📆 Canada by Year

📅 Events in 1968

Jun 24, 1968

Pierre Trudeau's Election Night Riot

During Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations in Montreal, protesters pelt Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau with bottles during a parade, but Trudeau refuses to leave his grandstand seat in a celebrated act of defiance.

Politics Quebec

Jun 25, 1968

Pierre Trudeau Wins Liberal Majority

Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins a majority government, beginning the era of 'Trudeaumania' that will reshape Canadian society through bilingualism, multiculturalism and constitutional reform.

Politics National