📆 Canada by Year

📅 Events in 1962

Jun 18, 1962

Trans-Canada Highway Officially Opens

Prime Minister John Diefenbaker officially opens the Trans-Canada Highway in Rogers Pass, British Columbia, completing a road connecting the Atlantic to Pacific coasts for the first time.

Transportation National

Jun 27, 1962

Cuba Missile Crisis Origins

Canada closely watches growing tensions in Cuba as Soviet military presence expands, foreshadowing the October 1962 missile crisis in which PM Diefenbaker's initial hesitation to support the US creates a major diplomatic rift.

Military National