1996 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 |
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| Years: | 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 |
Events from the year 1996 in Canada.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch: Elizabeth II
- Governor General: Roméo LeBlanc
- Prime Minister: Jean Chrétien
- Premier of Alberta: Ralph Klein
- Premier of British Columbia: Mike Harcourt then Glen Clark
- Premier of Manitoba: Gary Filmon
- Premier of New Brunswick: Frank McKenna then Raymond Frenette
- Premier of Newfoundland: Clyde Wells then Brian Tobin
- Premier of Nova Scotia: John Savage then Russell MacLellan
- Premier of Ontario: Mike Harris
- Premier of Prince Edward Island: Catherine Callbeck then Keith Milligan then Pat Binns
- Premier of Quebec: Jacques Parizeau then Lucien Bouchard
- Premier of Saskatchewan: Roy Romanow
See also: 1996 Canadian incumbents
[edit] Events
[edit] January to March
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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 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 16 - Chrétien formally apologizes for lying about the GST
[edit] Full date unknown
- Karen Kain becomes the first Canadian to win the Cartier Lifetime Achievement Award
- General Jean Boyle resigns over Somalia Affair controversy
- Dalton McGuinty is elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
- Canada sends over a thousand troops to take part in IFOR
- James McGill Statue unveiled
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] 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
[edit] 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, Le Pied de Sappho and Alain Bernard Marchand, Tintin au pays de la ferveur
- Vicky Metcalf Award: Margaret Buffie
[edit] New music
- Barenaked Ladies: Born on a Pirate Ship
- Bruce Cockburn: The Charity of Night
- The Tragically Hip: Trouble at the Henhouse
- Various artists: 20 Years of Stony Plain
[edit] Sport
- February 27 - The Los Angeles Kings trade Wayne Gretzky to the St. Louis Blues.
- March 16- The Montreal Canadiens play their first game at the Molson Centre against the New York Rangers.
- July 1 - The Winnipeg Jets leave Canada and 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.
[edit] Births
- March 2 - Gig Morton, actor
- May 2 - Megan McKinnon, actress
- July 6 - Robert Naylor, actor
- August 7 - Liam James, actor
- August 23 - Cesar Flores, actor
- August 29 - Linden Porco, actor
- September 7 - Bilaal Rajan, author
- December 10 - Jérémy Gabriel, singer and actor
[edit] Full date unknown
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January to March
- January 21 - René Marc Jalbert, soldier
- January 26
- Sally Gribble, founder of MADD Canada
- Yvonne Housser, painter
- January 27 - Brian Kelleher, journalist
- January 31 - Beth Amos, actress
- February 2 - Phyliss Marshall, actor
- February 7 - Lucien Maynard, leader of Alberta francophones
- February 19 - Ernest Manning, politician and Premier of Alberta (b.1908)
- February 29
- Robert O'Driscoll, scholar
- Sinclair Ross, banker and author (b.1908)
- March 28 - Edith Fowke, folk song collector, author and radio presenter (b.1913)
[edit] April to June
- April 13 - Stewart McLean, politician (b.1913)
- April 23 - Jean Victor Allard, general and first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff (b.1913)
- May 5 - Salli Terri, singer, arranger, recording artist and songwriter (b.1922)
- May 11 - Hilda Grant, author
- May 22 - Robert Christie, actor and director (b.1913)
- June 11 - George Hees, politician and Minister (b.1910)
[edit] July to September
- July 1 - Harold Greenberg, film producer (b.1930)
- July 3 - Rebecca Jane Middleton, murder victim (b.1979)
- July 5
- Fred Davis, broadcaster and moderator of Front Page Challenge (b.1921)
- Bob Southam, newspaper publisher
- July 18 - Robert Needham, journalist
- July 20 - Ronald Buick, scientist
- July 22 - Carl Goldenberg, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator (b.1907)
- August 10 - Walter MacNutt, organist (b.1910)
- August 21 - Mary Earley, Aboriginal rights campaigner
- September 22 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, ballet dancer, choreographer and director (b.1924)
- September 23 - Joe Borowski, politician and activist (b.1933)
[edit] October to December
- October 2 - Robert Bourassa, politician and 22nd Premier of Quebec (b.1933)
- October 9 - Colleen Peterson, singer (b.1950)
- October 11
- Joe Morris, trade unionist and president of the Canadian Labour Congress (b.1913)
- William Vickrey, professor of economics and Nobel Laureate (b.1914)
- October 14 - Marcel Bourbonnais, politician (b.1918)
- October 17 - Laura Sabia, social activist and feminist (b.1916)
- October 19 - James Bourque, First Nations activist (b.1935)
- October 21 - Rejean Boily, horse racer
- October 22
- Ed Kubin, AIDS activist for hemophiliacs
- Jan Verdun, designed 3 quart (2.8 L) milk jug, pioneered sale of milk in stores
- October 23
- Kurt Freund, physician and sexologist (b.1914)
- Mervin Good Eagle, actor
- Thomas Ide, educator and the founding Chairman of TVOntario (b.1919)
- October 27 - Arthur Tremblay, politician and Senator (b.1917)
- October 28
- Reuben Baetz, politician (b.1923)
- Jack Reitman, chairman of the board of Reitmans
- November 9 - Joe Ghiz, politician and 29th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1945)
- November 18 - John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (b.1906)
- December 1 - Peter Bronfman, businessman (b.1928)
- December 5 - Wilf Carter, country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and yodeller (b.1904)
- December 13 - Ear Walls, boxer
- December 17 - Nancy Malloy, Red Cross nurse, murdered in Chechnya
- December 21
- Douglas Fullerton, headed National Capital Commission
- Clarence Gosse, physician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (b.1912)
- December 24 - Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author (b.1929)
- December 29 - Dorothy Livesay, poet (b.1909)
[edit] Full date unknown
- Leo Landreville, politician and judge implicated in the Northern Ontario Natural Gas scandal (b.1910)
[edit] See also
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