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1981 in Canada

Events from the year 1981 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Edward Schreyer
 * Prime Minister – Pierre Trudeau
 * Chief Justice – Bora Laskin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 32nd

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Francis Charles Lynch-Staunton
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henry Pybus Bell-Irving
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Francis Lawrence Jobin (until October 23) then Pearl McGonigal
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hédard Robichaud (until December 23) then George Stanley
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Gordon Arnaud Winter (until July 10) then William Anthony Paddon
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – John Elvin Shaffner
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Black Aird
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Joseph Aubin Doiron
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Jean-Pierre Côté
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Irwin McIntosh

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Peter Lougheed
 * Premier of British Columbia – Bill Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Sterling Lyon (until November 30) then Howard Pawley
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Peckford
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Buchanan
 * Premier of Ontario – Bill Davis
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Angus MacLean (until November 17) then James Lee
 * Premier of Quebec – René Lévesque
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Allan Blakeney

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Douglas Bell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – John Havelock Parker

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – George Braden
 * Premier of Yukon – Chris Pearson

Events

 * January 1 – Gasoline and diesel are sold by the litre rather than the gallon.
 * February 5 – More than three hundred men are arrested after police sweeps of Toronto bathhouses. The arrests create an outcry among Canada's gay population, and become a historic turning point in Canadian LGBT history.
 * March 19 – Ontario election: Bill Davis's PCs win a majority.
 * June 4 – NABET employees at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation hold a long strike, disrupting programming for much of the Spring.
 * July 17 – The government of British Columbia name a 2,639 m peak in the Rocky Mountains after Terry Fox.
 * July 30 – The 83 km section of the Trans-Canada Highway in Ontario where Terry Fox was forced to end his run, was renamed in his honour.
 * August – The prime rate hits a record high of 22.75%.
 * September 1 – Quebec's French-language sign law comes into effect.
 * September 1 – The Alberta and federal governments sign an energy agreement.
 * September – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission holds pay-TV hearings in Hull, Quebec.
 * September – West Edmonton Mall opens
 * October 16 – Canada Post becomes a crown corporation.
 * November 5 – In the Kitchen Accord, the federal government and all provinces except Quebec agree on how to patriate the Canadian Constitution.
 * November 13 – The Canadarm is first deployed aboard the Space Shuttle.
 * November 17 – James Lee becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Angus MacLean.
 * November 30 – Howard Pawley becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Sterling Lyon.

Full date unknown

 * Power Corporation sells Canada Steamship Lines Inc. to Paul Martin and Laurence Pathy.
 * News media: Now created.

New works

 * Margaret Atwood - True Stories
 * Bill Bissett - Northern Birds in Colour
 * W.O. Mitchell - How I Spent My Summer Holidays
 * Gordon R. Dickson - Lost Dorsai
 * Nancy Huston - Les Variations Goldberg
 * Joy Kogawa - Obasan

Awards

 * See 1981 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: W.D. Valgardson, Gentle Sinners
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Elizabeth Allan, The Shored Up House
 * Marian Engel Award:
 * Pat Lowther Award: M. Travis Lane, Divinations and Short Poems 1973-1978
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Gary Lautens, Take My Family...Please!
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Monica Hughes

Film

 * David Cronenberg's Scanners is released
 * James Cameron's Piranha II: The Spawning, his first directing effort, is released
 * Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains is released

Sport

 * March 2 – The Edmonton Drillers host Game 1 of the 1980–81 NASL indoor finals at Northlands Coliseum. They defeat the Chicago Sting 9–6.
 * March 5 – The Edmonton Drillers win the 1980–81 NASL indoor title in Chicago by defeating the Chicago Sting 5–4 in Game 2 of the finals.
 * March 15 – The Moncton Aigles Bleus win their first University Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Huskies 4–2. The final game was played at the Stampede Corral in Calgary
 * May 10 – The Cornwall Royals win their third (second consecutive) Memorial Cup by defeating the Kitchener Rangers 8–2. The final game was played at Windsor Arena in Windsor, Ontario
 * May 13 – The original Montreal Allouettes cease operations
 * May 14 – Montreal Concordes are established
 * May 21 – Saint Boniface, Manitoba's Butch Goring of the New York Islanders is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * July 21 – Quebec City's Rick Martel win his second World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championship (with Tony Garea) by defeating the Moondogs in Allentown, Pennsylvania
 * September 26 – Toronto hosts Soccer Bowl '81 at Exhibition Stadium. 36,971 fans witness Chicago defeat New York 1–0 in a shoot-out.
 * September 28 – Calgary is awarded the 1988 Winter Olympics.
 * November 22 – The Edmonton Eskimos win their eighth (fourth consecutive) Grey Cup by defeating the Ottawa Redblacks 26–23 in the 69th Grey Cup played at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. London, Ontario's Neil Lumsden won the game's Most Valuable Canadian
 * November 28 – The Acadia Axemen win their second Vanier Cup by defeating the Alberta Golden Bears 18–12 in the 17th Vanier Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto

Births

 * January 7 – Alex Auld, ice hockey player
 * January 8 – Jeff Francis, baseball pitcher
 * January 11 – Jonathan Mandick, rower
 * January 15 – Dylan Armstrong, shot putter
 * January 16 – Nic Youngblud, water polo player
 * January 17 – Julien Cousineau, alpine skier
 * January 20 – Owen Hargreaves, soccer player
 * January 21 – Dany Heatley, ice hockey player
 * February 13 – Kristina Kiss, soccer player
 * February 19 – Shawn Spears, pro wrestler
 * February 24 – Adam Kunkel, hurdler
 * March 14 – Isabelle Pearson, judoka
 * March 28 – Dan Petronijevic, actor
 * April 6 – Auburn Sigurdson, softball player
 * April 16 – Matthieu Proulx, football player
 * April 19 – Hayden Christensen, actor
 * April 29 – Oliver Bone, sailor
 * May 8 – Blake Leibel, murderer
 * May 15 – Justin Morneau, baseball player
 * May 20 – Morgan Knabe, swimmer
 * June 4 – Jennifer Carroll, swimmer
 * June 21 – Kevin Mitchell, water polo player
 * June 23 – Mikey Bustos, Filipino Canadian entertainer
 * July 9 – Dylan Taylor, actor
 * July 13 – Michael Mando, actor, writer and director
 * July 21 – Anabelle Langlois, figure skater
 * July 23 – Steve Jocz, drummer
 * August 9 – Lauren Bay Regula, softball player
 * August 19 – Taylor Pyatt, ice hockey player
 * September 1 – Michael Adamthwaite, voice actor
 * September 7
 * Annie Martin, beach volleyball player
 * Athena Karkanis, television, film and voice actress
 * September 13 – Angelina Love, professional wrestler
 * September 26 – Kaila Holtz, softball player
 * October 3 – Amanda Walsh, actress
 * October 4 – Justin Williams, ice hockey player
 * October 8 – Raffi Torres, ice hockey player
 * October 25 – Gary Reed, middle distance athlete
 * October 30 – Shaun Sipos, actor
 * November 4 – Paul Tucker comic-book artist
 * November 20 – Christian Bernier, volleyball player

Deaths

 * January 5 - Lomer Brisson, politician and lawyer (b. 1916)
 * January 16 - John Oates Bower, politician, businessman and executive (b. 1901)
 * April 10 - George Carlyle Marler, politician, notary and philatelist (b. 1901)
 * May 4 - Samuel Rosborough Balcom, politician (b. 1888)
 * May 23 - David Lewis, lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
 * May 29 - Walter Russell Shaw, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1887)
 * June 28 - Terry Fox, humanitarian, athlete and cancer treatment activist (b. 1958)
 * September 23 - Dan George, actor and author (b. 1899)
 * November 3 - Thérèse Casgrain, feminist, reformer, politician and Senator (b. 1896)
 * December 28 - Allan Dwan, film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1885)

title: 1981 in Canada


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1982 in Canada

Events from the year 1982 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Edward Schreyer
 * Prime Minister – Pierre Trudeau
 * Chief Justice – Bora Laskin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 32nd

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Francis Charles Lynch-Staunton
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henry Pybus Bell-Irving
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Pearl McGonigal
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – George Stanley
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – William Anthony Paddon
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – John Elvin Shaffner
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Black Aird
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Joseph Aubin Doiron
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Jean-Pierre Côté
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Irwin McIntosh

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Peter Lougheed
 * Premier of British Columbia – Bill Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Howard Pawley
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Peckford
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Buchanan
 * Premier of Ontario – Bill Davis
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – James Lee
 * Premier of Quebec – René Lévesque
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Allan Blakeney (Until May 8) then Grant Devine

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Douglas Bell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – John Havelock Parker

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – George Braden
 * Premier of Yukon – Chris Pearson

January to June

 * January 11 – CBC's The National moves to 10 p.m. and The Journal debuts at 10:22 p.m.
 * January 15 – Striking Quebec transit workers are forced back to work.
 * February – First reported cases of AIDS in Canada.
 * February 15 – 84 are killed when the Ocean Ranger oil platform capsizes.
 * March 4 – Bertha Wilson is appointed Canada's first female Supreme Court justice.
 * March 8 – The Canada Act is passed by the British House of Commons.
 * April 14 – 1982 Northwest Territories division plebiscite
 * April 17 – In an outdoor ceremony in Ottawa, Queen Elizabeth II signs a royal proclamation that completes patriation of the constitution, and the Constitution Act, 1982, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, comes into effect.
 * April 26 – Saskatchewan election: Grant Devine's PCs win a landslide majority, defeating Allan Blakeney's NDP.
 * May 5 – Peru requests Canadian intervention in the ongoing Falklands War.
 * May 8 – Grant Devine becomes Premier of Saskatchewan after defeating Allan Blakeney's NDP.
 * May 23 – André Besette beatified by the Pope.
 * June 12 – The first drawing of Lotto 6/49 occurs with a jackpot of CA$500000 1982. Winning numbers are 03, 11, 12, 14, 41, 43, bonus 13.
 * June 28 – Access to Information Act passed.

July to December

 * July 15 – Anik 1, Canada's first communications satellite, is retired after ten years' service.
 * July 26 – Karen Baldwin is crowned Miss Universe in Lima, Peru, becoming the first Canadian to win this award.
 * August 16 – Communications satellite Anik D launched.
 * August 23 – Turkish military attaché to Canada, Colonel Atilla Altıkat, is assassinated by Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide in Ottawa.
 * October 5 – Laurie Skreslet becomes the first Canadian to climb Mount Everest.
 * October 27 – Dominion Day renamed Canada Day.
 * October 31 – Marguerite Bourgeoys becomes Canada's first female saint.
 * November 2 – Alberta election: Peter Lougheed's PCs win a fourth consecutive majority.
 * December 10 – Canada's 200 nautical mile (370 km) limit is officially recognized.

