1993 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1993 in Canada.

Incumbents

See main article: 1993 Canadian incumbents.

Crown

• Monarch – Elizabeth II^[1]

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)

Provincial governments

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

Territorial governments

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

Events

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.^[2]
• 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.^[3]

Full date unknown

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

Arts and literature

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^[4]
• 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)^[5]
• 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)

See also

• 1993 in Canadian television
• List of Canadian films of 1993

Notes and References

1. Web site: Queen Elizabeth II The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 4 December 2022.
2. Web site: Walsh . