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January 12 – Via Rail Canada is established as a Crown corporation; January 24 – Cosmos 954, a Soviet satellite, breaks up over northern Canada. June 26 – An Air Canada DC-9 overruns a runway in Toronto. Two people die. August 4 – 41 are killed when a bus plunges into a lake near Eastman, Quebec. September 15 – The Sudbury Strike of ...
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The Bee Gees holds the number-one year-end hit in Canada in 1978, with "Night Fever" from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. RPM was a Canadian music magazine that published the best-performing singles chart in Canada from 1964 to 2000. In 1978, twenty-eight singles reached number one in the RPM chart.
Schematic of the Kosmos-954 on-board reactor. Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onboard nuclear reactor; when the satellite reentered the Earth's atmosphere the following year, it scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, some of the debris landing in the Great ...
Pages in category "1978 in Canada" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The 1978 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 8 October 1978 at Montreal. This was the 16th and final race of the 1978 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the International Cup for F1 Constructors. [2] It was Ferrari driver Gilles Villeneuve's and a Canadian driver's first victory in Formula One.
The 1978 Commonwealth Games were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 3 to 12 August, two years after the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal, Quebec.They were boycotted by Nigeria, in protest at New Zealand's sporting contacts with apartheid-era South Africa, as well as by Uganda, in protest at alleged Canadian hostility towards the government of Idi Amin. [1]
The 1978 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1978 WJHC) was the second edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held from December 22, 1977, until January 3, 1978. The tournament was held in Canada, mainly in Montreal and Quebec City.