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1993 in Canada

Events from the year 1993 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Ray Hnatyshyn
 * Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney (until June 25) then Kim Campbell (June 25 to November 4) then Jean Chrétien
 * Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 34th (until September 8)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Gordon Towers
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – David Lam
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – George Johnson (until March 5) then Yvon Dumont
 * 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 – 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 (until June 11) then John Savage
 * Premier of Ontario – Bob Rae
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Joe Ghiz (until January 25) then Catherine Callbeck
 * 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 – John Ostashek

January to June

 * January 25 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Joe Ghiz following a leadership election. This is Prince Edward Island's first female premier, and the first time in Canada that two provinces or territories have simultaneously had female premiers (until March 2011).
 * January 28 – Six Innu youths from Davis Inlet, aged 11 to 14, are caught on video sniffing gasoline as a suicide attempt.
 * February 24 – Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announces his resignation (effective June 25) amidst political and economic turmoil.
 * March 4 – Canadian soldiers shoot and kill a Somali man outside their base in Somalia.
 * March 12 – Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn proclaims a constitutional amendment adding section 16.1 to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
 * March 16 – Canadian soldiers beat to death Shidane Arone, a Somali teenager, in Somalia.
 * March 18 – Master Corporal Clayton Matchee is arrested in connection with Shidane Arone's death.
 * March 29 – 1993 Prince Edward Island general election: Catherine Callbeck's Liberals win a majority. She is the first female premier to lead a party to victory in a general election.
 * April 2 – The Farm Credit Corporation Act is passed.
 * June: The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act and the Nunavut Act are passed, leading to the eventual creation of Nunavut in 1999.
 * June 11 – John Savage becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Donald Cameron.
 * June 15 – Alberta election: Ralph Klein's PCs win a seventh consecutive majority.
 * June 20 – A landslide on the South Nation River destroys the abandoned townsite of Lemieux, Ontario.
 * June 25 – Kim Campbell becomes prime minister, replacing Brian Mulroney. She is the first woman to be the country's head of government.

July to December

 * September 16 – Canadian forces engage in an intensive firefight with Croatian forces during Operation Medak Pocket.
 * September 27 – The Social Credit Party of Canada is officially deregistered by Elections Canada.
 * October 4 – The Krever Inquiry into Canada's blood system begins.
 * October 14 – The Tories release an election ad that many see as mocking Jean Chrétien's facial paralysis.
 * October 23 - The Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, winning their second World Series Title.
 * October 25 – Federal election: Jean Chrétien's Liberals win a majority, defeating Kim Campbell's PCs, which are reduced to two seats. Campbell loses her own seat. The Bloc Québécois form the official opposition.
 * November 4 – Jean Chrétien is sworn in as prime minister, replacing Kim Campbell.

Full date unknown

 * Canadian Major-General Roméo Dallaire appointed commander of the U.N. forces in Rwanda.

New works

 * Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
 * Réjean Ducharme, Dévadé
 * Dave Duncan, The Stricken Field
 * William Gibson, Virtual Light
 * Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue
 * Thomas King, One Good Story, That One
 * Antonine Maillet, Le nuit des roi
 * Yann Martel, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
 * Farley Mowat, My Father's Son
 * Robert J. Sawyer, Fossil Hunter
 * Jeffrey Simpson, Faultines, Struggling for a Canadian Vision

Awards

 * American-born E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, set in Newfoundland, wins the American National Book Award
 * See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright: A Novel
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award: Celia Barker Lottridge, Ticket to Curlew
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Elisabeth Harvor, Fortress of Chairs and Roberta Rees, Eyes Like Pigeons
 * Marian Engel Award: Sandra Birdsell
 * Pat Lowther Award: Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
 * Stephen Leacock Award: John Levesque, Waiting for Aquarius
 * Trillium Book Award: Jane Urquhart, Away and Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Phoebe Gilman

Television

 * This Hour Has 22 Minutes premieres on CBC

Film

 * Harmony Cats earns 11 Genie Award nominations
 * Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is released

Music

 * Bryan Adams, So Far So Good
 * Jann Arden, Time for Mercy
 * The Band, Jericho
 * Big Sugar, Five Hundred Pounds
 * Blinker the Star, Blinker the Star
 * Blue Rodeo, Five Days in July
 * Cowboy Junkies, Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
 * Crash Test Dummies, God Shuffled His Feet
 * Crash Vegas, Stone
 * cub, Betti-Cola
 * Céline Dion, The Colour of My Love
 * Doughboys, Crush
 * Eric's Trip, Love Tara
 * Lawrence Gowan, ...but you can call me Larry
 * Great Big Sea, Great Big Sea
 * Grievous Angels, Watershed
 * Hart-Rouge, Blue Blue Windows
 * The Headstones, Picture of Health
 * I Mother Earth, Dig
 * The Inbreds, Hilario
 * Intermix, Phaze Two
 * Junkhouse, Here Lies Happiness and Strays
 * King Cobb Steelie, King Cobb Steelie
 * The Look People, Crazy Eggs
 * Lost Dakotas, Sun Machine
 * Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
 * Me Mom and Morgentaler, Shiva Space Machine
 * Moxy Früvous, Bargainville
 * Odds, Bedbugs
 * The Pursuit of Happiness, The Downward Road
 * The Rankin Family, North Country
 * Rose Chronicles, Dead and Gone to Heaven
 * Rush, Counterparts
 * Jane Siberry, When I Was a Boy
 * Skydiggers, Just Over This Mountain
 * Spirit of the West, Faithlift
 * The Tea Party, Splendor Solis
 * 13 Engines, Perpetual Motion Machine
 * Shania Twain, Shania Twain
 * Voivod, The Outer Limits

Sport

 * February 23 – The Sacramento Gold Miners are established as the first US franchise in the Canadian Football League
 * March 12 to 14 – Toronto hosts the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships at the Skydome.
 * May 23 – The Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Peterborough Petes 4 to 2. The entire tournament was played at Sault Memorial Gardens in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
 * June 9 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 24th (and last to date) Stanley Cup by defeating the Los Angeles Kings 4 games to 1. The deciding Game 5 was played at the Montreal Forum. Quebec City, Quebec's Patrick Roy is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * October 23 – The Toronto Blue Jays win their second World Series by defeating the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at Skydome in Toronto making this the first World Series to be decided on Canadian soil.
 * November 4 – The Toronto Raptors are established as the National Basketball Association's first Canadian team since the Toronto Huskies in 1947. They will play their first game in 1995
 * November 20 – The Toronto Varsity Blues win their second (and first since 1965) Vanier Cup by defeating the Calgary Dinos by a score of 37–34 in the 29th Vanier Cup played Skydome in Toronto
 * November 28 – The Edmonton Eskimos win their 11th Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 33 to 23 in the 81st Grey Cup played at McMahon Stadium in Calgary.
 * Ben Johnson is permanently banned from international competition after again testing positive for banned substances.
 * this is the only year in which the Stanley Cup and the World Series were both won by Canadian teams.

Births

 * January 4 – Aaryn Doyle, actress and singer
 * January 6 – Jesse Carere, actor
 * January 21 – Jason Godin, politician
 * January 26 – Cameron Bright, actor
 * February 24 – Phillip Danault, ice hockey player
 * March 14 – Demetrius Joyette, actor
 * March 15 – Alyssa Reid, singer-songwriter
 * March 15 – Mark Scheifele, ice hockey player
 * April 8 – Tyler Shaw, singer-songwriter
 * April 20 – Kurtis Gabriel, ice hockey player
 * April 23 – Brooke Palsson, actress
 * April 25 – Lyldoll, singer-songwriter
 * May 16 - Atticus Mitchell, actor and musician
 * May 18 - Stuart Percy, hockey player
 * May 20 - Kevin Roy, hockey player
 * May 26 - Katerine Savard, swimmer
 * June 6 - Jesse Carere, actor
 * June 15 - Boone Jenner, ice hockey player
 * July 1 - Brett Ritchie, ice hockey player
 * July 3 - PartyNextDoor, rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer
 * July 9 - Emily Hirst, actress
 * July 28 – Hannah Lochner, actress
 * August 6 – Charlie Bilodeau, pair skater
 * September 1 - Alexander Conti, actor
 * September 11 - Oliver Scholfield, field hockey player
 * November 28 - Stephanie Park, paralympic wheelchair basketball player
 * December 16 - Stephan James, actor
 * December 29 - Gabby May, artistic gymnast
 * Full date unknown - David Benoit, Canadian-American wrestler and son of Chris Benoit

Deaths

 * January 26 – Jeanne Sauvé, politician and first female Governor General of Canada (born 1922)
 * January 28 – Helen Hogg-Priestley, astronomer (born 1903)
 * February 28 – Ruby Keeler, actress, singer and dancer (born 1909)
 * April 2 – Alexander Bell Patterson, politician (born 1911)
 * April 15 – John Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist and geologist (born 1908)
 * April 30 – Colin Emerson Bennett, politician and lawyer (born 1908)
 * May 2 – Stephen Juba, politician and Mayor of Winnipeg (born 1914)
 * May 9 – Jacques Dextraze, Canadian general (born 1919)
 * May 30 – H. Gordon Barrett, politician (born 1915)
 * June 9 – Alexis Smith, actress (born 1921)
 * July 9 – Garry Hoy, lawyer (born 1955)
 * August 14 – Francis Mankiewicz, film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1944)
 * September 12 – Raymond Burr, actor (born 1917)
 * September 27 – Fraser MacPherson, jazz musician (born 1928)
 * October 24 – Tracy Latimer, murder victim (born 1980)

title: 1993 in Canada


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1995 in Canada

Events from the year 1995 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Ray Hnatyshyn (until February 8) then Roméo LeBlanc
 * Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
 * Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 35th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Gordon Towers
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – David Lam (until April 21) then Garde Gardom
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Yvon Dumont
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Margaret McCain
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Frederick Russell
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Kinley
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Hal Jackman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Marion Reid (until August 30) then Gilbert Clements
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Martial Asselin
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack Wiebe

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – 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 – John Savage
 * Premier of Ontario – Bob Rae (until June 26) then Mike Harris
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Catherine Callbeck
 * Premier of Quebec – Jacques Parizeau
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – John Kenneth McKinnon (until June 23) then Judy Gingell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Daniel L. Norris (until January 16) then Helen Maksagak

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Nellie Cournoyea (until November 22) then Don Morin
 * Premier of Yukon – John Ostashek

January to March

 * January 5 – Rogers Communications withdraws the unpopular negative option billing system after wide-scale consumer protest.
 * January 7 – The opening of Parliament is televised for the first time.
 * January 18 – A video of the Canadian Airborne Regiment's brutal hazing rituals is made public.
 * January 23 – As a result of the Somalia Affair and the hazing video, it is announced that the Airborne Regiment will disband.
 * January 23 – Guy Paul Morin's conviction for murder that had seen him jailed for 11 years is overturned.
 * February 21 – The inquiry into the April 1994 uprising in the Kingston Prison For Women rules that authorities used excessive force in putting it down.
 * February 23 – American President Bill Clinton addresses Parliament.
 * March 9 – As part of Brian Tobin's Turbot War Canadian officials seize the Spanish trawler the Estai.
 * March 15 – Former Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan is charged with child abuse.
 * March 18 – March 27 – A major rail strike occurs; the workers are eventually legislated back to work.
 * March 20 – Erichs Tobias is accused of war crimes.
 * March 27 – Bell Canada announces major job cuts.
 * March 31 – Perrin Beatty appointed head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

April to June

 * April – Chapters is officially incorporated.
 * April 9 – Steve Stavro buys Maple Leaf Gardens from Harold Ballard's estate.
 * April 16 – The Turbot War ends as Canada and the European Union reach an agreement.
 * April 20 – A pipe bomb explodes outside Province House in Prince Edward Island.
 * May 18 – The trial of Paul Bernardo begins.
 * May 31 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announce a $1 million reward in Air India flight 182 case and restarts its investigation.
 * June 6 – Labatt is sold to a Belgian company.
 * June 8 – Ontario election: Mike Harris's PCs win a majority, defeating Bob Rae's NDP.
 * June 9 – Floods in Medicine Hat, Alberta force the evacuation of over 5000 people.
 * June 13 – A strict new gun control law is passed banning most handguns and forcing all rifles to be registered.
 * June 15 – June 17 – The G7 meet in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
 * June 21 – Saskatchewan election: Roy Romanow's NDP win a second consecutive majority.
 * June 28 – Mike Harris becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Bob Rae.

