1960-1969

1960

Joint Air Photo Interpretation School closed and its personnel merged with the Air Photo Interpretation Centre at RCAF Station Rockcliffe (Ontario), which became fully responsible for training photo-interpreters.

1960

The railway icehouses were demolished at Rivers, Manitoba. The final steam locomotive passed through the Rivers yards.

1960

Two-way radio communication between train crews began.

Canada — August 10, 1960

The Canadian Bill of Rights was passed into law. It was the first federal law in Canada to specifically outline fundamental human rights and freedoms, including equality, legal rights, and freedom of religion, speech, and association.

1962

As a practical example of service integration, the Canadian Joint Air Training Centre at Rivers, Manitoba was living proof that the colour of the uniform a man wears was immaterial when it came to getting the job done. Permanent strength of 800 servicemen at CJATC was one-half RCAF and one-half Army. Except for two months each summer when naval jet squadrons come to Rivers for tactical exercises, RCN strength was a token force — but "blue jobs" and "brown jobs".

1962

CN coal dock was demolished at Rivers, Manitoba; rails that once served the car department and other services were lifted.

1962

The roundhouse at Rivers, Manitoba, was sold to Rivers Structural Fabricators.

1962

With the closing of the Saskatoon Flying School, personnel were transferred to Rivers, Manitoba.

World — October 16, 1962 to October 28, 1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. The confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union involved the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

World — November 22, 1963

John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was fatally shot during a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. The assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was himself killed by Jack Ruby just two days later.