Events from the year 1960 in Canada.
Ann Heggtveit displays her gold medal for slalom skiing, 1960 Winter Olympics
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January to June
- January 12 – Oliver Platt, actor
- January 24 – Mark Reeds, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
- February 11 – Grant Main, rower and Olympic gold medalist
- February 12 – George Elliott Clarke, poet and playwright
- February 14 – Walt Poddubny, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2009)
- February 14 – Meg Tilly, actress and dancer
- February 17 – Lindy Ruff, ice hockey player and coach
- February 28 – Dorothy Stratten, model, actress and murder victim (d. 1980)
- March 7 – Gail Greenough, equestrian[4]
- March 13 - John Greyson, filmmaker
- March 15 – Carole Rouillard, long-distance runner
- March 18 - Guy Carbonneau, retired professional ice hockey player
- April 8 - Pat Duncan, politician and sixth (and first female) Premier of Yukon and the first Liberal government
- April 10 – Drew Caldwell, politician
- April 12 - Toren Smith, manga publisher and translator (d. 2013)
- April 20 - Eria Fachin, pop singer
- April 29 – Robert J. Sawyer, science fiction writer
- May 3 – Jennifer Luce, architect
- May 8 - Patrick McKenna, actor
- May 11 - Gildor Roy, actor
July to December
- July 19 – Atom Egoyan, filmmaker
- July 22 – Jane Patterson, judoka
- July 25 – Alain Robidoux, snooker player
- July 28 – Anna Marie Malone, long-distance runner
- July 31 – Dale Hunter, ice hockey player and coach
- August 17 – Chris Potter, actor
- August 27 – Mike Mahovlich, javelin thrower
- August 30
- September 14 – Callum Keith Rennie, actor
- September 21 – David James Elliott, actor
- September 25 - Sonia Benezra, TV and radio interviewer and personality and actress
- October 8 - François Pérusse, comedian and humor
- November 2 – Paul Martini, pair skater
- November 6 – Kevin Neufeld, rower and Olympic gold medallist
- November 8
- November 20 - Marc Labrèche, actor, comedian and host
- December 28 – Ray Bourque, ice hockey player
July to December
- July 26 – Maud Menten, medical scientist (b. 1879)
- August 5 – Arthur Meighen, politician and 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
- November 5 – Mack Sennett, actor, producer, screenwriter and film director (b. 1880)
- December 12 – Louis Orville Breithaupt, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1890)
- December 19 – Jean Désy, diplomat (b. 1893)
- December 29 – Philippe Panneton, physician, academic, diplomat and writer (b. 1895)
- December 31 – C. D. Howe, politician and Minister (b. 1886)
Webber, Jeremy (1994). Reimagining Canada: Language, Culture, Community and the Canadian Constitution. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 44.