July to September

 * July 17 – Christine E. Silverberg becomes Canada's first female police chief when she is promoted to that position in Calgary.
 * July 20 – In Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto the Supreme Court upholds Canada's largest ever libel award.
 * July 27 – Thomson Corp. agrees to sell 27 Canadian newspapers to Hollinger Inc.
 * August 1 – Ottawa sportscaster Brian Smith is shot in the parking lot of CJOH by escaped mental patient Jeffrey Arenburg; Smith dies in hospital the following day.
 * August 11 – The Russell Hill subway accident, the first fatal accident aboard a Toronto Transit Commission subway, kills three.
 * August 18–September 17: Gustafsen Lake standoff
 * September 1
 * Paul Bernardo is found guilty of the kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, and murder of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French.
 * The Canadian Airborne Regiment disbands.
 * September 6 – The government announces plans to sell off most of its remaining holdings in Petro-Canada.

October to December

 * October 14 – Alexa McDonough is elected head of the New Democratic Party, replacing Audrey McLaughlin.
 * October 24 – The James Bay Cree vote 96.3% in favour of their territory remaining part of Canada in the event of Quebec sovereignty.
 * October 27 – A massive rally is held in Montreal by the No side in the referendum.
 * October 30 – The 1995 Quebec referendum is held on sovereignty. The No side narrowly wins.
 * October 31 – Newfoundland passes a constitutional amendment to overhaul its school system.
 * November 4 – Radarsat, Canada's first observation satellite is launched.
 * November 5 – André Dallaire breaks into 24 Sussex Drive and the Prime Minister fends him off with an Inuit sculpture.
 * November 5 – Paul Bernardo is declared a dangerous offender, meaning he will be ineligible for parole.
 * November 11 – Journalist Judy Steed, in a conference speech, attacks the chair of Ryerson University's journalism program for employing Gerald Hannon as a part-time instructor; the controversy spans the next three weeks.
 * November 15 – British Columbia premier announces his resignation because of the bingogate scandal.
 * November 20 – Former PM Brian Mulroney sues the government over the Airbus Affair.
 * November 22 – Don Morin becomes premier of the Northwest Territories, replacing Nellie Cournoyea.
 * November 23 – Jean Chrétien unveils a law that would give each of Canada's four regions a constitutional veto. The West complains that it deserves more than one.
 * November 28 – Canadian National Railway, the nation's largest Crown corporation and one of the largest state-run enterprises in the industrialized world is privatized.
 * December – Representatives of aboriginal peoples gather and issue the Sacred Assembly Proclamation; from this was developed the Reconciliation Proclamation and the Statement of Principles and Priorities.
 * December 6 – Canada agrees to send 1000 peacekeepers to Bosnia.
 * December 11 – Voters in what will become Nunavut select Iqaluit as the capital of the new territory.
 * December 20 – Lieutenant-General Jean Boyle becomes Chief of the Defence Staff.
 * December 21 – The Krever Commission holds its final hearings.
 * December 28 – Premier of Newfoundland Clyde Wells announces his retirement.

Full date unknown

 * Java Moose coffee shops based in Saint John, New Brunswick is established.

New books

 * bill bissett – Th influenza uv logik
 * Ann-Marie MacDonald – The Arab's Mouth
 * Douglas Coupland – Microserfs
 * Stevie Cameron – On the Take
 * Dave Duncan – The Hunters' Haunt
 * Antonine Maillet – La Fontaine ou la Comédie des animaux
 * Farley Mowat – Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World
 * Timothy Findley – The Piano Man's Daughter

Awards

 * Carol Shields wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Stone Diaries
 * Robert J. Sawyer wins the Nebula Award for his work The Terminal Experiment
 * Giller Prize: Rohinton Mistry – A Fine Balance
 * See 1995 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award: Joan Clark, The Dream Carvers
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Keith Maillard, Dementia Americana
 * Marian Engel Award: Bonnie Burnard
 * Pat Lowther Award: Beth Goobie, Scars of Light
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Josh Freed, Fear of Frying and Other Fax of Life
 * Trillium Book Award English: – Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House and Wayson Choy, The Jade Peony
 * Trillium Book Award French: – Maurice Henrie, Le Balcon dans le ciel
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Sarah Ellis

Music

 * Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill released
 * Shania Twain's The Woman in Me released
 * Ashley MacIsaac,
 * Susan Aglukark, This Child
 * Art Bergmann, What Fresh Hell is This?

Television

 * April 26 – Direct-to-home satellite television is made legal in Canada.
 * Long running quiz show Front Page Challenge is cancelled by the CBC

Film

 * Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon is released.

Sport

 * May 21 – Kamloops Blazers win their third (second consecutive) Memorial Cup by defeating Detroit Jr. Red Wings 8 to 2 . The entire tournament was played at the Blazers' own Riverside Coliseum in Kamloops, British Columbia
 * May 28 – Jacques Villeneuve becomes first Canadian to win the Indianapolis 500; Canadian Scott Goodyear is third.
 * June 24 – Buckingham, Quebec's Claude Lemieux of the New Jersey Devils is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * June 28 – Two more American teams (Birmingham Barracudas and the Memphis Mad Dogs) are established in the Canadian Football League
 * July 1 – Quebec Nordiques relocate from Quebec City to Denver, Colorado, to become the Colorado Avalanche
 * September 21 – General Motors Place opens in Vancouver
 * November 3 – Vancouver Grizzlies win their first game by defeating the Portland Trail Blazers 92 to 80. The game was played at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Oregon
 * November 3 – Toronto Raptors win their first game by defeating the New Jersey Nets 94 to 79. The game was played at Skydome in Toronto
 * November 19 – Baltimore Stallions become the first (and only) American team to win a Grey Cup by defeating the Calgary Stampeders 37 to 20 in the 83rd Grey Cup played at Taylor Field in Regina. Toronto's Dave Sapunjis was awarded the game's and his third Most Valuable Canadian
 * November 25 – Calgary Dinos win their fourth Vanier Cup by defeating the Western Ontario Mustangs 54 to 24 in the 31st Grey Cup played at Skydome in Toronto
 * December 7 – The Montreal Canadiens trade Patrick Roy to the Colorado Avalanche.

January to March

 * January 3 – Victoria Duffield, singer, actress and dancer
 * January 12 – Sarah Mehain, Paralympic swimmer
 * January 14 – Eleanor Harvey, fencer
 * January 18 – Margaret Purdy, pair skater
 * January 24 – Dylan Everett, actor
 * January 27 – Madeline Gardiner, artistic gymnast
 * February 2
 * Fraser Aird, footballer
 * Curtis Lazar, ice hockey player
 * Darnell Nurse, ice hockey defenceman
 * February 8 – Jordan Todosey, actress
 * February 23 – Andrew Wiggins, high school basketball player
 * March 2
 * Max Domi, ice hockey player
 * Matthew Di Leo, racing driver
 * Morgan Klimchuk, ice hockey player
 * March 5 – Zhao Kai Pang, ice dancer
 * March 22 – Nicolas Petan, ice hockey player
 * March 23 – Jan Lisiecki, pianist
 * March 27 – Laurent Dauphin, ice hockey player
 * March 28
 * Jonathan Drouin, ice hockey forward
 * Josh Morrissey, ice hockey defenceman

April to June

 * April 5 – Bo Horvat, ice hockey player
 * April 11 – Erin Routliffe, New Zealand-born tennis player
 * April 13 – Shavon John-Brown, footballer
 * April 16 – Remi Elie, ice hockey player
 * April 22 – Madison Bowey, ice hockey defenceman
 * April 26
 * Frédérik Gauthier, ice hockey player
 * Andréanne Poulin, ice dancer
 * April 29 – Tristan Jarry, ice hockey goaltender
 * May 9 – Dillon Heatherington, ice hockey defenceman
 * May 12 – Talia Chiarelli, artistic gymnast
 * May 28 – Zachary Fucale, ice hockey goalie
 * May 29 – Jordan Ju, figure skater
 * June 6 – Sadi Jalali, Indian-born soccer player
 * June 5 – Natasha Purich, figure skater
 * June 13 – Mikaela Gerber, artistic gymnast
 * June 20 – Carol Zhao, Chinese-born tennis player
 * June 29 – Nicholas Latifi, racing driver

July to September

 * July 4 – Jason Dickinson, ice hockey player
 * July 6 – Eric Comrie, ice hockey goaltender
 * July 11 – Tyler Medeiros, dancer, singer and songwriter
 * July 12 – Samuel Morin, ice hockey defenceman
 * July 17 – Austin MacDonald, actor
 * August 5 – Shea Theodore, ice hockey defenceman
 * August 6 – Amy Forsyth, actress
 * August 26 – Anthony Duclair, ice hockey player
 * August 27 – Cainan Wiebe, actor
 * September 1 – Nathan MacKinnon, ice hockey forward
 * September 11 – Francesco Yates, musician
 * September 6 – Ty Wood, actor
 * September 8 – Ellie Black, artistic gymnast
 * September 24 – Alexandra Botez, chess player

October to December

 * October 25 – Conchita Campbell, actress
 * November 6 – Sam Reinhart, ice hockey centre
 * November 12 – Félix Lengyel, Twitch streamer
 * November 27 – Ricardo Hoyos, actor
 * December 5 – Kaetlyn Osmond, figure skater

Full date unknown

 * Gabriel Maillé, actor
 * Sammy Yatim, murder victim (d. 2013)

January to June

 * January 19 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1938)
 * January 28 – George Woodcock, poet, essayist, critic, biographer and historian (born 1912)
 * February 23 – Murray Cotterill, trade union activist
 * March 14 – John Peters Humphrey, legal scholar, jurist and human rights advocate (born 1905)
 * April 23 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, politician and 13th Premier of Manitoba (born 1895)
 * April 25 – Stuart Trueman, journalist and writer
 * May 6 – John Black Aird, lawyer, politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (born 1923)