Full date unknown

 * The year sees a severe recession in the economy.
 * In a case concerning the development of the Hibernia Oil Field the Supreme Court rules that the continental shelf falls under federal jurisdiction.
 * Ed Mirvish purchases London's Old Vic theatre.
 * Colin Thatcher is elected to his third term in the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly, where he is appointed Minister of Energy and Mines.

New books

 * Dig up My Heart: Milton Acorn

Awards

 * See 1982 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Joy Kogawa, Obasan
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Abraham Boyarsky, Schielber and Edna Alford, A Sleep Full of Dreams
 * Pat Lowther Award: Rona Murray, Journey
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Mervyn J. Huston, Gophers Don't Pay Taxes Tree
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Janet Lunn

Film

 *  'E'  released

Dance

 * Arnold Spohr wins the Dancemagazine Award

Sports

 * March 14 – The Moncton Aigles Bleus win their second (consecutive) University Cup be defeating the Saskatchewan Huskies 3 to 2. The final game was played in the Moncton Coliseum in Moncton, New Brunswick
 * May 9 – Gilles Villeneuve is killed at the Belgian Grand Prix.
 * May 15 – The Kitchener Rangers win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Sherbrooke Castors 7 to 4. The final game was played at Robert Guertin Arena in Hull, Quebec
 * May 16 – The New York Islanders win their third (consecutive) Stanley Cup by defeating the Vancouver Canucks 4 games to 0. The deciding Game 4 was played at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. Montreal's Mike Bossy was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * November 20 – The UBC Thunderbirds win their first Vanier Cup by defeating the Western Ontario Mustangs by a score of 39–14 in the 18th Vanier Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
 * November 28 – The Edmonton Eskimos win their ninth (fifth consecutive) Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Argonauts in the 70th Grey Cup played at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto

Births

 * January 5 – Tiiu Nurmberg, skier
 * January 12 – Shawn Desman, pop musician
 * January 31 – Jay Malinowski musician
 * March 10 – Kathleen Stoody, swimmer
 * March 18 – Matthew Lombardi, ice hockey player
 * March 30 – A-Trak, DJ and turntablist
 * April 3 – Cobie Smulders, actress and model
 * April 9 – Jay Baruchel, actor and comedian
 * April 14 – Lise Leveille, gymnast
 * April 15 – Seth Rogen, actor, comedian, and filmmaker
 * April 16 – Aaron Feltham, water polo player
 * April 24 – Shayna Nackoney, synchronized swimmer
 * May 6 – Kyle Shewfelt, gymnast
 * May 10 – Adam Sioui, swimmer
 * May 11 – Cory Monteith, actor (d. 2013)
 * May 12 – Rhian Wilkinson, soccer player
 * May 16 – Melissa Altro, actress
 * May 23 – Linda Consolante, soccer player
 * May 27 – Natalya Neidhart, pro wrestler
 * June 9 – Rachel Schill, softball player
 * June 16 – Kathy Tremblay, triathlete
 * June 23 – Derek Boogaard, hockey player (d. 2011)
 * June 24 – Jarret Stoll, ice hockey player
 * July 6 – Kelly Stefanyshyn, swimmer
 * July 8 – Ariel Helwani, combat sports commentator
 * July 9 – Viola Yanik, wrestler
 * July 17 – Jessi Cruickshank, television host
 * August 20 – Meghan Ory, actress
 * August 21 – Omar Sachedina, journalist and news anchor
 * September 1 – Jeffrey Buttle, figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist and World Champion
 * September 2 – Kelly Haxton, soccer player
 * September 21 – Cindy Eadie, softball player
 * September 23 – Shyla Stylez, porn actress (d. 2017)
 * October 29 – Chelan Simmons, actress
 * October 31 – Justin Chatwin, actor
 * November 26 – Alison Braden, water polo player
 * November 29 – Elizabeth Collins, swimmer
 * December 22 – Brooke Nevin, actress
 * December 29 – Brian Hill, Paralympic swimmer
 * December 30 – Kristin Kreuk, actress

Full date unknown

 * July – Gregory Despres, murderer
 * Ryan Riordon, politician

January to June

 * January 5 – Elizabeth Bagshaw, doctor (b.1881)
 * March 28 – William Giauque, chemist and Nobel laureate (b.1895)

 * May 8 – Gilles Villeneuve, motor racing driver (b.1950).
 * June 10 – Elizabeth Goudie, writer (b.1902).
 * June 28 – Igor Gouzenko, Russian defector (b.1919)

July to December

 * July 25 – Hal Foster, cartoonist (b.1892)
 * October 4 – Glenn Gould, pianist (b.1932)
 * October 16 – Hugh John Flemming, politician and 24th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1899)
 * October 16 – Hans Selye, endocrinologist (b.1907)
 * October 18 – John Robarts, lawyer, politician and 17th Premier of Ontario (b.1917)
 * November 2 – J. Dewey Soper, Arctic explorer, zoologist, ornithologist and author (b.1893)
 * November 19 – Erving Goffman, sociologist and writer (b.1922)
 * November 29 – Percy Williams, athlete and double Olympic gold medallist (b.1908)
 * December 2 – Honore Brenot, professional ice hockey player (b. 1899)
 * December 7 – Harry Jerome, track and field runner (b.1940)
 * December 19 – George Isaac Smith, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1909)

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title: 1982 in Canada


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1983 in Canada

Events from the year 1983 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Edward Schreyer
 * Prime Minister – Pierre Trudeau
 * Chief Justice – Bora Laskin (Ontario)
 * Parliament – 32nd

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Francis Charles Lynch-Staunton
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henry Pybus Bell-Irving (until July 15) then Robert Gordon Rogers
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Pearl McGonigal
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – George Stanley
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – William Anthony Paddon
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – John Elvin Shaffner
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Black Aird
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Joseph Aubin Doiron
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Jean-Pierre Côté
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Irwin McIntosh (until July 6) then Frederick Johnson

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Peter Lougheed
 * Premier of British Columbia – Bill Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Howard Pawley
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Peckford
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Buchanan
 * Premier of Ontario – Bill Davis
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – James Lee
 * Premier of Quebec – René Lévesque
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Grant Devine

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Douglas Bell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – John Havelock Parker

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – George Braden
 * Premier of Yukon – Chris Pearson

Events

 * January 1 - The metric system of weights and measures is officially adopted by the federal government although Imperial units are still used.
 * January 17 - Saskatchewan MLA Colin Thatcher resigns as Minister of Energy and Mines after several well-publicised disputes with premier Grant Devine.
 * January 21 - Joann Thatcher, ex-wife of Saskatchewan MLA Colin Thatcher, is murdered in her Regina home. Colin would later be convicted of the crime.
 * February 1 - Pay television begins operating in Canada.
 * February 15 - The Tamarack Review ceases publication.
 * April 1 - The spending mandate by Premier Bill Bennett's government expires without a sitting of the House or the calling of an election: constitutional interregnum and crisis ensues.
 * April 5 - Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Henry Pybus Bell-Irving summons Premier Bennett to Government House. The L-G issues emergency warrants to cover spending until a snap election.
 * June 2 - Air Canada Flight 797 makes an emergency landing in Cincinnati, Ohio - a fire kills 23 of 41 passengers on board.
 * June 9 - Bill 101, protecting the French language in Quebec is ruled unconstitutional.
 * June 11 - Brian Mulroney replaces Joe Clark as leader of Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
 * June 17 - Saint John, New Brunswick Princess Diana and Prince Charles start their tour of Canada.
 * June 19 - BC Place in Vancouver opens.
 * July 23 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 makes an emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba.
 * October 1 - North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization is established.
 * November 17 - The Western Grain Transportation Act is passed.
 * December 23 - Jeanne Sauvé is appointed Canada's first female Governor General.

Full date unknown

 * Canada agrees to allow testing of American cruise missiles in the west.
 * The Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station, the first nuclear power plant in the Maritimes.

New books

 * A Time for Judas - Morley Callaghan
 * Unearthing Suite - Margaret Atwood
 * Seagull on Yonge Street - bill bissett
 * "Happy Endings" - Margaret Atwood

Awards

 * See 1983 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Diana Hartog, Matinee Light
 * Pat Lowther Award: Rhea Tregebov, Remembering History
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Morley Torgov, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Claire Mackay

Film

 * Graham Greene makes his film debut in Running Brave
 * David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone is released
 * A film is made of Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf, named Never Cry Wolf.

Sport

 * March 5 - Steve Podborski wins Gold at the World Cup of Skiing.
 * March 13 - Saskatchewan Huskies won their only University Cup by defeating the Concordia Stingers 6 to 2, the Final game was played at Moncton Coliseum
 * May 14 - Portland Winter Hawks become the First American team to win the Memorial Cup by defeating the Oshawa Generals 8 to 3.
 * October 1 - Tulsa Roughnecks won their only Soccer Bowl by defeating the Toronto Blizzard in Soccer Bowl '83 played at  BC Place Stadium in Vancouver
 * May 17 - New York Islanders won their Fourth (consecutive and last to date) Stanley Cup by defeating the Edmonton Oilers. Montreal's Mike Bossy was awarded his Second(consecutive) Conn Smythe Trophy
 * November 15 - Rocky Johnson becomes the Third Canadian to win the World Wrestling Federation's Tag Team Championship (with Tony Atlas as the "Soul Patrol") by defeating the Wild Samoans in Allentown, Pennsylvania
 * November 19 - Calgary Dinos won their First Vanier Cup by defeating the Queen's Golden Gaels 31 to 21 in the 19th Vanier Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
 * November 27 - Toronto Argonauts won their Tenth (and First since 1952) Grey Cup by defeating the BC Lions 18 to 17 in the 71st Grey Cup played at the Lions own BC Place Stadium in Vancouver

