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1977 in Canada

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January 1 - Canada's nautical limit is extended to 200 miles.
February 6 - René Lévesque is embroiled in scandal after he hits and kills a homeless man while driving in a car with a woman who is not his wife.
February 27 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police raid Keith Richards' Toronto hotel suite while he is sleeping and seize 22 grams of heroin, 5 grams of cocaine and narcotics paraphernalia.
February 28 - Canadian passenger rail services are amalgamated into VIA Rail.
April 7 - The Toronto Blue Jays play their first game, defeating the Chicago White Sox.
April 11 - The final report of the Berger Comission rules that the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline should be delayed for at least ten years.
May 5 - Willy Adams becomes the first Inuit to enter parliament when he is appointed to the Senate.
June 9 - Ontario election: Bill Davis's PCs win a second consecutive minority.
August 26 - Bill 101 is passed by the Parti Québécois.
October 18 - The House of Commons is televised for the first time.
November 24 - Sterling Lyon becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Edward Schreyer.
Canadian road signs are swtiched to the metric system.
The Eaton Centre opens in Toronto.
Prime Minister Trudeau divorces his wife Margaret Sinclair.

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