July to September

 * July 8 – George Johnson, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (born 1920)
 * August 2 – Brian Smith, ice hockey player and sportscaster (born 1940)
 * August 25 – Francis Lawrence Jobin, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (born 1914)
 * September 3 – Earle Birney, poet (born 1904)
 * September 23 – Philip Gaglardi, politician (born 1913)
 * September 30 – Jean-Luc Pépin, academic, politician and Minister (born 1924)

October to December

 * November 3 – Gordon S. Fahrni, medical doctor (born 1887)
 * November 11 – Emmett Matthew Hall, jurist, civil libertarian and Supreme Court justice (born 1898)
 * November 21 – Bruno Gerussi, actor and television presenter (born 1928)
 * November 30 – Philip Givens, politician, judge and Mayor of Toronto (born 1922)
 * December 2 – Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor (born 1913)
 * December 3 – Elsie Knott, first female band chief
 * December 4 – Lionel Giroux, midget wrestler (born 1935)
 * December 16 - Charles Sauriol, naturalist and author (born 1904)

Full date unknown

 * Paul Collins, long-distance runner (born 1926)

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title: 1995 in Canada


text:
1996 in Canada

Events from the year 1996 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Roméo LeBlanc
 * Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
 * Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 35th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Gordon Towers (until April 17) then Bud Olson
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Garde Gardom
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Yvon Dumont
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Margaret McCain
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Frederick Russell
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Kinley
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Hal Jackman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Gilbert Clements
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Martial Asselin (until August 8) then Jean-Louis Roux
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack Wiebe

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
 * Premier of British Columbia – Mike Harcourt (until February 22) then Glen Clark
 * Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Clyde Wells (until January 26) then Brian Tobin
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Savage
 * Premier of Ontario – Mike Harris
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Catherine Callbeck (until October 9) then Keith Milligan (October 9 to November 27) then Pat Binns
 * Premier of Quebec – Jacques Parizeau (until January 29) then Lucien Bouchard
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Judy Gingell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Helen Maksagak

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Don Morin
 * Premier of Yukon – John Ostashek (until October 19) then Piers McDonald

January to March

 * January 1 – Fort Norman, Northwest Territories, is renamed to Tulita.
 * January 14 – A free trade agreement with Israel is announced.
 * January 15 – The Corel Centre opens in Ottawa.
 * January 25 – Jean Chrétien launches a major cabinet shuffle. Pierre Pettigrew and Stéphane Dion are brought in, despite not having seats in Parliament.
 * January 26 – Brian Tobin becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Clyde Wells.
 * January 29 – Lucien Bouchard becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Jacques Parizeau.
 * February 7 – Bob Rae, former premier of Ontario leaves politics.
 * February 14 – Mr. Dressup does his last show.
 * February 15 – At a ceremony marking the first National Flag of Canada Day, Chrétien throttles a protester in Hull, Quebec, launching a small controversy over the "Shawinigan Handshake".
 * February 17 – Michel Gauthier is elected new leader of the Bloc Québécois.
 * February 22 – Glen Clark becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Michael Harcourt.
 * February 22 – Brian Tobin leads the Newfoundland Liberal Party to victory in the 1996 Newfoundland election.

March to June

 * March 6 – The federal budget continues the assault on the deficit.
 * March 26 – The Anik E-1 satellite malfunctions.
 * March 27 – The Quebec budget proposes sweeping cuts to government funding.
 * April 3 – All members of the Canadian Forces are ordered to spend the entire day searching for documents that may aid the Somalia inquiry.
 * April 5 – Gunman Mark Chahal kills nine relatives in Vernon, British Columbia before killing himself.
 * April 11 – The Ontario government announce a 15 per cent reduction in the civil service.
 * April 22 – John Nunziata is expelled from the Liberal caucus for voting against the budget.
 * April 23 – Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland agree to replace their provincial sales taxes and the Goods and Services Tax with a Harmonized Sales Tax.
 * May 8 – The Ontario government cuts provincial income taxes by 30 per cent.
 * May 10 – Member of Parliament Jan Brown resigns from the Reform Party of Canada.
 * May 19 – Marc Garneau flies on a second space mission.
 * May 24 – Conrad Black's Hollinger takes over the Southam newspaper chain.
 * May 28 – The British Columbia New Democratic Party wins a surprise re-election.
 * June 10 – The Quebec government reintroduces the "Language police".
 * June 17 – Sheila Copps, who had resigned over the GST, wins back her Hamilton–Wentworth seat in a by-election.
 * June 20 – Robert Thirsk flies aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.
 * June 24 – A riot in Quebec City causes a million dollars in damage.

July to September

 * July 7 – July 11 – A major AIDS conference is held in Vancouver.
 * July 20 – July 21 – Floods in Quebec kill ten.
 * July 25 – Coach House Press closes.
 * August 8 – Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell is named consul general to Los Angeles.
 * August 8 – Jean-Louis Roux appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec.
 * August 29 – Former B.C. Premier W.R. Bennett is found guilty of insider trading.
 * September 29 – Fifteen-year-old Melanie Ethier vanishes without a trace in New Liskeard, Ontario, sparking a decades-long police investigation.

October to December

 * October 4 – Defence Minister David Collenette resigns.
 * October 10 – Keith Milligan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Catherine Callbeck.
 * October 19 – Piers McDonald becomes government leader of Yukon, replacing John Ostashek.
 * November – SaskTel becomes the first Canadian Internet Service Provider to roll out ADSL.
 * November – The last federally run Indian residential school (the Gordon Residential School), closed in Punnichy, Saskatchewan.
 * November 5 – Jean-Louis Roux forced to resign as Lieutenant Governor of Quebec when pictures of him at Nazi rallies in the 1930s are published.
 * November 27 – Pat Binns becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Keith Milligan.
 * December 1 – Dalton McGuinty is elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party.
 * December 16 – Chrétien formally apologizes for lying about the GST.

Full date unknown

 * Karen Kain becomes the first Canadian to win the Cartier Lifetime Achievement Award.
 * General Jean Boyle resigns over Somalia Affair controversy.
 * Canada sends over a thousand troops to take part in IFOR.
 * James McGill Statue unveiled.

New books

 * John Ralston Saul: The Unconscious Civilization
 * Nancy Huston: Slow Emergencies
 * Pierre Berton: Farewell to the Twentieth Century
 * Elisabeth Harvor: Let Me Be the One
 * Yann Martel: Self
 * Timothy Findley: You Went Away
 * Di Brandt: Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries
 * Douglas Coupland: Polaroids from the Dead
 * Guy Vanderhaeghe: The Englishman's Boy

Awards

 * Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
 * See 1996 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Keath Fraser, Popular Anatomy
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award: Marianne Brandis, Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Maureen Hynes, Rough Skin
 * Marian Engel Award: Barbara Gowdy
 * Pat Lowther Award: Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Marsha Boulton, Letters from the Country
 * Trillium Book Award English: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
 * Trillium Book Award French: Nancy Vickers (Canadian writer), Le Pied de Sappho and Alain Bernard Marchand, Tintin au pays de la ferveur
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Margaret Buffie

New music

 * Barenaked Ladies: Born on a Pirate Ship
 * Bruce Cockburn: The Charity of Night
 * The Tragically Hip: Trouble at the Henhouse
 * Sloan: One Chord to Another
 * Various artists: 20 Years of Stony Plain

Sport

 * January 15 – The Corel Centre opens in Ottawa
 * February 1 – With the exception of the Baltimore Stallions, all the U.S.-based CFL teams (San Antonio Texans, Las Vegas Posse, Shreveport Pirates, Birmingham Barracudas and the Memphis Mad Dogs) fold. The Stallions are relocated from Baltimore, Maryland, to Montreal, Quebec, and become the Montreal Allouettes
 * February 27 – The Los Angeles Kings trade Wayne Gretzky to the St. Louis Blues.
 * March 11 – The Montreal Canadiens play their final game at the Montreal Forum by defeating the Dallas Stars 4 to 1.
 * March 16 – The Montreal Canadiens play their first game at the Molson Centre against the New York Rangers.
 * May 19 – The Granby Prédateurs win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Peterborough Petes 4 to 0. The entire tournament was played at Peterborough Memorial Centre in Peterborough, Ontario.
 * July 1 – The Winnipeg Jets relocate from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Phoenix, Arizona, to become the Phoenix Coyotes.
 * July 19 – The Atlanta Olympics open. Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey wins the 100-metre dash.
 * July 26 – Gretzky signs with the New York Rangers.
 * November 24 – The Toronto Argonauts win their 13th Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Eskimos in the 84th Grey Cup played at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario. Mike Vanderjagt is named the game's Most Valuable Canadian
 * November 30 – Saskatchewan Huskies win their second Vanier Cup by defeating the St. Francis Xavier X-Men 31–12 in the 32nd Vanier Cup played at SkyDome in Toronto

January to June

 * January 18 – Brittany Jones, pair skater
 * January 20 – Roland McKeown, ice hockey defenceman
 * January 22 – Joshua Ho-Sang, ice hockey player
 * January 31 – Ana Golja, actress and singer
 * February 5 – Megan McKinnon, actress
 * February 7 – Aaron Ekblad, hockey player
 * March 22 – Gig Morton, actor
 * March 26 – Alaine Chartrand, figure skater
 * April 26 – Jennifer Gillis, actress, dancer and singer
 * May 1 – William Nylander, ice hockey player
 * May 10 – Pressa, rapper
 * May 14 – Pokimane, online personality
 * May 19 – Sarah Grey, actress
 * June 12 – Mitchell Gordon, figure skater
 * June 14 – Madeline Edwards, ice dancer
 * June 20
 * Sam Bennett, ice hockey player
 * Michael Dal Colle, ice hockey player
 * June 28 – Larissa Werbicki, rower

July to December

 * July 1 – KallMeKris, online personality
 * July 6 – Robert Naylor, actor
 * July 11 – Alessia Cara, singer/songwriter
 * August 7 – Liam James, actor
 * August 12 – Torri Webster, actress
 * August 29 – Linden Porco, actor
 * September 1 – Alexandra Kamieniecki, Polish figure skater
 * September 5 – Helaina Cyr, basketball player
 * September 26 – Cesar Corrales, Mexico-born actor and dancer
 * October 28
 * Laine MacNeil, actress
 * Hanson Boakai, Guinea-born soccer player
 * November 5 – Victoria Moors, gymnast
 * November 7 – Julianne Séguin, figure skater
 * November 18 – Smoke Dawg, rapper (d. 2018)
 * November 27 – Amanda Todd, cyberbullying victim (d. 2012)
 * December 10 – Jérémy Gabriel, singer and actor

Full date unknown

 * Diego Gomes

January to March

 * January 21 – René Marc Jalbert, soldier
 * February 7 – Lucien Maynard, leader of Alberta francophones
 * February 19 – Ernest Manning, politician and 8th Premier of Alberta (born 1908)
 * February 29 – Sinclair Ross, banker and author (born 1908)
 * March 28 – Edith Fowke, folk song collector, author and radio presenter (born 1913)