Births

 * January 3 – Joe Bartoch, swimmer
 * January 6 – Cristina Rosato, actress
 * January 9 – Chris Getzlaf, American football player; brother of Anaheim Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf
 * January 11 – Matthew Palleschi, soccer player
 * January 21 – Maryse Mizanin, pro wrestler
 * February 2 – Jordin Tootoo, ice hockey player
 * February 4 – Lauren Ash, actress and comedian
 * February 6 – Myron Wolf Child, youth activist, public speaker and politician (d.2007)
 * February 8 – Atiba Hutchinson,
 * February 9 – Keith Beavers, swimmer
 * February 14 – Sasha Andrews, soccer player
 * February 15 – Russell Martin, baseball player
 * February 28 – Marie-Pierre Gagné, synchronized swimmer
 * March 3
 * Olia Berger, judoka
 * Marie-Pier Boudreau Gagnon, synchronized swimmer
 * March 10 – Kyle Marshall, Canadian animator, storyboard artist, director and writer
 * March 31 – Ashleigh Ball, voice actress
 * April 1 – John Axford, baseball player
 * April 2 – Owen Fussey, ice hockey player
 * April 4 – Doug Lynch, ice hockey player
 * April 7 – Kyle Labine, actor
 * April 8 – Crystal Gilmore, artistic gymnast
 * April 11 – Joanna Douglas, actress
 * April 12 – Anthony Sedlak, chef, and the host of Food Network Canada's The Main (d.2012)
 * April 28 – Dan Mangan, singer-songwriter
 * May 4 – Jesse Moss, actor
 * May 20 – Dan Blackburn, ice hockey player
 * June 6 – Lyndie Greenwood, actress
 * June 13 – Jason Spezza, ice hockey player
 * June 14 – Torrance Coombs, actor
 * June 16 – Lisa Yamanaka, voice actress
 * June 22 – Sheena Lawrick, softball player
 * June 26 – Jessika Dubuc, synchronized swimmer
 * June 30 – Katherine Ryan, comedian and actress
 * July 6
 * Leo Carroll, volleyball player
 * Christine Firkins, actress
 * Gregory Smith, actor
 * July 12 – Krystin Pellerin, actress
 * July 14 – Katrina Chen, politician
 * July 16 – Duncan Keith, ice hockey player
 * July 21
 * Vinessa Antoine, actress
 * Tara Campbell, water polo player
 * August 10 – Mathieu Roy, professional ice hockey player
 * September 10 – Joey Votto, baseball player
 * September 15 – Ashleigh McIvor, freestyle skier
 * September 18 – Giulio Scandella, ice hockey player
 * September 27 – Jay Bouwmeester, ice hockey player
 * October 3 – Meghan Heffern, actress
 * October 5 – Noot Seear, fashion model and actress
 * October 16 – Kenny Omega, pro wrestler
 * October 21
 * Christine Moore, NDP politician
 * Charlotte Sullivan, actress
 * November 4 – Melanie Kok, rower
 * November 10 – Fred Cheng, Canadian-born Hong Kong singer
 * November 24 – Karine Vanasse, actress and producer
 * November 28 – Courtney Rush, professional wrestler
 * December 19
 * Laura Pomeroy, swimmer
 * Matt Stajan, ice hockey player
 * December 22 – Joe Dinicol, actor
 * December 24 – Daniel Stein, water polo player
 * date unknown – Anita Sarkeesian, Canadian-American feminist
 * date unknown – Jane McGregor, actress

January to June

 * January 21 - JoAnn Wilson, murder victim (b.1939)
 * March 16 - Fred Rose, politician and trade union organizer (b.1907)
 * May 1 - George Hodgson, swimmer and double Olympic gold medalist (b.1893)
 * May 10 - Leonard Marsh, social scientist and professor (b.1906)
 * May 25 - Jean Rougeau, professional wrestler and bodyguard of Québec Premier René Lévesque (b.1929)
 * June 2 -
 * Thomas John Bentley, politician (b.1891)
 * Stan Rogers, folk musician and songwriter (b.1949)
 * June 12 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award–winning actress (b.1902)
 * June 27 - Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, playwright and journalist (b.1933)

July to December

 * July 11 - Ross Macdonald, novelist (b.1915)
 * July 13 - Gabrielle Roy, author (b.1909)
 * July 29 - Raymond Massey, actor (b.1896)
 * September 21 - Andrew Brewin, lawyer and politician (b.1907)
 * October 20 - Yves Thériault, author (b.1915)
 * November 24 - Graham Spry, broadcasting pioneer, business executive, diplomat and socialist (b.1900)
 * December 2 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress (b.1904)
 * December 23 – Edythe Shuttleworth, mezzo-soprano (b.1907)

title: 1983 in Canada


text:
1984 in Canada

Events from the year 1984 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Edward Schreyer (until May 14) then Jeanne Sauvé
 * Prime Minister – Pierre Trudeau (until June 30) then John Turner (June 30 to September 17) then Brian Mulroney
 * Chief Justice – Bora Laskin (Ontario) (until 18 April) then Brian Dickson (Manitoba)
 * Parliament – 32nd (until 9 July) then 33rd (from November 5)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Francis Charles Lynch-Staunton
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Gordon Rogers
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Pearl McGonigal
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – George Stanley
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – William Anthony Paddon
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – John Elvin Shaffner (until February 1) then Alan Abraham
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Black Aird
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Joseph Aubin Doiron
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Jean-Pierre Côté (until March 28) then Gilles Lamontagne
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Frederick Johnson

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Peter Lougheed
 * Premier of British Columbia – Bill Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba – Howard Pawley
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Peckford
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Buchanan
 * Premier of Ontario – Bill Davis
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – James Lee
 * Premier of Quebec – René Lévesque
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Grant Devine

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Douglas Bell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – John Havelock Parker

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – George Braden then Richard Nerysoo
 * Premier of Yukon – Chris Pearson

January to June

 * January 12 - Richard Nerysoo becomes government leader of the Northwest Territories, replacing George Braden.
 * February 29 - Pierre Trudeau announces he will retire as soon as the Liberal Party of Canada can elect another leader.
 * April 5 - A fire races through Number 26 Colliery in Glace Bay on Cape Breton Island killing one miner. This effectively closes the mine permanently, ending years of coal mining in Glace Bay.
 * May 8 - Cpl. Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing 3 and wounding 13. René Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
 * June 30 - John Turner becomes Canada's seventeenth prime minister replacing the retiring Pierre Trudeau.

July to December

 * July 18 - Quebec actress Denise Morelle is found murdered in a house she had gone to visit Sanguinet Street in Montreal. Autopsies show that she was raped and brutally beaten to death. The murderer, 49-year-old Gaetan Bissonnette, will not be discovered until 2007.
 * August 31 - MuchMusic first airs.
 * September 1 - The Sports Network (TSN) first airs.
 * September 3 - In protest of the upcoming Papal visit, Thomas Bernard Brigham, a retired American armed forces officer, bombs Montreal's Central Station, killing 3 people and wounding more than 30.
 * September 4 - In the 1984 federal election, the incumbent government of the Liberal Party of Canada is defeated as the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins the largest parliamentary majority in Canadian history.
 * September 9–20 - Pope John Paul II tours Canada.
 * September 17 - Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Canada's eighteenth prime minister.
 * September 25 - The Premier of New Brunswick Richard Bennett Hatfield is accused of drug possession (35 grams of cannabis was found in his bag) during the official visit of Queen Elizabeth II in the province. He was finally acquitted.
 * October 5 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
 * November 6
 * Saskatchewan MLA Colin Thatcher is convicted of the murder of his ex-wife Joanne.
 * Nova Scotia election: John Buchanan's Progressive Conservatives win a third consecutive majority.
 * November 23 - The Fredericton City Hall is designated a National Historic Site.

Full date unknown

 * Labatt introduces the first twist-off cap on a reusable beer bottle.
 * Telelatino Network signs on in October.

New books

 * Neuromancer: William Gibson
 * La Détresse et l'enchantement: Gabrielle Roy
 * Dinner Along the Amazon: Timothy Findley
 * The Summer Tree: Guy Gavriel Kay

Awards

 * See 1984 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Heather Robertson, Willie
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Sandra Birdsell, Night Travellers and Jean McKay, Gone to Grass
 * Pat Lowther Award: Bronwen Wallace, Signs of the Former Tenant
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Gary Lautens, No Sex Please...We're Married
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Bill Freeman

Film

 * James Cameron's The Terminator propels the Canadian director to international fame

Television

 * Jeopardy! is relaunched with Canadian Alex Trebek as host
 * Second City Television ends its run on Canadian television

Sport

 * May 19 – Edmonton Oilers win their first Stanley Cup defeating the New York Islanders 5 to 2. The deciding Game 5 was played at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton. Edmonton's own Mark Messier was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * May 19 – Ottawa 67's win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Kitchener Rangers 7 to 2. The final game was played at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium in Kitchener, Ontario
 * August 12 – At the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles Canada has its best performance ever, mostly due to the boycott of the games by the Eastern Bloc countries.
 * October 3 – Chicago Sting win their second Soccer Bowl by defeating the Toronto Blizzard 2 games to 0. The deciding game was played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto. This would be the final game played in the original North American Soccer League
 * November 18 – Winnipeg Blue Bombers win their eighth Grey Cup (and first since 1962) by defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 47 to 17 in the 72nd Grey Cup played at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. Edmonton's own Sean Kehoe is awarded the game's Most Valuable Canadian
 * November 24 – Guelph Gryphons win their first Vanier Cup by defeating the Mount Allison Mounties 22 to 13 in the 20th Vanier Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.

Births

 * January 2 – Kristen Hager, film and television actress
 * January 26 – Jon Hameister-Ries, football player (died 2021)
 * February 8 – Manuel Osborne-Paradis, skier
 * February 10 – Chris Pellini, canoeist
 * February 15 – Mark de Jonge, canoeist
 * March 13 – Noel Fisher, actor
 * March 26 – Stéphanie Lapointe, singer-songwriter and actress
 * April 25 – Dallas Soonias, volleyball player
 * April 27 – Pierre-Marc Bouchard, ice hockey player
 * May 7 – Kevin Owens, pro wrestler
 * May 29 – James Steacy, hammer thrower
 * June 2 – Max Boyer, wrestler
 * June 13 – Chanelle Charron-Watson, swimmer
 * June 16 – Rick Nash, ice hockey player
 * June 27 – Kate Richardson, gymnast
 * July 3 – Corey Sevier, actor
 * July 11 – Melanie Papalia, actress
 * July 12 – Sami Zayn, pro wrestler
 * July 20 – Nicholas Tritton, judoka
 * July 24 – Tyler Kyte, actor and singer
 * August 4 – Scott Dickens, swimmer
 * August 6 – Kit Lang, actor
 * September 5
 * Marina Radu, water polo player
 * Shawn Hook, singer-songwriter
 * September 19 – Kevin Zegers, actor
 * September 22 – Laura Vandervoort, actress
 * September 27 – Avril Lavigne, singer-songwriter, fashion designer and actress
 * October 1 – Rosanna Tomiuk, water polo player
 * October 4 – Sheray Thomas, basketball player
 * October 11 – Martha MacIsaac, actress
 * October 24 – Sultana Frizell, hammer thrower
 * October 26 – Dominique Perreault, water polo player
 * November 26 – Shannon Rempel, speed skater
 * November 28 – Marc-André Fleury, ice hockey player
 * December 21 – Sarah Mutch, model and actress

January to June

 * February 7 – James Sinclair, politician, businessman and father of Margaret Sinclair, one-time wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and grandfather of Justin Trudeau (born 1908)
 * February 9 – William Earl Rowe, politician and 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (born 1894)
 * March 22 – Stanley Fox, politician (born 1906)
 * March 26 – Bora Laskin, jurist and 14th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1912)
 * March 30 – Gaëtan Dugas, early AIDS patient, the alleged and debunked Patient Zero for AIDS (born 1953)
 * April 11 – Adhémar Raynault, politician and Mayor of Montreal (born 1891)
 * May 17 – Gordon Sinclair, journalist, writer and commentator (born 1900)
 * May 19 – Russell Paulley, politician (born 1909)
 * May 30 – George Pearkes, politician, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1888)

