January 31) then Wallace Samuel Bird
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Fabian O'Dea
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Henry Poole MacKeen (until July 22) then Victor de Bedia Oland
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Earl Rowe (until July 4) then William Ross Macdonald
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Willibald Joseph MacDonald
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Hugues Lapointe
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Robert Hanbidge

• Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning (until December 12) and then Harry Strom
• Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba – Walter Weir
• Premier of New Brunswick – Louis Robichaud
• Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
• Premier of Nova Scotia – G.I. Smith
• Premier of Ontario – John Robarts
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alexander B. Campbell
• Premier of Quebec – Daniel Johnson, Sr. (until September 26) and then Jean-Jacques Bertrand (from October 2)
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Ross Thatcher

• Commissioner of Yukon – James Smith
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Stuart Milton Hodgson

• February 1 – The three branches of the Canadian Forces are merged into one, adopting a common green uniform and Army-derived ranks
• February 20 – Prime Minister Pearson gives the first ever televised address to the nation as he tells Canadians that he will table a confidence motion the next day to prove his party still has control. After a week of filibustering by the Opposition, the motion passes.[http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2008/12/03/idiot-box-channelling-the-prime-minister-s.aspx Idiot box channeling the Prime Ministers]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• April 1 – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is formed
• April 6 – Pierre Trudeau wins 1968 Liberal Party leadership election

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• May 14 – The grand opening of the Toronto-Dominion Centre is held
• June 1 – The flag of Alberta is authorized
• June 24 – Separatists riot in Montreal on S^t-Jean-Baptiste Day
• June 25 – Federal election: Pierre Trudeau's Liberals win a majority

• July 1 – The laws creating Canada's Medicare system come into effect
• July 18–August 9 – Canada Post workers represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers go on strike
• August 20 – Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization. Thousands of refugees flee to Canada.
• September 26 – Daniel Johnson, Sr, Premier of Quebec, dies in office
• October 2 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand becomes premier of Quebec
• October 15 – The Mouvement Souveraineté-Association merges with the Ralliement National to create the Parti Québécois, René Lévesque is selected as the party's first leader
• December 12 – Harry Strom becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Ernest Manning
• December 31 – Quebec's Legislative Assembly is renamed the National Assembly

• IMAX technique invented
• Canada's new Divorce Act introduces no fault divorce
• The Rochdale College experiment begins in Toronto

• Alice Munro – Dance of the Happy Shades
• Mordecai Richler – Hunting Tigers Under Glass
• Robert Fulford – This Was Expo
• John Newlove – Black Night Window
• Kildare Dobbs – Reading the Time
• Mordecai Richler – Cocksure
• Robert Kroetsch – Alberta
• Marian Engel – No Clouds of Glory
• Gordon R. Dickson – Soldier, Ask Not
• Farley Mowat – This Rock Within the Sea: A Heritage Lost

• 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

• David Suzuki wins UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for science writing
• See 1968 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Stephen Leacock Award: Max Ferguson, And Now...Here's Max
• Vicky Metcalf Award: Lorraine McLaughlin

• August 28 – Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Sœurs premiers in Montreal.

• December 18 – Henry Moore donates hundreds of works to the Art Gallery of Ontario.

• March 10 – The Alberta Golden Bears win their second University Cup by defeating the Loyola Warriors 5 to 4. The final game was played at the Montreal Forum
• May 11 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 15th Stanley Cup by defeating the St. Louis Blues 4 games to 0. The deciding Game 4 was played at the Montreal Forum. Jean Béliveau wins his second Conn Smythe Trophy
• May 27 – The Montreal Expos are established as Major League Baseball's first Canadian team.
• November 22 – The Queen's Golden Gaels win their first Vanier Cup by defeating the Waterloo Lutheran Golden Hawks by a score of 42–14 in the 4th Vanier Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
• November 29 – The Ottawa Rough Riders win their sixth Grey Cup by defeating the Calgary Stampeders 24 to 21 in the 56th Grey Cup played at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto

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• 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{{cite book |last1=Hubbard |first1=Linda S. |last2=Steen |first2=Sara |last3=O'Donnell |first3=Owen |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |date=1989 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-8103-2070-3 |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uxkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Megan+Follows%22+march+14 |access-date=17 March 2020 |language=en}}
• March 17 – Patty Sullivan, television personality
• March 30 – Celine Dion, singer, songwriter and actress{{cite web |title=Celine Dion {{!}} Biography, Songs, Awards, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Celine-Dion |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 February 2020 |language=en}}

• 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{{cite web |title=Mary DEPIERO - Olympic Diving {{!}} Canada |url=https://www.olympic.org/mary-depiero |website=International Olympic Committee |access-date=24 June 2019 |language=en |date=17 June 2016}}
• 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{{icehockeystats|legends=10485}}

• 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 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

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• 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){{cite book|first=Kathleen|last=Kuiper|title=Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature|location=Springfield|publisher=Merriam-Webster|year=1995|isbn=978-0-87779-042-6|page=498}}
• 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)

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