April to June

 * April 1 – Jean Le Moyne, journalist and politician (born 1913)
 * April 13 – Stewart McLean, politician (born 1913)
 * April 23 – Jean Victor Allard, general and first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff (born 1913)
 * May 5 – Salli Terri, singer, arranger, recording artist and songwriter (born 1922)
 * May 9 – Eria Fachin, pop singer (born 1960)
 * May 22 – Robert Christie, actor and director (born 1913)
 * June 11 – George Hees, politician and Minister (born 1910)

July to September

 * July 1 – Harold Greenberg, film producer (born 1930)
 * July 3 – Rebecca Jane Middleton, murder victim (born 1979)
 * July 5 – Fred Davis, broadcaster and moderator of Front Page Challenge (born 1921)
 * July 18 – Robert Needham, journalist
 * July 22 – Carl Goldenberg, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator (born 1907)
 * August 10 – Walter MacNutt, organist (born 1910)
 * September 22 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, ballet dancer, choreographer and director (born 1924)
 * September 23 – Joe Borowski, politician and activist (born 1933)

October to December

 * October 2 – Robert Bourassa, politician and 22nd Premier of Quebec (born 1933)
 * October 9 – Colleen Peterson, singer (born 1950)
 * October 11
 * Joe Morris, trade unionist and president of the Canadian Labour Congress (born 1913)
 * William Vickrey, professor of economics and Nobel Laureate (born 1914)
 * October 14 – Marcel Bourbonnais, politician (born 1918)
 * October 17 – Laura Sabia, social activist and feminist (born 1916)
 * October 19 – James Bourque, First Nations activist (born 1935)
 * October 23
 * Kurt Freund, physician and sexologist (born 1914)
 * Thomas Ide, educator and the founding Chairman of TVOntario (born 1919)
 * October 27 – Arthur Tremblay, politician and Senator (born 1917)
 * October 28 – Reuben Baetz, politician (born 1923)
 * November 9 – Joe Ghiz, politician and 29th Premier of Prince Edward Island (born 1945)
 * November 18 – John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (born 1906)
 * December 1 – Peter Bronfman, businessman (born 1928)
 * December 5 – Wilf Carter, country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and yodeller (born 1904)
 * December 21 – Clarence Gosse, physician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (born 1912)
 * December 24 – Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author (born 1929)
 * December 29 – Dorothy Livesay, poet (born 1909)

Full date unknown

 * Leo Landreville, politician and judge implicated in the Northern Ontario Natural Gas scandal (born 1910)

title: 1996 in Canada


text:
1997 in Canada

Events from the year 1997 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Roméo LeBlanc
 * Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
 * Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 35th (until 27 April) then 36th (from September 22)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Bud Olson
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Garde Gardom
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Yvon Dumont
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Margaret McCain (until April 18) then Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Frederick Russell (until February 5) then Arthur Maxwell House
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Kinley
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Hal Jackman (until January 24) then Hilary Weston
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Gilbert Clements
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Jean-Louis Roux (until January 30) then Lise Thibault
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack Wiebe

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
 * Premier of British Columbia – Glen Clark
 * Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna (until October 14) then Raymond Frenette
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Tobin
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Savage (until July 18) then Russell MacLellan
 * Premier of Ontario – Mike Harris
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Pat Binns
 * Premier of Quebec – Lucien Bouchard
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Judy Gingell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Helen Maksagak

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Don Morin
 * Premier of Yukon – Piers McDonald

January to June

 * January 1 – Opening of the new municipality of Alfred and Plantagenet.
 * January 4 – The federal government makes it harder to obtain unemployment insurance.
 * February 14 – Newsprint giants Abitibi-Price and Stone-Consolidated announce they are merging.
 * March 6 – A new rigorous anti tobacco advertising law is passed.
 * March 11 – Alberta election: Ralph Klein's PCs win an eighth consecutive majority.
 * March 15 – Gilles Duceppe is elected leader of the Bloc Québécois.
 * March 19 – Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman jumps or is pushed from a helicopter in Indonesia.
 * March 21 – Nova Scotia Premier John Savage announces his resignation.
 * April 22 – Massive flooding of the Red River in Manitoba leads to a state of emergency.
 * May – Saint-Simon and Saint-Sauveur riots.
 * May 11 – 1997 Nunavut equal representation plebiscite.
 * May 31 – Confederation Bridge opens.
 * June 1 – Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson have a 150m race in the then Skydome for the title of "The World's Fastest Man".
 * June 2 – Federal election: Jean Chrétien's Liberals win a second consecutive majority, the Reform Party becomes the Official Opposition.
 * June 18 – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) introduces a television rating system.

July to September

 * July 2 – The Somalia Inquiry is disbanded prematurely.
 * July 9 – Danielle House forced to give up her Miss Canada International title after pleading guilty to assault.
 * July 18 – Russell MacLellan becomes the new Premier of Nova Scotia.
 * July 30 – Phil Fontaine elected head of the Assembly of First Nations.
 * August 7 – Bjarni Tryggvason flies aboard the Space Shuttle.
 * August 8 – The Saskatchewan Party is founded.
 * August 10 – The director Jean-Claude Lauzon and actress Marie-Soleil Tougas dies in a plane crash near Kuujjuaq.
 * September 2 – Newfoundlanders vote to do away with their religion based school systems.
 * September 3 – One is killed in a Saskatchewan train derailment.
 * September 15 – Caillou debuts on Teletoon.

October to December

 * October 1 – Michel Bastarache is appointed to the Supreme Court.
 * October 2 – Canada recalls its ambassador to Israel after Mossad uses forged Canadian passports.
 * October 7 – An out-of-court settlement is reached between Brian Mulroney and the federal government regarding the Airbus affair.
 * October 13 – Raymond Frenette becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Frank McKenna.
 * October 13 – 43 are killed in Canada's worst ever traffic accident as a tour bus falls off a cliff.
 * October 17 – CTV News Channel begins broadcasting.
 * October 27–November 10 – A teachers strike takes place in Ontario.
 * November 3 – Canada destroys the last land mines in its arsenal.
 * November 9 – The scandal-racked Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative Party is mothballed.
 * November 14 – Fourteen-year-old Reena Virk is beaten to death by classmates in Victoria, British Columbia.
 * November 17 – The Hibernia oil project pumps its first barrel of oil.
 * November 21–25 – The APEC summit is held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Controversy arises when Royal Canadian Mounted Police use force and pepper spray to remove protesters.
 * December 3 – In Ottawa, Ontario, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines. However, the United States, the People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty.

Full date unknown

 * The Calgary Declaration from the premiers, except Lucien Bouchard.
 * A second Sacred Assembly is held but issues no proclamation.

New Books

 * Timothy Findley – You Went Away

Awards

 * Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Mordecai Richler – Barney's Version
 * See 1997 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award: Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Marilyn Dumont, A Really Good Brown Girl
 * Marian Engel Award: Katherine Govier
 * Pat Lowther Award: Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Arthur Black, Black in the Saddle Again
 * Trillium Book Award English: Dionne Brand, Land to Light On
 * Trillium Book Award French: Roger Levac, Petite Crapaude!
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Tim Wynne-Jones

Film

 * Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter is released, it is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director

Television

 * The Arrow, a mini-series about the Avro Arrow shows plays to great popularity and acclaim and the CBC
 * Teletoon is launched

Music

 * Oscar Peterson receives a Grammy for lifetime achievement.

Sport

 * February 7 – Lennox Lewis becomes heavyweight boxing champion.
 * May 18 – Hull Olympiques win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Lethbridge Hurricanes 5 to 1. The entire tournament was played at the Robert Guertin Centre in Hull, Quebec
 * June 7 – Calgary's Mike Vernon of the Detroit Red Wings is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * October 26 – Formula One: Jacques Villeneuve becomes the first Canadian to become World Drivers Champion.
 * November 9 – The Montreal Screwjob takes place at Survivor Series. Bret Hart controversially loses his WWF Championship to Shawn Michaels.
 * November 16 – Toronto Argonauts win their fourteenth Grey Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the 85th Grey Cup played at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. Hamilton, Ontario's Paul Masotti was awarded the game's Most Valuable Canadian
 * November 22 – UBC Thunderbirds win their third Vanier Cup by defeating the Ottawa Gee-Gees by a score of 39–23 in the 33rd Vanier Cup played at Skydome in Toronto

Births

 * January 13 – Connor McDavid, hockey player
 * January 15 – Alex Cardillo, Irish-born actor
 * January 20 – Jeffrey Baldwin, murder victim (died 2002)
 * January 29 – Cassandra Sawtell, actress
 * March 9 – Niamh Wilson, actress
 * March 10 – Travis Konecny, ice hockey player
 * March 11 – Matreya Fedor, actress
 * March 26 – Antoine L'Écuyer, actor
 * April 23 – Alex Ferris, actor
 * April 28 – Jason Spevack, actor
 * May 5 – Mitch Marner, ice hockey player
 * May 26 – Mathew Barzal, ice hockey player
 * June 11 – Mackenzie Bent, ice dancer
 * June 18 – Mary-Lynn Neil, singer and songwriter
 * August 1 – Megan McNamara and Nicole McNamara, beach volleyball players
 * August 3 – Ayaka Wilson, actor
 * October 27 – Eliana Jones, actress and gymnast

January to March

 * January 1 – Hagood Hardy, composer, pianist and vibraphonist (born 1937)
 * January 12
 * Charles Brenton Huggins, physician, physiologist, cancer researcher and Nobel prize laureate (born 1901)
 * January 14 – Dollard Ménard, lieutenant-colonel
 * January 17 – Bill Kardash, politician (born 1912)
 * January 26 – Norman Fawcett, politician (born 1910)
 * February 19 – Lois Marshall, soprano (born 1924)
 * March 2 – J. Carson Mark, mathematician who worked on development of nuclear weapons (born 1913)
 * March 14 – Ivan Romanoff, conductor
 * March 22 – Harry Thode, geochemist, nuclear chemist and academic administrator (born 1910)
 * March 27 – Hugh Horner, politician, physician and surgeon (born 1925)

April to June

 * April 6 – Jack Kent Cooke, sports entrepreneur (born 1912)
 * May 1 – Fernand Dumont, sociologist, philosopher, theologian and poet (born 1927)
 * May 9 – Marie-Thérèse Paquin, Canadian pianist (b. 1905)
 * June 9 – Stanley Knowles, politician (born 1908)
 * June 22
 * Gérard Pelletier, journalist, editor, politician and Minister (born 1919)
 * Larry Grossman, politician (born 1943)

July to September

 * July 30 – Robert Bryce, civil servant (born 1910)
 * August 10
 * Jean-Claude Lauzon, Quebec filmmaker (born 1953)
 * Marie-Soleil Tougas, Quebec actress and TV host (born 1970)
 * August 20 – Léon Dion, political scientist (born 1922)
 * August 24 – Hardial Bains, founder and leader of Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (born 1939)
 * September 11 – Camille Henry, ice hockey player (born 1933)
 * September 12 – Judith Merril, science fiction writer, editor and political activist (born 1923)
 * September 30
 * Rose Goldblatt, administrator, pianist and teacher (born 1913)
 * Pierre Granche, sculptor (born 1948)