July to December

 * July 17 – Denise Morelle, actress and murder victim (born 1926)
 * August 12 – Lenny Breau, guitarist (born 1941)
 * September 25 – Walter Pidgeon, actor (born 1897)
 * October 2 – Harry Strom, politician and 9th Premier of Alberta (born 1914)
 * October 19 – Grant Notley, politician (born 1939)
 * December 31 – Chester Ronning, diplomat and politician (born 1894)

title: 1984 in Canada


text:
1986 in Canada

Events from the year 1986 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Jeanne Sauvé
 * Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney
 * Chief Justice – Brian Dickson (Manitoba)
 * Parliament – 33rd

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Helen Hunley
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Gordon Rogers
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Pearl McGonigal (until December 11) then George Johnson
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – George Stanley
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – William Anthony Paddon (until September 5) then James McGrath
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alan Abraham
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Lincoln Alexander
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Lloyd MacPhail
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gilles Lamontagne
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Frederick Johnson

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Don Getty
 * Premier of British Columbia – Bill Bennett (until August 6) then Bill Vander Zalm
 * Premier of Manitoba – Howard Pawley
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Peckford
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Buchanan
 * Premier of Ontario – David Peterson
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – James Lee (until May 2) then Joe Ghiz
 * Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Grant Devine

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Douglas Bell (until March 27) then  John Kenneth McKinnon
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – John Havelock Parker

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Nick Sibbeston
 * Premier of Yukon – Tony Penikett

January to June

 * January 22 – An investigation determines that a bomb caused the crash of Air India flight 182.
 * January 31 – The Canadian dollar hits an all-time low of 70.2 U.S. cents on international money markets.
 * February 8 – Hinton train collision: 23 people are killed when the Super Continental passenger train collides with a Canadian National Railway freight train near Hinton, Alberta.
 * April 4 – Port Simpson, British Columbia, is renamed to Lax Kwʼalaams.
 * May 1 – Shirley Carr becomes the first female head of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
 * May 2
 * Joe Ghiz becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James Lee.
 * The 1986 World Exposition (Expo 86) in Vancouver opens.
 * May 8 – Alberta election: The PCs, led by Don Getty, win a fifth consecutive majority, but a smaller majority than before.
 * May 9 – Roger Coles resigns as leader of Yukon Liberal Party and MLA for Tatchun after being arrested and charged with selling cocaine to an undercover police officer.
 * May 25 – In Vancouver an attempt is made to assassinate Malkiat Singh Sidhu, a cabinet minister in the Indian state of Punjab.
 * June 14 – An accident involving the Mindbender roller coaster at West Edmonton Mall kills three people and seriously injures a fourth.
 * June 19 – The new Competition Act comes into force.
 * June 20 – Jean Drapeau resigns as mayor of Montreal.

July to December

 * August 5 – Canada adopts sanctions against South Africa for its apartheid policies
 * August 6 – Bill Vander Zalm becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Bill Bennett
 * August 11 – Tamil refugees are found drifting off the coast of Newfoundland
 * September 16 – Elizabeth II augments the coat of arms of Saskatchewan with a crest and supporters
 * September 30 – MPs elect the speaker by secret ballot for the first time.
 * October 6 – Canada receives a United Nations award for sheltering refugees
 * October 20 – Saskatchewan election: Grant Devine's PCs win a second consecutive majority
 * November 13 – The announcement that the film producer Claude Jutra was reported missing for over one week. He had started to suffer the first symptoms of the Alzheimer's disease.
 * December 8 – The University of Toronto's John C. Polanyi shares the Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of the chemical laser.

Full date unknown

 * Negotiators begin work on what would eventually be the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement
 * The birds series of Canadian banknotes is released
 * Supreme Court rules on the RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd. case
 * Conrad Black buys The Daily Telegraph
 * Dinosaur fossils are found near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia

New works

 * Margaret Atwood - Freeforall
 * W.P. Kinsella - The Fence Post Chronicles
 * Robert Munsch - Love You Forever
 * Alice Munro - The Progress of Love
 * Antonine Maillet - Garrochés en paradis
 * Hugh Hood - The Motor Boys in Ottawa
 * William Gibson - Count Zero

Awards

 * See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Wayne Johnston, The Story of Bobby O'Mally
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Joan Fern Shaw, Raspberry Vinegar
 * Marian Engel Award: Alice Munro
 * Pat Lowther Award: Erín Moure, Domestic Fuel
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Joey Slinger, No Axe too Small to Grind
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Dennis Lee

New music

 * Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
 * Neil Young - Landing on Water

New movies

 * James Cameron's Aliens is released
 * David Cronenberg's The Fly
 * Denys Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire

Sport

 * March 15 – In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium (England) Canada beats England 3 – 1.
 * May 17 – The Guelph Platers win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Hull Olympiques 6 to 2.
 * May 24 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 23rd Stanley Cup by defeating the Calgary Flames. The deciding Game 5 is played at Olympic Saddledome in Calgary
 * June 1 - Canada participates in the FIFA World Cup for the first, and to date only, time.
 * November 22 – The UBC Thunderbirds win their second championship by defeating the Western Ontario Mustangs by a score of 25–23.
 * November 30 – Hamilton Tiger-Cats win their 7th Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Eskimos 39 to 15 in the 74th Grey Cup played at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver

Unknown date
 * The Canadian Amateur Football Association is renamed Football Canada.
 * Montreal Concordes are re-branded as the "new" Montreal Allouettes

Births

 * January 8 – Jaclyn Linetsky, actress (d. 2003)
 * January 20 – Krystina Alogbo, water polo player
 * February 13 – Matthew Hawes, swimmer
 * February 19 – Jayde Nicole, model
 * April 4 – Cam Barker, ice hockey defenceman
 * April 8 - Jevohn Shepherd, basketball player
 * April 21 – Kevin Graham, water polo player
 * April 28 – Brandon Jung, water polo player
 * May 12 – Emily VanCamp, actress
 * May 31 – Melissa McIntyre, actress
 * June 5 – Amanda Crew, actress
 * June 18 – Meaghan Rath, actress
 * July 16 – Dustin Boyd, ice hockey player
 * July 19 – Jinder Mahal, pro wrestler
 * August 16 – Sarah Pavan, volleyball player
 * August 19 – Marie-Christine Schmidt, canoeist
 * August 20 – Linus Sebastian, youtuber
 * August 29 – Lauren Collins, actress
 * September 8 – Leah LaBelle, singer (d. 2018)
 * September 19 – Carrie Finlay, voice actor
 * October 24 – Drake, Canadian-American actor and rapper
 * November 4 – Alexz Johnson, singer-songwriter, actress, and philanthropist
 * November 5 – Heather Purnell, artistic gymnast
 * November 8 – Kaniehtiio Horn, actress
 * December 7 – Corey Vidal, online video content provider and digital media consultant
 * December 12 – Marie-Pier Beaudet, archer
 * December 16 – Scott Tupper, field hockey player
 * December 19 – Annie Murphy, actress

January to June

 * January 4 - Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (b. 1901)
 * January 26 - Norman MacKenzie, author, lawyer, professor and Senator (b. 1894)
 * February 23 - Louis-Philippe Pigeon, judge of the Supreme Court of Canada (b. 1905)
 * February 24 - Tommy Douglas, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1904)
 * February 27 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey player (b. 1929)
 * March 4 - Richard Manuel, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist (b. 1943)
 * March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, poet and novelist (b. 1913)
 * June 13 - Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944 (b. 1901)

July to December

 * July 25 - Alison Parrott, murder victim (b. 1974)
 * August 20 - Milton Acorn, poet, writer and playwright (b. 1923)
 * September 28 – Howard Graham, army officer, Chief of the General Staff (b. 1898)
 * October 11 – Barker Fairley, painter (b. 1887 in the United Kingdom)
 * October 26 – John Henry Cates, businessman and political figure (b. 1896)
 * November 5 - Claude Jutra, actor, film director and writer (b. 1930)
 * November 8 - King Clancy, ice hockey player (b. 1903)
 * November 19 - Don Jamieson, politician, diplomat and broadcaster (b. 1921)
 * December 31 - Donald Fleming, politician, International Monetary Fund official and lawyer (b. 1905)

title: 1986 in Canada


text:
1987 in Canada

Events from the year 1987 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Jeanne Sauvé
 * Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney
 * Chief Justice – Brian Dickson (Manitoba)
 * Parliament – 33rd

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Helen Hunley
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Gordon Rogers
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – George Johnson
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – George Stanley (until August 20) then Gilbert Finn
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – James McGrath
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alan Abraham
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Lincoln Alexander
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Lloyd MacPhail
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gilles Lamontagne
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Frederick Johnson

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Don Getty
 * Premier of British Columbia – Bill Vander Zalm
 * Premier of Manitoba – Howard Pawley
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield (until October 27) then Frank McKenna
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Peckford
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Buchanan
 * Premier of Ontario – David Peterson
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Joe Ghiz
 * Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Grant Devine

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – John Kenneth McKinnon
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – John Havelock Parker

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Nick Sibbeston (until November 12) then Dennis Patterson
 * Premier of Yukon – Tony Penikett

Events

 * January 1 – Frobisher Bay changes its name to Iqaluit.
 * April 21 – The lifeless body of Claude Jutra was finally found in the Saint Lawrence River near Cap-Santé.
 * April 30 – Provincial premiers agree to Meech Lake Accord.
 * May 22 – Rick Hansen returns home to Vancouver after his Man in Motion world tour.
 * June 30 – Canada introduces a $1 coin, commonly called loonie; the dollar bill is withdrawn in 1989.
 * a bill to restore the death penalty was defeated by the House of Commons in a 148–127 vote, in which Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Minister of Justice Ray Hnatyshyn, and Minister of External Affairs Joe Clark opposed the bill, whereas Deputy Prime Minister Donald Mazankowski and a majority of Progressive Conservative MPs supported it.
 * July 3 – Quebec City becomes the first city in North America to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
 * July 14 – Montreal is hit by a series of severe thunderstorms during the Montreal Flood of 1987.
 * July 31 – The Edmonton Tornado kills 27 people.
 * September 10 – Ontario election: David Peterson's Liberals win a majority.
 * September 20 – Pope John Paul II visits the Northwest Territories.
 * October – Canadian and American negotiators reach agreement on the Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement.
 * October 27 – Frank McKenna becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Richard Hatfield.
 * October 31 – The Reform Party of Canada is founded.
 * November 12 – Dennis Patterson becomes government leader of the Northwest Territories, replacing Nick Sibbeston.
 * November 30 – Several new Canadian specialty channels are licensed: YTV, VisionTV, CBC Newsworld, The Weather Network/MeteoMedia, and one pay-television channel: The Family Channel.
 * December 16 – Chartwell Technology company is founded in British Columbia.
 * Undated

 * ElderTreks, Canadian adventure travel company is founded.

