Events from the year 1964 in Canada.

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• 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 17 – The first Tim Hortons restaurant was opened, making its debut on the corner of Ottawa Street North and Dunsmore Street in Hamilton, Ontario, as Tim Horton Donuts.
• 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 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) 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.

• March 14 – The Alberta Golden Bears win their first University Cup by defeating Sir George Williams Georgians 9 to 1. The final game was played at the Kingston Memorial Centre
• May 2 – Northern Dancer wins the Kentucky Derby.
• Summer – At the Olympic Games held in Tokyo, Japan, Canada wins one gold medal.
• April 25 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win their twelfth Stanley Cup by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3. The deciding Game 7 was played at Maple Leaf Gardens
• November 28 – In a rematch of the 51st Grey Cup, the BC Lions win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 34–24 in the 52nd Grey Cup at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium

• January 1 – William Herbert Burns, politician (b. 1878)
• January 12 – Byron Ingemar Johnson, politician and 24th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1890)
• February 18 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor, businessman and founder of Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
• March 3 – Angus MacInnis, politician (b. 1884)
• April 4 – Sarah Ramsland, politician, first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (b. 1882)
• April 20 – Joseph-Alphida Crete, politician (b. 1890)
• April 26 – E. J. Pratt, poet (b. 1882)
• June 9 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, business tycoon, politician and writer (b. 1879)
• June 12 – Paul Carpenter, actor (b. 1921)^[7]
• August 7 – Arsène Gagné, Quebec politician (b. 1910)
• September 5 – William Sherring, marathon runner and Olympic gold medallist (b. 1878)
• December 9 – Elmore Philpott, journalist and politician (b. 1896)
• December 14 – Roland Beaudry, politician, journalist, publicist and publisher (b. 1906)

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