October to December

 * October 12 – Rodrigue Bourdages, politician (born 1923)
 * November 7 – Clyde Gilmour, radio broadcaster and journalist (born 1912)
 * November 14 – Jack Pickersgill, civil servant and politician (born 1905)
 * November 20 – Ronald Martland, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (born 1909)
 * November 24
 * Czeslaw Brzozowicz, engineer (born 1911)
 * John Sopinka, lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada (born 1933)
 * November 27 – Yves Prévost, politician and lawyer (born 1908)
 * December 7 – George R. Gardiner, businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum (born 1917)
 * December 24 – Pierre Péladeau, businessman (born 1925)

Full date unknown

 * Hilda Watson, Leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (born 1922)

title: 1997 in Canada


text:
1998 in Canada

Events from the year 1998 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Roméo LeBlanc
 * Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
 * Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 36th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Bud Olson
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Garde Gardom
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Yvon Dumont
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Arthur Maxwell House
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Kinley
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Hillary Weston
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Gilbert Clements
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Lise Thibault
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack Wiebe

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
 * Premier of British Columbia – Glen Clark
 * Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Raymond Frenette (until May 14) then Camille Thériault
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Tobin
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Russell MacLellan
 * Premier of Ontario – Mike Harris
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Pat Binns
 * Premier of Quebec – Lucien Bouchard
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Judy Gingell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Helen Maksagak

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Don Morin (until November 26) then Goo Arlooktoo (November 26 to December 10) then Jim Antoine
 * Premier of Yukon – Piers McDonald

January to March

 * January 1 – Toronto and six other communities are merged to form a new megacity. Mel Lastman was sworn in as its first mayor. Three other Ontario cities were similarly merged on the same date in 2001.
 * January 2 – Three separate avalanches in British Columbia kill a total of nine people.
 * January 5 – The Ice Storm of 1998, caused by El Niño, strikes southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths.
 * January 6 – Alan Eagleson pleads guilty to fraud.
 * January 7 – The federal government formally apologizes for the past mistreatment of First Nations.
 * January 23 – The Royal Bank and the Bank of Montreal announce plans to merge, which are later scuttled by the federal government.
 * February 6 – The Hudson's Bay Company takes over Kmart Canada, folding it into its Zellers chain.
 * February 10 – Canadian National Railway merges with the Illinois Central.
 * February 13 – Three girls, all under 18 years of age, are found guilty in Victoria, British Columbia, of killing 14-year-old Reena Virk. Three others plead guilty of assault.
 * February 16 – Reference Re Secession of Quebec: The Supreme Court is asked to rule on the legality of unilateral Quebec secession.
 * February 18 – Controversial plans to include a Holocaust memorial in the Canadian War Museum are scrapped.
 * February 24 – In the federal budget, Finance Minister Paul Martin delivers a balanced budget.
 * March 2 – Daniel Johnson, leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, announces his resignation.
 * March 6 – The Dionne Quintuplets are given money and an apology by the Ontario government.
 * March 6 – British Columbia doctors begin the first of a series of protests against funding shortages.
 * March 12 – Quebec and Newfoundland resolve the long-running Churchill Falls dispute.
 * March 12 – Mutual Life of Canada acquires MetLife to become Canada's second-largest insurance company.
 * March 23 – Senator Andy Thompson is forced to resign his Senate seat after not attending for two years.
 * March 24 – The Nova Scotia election leaves the Liberals and NDP tied for the most seats.
 * March 27 – Jean Charest announces that he will seek the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party.
 * March 27 – The federal government agrees to compensate hepatitis C victims of tainted blood.

April to June

 * April 1 – Floods in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec force 2000 from their homes.
 * April 2 – In the final appeal of the Delwin Vriend case, the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down an Alberta Court of Appeal ruling that barred LGBT persons from protection under the province's human rights code.
 * April 3 – Members of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary are permitted side arms for the first time.
 * April 17 – Dafydd Rhys Williams flies aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, becoming the first non-American to serve as medical officer.
 * April 17 – The Toronto Dominion Bank and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce announce plans to merge; however, the merger is later blocked by the government.
 * April 25 – The United States announces large tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber.
 * April 26–28 – Prime Minister Chrétien pays an official visit to Cuba.
 * May 1 – Separatist David Levine is named head of the newly amalgamated Ottawa hospital sparking great controversy.
 * Early May – Wildfires burning in Alberta force the evacuation of a number of communities.
 * May 14 – Camille Thériault becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Raymond Frenette.
 * May 21 – The Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans shuts down the B.C. coho fishery.
 * May 29 – The Supreme Court strikes down a ban on pre-election opinion polls.
 * June 9 – Three are killed in a gas explosion in Montreal, Quebec.
 * June 10 – One person is killed by an explosion at an Irving Oil refinery.
 * June 11 – Eleven are killed in a plane crash at Mirabel Airport.
 * June 24 – Macmillan Bloedel says that it will end clear cutting of old growth forests.

July to September

 * July 15 – The B.C. government and the Nisga'a First Nation sign a historic, and controversial, land claims agreement.
 * July 20 – The Southam chain buys the Financial Post from Sun Media.
 * August – The Canadian dollar plunges all month.
 * August 11 – 8,000 people are evacuated as forest fires threaten Salmon Arm, British Columbia.
 * August 20 – The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec can not legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
 * August 28 – The dollar reaches 64.02 US cents.
 * September 2 – Pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.
 * September 2 – Crash of Swissair Flight 111 off Peggys Cove in Nova Scotia.
 * September 3 – A three-week lockout begins in Ontario's Catholic school system.
 * September 22 – 20,000 protest Canada's new gun registry on Parliament Hill.

October to December

 * October 8 – Canada is elected to a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
 * October 14 – Canada's first diamond mine opens in the Northwest Territories.
 * October 27 – Conrad Black's National Post publishes its first issue.
 * November 14 – Former Prime Minister Joe Clark is selected as the new leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
 * November 26 – Don Morin is forced to resign as premier of the Northwest Territories.
 * November 30 – In the Quebec election the Parti Québécois is re-elected despite narrowly losing the popular vote.
 * December 1 – Work on Canada's new gun registry begins.
 * December 10 – Jim Antoine becomes premier of the Northwest Territories, replacing Don Morin.
 * December 14 – Minister of Finance Paul Martin prohibits Canada's banks from merging.
 * December – The Military Police Complaints Commission is established.

New books

 * The Bay of Love and Sorrows: David Adams Richards
 * Greater Than Angels: Carol Matas
 * The Love of a Good Woman: Alice Munro
 * Prières d'un adolescent très très sage: Roch Carrier
 * Broken Entries: Race Subjectivity Writing: Roy Miki
 * Isaiah Berlin: A Life: Michael Ignatieff
 * Coyotes Sing to the Moon: Thomas King
 * Toronto Discovered: Robert Fulford
 * Body Music: Dennis Lee
 * The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: Wayne Johnston
 * The Wise and Foolish Virgins: Don Hannah
 * Kiss of the Fur Queen: Tomson Highway

Awards

 * Carol Shields's Larry's Party wins the Orange Prize for Fiction
 * Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman
 * See 1998 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Margaret Gibson, Opium Dreams
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award: Irene N. Watts, Good-Bye Marianne
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Mark Sinnett, The Landing
 * Marian Engel Award: Sharon Butala
 * Pat Lowther Award: Barbara Nickel, The Gladys Elegies
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
 * Trillium Book Award English: André Alexis, Childhood and Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman
 * Trillium Book Award French: Daniel Poliquin, L'homme de paille and Stefan Psenak, Du chaos et de l'ordre des choses
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Kit Pearson

Music

 * Shania Twain's Come on Over is one of the year's top selling albums in North America
 * Les Chansons en or by Céline Dion is released
 * Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Alanis Morissette

Film

 * Titanic, directed by Canadian James Cameron, wins 11 Oscars.

Television

 * Canada's Sesame Street switches to showing exclusively Canadian content, renaming itself Sesame Park, as it no longer uses any American made segments from Sesame Street
 * Canadian children's television show Rolie Polie Olie debuts.

Dance

 * The French government names Karen Kain as an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters

Sport

 * February 7 – February 22 – Nagano Olympics Canada wins the fourth-most medals, but is embarrassed when their star-filled hockey team fails to win a medal.
 * February 12 – The Toronto Maple Leafs buy the Toronto Raptors
 * May 17 – Portland Winter Hawks won their Second Memorial Cup by defeating the Guelph Storm 4 to 3.
 * June 16 – Cranbrook, British Columbia's Steve Yzerman of the Detroit Red Wings is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * November 22 – Calgary Stampeders won their Fifth Grey Cup by the defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 26 to 24 in the 86th Grey Cup played at Winnipeg Stadium. Vancouver's Vince Danielsen was awarded the game's Most Valuable Canadian
 * November 28 – Saskatchewan Huskies won their Third Vanier Cup by defeating the Concordia Stingers 24 to 17 in the 34th Vanier Cup played at Skydome in Toronto

Births

 * January 9 – Sean Day, Belgium-born ice hockey player
 * January 13 – Gabrielle Daleman, figure skater
 * January 19 – Ella Shelton, ice hockey player
 * February 3 – Michael McLeod, ice hockey player
 * February 6 – Aviva Mongillo, singer and actress
 * February 26 – Isaac Durnford, actor
 * March 12 – Annaleise Carr, swimmer
 * April 27 – Drake Batherson, ice hockey player
 * May 20 – Nam Nguyen, figure skater
 * July 23 – Houdini, rapper (died 2020)
 * August 8 – Shawn Mendes, singer/songwriter
 * August 13 – Carter Hart, ice hockey goaltender
 * September 17 – Richard Wang, chess player
 * October 26 – Mattea Roach, tutor and Jeopardy! contestant
 * October 29 – Lance Stroll, race car driver
 * November 13 – Melissa "Charlie" Storwick, singer-songwriter
 * December 6 – Micah Berry, actor
 * December 8 – Anastasia Rizikov, pianist
 * December 30 – Zachary Brault-Guillard, Haiti-born Canadian soccer player

Full date unknown

 * Regan Oey, actor

January to March

 * January 1 – Arthur Gelber, philanthropist (born 1915)
 * January 12 – Mark MacGuigan, academic and politician (born 1931)
 * January 23 – Donald Davis, actor (born 1928)
 * January 28 – Eddie Sargent, politician (born 1915)
 * February 1 – Sheila Watson, novelist, critic and teacher (born 1909)
 * February 20 – Bob McBride, singer (born 1946)
 * February 25 – W. O. Mitchell, writer (born 1914)
 * March 13 – Bill Reid, artist (born 1920)
 * March 16 – Yves Landry, president of Chrysler Canada

April to June

 * April 3 – Elmer Iseler, choir conductor and choral editor (born 1927)
 * April 7 – Nick Auf der Maur, journalist and politician (born 1942)
 * April 16 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, supercentenarian, the oldest validated Canadian ever (born 1880)
 * April 27 – John Bassett, publisher and media baron (born 1915)
 * May 28 – Phil Hartman, actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist (born 1948)
 * June 4
 * William Cecil Ross, politician (born 1911)
 * David Walsh, businessman, disgraced head of Bre-X (born 1945)
 * June 20 – Bobby Gimby, orchestra leader, trumpeter and singer-songwriter (born 1918)
 * June 27 – Joyce Wieland, experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist (born 1931)

July to September

 * July 1
 * Emery Barnes, Canadian football player and politician (born 1929)
 * Florence Doane, Olympic athlete
 * July 6 – Loris Russell, paleontologist
 * July 16 – Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (born 1920)
 * August 23 – Harold E. Johns, medical physicist (born 1915)

 * September 15 – Louis Rasminsky, third Governor of the Bank of Canada (born 1908)
 * September 28 – Eric Malling, television journalist (born 1946)

October to December

 * October 1 – Pauline Julien, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist (born 1928)
 * October 13 – Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, general and Chief of the Defence Staff (born 1932)
 * October 17
 * Brian Dickson, Supreme Court justice
 * Mary O'Brien, feminist
 * November 9 – Roland Hewgill, actor
 * November 13 – Michel Trudeau, student (born 1975)
 * November 22 – Jack Shadbolt, painter (born 1909)
 * December 9 – Shaughnessy Cohen, politician (born 1948)
 * December 16 – John Gallagher, geologist and businessman (born 1916)
 * December 23
 * David Manners, actor (born 1900)
 * Pierre Vallières, journalist and writer (born 1938)
 * December 24 – Syl Apps, pole vaulter and ice hockey player (born 1915)

Full date unknown

 * John Hayes, harness racing driver, trainer and owner (born 1917)
 * Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson, historian, educator and political activist (born 1911)

title: 1998 in Canada


text:
1999 in Canada

Events from the year 1999 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Roméo LeBlanc (until October 7) then Adrienne Clarkson
 * Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
 * Chief Justice of Canada – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
 * Parliament – 36th

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Bud Olson
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Garde Gardom
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Yvon Dumont (until March 2) then Peter Liba
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Arthur Maxwell House
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Kinley
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Hillary Weston
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Gilbert Clements
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Lise Thibault
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack Wiebe

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
 * Premier of British Columbia – Glen Clark (until August 25) then Dan Miller
 * Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon (until October 5) then Gary Doer
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Camille Thériault (until June 21) then Bernard Lord
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Tobin
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – Russell MacLellan (until August 16) then John Hamm
 * Premier of Ontario – Mike Harris
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Pat Binns
 * Premier of Quebec – Lucien Bouchard
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Judy Gingell
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Helen Maksagak (until March 26) then Daniel Joseph Marion
 * Commissioner of Nunavut – Helen Maksagak (from April 1)

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Jim Antoine
 * Premier of Nunavut – Paul Okalik (from April 1)
 * Premier of Yukon – Piers McDonald

January to June

 * January 1 – An avalanche destroys a school gymnasium during New Year's celebrations in Kangguspoo in far northern Quebec, killing 9.
 * February 9 – Brian Tobin's Liberals are re-elected in Newfoundland.
 * April 1 – Nunavut becomes the newest territory. Paul Okalik becomes the first premier.
 * April 6 – A disgruntled employee kills four people, then killed himself in OC Transpo of Ottawa.
 * April 28 – W. R. Myers High School shooting: in Taber, Alberta, a 15-year-old boy, who had recently been withdrawn from public school to escape bullying, walks into W.R. Myers High School and shoots two students with a .22 rifle, killing one (Jason Lang) and injuring the other.
 * May 1 – Sponsorship scandal: The federal government issues a $615,000 contract for a report from Groupaction into its own activities.
 * May 11 – Chevron announces a major natural gas find in the Northwest Territories.
 * May 17 – The Saskatchewan government awards David Milgaard after he was jailed for 23 years for a murder he did not commit.
 * May 20 – The Supreme Court expands gay spousal rights.
 * May 27 – Julie Payette becomes the first Canadian to board the International Space Station.
 * May 29 – 20-year-old Ojibwe woman Tammy Lamondin-Gagnon disappears from a public park in Newmarket, Ontario, initiating a still-unsolved missing persons case.
 * June 3 – Ontario election: Mike Harris's PCs win a second consecutive majority.
 * June 3 – Canada and the United States sign a treaty to divide the Pacific salmon fishery.
 * June 4 – An agreement on split-run magazines prevents looming trade war with the United States.
 * June 7 – Bernard Lord's Conservatives win a surprise election victory in New Brunswick.
 * June 10 – The Reform Party of Canada votes to become the Canadian Alliance.
 * June 17 – Canadian citizen Stanley Faulder is executed in Texas, despite diplomatic complaints by the Canadian government.
 * June 21 – Bernard Lord becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Camille Thériault.
 * June 30 – A British Columbia court strikes down Canada's child pornography laws.

July to December

 * July 27 – Nova Scotia election: The Conservatives win a majority government in Nova Scotia.
 * August 16 – John Hamm becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Russell MacLellan.
 * August 20 – The Supreme Court rules that Quebec cannot secede unilaterally, but that Canada is obliged to recognize a clear "yes" vote.
 * August 20 – Eaton's files for bankruptcy.
 * August 24 – Onex announces a plan to buy and merge Air Canada and Canadian Airlines.
 * August 25 – Dan Miller, as interim leader of the NDP, becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Glen Clark who resigned on the 21st.
 * September 15 – Louise Arbour appointed to the Supreme Court replacing Antonio Lamer.
 * September 19 – Saskatchewan election: Roy Romanow's NDP wins only a minority but forms a coalition with the Liberals to maintain control of the Legislative Assembly.
 * September 25 – The federal government refuses requests for aid by the six remaining Canadian NHL franchises.
 * October 5 – Gary Doer of the NDP becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Gary Filmon of the Conservatives.
 * October 7 – Adrienne Clarkson becomes Governor General.
 * October 8 – Bill Clinton dedicates the new Embassy of the United States in Ottawa.
 * October 15 – Robert Mundell wins the Nobel Prize for economics.
 * October 19 – Air Canada, backed by other airlines, announces a takeover bid for Canadian Airlines.
 * November 3 – Beverley McLachlin becomes the first female chief justice of the Supreme Court.
 * November 5 – A Quebec court decides that Onex's bid for Air Canada is illegal.
 * November 5 – Quebec sign law is overturned.
 * November 21 – Nimiq 1 Canada's first direct broadcast digital TV satellite launched by a Proton-K Blok DM-3 rocket from the Tyuratam launch centre in Kazakhstan.
 * December 8 – Air Canada takes over Canadian Airlines.
 * December 11 – The verdict in the Just Desserts shooting case is handed down. Two of the accused are found guilty, the third is acquitted.
 * December 14 – Montreal resident Ahmed Ressam is arrested in Seattle and found with large quantities of explosives.

New works

 * Bonnie Burnard: A Good House
 * Wayson Choy: Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
 * Matt Cohen: Elizabeth and After
 * Antonine Maillet: Chronique d'une sorcière de vent
 * Russell Smith: Young Men
 * Lola MacLaughlin: "Four Cities/Four Solos"

Awards

 * Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Bonnie Burnard, A Good House
 * See 1999 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Andre Alexis, Childhood
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award: Iain Lawrence, The Wreckers
 * Marian Engel Award: Janice Kulyk Keeger
 * Norma Fleck Award: Andy Turnbull and Debora Pearson, By Truck to the North: My Winter Adventure
 * Pat Lowther Award: Hilary Clark, More Light
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Stuart McLean, Home from the Vinyl Cafe
 * Trillium Book Award English: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief
 * Trillium Book Award French: Andrée Christensen and Jacques Flamand, Lithochronos ou le premier vol de la pierre
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Joan Clark

Music

 * Céline Dion, Alanis Morissette, and Shania Twain win major Grammy Awards

Television

 * September 13 – The first episode of the children's series Mona the Vampire is broadcast on YTV

Sport

 * February 13 – The last hockey game is played at Maple Leaf Gardens as the team moves to the new Air Canada Centre.
 * April 16 – Wayne Gretzky retires from ice hockey.
 * May 23 – Ottawa 67's win their second (and latest ) Memorial Cup by defeating the Calgary Hitmen. The tournament was played at Ottawa Civic Centre in Ottawa.
 * June 19 – Oshawa, Ontario's Joe Nieuwendyk of the Dallas Stars is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy.
 * July 23 – August 8 – The Pan American games are held in Winnipeg.
 * November 13 – Lennox Lewis defeats Evander Holyfield to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
 * November 28 – Hamilton Tiger-Cats win their eighth (and latest ) Grey Cup by defeating the Calgary Stampeders 32 to 21 in the 87th Grey Cup played at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver. Hamilton, Ontario's Mike Morreale was awarded the game's Most Valuable Canadian.

Births

 * January 4 – Gage Munroe, actor
 * February 4 – Olivia Lunny, singer
 * February 12 – Maggie Coles-Lyster, cyclist
 * February 14 – Maya Burhanpurkar, scientist
 * February 19 – Quinn Lord, actor
 * April 8 – Jacob Guay, singer
 * April 27 – Brooklynn Proulx, actress
 * May 5 – Jonny Gray, actor
 * July 9 – Claire Corlett, actress
 * July 14 – Dawson Dunbar, actor
 * August 2 – Mark Lee, rapper and member of South Korean boy group NCT
 * August 17 – Akintoye, rapper
 * August 22 – Dakota Goyo, actor
 * September 7
 * Michelle Creber, actress
 * Laurie Jussaume, cyclist
 * September 22 – Erin Pitt, actress
 * November 8 – Katherine Uchida, rhythmic gymnast
 * November 30 – Gage Munroe, actor

Full date unknown

 * Natasha Calis, actress
 * Veronica Penny

January to March

 * January 8 – James William Baskin, politician and businessman (born 1920)
 * January 10 – Walter Harris, politician and lawyer (born 1904)
 * February 8 – Denise Leblanc-Bantey, politician (born 1949)
 * February 18 – Neil Gaudry, politician (born 1937)
 * February 22 – Isidore Goresky, farm labourer, teacher and provincial politician (born 1902)
 * March 3 – Gerhard Herzberg, physicist and physical chemist (born 1904)
 * March 9 – Harry Somers, composer (born 1925)
 * March 15 – Guy D'Artois, army officer (born 1917)
 * March 23 – Osmond Borradaile, cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of First and Second World War (born 1898)
 * March 24 – Edmund Tobin Asselin, politician (born 1920)

April to June

 * April 4 – Greg McConnell, indie rock musician (born 1964)
 * April 5 – Paul David, cardiologist and founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (born 1919)
 * May 2 – Douglas Harkness, politician, teacher, farmer and former Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Canadian Artillery. (born 1903)
 * May 23 – Owen Hart, wrestler (born 1965)
 * June 8 – Gordon Towers, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta (born 1919)
 * June 17 – Stanley Faulder, murderer and first Canadian citizen to be executed in the United States since 1952 (born 1937)

July to December

 * July 1 – Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born American film director (born 1908)
 * July 16 – Alan Macnaughton, politician (born 1903)
 * August 12 – Jean Drapeau, lawyer, politician and Mayor of Montreal (born 1916)
 * September 24 – Robert Bend, politician (born 1914)
 * October 14 – Ian Wahn, politician and lawyer (born 1916)
 * October 31 – Greg Moore, racecar driver (born 1975)
 * December 2 – Matt Cohen, writer (born 1942)
 * December 4 – Bert Hoffmeister, army officer (born 1907)
 * December 10 – Rick Danko, musician and singer (born 1943)
 * December 20 – Hank Snow, country music artist (born 1914)
 * December 23 – Wallace Diestelmeyer, figure skater (born 1926)

title: 1999 in Canada


text:
2000 in Canada

Events from the year 2000 in Canada.