New works

 * William Bell: Metal Head
 * Dave Duncan:  A Rose-Red City
 * Michael Ignatieff: The Russian Album
 * Irving Layton: Fortunate Exile
 * Donald Jack: This One's on Me
 * Steve McCaffery: Evoba
 * Antonine Maillet: Margot la folle
 * Farley Mowat: Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey
 * Paul Quarrington, King Leary
 * Mordecai Richler: Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur

Awards

 * See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Karen Lawrence, The Life of Helen Alone
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Rosemary Sullivan, The Space a Name Makes
 * Marian Engel Award: Audrey Thomas
 * Pat Lowther Award: Heather Spears, How to Read Faces
 * Stephen Leacock Award: W.P. Kinsella, The Fencepost Chronicles
 * Trillium Book Award: Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Robert Munsch

Music

 * November 27 – Rock band Cowboy Junkies record their most famous album, The Trinity Session, at Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity.

Sport

 * January 26 – Calgary's Bret Hart wins his first title when he became the third Canadian to win the World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championship (with Jim Neidhart as The Hart Foundation) by defeating the British Bulldogs in Tampa, Florida, for the WWF's Superstars of Wrestling
 * May 15 – Medicine Hat Tigers win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Oshawa Generals 6 to 2. The final game was played at Oshawa Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, Ontario
 * May 31 – Edmonton Oilers win their third Stanley Cup by defeating the Philadelphia Flyers 4 games to 3. The deciding Game 7 was played at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton. Brandon, Manitoba's Ron Hextall was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy in a losing effort.
 * June 24 – The "new" Montreal Allouettes cease operations
 * August 30 – Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson sets a new world record in the 100-metre dash.
 * November 21 – McGill Redmen win their first Vanier Cup by defeating the UBC Thunderbirds by a score of 47–11 in the 23rd Vanier Cup
 * November 29 – Edmonton Eskimos win their tenth Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Argonauts 38 to 36 in the 75th Grey Cup played at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver

Births

 * January 1
 * Gilbert Brulé, ice hockey player
 * Devin Setoguchi, ice hockey player
 * January 15
 * Kelleigh Ryan, fencer
 * Michael Seater, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
 * January 16 – Jake Epstein, actor
 * January 19 – Alexandra Orlando, rhythmic gymnast
 * January 21 – Andrew Forde, engineering graduate student and musician
 * February 12 – Anna Hopkins, actress
 * February 21 – Elliot Page, actor
 * February 25
 * Andrew Poje, figure skater
 * Eva Avila, singer
 * March 31 – Winston Venable, American football player
 * April 1 – Mackenzie Davis, actress
 * April 4 – Sarah Gadon, actress
 * April 9 – Felix Cartal, DJ and producer
 * April 10 – Shay Mitchell, actress, model, entrepreneur, and author
 * April 11 – Lights (Valerie Poxleitner), singer and songwriter
 * April 27
 * Joëlle Békhazi, water polo player
 * Alexandra Carter, voice actress
 * Emma Taylor-Isherwood, actress
 * April 30 – Jeremy Bordeleau, canoeist
 * May 1 – Marissa Ponich, fencer
 * May 16 – Kylie Stone, artistic gymnast
 * May 17 – Con Kudaba, water polo player
 * May 29 – Noah Reid, actor and musician
 * June 18 – Niels Schneider, French-Canadian actor
 * June 22 – Melanie Banville, artistic gymnast
 * July 7
 * Mylène Mackay, actress
 * Steven Crowder, American-Canadian political youtuber
 * August 7 – Sidney Crosby, ice hockey player
 * August 8 – Jenn Proske, actress
 * August 16 – Carey Price, ice hockey goaltender
 * August 25
 * Stacey Farber, actress
 * La zarra, singer
 * September 2
 * Mazin Elsadig, American-Canadian actor
 * Scott Moir, ice dancer
 * September 13 – G.NA, singer
 * September 16 – Christina Schmidt, actress and model
 * September 23 – Shannon Chan-Kent, actress and voice actress
 * September 29 – Kyle Riabko, pop singer and guitarist
 * October 6 – Kia Byers, canoeist
 * October 15
 * Jesse Levine, Canadian-American tennis player
 * Chantal Strand, actress and voice actress
 * October 16 – Pascal Wollach, swimmer
 * October 29 – Jessica Dubé, figure skater
 * November 12 – Bryan Little, ice hockey player
 * November 15 – Ludi Lin, Chinese-Canadian actor
 * December 12 – Kate Todd, actress and singer-songwriter

January to June

 * January 5 – Margaret Laurence, novelist and short story writer (b.1926)
 * January 5 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, ski pioneer and supercentenarian (b.1875)
 * January 27 – Norman McLaren, animator and film director (b.1914)
 * February 19 – Russell Doern, politician (b.1935)
 * March 21 – Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (b.1906)

July to December

 * September 11 – Lorne Greene, actor (b.1915)
 * September 19 – Ralph Steinhauer, native leader, first Aboriginal to become the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (b.1905)
 * October 5 – Conrad Bourcier, ice hockey player (b.1915)
 * October 13 – Hugh Alexander Bryson, politician (b.1912)
 * October 15 – Juda Hirsch Quastel, biochemist (b.1899)
 * November 1 – René Lévesque, politician, Minister and 23rd Premier of Quebec (b.1922)
 * November 6 – George Laurence, nuclear physicist (b.1905)
 * November 18 – George Ryga, playwright and novelist (b.1932)
 * November 29 – Gwendolyn MacEwen, novelist and poet (b.1941)

title: 1987 in Canada


text:
1989 in Canada

Events from the year 1989 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Jeanne Sauvé
 * Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney
 * Chief Justice – Brian Dickson (Manitoba)
 * Parliament – 34th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Helen Hunley
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – David Lam
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – George Johnson
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Gilbert Finn
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – James McGrath
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alan Abraham (until February 20) then Lloyd Crouse
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Lincoln Alexander
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Lloyd MacPhail
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gilles Lamontagne
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Sylvia Fedoruk

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Don Getty
 * Premier of British Columbia – Bill Vander Zalm
 * Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Peckford (until March 22) then Tom Rideout (March 22 to May 5) then Clyde Wells
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Buchanan
 * Premier of Ontario – David Peterson
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Joe Ghiz
 * Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Grant Devine

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – John Kenneth McKinnon
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – John Havelock Parker (until October 2) then Daniel L. Norris

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Dennis Patterson
 * Premier of Yukon – Tony Penikett

Events

 * January 1: The Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
 * January 21: Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford announces his resignation from politics, giving the PC Party 2 months to find a replacement as party leader and premier.
 * January 30: Prime Minister Brian Mulroney shuffles his cabinet, appointing 6 new ministers and reassigning the responsibilities of 19 others.
 * February 10: President of the United States George H. W. Bush Prime Minister Mulroney in Ottawa, laying the groundwork for the Acid Rain Treaty of 1991.
 * February 20: In the Yukon Territory, the ruling New Democrats narrowly maintain control of the Yukon Legislative Assembly, winning 9 seats vs. the Progressive Conservative Party's 7.
 * March 1: The Canadian Space Agency is created.
 * March 10: An Air Ontario flight crashes near Dryden, Ontario, killing 24.
 * March 13: 2:44 AM ET: A solar coronal mass ejection causes a blackout across all of Quebec, as it hits the Hydro-Québec power grid, affecting 6 million people for more than 9 hours.
 * March 13: Deborah Grey wins a by-election to become the first Reform Party Member of Parliament.
 * March 19: LGBT activist Joe Rose is murdered on public transit in Montreal.
 * March 20: Alberta election: Don Getty's PCs win a sixth consecutive majority.
 * March 22: Thomas Rideout becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Brian Peckford.
 * April 20: The Liberal Party of Newfoundland, led by Clyde Wells, wins the Newfoundland general election.
 * May 3: John Turner resigns as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
 * May 5: Clyde Wells becomes premier of Newfoundland, defeating Thomas Rideout in a general election.
 * May 25: The Calgary Flames defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the 1989 Stanley Cup Finals.
 * May 29: The Liberal Party of Prince Edward Island, led by Joe Ghiz, remains in power following the Prince Edward Island general election.
 * June 3: The SkyDome (now known as Rogers Centre) is opened in Toronto.
 * June 5: The federal government announces sweeping cuts to Via Rail.
 * July 31: Cable television network CBC Newsworld is launched.
 * August 2: Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs Bernard Valcourt resigns after he is convicted of drunk driving.
 * September 1: French cable sports network, RDS, signs on.
 * September 25: In the Quebec general election, the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa, is reelected with a large Liberal majority.
 * October 6: Prime Minister Mulroney nominates Ray Hnatyshyn to succeed Jeanne Sauvé as Governor General of Canada.
 * October 8: The Cormier Village hayride accident kills 13 people and injures 45.
 * October 15 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the leading scorer in the history of the National Hockey League.
 * December 2: Audrey McLaughlin is elected head of the NDP replacing Ed Broadbent becoming the first female major party leader in Canadian history.
 * December 6: École Polytechnique massacre: Marc Lépine murders fourteen women at the École Polytechnique of the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec. The event proves a spur to both the Canadian feminist and gun control movements.
 * December 21: Quebec uses the notwithstanding clause for the first time.
 * December 31: All rail service is terminated in Prince Edward Island after CN Rail abandons its historic rail lines in the province.

Full date unknown

 * Corel releases Corel Draw.
 * Heather Erxleben becomes Canada's first official female combat soldier.
 * Sidney Altman shares in the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

New works

 * Mordecai Richler: Solomon Gursky Was Here
 * Steve McCaffery: The Black Debt
 * Erín Moure: WSW
 * Joy Fielding: Good Intentions
 * Dave Duncan: West of January
 * Tomson Highway: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
 * William Bell: Death Wind
 * Farley Mowat: The New Found Land

Awards

 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Rick Salutin, A Man of Little Faith
 * See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award: Martyn Godfrey, Mystery in the Frozen Lands, and Dorothy Perkyns, Rachel's Revolution
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Sarah Klassen, Journey to Yalta
 * Marian Engel Award: Merna Summers
 * Pat Lowther Award: Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
 * Stephen Leacock Award: John Kertes, Winter Tulips
 * Trillium Book Award: Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Stéphane Poulin

Music

 * Simply Saucer, Cyborgs Revisited
 * Tragically Hip – Up to Here

Sport

 * May 13 – Swift Current Broncos win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatoon Blades 4 to 3. The final game was played at Saskatchewan Place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
 * May 25 – Calgary Flames win their only Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 is played at the Montreal Forum. Inverness, Nova Scotia's Al MacInnis is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * June 5 – Toronto Blue Jays lose the first baseball game played at the SkyDome to the Milwaukee Brewers 3 to 5.
 * November 18 – Western Ontario Mustangs win their fifth Vanier Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Huskies 35 to 10 in the 25th Grey Cup played at the SkyDome in Toronto.
 * November 26 – Saskatchewan Roughriders win their second (and first since 1966) Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 43 to 40 in the 77th Grey Cup played at the SkyDome in Toronto.

