Events March 14 - Alberta election: Peter Lougheed's PCs win a third consecutive majority March 26 - Brian Peckford becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Frank Moores May 3 - Angus MacLean becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Bennett Campbell May 22 - Canadians go to the polls in the 1979 Canadian election. They defeat Pierre Trudeau's Liberals and elect Joe Clark's Tories, but only with a minority June 4 - Joe Clark becomes Canada's sixteenth, and youngest ever, prime minister September 5 - Canada's first gold bullion coin goes on sale November 10 - a train carrying chemicals derails in Mississauga, Ontario and hundreds of thousands have to be evacuated December 13 - Supreme Court delcares Quebec and Manitoba's provincial legislatures to be unconstitutional because of their use of only one language. Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup defeating the New York Rangers 4 games to 1. Lorne Michaels starts Broadway Video a company that goes on to produce shows like The Kids in the Hall Brian Peckford replaces Frank D. Moores as premier of Newfoundland Chris Haney and Scott Abbott invent Trivial Pursuit Antonine Maillet wins the French Prix Goncourt for her novel Pélagie-la-Charette Births Deaths February 23 - W.A.C. Bennett, former premier of British Columbia May 29 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder August 16 - former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker December 19 - Donald Creighton, historian