Incumbents
Estimated Canadian population: 30,790,834

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Adrienne Clarkson
 * Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
 * Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec) (until January 6) then Beverley McLachlin (British Columbia)
 * Parliament – 36th (until October 22)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Bud Olson (until February 10) then Lois Hole
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Garde Gardom
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Peter Liba
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Arthur Maxwell House
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Kinley (until May 17) then Myra Freeman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Hillary Weston
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Gilbert Clements
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Lise Thibault
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack Wiebe (until February 21) then Lynda Haverstock

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
 * Premier of British Columbia – Dan Miller (until February 24) then Ujjal Dosanjh
 * Premier of Manitoba – Gary Doer
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Bernard Lord
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Tobin (until October 16) then Beaton Tulk
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Hamm
 * Premier of Ontario – Mike Harris
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Pat Binns
 * Premier of Quebec – Lucien Bouchard
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Judy Gingell (until October 1) then Jack Cable
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Daniel Joseph Marion (until March 31) then Glenna Hansen
 * Commissioner of Nunavut – Helen Maksagak (until April 1) then Peter Irniq

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Jim Antoine (until January 17) then Stephen Kakfwi
 * Premier of Nunavut – Paul Okalik
 * Premier of Yukon – Piers McDonald (until May 6) then Pat Duncan

January to June

 * January 1 – The magnitude 5.2 Kipawa earthquake occurs in Ontario and Quebec, Canada.
 * January 7 – Beverley Mclachlin is sworn in as the 17th Chief Justice of Canada, and first woman to be appointed to that role.
 * January 15 – CTV News Channel mistakenly airs tape of Avery Haines flubbing a line and joking about it in terms many viewers find offensive.
 * January 19
 * Stephen Kakfwi becomes premier of the Northwest Territories, replacing James Antoine.
 * HRDC scandal hits the public as a result of an internal audit.
 * February 7 – Rogers Communications buys Quebec's Vidéotron.
 * February 15 – Thomson Corp sells all its newspaper holdings other than The Globe and Mail.
 * February 24 – Ujjal Dosanjh becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Dan Miller.
 * March 15 – The House of Commons passes the Clarity Act outlining conditions for another Quebec separation referendum.
 * March 25 – The Reform Party of Canada is dissolved and replaced with the Canadian Alliance.
 * April 19 – Wiebo Ludwig is found guilty of a 1998 oil well bombing.
 * May 6 – Pat Duncan becomes premier of Yukon, replacing Piers McDonald.
 * May 11 – The Alberta legislature passes a bill allowing the private sector to play a larger role in health care.
 * May 12 – The Bank of Canada withdraws the $1,000 bill from circulation to fight against money laundering and organized crime.
 * May 24 – E. coli outbreak in Walkerton, Ontario. It will eventually kill nine people.
 * May 25 – The remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier killed in France in World War I are brought back to Canada and buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa.
 * June 17 – Seagram announces plans to merge with France's Vivendi.
 * June 29 – Canada passes the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act, which extends full benefits and obligations to persons in homosexual relationships, excluding the right to marry.

July to December

 * July 8 – Stockwell Day is elected the first leader of the Canadian Alliance party.
 * July 12 – Matthew Coon Come is elected leader of the Assembly of First Nations.
 * July 14 – A tornado near Pine Lake, Alberta, kills eleven people.
 * July 31 – Conrad Black's Hollinger sells almost all its Canadian newspaper holdings to Izzy Asper's CanWest.
 * August – The prohibition of marijuana is ruled illegal by an Ontario court.
 * August 15 – Michael Cowpland resigns as CEO of Corel.
 * August 26 – Sponsorship scandal: Minister of Public Works Alfonso Gagliano is criticized for giving contracts to a firm that employs his son.
 * September 9 – Star Ray TV, a pirate television station in Toronto, begins broadcasting.
 * September 26 – Long-serving Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow announces his plans to retire.
 * September 28 to October 3 – Death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, former prime minister.
 * October 16 – Beaton Tulk becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Brian Tobin.
 * October 27 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri in connection with the bombing of Air India Flight 182.
 * November 21 – Launch of Anik F1 Canada's most powerful communications satellite to date.
 * November 27 – In the 2000 Canadian election Jean Chrétien's Liberals increase their majority in the House of Commons.
 * November 30 – Marc Garneau returns to space for a third time.
 * December – The federal government opens a marijuana growing operation in an abandoned mine in Manitoba.

New works

 * The Blind Assassin: Margaret Atwood
 * Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond: Michael Ignatieff
 * Star-Spangled Canadians: Jeffrey Simpson
 * Island: Alistair MacLeod
 * The Farfarers, Before the Norse: Farley Mowat
 * No Logo: Naomi Klein
 * City of Glass: Douglas Coupland
 * Before You're a Stranger: Raymond Fraser

Plays

 * Elizabeth Rex – Timothy Findley

Literary awards

 * Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin
 * Michael Ondaatje wins the Prix Médicis for Anil's Ghost
 * Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost and David Adams Richards: Mercy Among the Children
 * See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Nega Mezlekia's non-fiction win for Notes from the Hyena's Belly becomes a subject of controversy when poet Anne Stone alleges that she ghostwrote the majority of the book. Stone was subsequently sued for defamation by Mezlekia, who stated that Stone's role in the book's publication was strictly that of a copy editor.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Arthur Black, Black Tie and Tales
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Shawna Lemay, All the God-Sized Fruit
 * Griffin Poetry Prize: Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot
 * Marian Engel Award: Anita Rau Badami
 * Norma Fleck Award: Simon Tookoome and Sheldon Oberman, The Shaman's Nephew: A Life in the Far North
 * Pat Lowther Award: Esta Spalding, Lost August
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Arthur Black, Black Tie and Tales
 * Trillium Book Award English: Don Coles, Kurgan
 * Trillium Book Award French: Didier Leclair, Toronto, je t'aime
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Sheree Fitch

Television

 * Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Canadian Edition shows for two episodes

Music

 * Barenaked Ladies, Maroon
 * Nelly Furtado, Whoa, Nelly!
 * Sarah Harmer, You Were Here
 * King Cobb Steelie, Mayday
 * The Tragically Hip, Music at Work
 * The Weakerthans, Left and Leaving

Sport

 * May 28 – Rimouski Océanic wins their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Barrie Colts 6 to 2. The entire tournament is played at Halifax Metro Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia
 * June 10 – Kitchener, Ontario's Scott Stevens of the New Jersey Devils is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * November 26 – BC Lions win their fourth Grey Cup by defeating the Montreal Alouettes 28 to 26 in the 88th Grey Cup played at McMahon Stadium in Calgary. Vancouver's Sean Millington is awarded the game's Most Valuable Canadian
 * December 2 – Ottawa Gee-Gees win their second Vanier Cup by defeating the Regina Rams 42 to 39 in the 36th Vanier Cup played at Skydome in Toronto

Births

 * February – Erika Nordby
 * February 23 – Christian Martyn, actor
 * February 25 – Daniel Benoit, Canadian-American son of Chris Benoit (died 2007)
 * March 27 – Sophie Nélisse, actress
 * May 18 – Addison Holley, actress
 * May 23 – Evan Bird, actor
 * June 13 – Penny Oleksiak, swimmer
 * June 14 – RJ Barrett, Canadian basketball player
 * June 16 – Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player
 * July 15 – Victoria Stafford, murder victim (died 2009)
 * July 17 – Maria Aragon, singer
 * August 8 – Félix Auger-Aliassime, tennis player
 * August 26 – Noah Ryan Scott, actor
 * September 1 – Jacob Ewaniuk, actor
 * November 2 – Alphonso Davies, football player
 * November 21 – Megan Roberts, artistic gymnast
 * December 17 – Twomad, Youtuber (died 2024)

January to March

 * January 15 – Georges-Henri Lévesque, Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
 * January 22 – Anne Hébert, author and poet (b. 1916)
 * January 26 – A. E. van Vogt, science fiction author (b. 1912)
 * February 5 – Barbara Pentland, composer (b. 1912)
 * February 7
 * Sid Abel, ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
 * Doug Henning, magician, illusionist and escape artist (b. 1947)
 * Wilfred Cantwell Smith, professor of comparative religion (b. 1916)
 * February 11 – Wilfred Sénéchal, lawyer, a decorated World War II soldier, and politician (b. 1918)
 * February 18 – Sheldon Turcott, journalist (b. 1936)
 * February 21 – Violet Archer, composer, teacher, pianist, organist and percussionist (b. 1913)
 * March 3 – Sandra Schmirler, curler, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion (b. 1962)
 * March 5 – Daniel Yanofsky, chess player, Canada's first chess grandmaster (b. 1925)
 * March 6 – John Colicos, actor (b. 1928)
 * March 9 – Jean Coulthard, composer and academic (b. 1908)
 * March 16 – Michael Starr, politician and first Canadian cabinet minister of Ukrainian descent (b. 1910)
 * March 20 – Gene Eugene, actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician (b. 1961)

April to June

 * April 23 – Al Purdy, poet (b. 1918)
 * May 22 – Davie Fulton, politician and judge (b. 1916)
 * May 27 – Maurice Richard, ice hockey player (b. 1921)
 * June 21 – Claude Bissell, author and educator (b. 1916)

July to December

 * July 12 – Charles Merritt, recipient of the Victoria Cross and Member of Parliament (b. 1908)
 * July 21 – Frank Miller, politician and 19th Premier of Ontario (b. 1927)
 * August 1 – Hugh Hood, novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor (b. 1928)
 * September 10 – Ben Wicks, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author (b. 1926)
 * September 21 – Jacques Flynn, politician and Senator (b. 1915)
 * September 24 – Marcel Lambert, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1919)
 * September 28 – Pierre Trudeau, politician and 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
 * September 29 – Myles Ferguson, actor (b. 1981)
 * October 4 – Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1932)
 * October 27 – Tim Ralfe, journalist (b. 1938)

title: 2000 in Canada


text:
2001 in Canada

Events from the year 2001 in Canada.