Births

 * January 9 – Nina Dobrev, actress
 * January 14 – Karine Thomas, synchronized swimmer
 * February 11 – Jesse Rath, actor
 * February 13 – Carly McKillip, actress
 * February 14 – Emma Miskew, curler
 * February 20 – Melanie Leishman, actress
 * March 3 – Andrea Brooks, actress
 * March 19 – Stephanie Horner, swimmer
 * April 5 - Rachel Homan, curler
 * April 13 – Mallory Deluce, ice hockey player
 * April 19 – Simu Liu, actor
 * April 25 – Marie-Michèle Gagnon, skier
 * April 28 – Steffi DiDomenicantonio, singer
 * May 11 – Alyssa Brown, artistic gymnast
 * May 17 – Tessa Virtue, ice dancer
 * May 23 – Grace Mahary, model
 * June 11 – Keith Aulie, ice hockey player
 * June 17 – Brandon Jones, singer
 * July 27 – Charlotte Arnold, actress
 * July 31 – Marshall Williams, actor
 * August 2 – Dominic Jalbert, ice hockey player
 * September 12 – Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs, artistic gymnast
 * September 23 – Craig Sharpe, singer
 * September 25 – Jordan Gavaris, actor
 * October 20 – Colin Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player
 * October 24 – Shenae Grimes, actress
 * November 3 – Nav, rapper
 * November 5 – Joey Lawrence, photographer
 * November 24 – Nicole Sassine, sprinter
 * December 2 – Cassie Steele, actress and singer-songwriter

January to June

 * January 20 – Beatrice Lillie, comic actress (b. 1894)
 * January 22 – Farquhar Oliver, politician (b. 1904)
 * January 31 – William Stephenson, soldier, airman, businessperson, inventor and spymaster (b. 1897)
 * February 9 – Ken Adachi, writer and literary critic (b. 1929)
 * May 14 – Joe Primeau, ice hockey player (b. 1906)
 * May 14 – E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder (b. 1901)
 * June 14 – Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger, politician (b. 1907)
 * June 26 – Howard Charles Green, politician and Minister (b. 1895)

July to December

 * July 3 – Peter Fox, politician (b. 1921)
 * July 13 – Samuel Boulanger, politician (b. 1909)
 * July 24 – Michael Estok, poet
 * August 10 – George Ignatieff, diplomat (b. 1913)
 * November 11 – Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr., minister and librarian (b. 1912)
 * September 12 – Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs, gymnast
 * November 13 – Victor Davis, swimmer, Olympic gold medalist and World Champion (b. 1964)
 * November 15 – George Manuel, Aboriginal leader (b. 1921)
 * November 29 – Nancy Bell, senator (b. 1924)
 * December 6 – Marc Lépine, murderer responsible for the École Polytechnique massacre (b. 1964)
 * December 26 – Doug Harvey, ice hockey player (b. 1924)
 * December 26 – Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1901)

title: 1989 in Canada


text:
1990 in Canada

The following events occurred in Canada in the year 1990.

Incumbents
and (senate 130)

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Jeanne Sauvé (until January 29) then Ray Hnatyshyn
 * Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney
 * Chief Justice – Brian Dickson (Manitoba) (until 30 June) then Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 34th senate (134)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Helen Hunley
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – David Lam
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – George Johnson
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Gilbert Finn
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – James McGrath
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Lloyd Crouse
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Lincoln Alexander
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Lloyd MacPhail (until August 16) then Marion Reid
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gilles Lamontagne (until August 9) then Martial Asselin
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Sylvia Fedoruk

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Don Getty
 * Premier of British Columbia – Bill Vander Zalm
 * Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Clyde Wells
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Buchanan (until September 12) then Roger Bacon
 * Premier of Ontario – David Peterson (until October 1) then Bob Rae
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Joe Ghiz
 * Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Grant Devine

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – John Kenneth McKinnon
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Daniel L. Norris

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Dennis Patterson
 * Premier of Yukon – Tony Penikett

January to June

 * January 15 – Massive cuts to Via Rail come into effect leading to the rerouting of The Canadian and many intercity trains.
 * January 24 – The Tories introduce legislation that would create the Goods and Services Tax (GST), a national sales tax.
 * January 24 – Jean Charest resigns from cabinet after he was found to have spoken with a judge.
 * January 29 – Ramon John Hnatyshyn replaces Jeanne Sauvé as governor general.
 * January 29 – A controversial resolution is passed by the city council of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, declaring the city "English-only".
 * February: The federal government announces that it will privatize Petro-Canada; the legislation to do so is introduced in October..
 * February 12 – A massive tire fire begins near Hagersville, Ontario. It takes 17 days to put out.
 * February 12 – 1990 Chambly by-election.
 * March 9 – Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord.
 * March 15 – The federal government decides that Sikhs may wear turbans while serving as Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers following the Baltej Singh Dhillon case.
 * March 22 – Canadian arms designer Gerald Bull is assassinated in Brussels.
 * May 12 – The Bloc Québécois Party is formed as several MPs led by Lucien Bouchard quit the Tories and Liberals.
 * May 24 – The Edmonton Oilers win the 1990 Stanley Cup Finals.
 * May 29 – Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Ottawa for a 29-hour visit.
 * June 6 – Stanley Charles Waters is the first elected senator.
 * June 12 – Elijah Harper prevents Manitoba from accepting the Meech Lake Accord.
 * June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting three Canadian and eight U.S. cities.
 * June 23 – Meech Lake Accord officially dead.
 * June 23 – Jean Chrétien elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada at a leadership convention held in Calgary.

July to December

 * July 11 – The Oka crisis begins.
 * September 6 – Bob Rae's Ontario New Democratic Party wins a surprise majority in Ontario.
 * September 12 – Roger Bacon becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing John Buchanan.
 * September 26 – Oka crisis ends.
 * September 27 – Brian Mulroney temporarily increases the size of the Senate to ensure passage of the GST.
 * October 1 – Bob Rae becomes premier of Ontario, replacing David Peterson.
 * November 1 – Brian Mulroney launches the Citizen's Forum on Canada's Future to get Canadians' input on constitutional reform.
 * December 10 – Jean Chrétien is returned to the House of Commons after winning a by election for the New Brunswick riding of Beauséjour.
 * December 13 – The Senate of Canada approves the GST..
 * December 17 – The GST becomes law.

Arts and literature

 * March 6 – The National Gallery of Canada acquires Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire for $1.8 million, causing a storm of controversy.

New works

 * Swann by Carol Shields published
 * The Evening News by Arthur Hailey
 * A Tenured Professor by John Kenneth Galbraith
 * TekWar by William Shatner
 * Magic Casement by Dave Duncan
 * Golden Fleece by Robert J. Sawyer
 * Medicine River by Thomas King
 * The Magic Machine: A Handbook of Computer Sorcery by Alexander Dewdney
 * Whylah Falls by George Elliott Clarke
 * The Wild Blue Yonder by Audrey Thomas
 * L'Oursiade by Antonine Maillet

Awards

 * See 1990 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Sandra Birdsell, The Missing Child
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award: Kit Pearson, The Sky Is Falling
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Steven Heighton, Stalin's Carnival
 * Marian Engel Award: Carol Shields
 * Pat Lowther Award: Patricia Young, The Mad and Beautiful Mothers
 * Stephen Leacock Award: W.O. Mitchell, According to Jake and the Kid
 * Trillium Book Award: Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Bernice Thurman Hunter

Music

 * RPM number-one hits of 1990
 * RPM number-one albums of 1990

Sport

 * May 13 – The Oshawa Generals win their fourth (and first since 1944) Memorial Cup by defeating the Kitchener Rangers 4 to 3 . The final game was played at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario
 * May 24 – The Edmonton Oilers win their fifth (and most recent) Stanley Cup by defeating the Boston Bruins 4 games to 1. Brandon, Manitoba's Bill Ranford is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * November 24 – The Saskatchewan Huskies win their first Vanier Cup by defeating the Saint Mary's Huskies 24 to 21 in the 26th Vanier Cup played at Skydome in Toronto
 * November 25 – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers win their tenth Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Eskimos 50 to 11 in the 78th Grey Cup  at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver. Scarborough, Toronto's Warren Hudson is awarded the game's Most Valuable Canadian

Date unknown
 * Doug Flutie returns to Canada to play with the BC Lions.

Births

 * January 18
 * Brett Lawrie, Canadian baseball player
 * Alex Pietrangelo, Canadian ice hockey player
 * January 24 – Mitchell Islam, ice dancer
 * January 29 – Danielle Parsons, curler
 * January 30 – Joe Colborne, ice hockey player
 * February 14 – Brett Dier, actor
 * February 23
 * Kevin Connauton, ice hockey defenceman
 * Marco Scandella, ice hockey defenceman
 * March 2 – Michael Hutchinson, ice hockey player
 * April 26 – Riley Voelkel, actress
 * May 13 – Jane Creba, murder victim (d. 2005)
 * June 3 – Jason Akeson, ice hockey player
 * June 4 – Jess Moskaluke, singer
 * June 5 – Junior Hoilett, footballer
 * June 7 – Michael Stone, ice hockey player
 * July 15 – Alexander Calvert, actor
 * August 7 – Jake Allen, hockey goaltender
 * August 15 – Chris Gudzowsky, Canadian born bobsledder
 * September 7 – Megan McNeil, singer (d. 2011)
 * September 28 – Kirsten Prout, actress
 * October 23 – Dalmar Abuzeid, actor
 * November 9 – Chris Di Staulo, filmmaker
 * November 19 – Laura Walker, curler
 * December 10 – Reda Agourram, soccer player
 * December 11 – Michael Pillarella, actor, writer, film producer and spoken word artist
 * December 27 – Milos Raonic, tennis player
 * December 31 – Patrick Chan, figure skater

January to June

 * January 7 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
 * March 16 – Dalton McGuinty Sr., politician and father of premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty and the politician David McGuinty (b. 1926)
 * March 22 – Gerald Bull, engineer and artillery designer (b. 1928)
 * March 24 – Jim St. James, actor and HIV/AIDS activist
 * April 11 – Harold Ballard, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs (b. 1903)

