1989 in Canada
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Events from the year 1989 in Canada.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch: Elizabeth II
- Governor General: Jeanne Sauvé
- Prime Minister: Brian Mulroney
- Premier of Alberta: Don Getty
- Premier of British Columbia: Bill Vander Zalm
- Premier of Manitoba: Gary Filmon
- Premier of New Brunswick: Frank McKenna
- Premier of Newfoundland: Brian Peckford then Thomas Rideout then Clyde Wells
- Premier of Nova Scotia: John Buchanan
- Premier of Ontario: David Peterson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island: Joe Ghiz
- Premier of Quebec: Robert Bourassa
- Premier of Saskatchewan: Grant Devine
See also: 1989 Canadian incumbents for more
[edit] Events
- January 1: The Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
- January 21: Brian Peckford announces his resignation from politics, giving the party 2 months to find a replacement as party leader and premier.
- March 1: The Canadian Space Agency is created.
- March 10: An Air Ontario flight crashes near Dryden, Ontario killing 24
- March 13: 2:44 AM ET: A solar coronal mass ejection causes a blackout across all of Quebec, as it hits the Hydro-Québec power grid, affecting 6 million people for more than 9 hours.[1]
- March 20: Alberta election: Don Getty's PCs win a sixth consecutive majority.
- March 22: Thomas Rideout becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Brian Peckford.
- May 5: Clyde Wells becomes premier of Newfoundland, defeating Thomas Rideout in a general election
- June 5: The federal government announces sweeping cuts to Via Rail
- July 31: Cable television network CBC Newsworld is launched.
- September 1: French cable sports network, RDS, signs on.
- October 8: The Cormier Village hayride accident kills 13 people and injures 45.
- December 2: Audrey McLaughlin is elected head of the NDP replacing Ed Broadbent becoming the first female major party leader in Canadian history
- December 6: École Polytechnique Massacre: Marc Lépine murders fourteen women at the École Polytechnique of the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec. The event proves a spur to both the Canadian feminist and gun control movements.
- December 21: Quebec uses the notwithstanding clause for the first time.
- December 31: All rail service is terminated in Prince Edward Island after CN Rail abandons its historic rail lines in the province.
[edit] Full date unknown
- Deborah Grey wins a by-election to become the first Reform Party Member of Parliament.
- Corel releases CorelDraw
- Heather Erxleben becomes Canada's first official female combat soldier
- Sidney Altman shares in the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New works
- Mordecai Richler: Solomon Gursky Was Here
- Steve McCaffery: The Black Debt
- Erin Mouré: WSW
- Joy Fielding: Good Intentions
- Dave Duncan: West of January
- Tomson Highway: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
- William Bell: Death Wind
- Farley Mowat: The New Found Land
[edit] Awards
- Books in Canada First Novel Award: Rick Salutin, A Man of Little Faith
- See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Geoffrey Bilson Award: Martyn Godfrey, Mystery in the Frozen Lands, and Dorothy Perkyns, Rachel’s Revolution
- Gerald Lampert Award: Sarah Klassen, Journey to Yalta
- Marian Engel Award: Merna Summers
- Pat Lowther Award: Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
- Stephen Leacock Award: John Kertes, Winter Tulips
- Trillium Book Award: Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring
- Vicky Metcalf Award: Stéphane Poulin
[edit] Music
[edit] Sport
- May 25 - In Montreal, the Calgary Flames win the Stanley Cup against the Montreal Canadiens.
- June 5 - First baseball game in SkyDome is played.
[edit] Births
- March 7 - Scott Charlebois, student
- March 19 - Stephanie Horner, swimmer
- December 2 - Cassie Steele, actress and singer-songwriter
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January to June
- January 20 - Beatrice Lillie, comic actress (b.1894)
- January 22 - Farquhar Oliver, politician (b.1904)
- January 31 - William Stephenson, soldier, airman, businessperson, inventor and spymaster (b.1897)
- February 9 - Ken Adachi, writer and literary critic (b.1929)
- May 14 - Joe Primeau, ice hockey player (b.1906)
- May 14 - E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder (b.1901)
- June 14 - Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger, politician (b.1907)
- June 26 - Howard Charles Green, politician and Minister (b.1895)
[edit] July to December
- July 3 - Peter Fox, politician (b.1921)
- July 13 - Samuel Boulanger, politician (b.1909)
- August 10 - George Ignatieff, diplomat (b.1913)
- November 11 - Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr., minister and librarian (b.1912)
- November 13 - Victor Davis, swimmer, Olympic gold medalist and World Champion (b.1964)
- November 15 - George Manuel, Aboriginal leader (b.1921)
- December 6 - Marc Lépine, murderer responsible for the École Polytechnique massacre (b.1964)
- December 26 - Doug Harvey, ice hockey player (b.1924)
- December 26 - Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1901)
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