Incumbents
Estimated Canadian population: 31,110,565

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Adrienne Clarkson
 * Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
 * Chief Justice – Beverley McLachlin (British Columbia)
 * Parliament – 37th (from January 29)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Lois Hole
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Garde Gardom (until September 25) then Iona Campagnolo
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Peter Liba
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Arthur Maxwell House
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Myra Freeman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Hilary Weston
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Gilbert Clements (until May 28) then Léonce Bernard
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Lise Thibault
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Lynda Haverstock

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
 * Premier of British Columbia – Ujjal Dosanjh (until June 5) then Gordon Campbell
 * Premier of Manitoba – Gary Doer
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Bernard Lord
 * Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – Beaton Tulk (until February 13) then Roger Grimes
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Hamm
 * Premier of Ontario – Mike Harris
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Pat Binns
 * Premier of Quebec – Lucien Bouchard (until March 8) then Bernard Landry
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow (until February 8) then Lorne Calvert

Commissioners

 * Commissioner of Yukon – Jack Cable
 * Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Glenna Hansen
 * Commissioner of Nunavut – Peter Irniq

Premiers

 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Stephen Kakfwi
 * Premier of Nunavut – Paul Okalik
 * Premier of Yukon – Pat Duncan

January to March

 * January 1 – The Ontario cities of Ottawa, Hamilton and Sudbury have their surrounding suburbs merged into their municipalities. Sudbury is the only one of the three to change its name (to Greater Sudbury). Toronto had been similarly merged in 1998.
 * January 17 – The Bank of Canada unveils a new $10 bill with enhanced security features.
 * January 18 – MafiaBoy pleads guilty to 56 of 66 mischief charges in a Montreal courtroom. The other 10 charges were withdrawn.
 * January 27 – Lorne Calvert becomes the leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party after winning the fourth ballot at the party's 2001 leadership convention.
 * January 29 – Peter Milliken is elected as the new Speaker of the House of Commons after five rounds of voting.
 * January 29 – The Toronto Stock Exchange allows stocks greater than $5 in value to trade at 1¢ increments instead of at 5¢ increments.
 * January 30 – Governor General Adrienne Clarkson reads the Speech from the Throne at the beginning of the 37th Canadian parliament.
 * January 30 – An envelope mailed to Citizenship and Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan containing a mysterious blue powder caused the Immigration Canada building to be sealed off. A Winnipeg laboratory on February 1 said the powder posed no health risk.
 * February 2 – Canada begins banning imports of beef and beef products from Brazil due to concerns of mad cow disease.
 * February 2 – Ontario Minister of Finance Ernie Eves quits to become vice-chair and senior adviser at Credit Suisse First Boston Canada.
 * February 3 – Roger Grimes becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador after winning the second ballot at the party's leadership convention.
 * February 5 – Prime Minister Jean Chrétien becomes the first foreign leader to visit the newly elected President of the United States, George W. Bush, in Washington, D.C.
 * February 8 – Lorne Calvert becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Roy Romanow.
 * February 13 – Roger Grimes becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Beaton Tulk.
 * March 8 – Bernard Landry becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Lucien Bouchard.
 * March 12 – 2001 Alberta general election: Ralph Klein's PCs win a ninth consecutive majority.

April to June

 * April 18 - Online only media rabble.ca is founded with well known media critic and feminist activist Judy Rebick as publisher.
 * April 20 – Summit of the Americas is held in Quebec City to discuss the FTAA; the city, which has been divided by a high fence around much of the downtown core, also hosts the People's Summit and is wracked by the Quebec City protests.
 * May 4 – Chrétien's longtime Chief of Staff, Jean Pelletier, is made the head of Via Rail.
 * May 14 – Video lottery terminal referendum in New Brunswick.
 * May 16 – British Columbia election: Gordon Campbell's BC Liberals win a landslide victory over Premier Ujjal Dosanjh's NDP.
 * May 18 – Conrad Black renounces his Canadian citizenship.
 * May 23 – Federal Ethics Commissioner releases a report which clears Alfonso Gagliano of any wrongdoing in the sponsorship scandal.
 * June 5 – Gordon Campbell becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Ujjal Dosanjh.

July to December

 * July – Canada becomes the first country in the world to legalize medical marijuana.
 * July 17 – Infighting in the Canadian Alliance forces out leader Stockwell Day.
 * August 24 – Conrad Black sells The National Post to Izzy Asper's CanWest.
 * August 24 – René Lévesque Bust unveiled.
 * August 28 – The US Governors of New England agree with the Quebec and Atlantic Canadian premiers to the Climate Change Action Plan 2001.
 * September 7 - Documentary Channel signs on.
 * September 11 – Canada's border with the United States is on high alert in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the United States. Canadian government initiates both "Operation Support" and "Operation Yellow Ribbon."
 * September 14 – Three days after the September 11 terrorist attacks, while the rest of the world sees the memorial service for the victims at the Washington National Cathedral, Canadians see the similar service on Parliament Hill—the largest single vigil ever seen in the nation's capital.
 * October 7 – the 2001 Attack on Afghanistan begins. Canadian fighter pilots and ground troops are involved in the war.
 * November 17 – Vancouver resident Aaron Webster is killed in what many believe to be a gay bashing attack.
 * December 12 – The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary arrests Dr. Shirley Turner in St. John's on suspicion of murdering her boyfriend Andrew Bagby in Pennsylvania. However, Justice Gale Welsh releases Turner deeming her not a threat to society, despite the murder charges.

Full date unknown

 * Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research is founded.
 * Chris Hadfield becomes the first Canadian to perform a spacewalk.
 * CTV purchases The Globe and Mail.
 * Jean Drapeau Statue unveiled.

Arts and literature

 * March 4 – Bruce Cockburn is inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

New literature

 * Discipline of Power: Jeffrey Simpson
 * Dolce Agonia: Nancy Huston
 * Eunoia: Christian Bök
 * Life of Pi: Yann Martel
 * Shadows: Timothy Findley
 * Stanley Park: Timothy Taylor
 * The Stone Carvers: Jane Urquhart

Literary awards

 * Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief wins the lucrative International Dublin Literary Award
 * Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Richard B. Wright: Clara Callan
 * See 2001 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Books in Canada First Novel Award: Michael Redhill, Martin Sloane
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award: Sharon McKay, Charlie Wilcox
 * Gerald Lampert Award: Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You
 * Griffin Poetry Prize: Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
 * Marian Engel Award: Elizabeth Hay
 * Matt Cohen Prize: Mavis Gallant
 * Norma Fleck Award: Gena K. Gorrell, Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale
 * Pat Lowther Award: Sharon Thesen, A Pair of Scissors
 * Stephen Leacock Award: Stuart McLean, Vinyl Café Unplugged
 * Trillium Book Award English: Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan
 * Trillium Book Award French: Michèle Matteau, Cognac et Porto
 * Vicky Metcalf Award: Linda Granfield

New music

 * All Killer No Filler: Sum 41
 * Back to the Mansion: April Wine
 * Pretty Together: Sloan
 * Silver Side Up: Nickelback
 * Ten New Songs: Leonard Cohen

Film

 * Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner wins the Golden Reel for Best First Feature at Cannes

Television

 * Rick Mercer leaves This Hour Has 22 Minutes, then is replaced by Colin Mochrie
 * Kevin Newman anchors Global Television Network's national newscast, Global National, beginning days before 9/11.

Sport

 * January 31 – George N. Gillett Jr. buys 80% of the Montreal Canadiens and 100% of the Molson Centre in Montreal for US$275 million.
 * February 3 – Catriona Le May Doan wins gold in the 500 m and 1000 m speed skating races in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
 * April 18 – The Vancouver Grizzlies play their final game as Canadian-based team, winning over the Golden State Warriors 95–81. The team moved to Memphis later in 2001.
 * May 27 - Red Deer Rebels won their First Memorial Cup by defeating Val-d'Or Foreurs 6 to 5. The Tournament was played at Agridome in Regina, Saskatchewan
 * June 9 - Burnaby, British Columbia's Joe Sakic of the Colorado Avalanche is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
 * November 25 – Calgary Stampeders won their Fifth Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 27 to 19 in the 89th Grey Cup played at Olympic Stadium in Montreal
 * December 1 - Saint Mary's Huskies won their Second Vanier Cup by defeating the Manitoba Bisons by a score of 42–16 in the 37th Vanier Cup played at Skydome in Toronto

Births

 * March 6 – Aryana Engineer, actress
 * March 9 – Jeon So-mi, singer, member of I.O.I
 * May 8 – Jordyn Huitema, soccer player
 * May 12 – John Paul Ruttan, actor
 * May 26 – Megan Charpentier, actress
 * July 8 – Riele Downs, child actress
 * July 22 – Alisha Newton, actress
 * October 5 – Dalila Bela, actress
 * October 8 – Percy Hynes White, Canadian actor
 * October 9 – Kyla Leibel, swimmer
 * October 11 – Alexis Lafrenière, ice hockey player
 * October 17 – Jake Beale, actor
 * November 7 – Amybeth McNulty, actress

January to March

 * January 13 – Michael Cuccione, child actor and activist (born 1985)
 * January 18 – Al Waxman, actor and director (born 1935)
 * January 31 – Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author (born 1923)
 * February 5 – David Iftody, politician (born 1956)
 * February 28 – Gildas Molgat, politician (born 1927)
 * March 23
 * Louis Dudek, poet, literary critic and publisher (born 1918)
 * David McTaggart, environmentalist (born 1932)
 * March 28 – Moe Koffman, flautist and saxophonist, cancer (born 1928)

April to June

 * April 2 – Charles Daudelin, sculptor and painter (born 1920)
 * April 16 – Horace Gwynne, boxer and Olympic gold medalist (born 1913)
 * May 5 – Aba Bayefsky, artist and teacher (born 1923)
 * June – Gordon Donaldson, author and journalist (b.1926)
 * June 3 – Maurice Breton, politician and lawyer (born 1909)
 * June 7 – Charles Templeton, cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author (born 1915)
 * June 19 – William Austin Forsyth, politician (born (1917)
 * June 23 – Yvonne Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets (born 1934)

July to December

 * July 3 – Mordecai Richler, author, screenwriter and essayist (born 1931)
 * July 24 – Georges Dor, author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator and theatrical producer and director (born 1931)
 * August 9 – Kimberly Rogers, Sudbury woman whose suicide while under house arrest for a disputed welfare fraud conviction led to a major scandal and inquest (b. c1961)
 * September 18 – Ernie Coombs, children's entertainer Mr. Dressup (born 1927)
 * November 19 – Marcelle Ferron, painter and stained glass artist (born 1924)
 * November 24 – Donald McPherson, figure skater (born 1945)
 * December 14 – Pauline Mills McGibbon, politician and 22nd Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario (born 1910)

Full date unknown

 * Gordon Donaldson, author and journalist (born 1926)

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Contributions
Articles I've started or made major contributions to:

 * Antelope, California
 * Calaveras Big Trees State Park
 * Earlsdon
 * Folsom Lake State Recreation Area
 * Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park
 * The Saw Doctors
 * UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
 * Unitrans

Other things that I know (possibly way too much) about:

 * Pez
 * Seinfeld (and by extension, Seinfeld characters and culture, Jerry Seinfeld (character), Cosmo Kramer, George Costanza, Elaine Benes, Frank Costanza, etc)
 * University of California, Davis

Most of my other contributions are spelling or grammar checking. I've been correcting spelling in any article I read. See the whole lot: Contributions

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