July to September

 * July 18
 * Johnny Wayne, comedian and comedy writer (b. 1918)
 * Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer (Offenbach) (b. 1946)
 * August 25 – Morley Callaghan, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television and radio personality (b. 1903)
 * September 6 – Stan Roberts, politician (b. 1927)
 * September 11 – Lela Brooks, speed skater and world record holder (b. 1908)

October to December

 * October 22 – Carl Klinck, literary historian and academic (b. 1908)
 * October 30 – Craig Russell, female impersonator (b. 1948)
 * November 2 – Frederick Thomas Armstrong, politician (b. 1907)
 * November 9 – Hugh MacLennan, author and professor of English (b. 1907)
 * December 7 – Jean Paul Lemieux, painter (b. 1904)
 * December 24 – Tammy Homolka, murder victim (b. 1975)
 * December 31 – Robina Higgins, track and field athlete (b. 1915)

title: 1990 in Canada


text:
1991 in Canada

Events from the year 1991 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Ray Hnatyshyn
 * Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney
 * Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 34th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Helen Hunley (until March 11) then Gordon Towers
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – David Lam
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – George Johnson
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Gilbert Finn
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – James McGrath (until November 5) then Frederick Russell
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Lloyd Crouse
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Lincoln Alexander (until December 11) then Hal Jackman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Marion Reid
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Martial Asselin
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Sylvia Fedoruk

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Don Getty
 * Premier of British Columbia – Bill Vander Zalm (until April 2) then Rita Johnston (April 2 to November 5) then Mike Harcourt
 * Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Clyde Wells
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Roger Bacon (until February 26) then Donald Cameron
 * Premier of Ontario – Bob Rae
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Joe Ghiz
 * Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Grant Devine (until November 1) then Roy Romanow

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – John Kenneth McKinnon
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Daniel L. Norris

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Dennis Patterson (until November 14) then Nellie Cournoyea
 * Premier of Yukon – Tony Penikett

January to June

 * January 1 – The Goods and Services Tax comes into effect.
 * January 15 – Canadian Forces begin their participation in the Persian Gulf War.
 * January 29 – The Allaire Committee releases its report on Canada's constitution: it recommends the transfer of many powers from the federal government to the provinces.
 * January 30 – Gulf War: A Canadian CF-18 Hornet attacks and causes irreparable damage to an Iraqi warship.
 * February 26 – Donald Cameron becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Roger Bacon.
 * February 27 – Gulf War: Iraq agrees to a cease-fire ending the conflict.
 * April 2 – Rita Johnston becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Bill Vander Zalm. She is the first woman premier in Canada.
 * April 22 – Joe Clark is appointed Minister responsible for Constitutional Affairs.
 * May – George Erasmus, leader of the Assembly of First Nations, resigns and is succeeded by Ovide Mercredi.
 * May 14 – MP John Nunziata alleges the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) know who bombed the Air-India flight 182 but did not have evidence needed for prosecution.
 * June 11 – The Quebec sovereigntist party Bloc Québécois is founded by Lucien Bouchard.
 * June 15 – Paul Bernardo kidnaps, rapes, and murders Leslie Mahaffy.
 * June 19 – The Dobbie-Castonguay Commission is created to look into changes to the constitution.

July to December

 * July 3 – The process leading to the privatization of Petro-Canada is started.
 * July 27 – Greg Welch (AUS) and Sue Schlatter (CAN) win the 1991 ITU Triathlon World Cup race (1.5 km swim, 40 km bike, 10 km run) in Vancouver.
 * August 4 – Brad Beven (AUS) and Karen Smyers (USA) win the 1991 ITU Triathlon World Cup race (1.5 km swim, 40 km bike, 10 km run) in Toronto.
 * September 24 – Dobbie-Castonguay Commission recommends an elected Senate and recognizing Quebec as a distinct society.
 * October 21 – The Saskatchewan election: Roy Romanow's NDP win a majority, defeating Grant Devine's PCs.
 * November 1 – Roy Romanow becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Grant Devine.
 * November 5 – Michael Harcourt becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Rita Johnston.
 * November 14 – Nellie Cournoyea becomes government leader of the Northwest Territories, replacing Dennis Patterson, the first woman to do so, first female premier of a Canadian territory and the second female premier in Canadian history after Rita Johnston of British Columbia.
 * November 24 – At the 79th Grey Cup the Toronto Argonauts defeat the Calgary Stampeders at Winnipeg Stadium in Winnipeg.
 * December 7 – A Bunch of Munsch premieres on CTV, based on the children's books by Robert Munsch.

Full date unknown

 * Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the President of Haiti, visits Canada and is warmly welcomed by the large Haitian community in Montreal, where he had studied at the Université de Montréal.
 * Julius Alexander Isaac is named Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada. He becomes the first Black Chief Justice in Canada.
 * David Schindler of the University of Alberta wins the first international Stockholm Water Prize for environmental research.
 * Ferguson Jenkins becomes the first Canadian elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
 * Canadian peacekeepers begin a five-year deployment to El Salvador.
 * Canadian observers are sent to Western Sahara.
 * News media: eye weekly created in Toronto.

New works

 * Rohinton Mistry: Such a Long Journey
 * Douglas Coupland: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
 * Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips
 * Dave Duncan: Faery Lands Forlorn
 * Hume Cronyn: A Terrible Liar
 * Spider Robinson: Starseed

Awards

 * See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Diana Brebner, Radiant Life Forms
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award: Marianne Brandis, The Sign of the Scales
 * Marian Engel Award: Joan Clark
 * Pat Lowther Award: Karen Connelly, The Small Words in My Body
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Howard White, Waiting in the Rain
 * Trillium Book Award: Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Brian Doyle

Film

 * Atom Egoyan's The Adjuster is released
 * James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day is released. It is the year's highest-grossing film

Music

 * Trevor Pinnock becomes director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra

Sport

 * May 19 – Spokane Chiefs win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Drummondville Voltigeurs 5 to 1. The final game was played at Colisée de Québec in Quebec City, Quebec
 * May 25 – Montreal, Quebec's Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * November 24 – Toronto Argonauts win their twelfth Grey Cup by defeating the Calgary Stampeders in the 79th Grey Cup played at Winnipeg Stadium in Winnipeg. Toronto's Dave Sapunjis was awarded the game's Most Valuable Canadian in a losing effort
 * November 30 – Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks win their first Vanier Cup by defeating the Mount Allison Mounties 25 to 18 in the 27th Vanier Cup

Births

 * January 13 – Kyle Clifford, ice hockey player
 * January 16 – Matt Duchene, hockey player
 * January 18 – Britt McKillip, actress and musician
 * January 21 – Brittany Tiplady, actress
 * January 25 – Jared Cowen, ice hockey player
 * January 28 – Calum Worthy, actor
 * February 12
 * Tanaya Beatty, actress
 * Ryan Kavanagh, ice hockey defenceman
 * March 10 – Landon Liboiron, actor
 * March 13 – Tristan Thompson, basketball player
 * March 14
 * Rhiannon Fish, actress
 * Greta Onieogou, actress
 * April 7 – Michelle Monkhouse, fashion model (died 2011)
 * April 19 – Kelly Olynyk, basketball player
 * April 22 – Aqsa Parvez, murder victim (died 2007)
 * May 8 – Ethan Gage, soccer player
 * May 10 – Jordan Francis, singer, dancer, actor, and choreographer
 * May 11 – Johnathon Robert Madden, murder victim (died 2003)
 * May 17 - Abigail Raye, field hockey player
 * May 29 – Jesse Camacho, actor
 * May 31 – Pierre-Luc Dusseault, politician
 * June 19 – Hilary Bell, swimmer
 * June 29 – Tajja Isen, actress
 * July 13 – Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes, ski jumper
 * July 20 – Andrew Shaw, ice hockey player
 * July 24 – Emily Bett Rickards, actress
 * August 6 – Kacey Rohl, actress
 * August 18 – Richard Harmon, actor
 * August 22 – Brayden Schenn, ice hockey player
 * August 23 – Jennifer Abel, diver
 * September 2 – Emma Lunder, biathlete
 * September 8 – Nicole Dollanganger, singer-songwriter
 * September 16 – Alexandra Paul, ice dancer (died 2023)
 * October 30 – Aliza Vellani, television actress
 * October 31 – Patricia Obee, rower
 * November 10 – Genevieve Buechner, actress
 * November 13 – Devon Bostick, actor
 * November 14
 * Miriam Brouwer, cyclist
 * Taylor Hall, ice hockey player
 * November 25 – Disguised Toast, Taiwanese-Canadian video game streamer, YouTuber, and Internet personality
 * November 28 – Ian Beharry, pair skater
 * December 12 – Daniel Magder, actor
 * December 17 – Léo Bureau-Blouin, politician

January to June

 * January 1 – Larry Condon, politician (born 1936)
 * January 23 – Northrop Frye, literary critic and literary theorist (born 1912)
 * February 7 – Jean-Paul Mousseau, artist (born 1927)
 * February 11 – Pete Parker, radio announcer (born 1895)
 * February 20 – Eugene Forsey, politician and constitutional expert (born 1904)
 * April 26 – Richard Hatfield, politician and 26th Premier of New Brunswick (born 1931)
 * May 9 – Loran Ellis Baker, politician (born 1905)
 * June 11 – David Croll, politician (born 1900)
 * June 16 – Leslie Mahaffy, murder victim (born 1976)

July to December

 * July 8 – Gordon Stewart Anderson, writer (born 1958)
 * July 10 – Grace MacInnis, politician and feminist (born 1905)
 * August 6 – Roland Michener, lawyer, politician diplomat and Governor-General of Canada (born 1900)
 * August 22 – Colleen Dewhurst, actress (born 1924)
 * August 31 – Cliff Lumsdon, world champion marathon swimmer (born 1931)
 * September 12 – Albert Bruce Matthews, commander of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division during the Second World War (born 1909)
 * September 25 – Stanley Waters, Senator (born 1920)
 * October 2 – Hazen Argue, politician (born 1921)
 * October 26 – Sherry Hawco, artistic gymnast (born 1964)
 * October 26 – Sherry Hawco, artistic gymnast (born 1964)

 * November 13 – Paul-Émile Léger, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (born 1904)
 * December 17 – Armand Frappier, physician and microbiologist (born 1904)

title: 1991 in Canada


text:
1992 in Canada

Events from the year 1992 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Ray Hnatyshyn
 * Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney
 * Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 34th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Gordon Towers
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – David Lam
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – George Johnson
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Gilbert Finn
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Frederick Russell
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Lloyd Crouse
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Hal Jackman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Marion Reid
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Martial Asselin
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Sylvia Fedoruk

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Don Getty (until December 14) then Ralph Klein
 * Premier of British Columbia – Mike Harcourt
 * Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Clyde Wells
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Donald Cameron
 * Premier of Ontario – Bob Rae
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Joe Ghiz
 * Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – John Kenneth McKinnon
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Daniel L. Norris

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Nellie Cournoyea
 * Premier of Yukon – Tony Penikett (until November 7) then John Ostashek

January to June

 * January: CBC Television's documentary series The Valour and the Horror is criticized by Canadian veterans' groups for reportedly misrepresenting Canadian military conduct during World War II.
 * January 22: On STS-42, Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
 * February 6: Ruby Jubilee of Elizabeth II's accession as Queen of Canada
 * April 5: The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported religious right group.
 * April 16 to 19: Abduction and murder of Kristen French.
 * May: Geological Survey of Canada expedition measures elevation of Mount Logan to 5,959 m.
 * May 7: Three employees are murdered and one permanently disabled during a robbery at a McDonald's restaurant in Sydney River, Nova Scotia.
 * May 9: 26 miners are killed in the Westray Mine Disaster.
 * May 17: Official opening of celebrations of the 350th anniversary of Montreal.

July to September

 * July 1:
 * Celebrations of the 125th anniversary of Confederation.
 * The Van Doos launch a successful operation to secure control of Sarajevo's airport.
 * Snowdrift, Northwest Territories, is renamed Łutselkʼe
 * July 2: a two-year shutdown of the cod fishery is announced.
 * August 8: During the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour, Metallica frontman and guitarist James Hetfield suffers second and third-degree burns during the band's concert at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. A riot broke out after Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose complained of throat problems and called off the band's set after just 55 minutes.
 * August 12: the details of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are released.
 * August 22: The final draft of the Charlottetown Accord, a proposed package of constitutional amendments, is released.
 * August 24: A mechanical engineering professor, Valery Fabrikant, opens fire at Concordia University in Montreal killing four people.
 * September 4: Nine workers at the Giant Mine are killed after striking employee Roger Warren detonates a bomb in the mine shaft.

October to December

 * October: The ban on homosexuals in the Canadian military is lifted, following a legal challenge by Michelle Douglas.
 * October 19: Yukon elections: John Ostashek's YP wins only a minority.
 * October 24: The Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Atlanta Braves, 4 games to 2, winning their first World Series Title and becoming the first Canadian team to win the World Series.
 * October 26: The Charlottetown Accord is rejected in a nationwide referendum.
 * October 28: The 1992 Manitoba municipal elections take place.
 * November 5: A referendum endorsing the creation of Nunavut is successful in the Northwest Territories.
 * November 7: John Ostashek becomes government leader of the Yukon, replacing Tony Penikett.
 * December 15: The first members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment arrive in Somalia on an ill-fated humanitarian mission.
 * December 16: Ralph Klein succeeds Don Getty as Premier of Alberta.
 * December 17: Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signs the NAFTA deal.

Full date unknown

 * Rudolph A. Marcus wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
 * Agriculture Canada introduces a national BSE prevention program.
 * Delwin Vriend, an Alberta teacher, wins a court case against the Alberta Human Rights Commission regarding the status of LGBT persons under the province's human rights legislation. The case was appealed to the Alberta Court of Appeal; see 1994 in Canada.
 * Charles de Gaulle Obelisk, Montreal unveiled.
 * Remsoft, an asset management software provider is founded.

New books

 * The English Patient: Michael Ondaatje
 * Tales from Firozsha Baag: Rohinton Mistry
 * Inkorrect thots: bill bissett
 * Mother, not mother: Di Brandt

Awards

 * Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient wins the Booker Prize, the first Canadian to do so.
 * See 1992 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Joanne Arnott, Wiles of Girlhood
 * Pat Lowther Award: Kate Braid, Covering Rough Ground
 * Marian Engel Award: Joan Barfoot
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Roch Carrier, Prayers of a Very Wise Child
 * Trillium Book Award: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Kevin Major

Music

 * Alanis, Now Is the Time
 * Barenaked Ladies, Gordon
 * Beau Dommage, Beau Dommage au Forum
 * Blue Rodeo, Lost Together
 * Bootsauce, Bull
 * La Bottine Souriante, Jusqu'aux p'tites heures
 * Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, Superior Cackling Hen
 * The Box, Decade of the Box
 * Change of Heart, Smile
 * Leonard Cohen, The Future
 * Cowboy Junkies, Black Eyed Man
 * 54-40, Dear Dear
 * Front Line Assembly, Tactical Neural Implant
 * Hart-Rouge, Le dernier mois de l'année
 * hHead, Fireman
 * Intermix, Intermix
 * Jr. Gone Wild, Pull the Goalie
 * Lava Hay, With a Picture in Mind
 * Leslie Spit Treeo, Book of Rejection
 * Martha and the Muffins, Modern Lullaby
 * Moxy Früvous, Moxy Früvous
 * Sarah McLachlan, Live EP
 * The Northern Pikes, Neptune
 * The Nylons, Live to Love
 * The Rankin Family, Fare Thee Well Love
 * Rheostatics, Whale Music
 * Jane Siberry, A Collection 1984–1989 and Summer in the Yukon
 * Skydiggers, Restless
 * Sloan, Peppermint and Smeared
 * The Tragically Hip, Fully Completely
 * The Waltons, Lik My Trakter
 * The Watchmen, mclarenfurnaceroom

Television

 * August 28 : The last episode of the children's series The Raccoons on CBC Television

Sport

 * February 8–February 23 – 1992 Winter Olympics are held in Albertville, France. Canada finishes ninth in the medal count.
 * May 17 – The Kamloops Blazers win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds 5 to 4.
 * June 1 – Montreal's Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins wins his second consecutive Conn Smythe Trophy
 * July 25–August 9 – Canada competes in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
 * October 8 – The new Ottawa Senators are established and become the National Hockey League's eighth Canadian team. They defeat the Montreal Canadiens at the Ottawa Civic Centre in their first game back
 * October 24 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Canadian team to win the World Series by defeating the Atlanta Braves 4 games to 2.
 * November 21 – The Queen's Golden Gaels win their third Vanier Cup by defeating the St. Mary's Huskies 31 to 0 in the 28th Vanier Cup
 * November 29 – The Calgary Stampeders win their third Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 24 to 10 in the 80th Grey Cup played at SkyDome in Toronto. Toronto's own Dave Sapunjis is awarded the Most Valuable Canadian for the second consecutive Cup.

January to March

 * January 1 – Freddie Hamilton, hockey player
 * January 7 – Erik Gudbranson, hockey player
 * January 11
 * Laysla De Oliveira, actress
 * Mark Pysyk, hockey defenceman
 * January 21 – Quinton Howden, hockey player
 * January 27 – Connor Widdows, actor
 * January 31 – Tyler Seguin, professional ice hockey winger
 * February 9 – Avan Jogia, actor
 * February 12 – Amanda Laine, model
 * February 18
 * Brandon Gormley, hockey defenceman
 * Melinda Shankar, actress
 * March 8 – Julien Collin-Demers, short track speed skater
 * March 23 – Vanessa Morgan, actress and singer

April to June

 * April 1 – Gabriela Dabrowski, tennis player
 * April 2 – John McFarland, hockey player
 * April 5 – Emmalyn Estrada, singer
 * April 11 – Victoria Hayward, softball player
 * April 15 – Calvin Pickard, professional ice hockey goaltender
 * April 20 – Dylan McIlrath, hockey defenceman
 * April 21 – Maude Jacques, Paralympic wheelchair basketball player (died 2023)
 * April 24 – Joanna Lenko, ice dancer
 * April 27 – J.P. Anderson, hockey goaltender
 * April 29 – Sarah Freeman, junior alpine skier
 * May 2 – Brett Connolly, hockey player
 * May 5 – Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu, short track speed skater
 * May 6 – Brendan Gallagher, ice hockey player
 * May 7 – Alexander Ludwig, actor
 * May 13 – Keltie Hansen, freestyle skier
 * May 14 – A.J. Saudin, actor
 * May 16 – Jeff Skinner, hockey player
 * May 18 – Laurie Kingsbury, ice hockey player
 * May
 * Aaron Brown, sprinter
 * Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, canoeist
 * May 31 – VanossGaming, Youtuber
 * June 4 – Savannah King, swimmer
 * June 23 – Louis-Philippe Dury, actor
 * June 25 – Jaden Schwartz, hockey player

July to December

 * July 1 – Andrew Chalmers, actor
 * July 4 – Chris Haughton, cadet olympic recurve archer
 * July 24 – Mikaël Kingsbury, freestyle skier
 * July 27 – Tory Lanez, rapper
 * July 31 – Ryan Johansen, hockey player
 * August 7 – Mark Visentin, hockey player
 * August 9 – Burkely Duffield, actor
 * August 29 – Carolyn MacCuish, figure skater
 * September 3 – Nicholas Lindsay, soccer player
 * September 19 – Kelsey Balkwill, athlete
 * September 28 – Keir Gilchrist, actor
 * October 5 – Eric Cabral, actor
 * October 6 – Josh Archibald, ice hockey player
 * October 17 – Mikaël Grenier, racing driver
 * October 28 – Zack Phillips, ice hockey player
 * November 4 – Josh Janniere, soccer player
 * November 22 – Natalie Achonwa, basketball player
 * November 28 – Cameron Ansell, actor
 * December 5 – Natalie Sourisseau, field hockey player
 * December 7 – Sean Couturier, hockey player
 * December 11 – Dalton Pompey, baseball player
 * December 21
 * Andrew Chalmers, teen actor
 * Haylee Wanstall, actress

January to March

 * February 1 – Gary Lautens, humorist and newspaper columnist (born 1928)
 * February 5 – Maxwell Meighen, financier (born 1908)
 * February 25 – Louis Harrington Lewry, politician and reporter (born 1919)
 * February 27 – S. I. Hayakawa, academic and politician (born 1906)
 * March 3 – Robert Beatty, actor (born 1909)
 * March 14 – Bill Allum, ice hockey player (born 1916)
 * March 26 – Barbara Frum, radio and television journalist (born 1937)

April to June

 * April 10 – Cec Linder, actor (born 1921)
 * April 15 – Mud Bruneteau, professional ice hockey forward who player (born 1914)
 * April 19 – Kristen French, murder victim (born 1976)
 * May 9 – James Allan, politician (born 1894)

July to December

 * July 5 – Pauline Jewett, politician and educator (born 1922)
 * July 11 – Munroe Bourne, swimmer (born 1910)
 * July 24 – Sam Berger, lawyer, businessman and football player (born 1900)
 * July 30 – Joe Shuster, comic book artist (born 1914)
 * September 3 – Émile Benoît, musician (born 1913)
 * September 14 – Paul Martin Sr., politician (born 1903)
 * September 27 – Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, diplomat, civil servant and 5th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (born 1898)
 * November 4 – George Klein, inventor (born 1904)
 * November 14 – Greg Curnoe, painter (born 1936)
 * December 13 – K. C. Irving, entrepreneur and industrialist (born 1899)
 * December 28 – Pudlo Pudlat, artist (born 1916)

title: 1992 in Canada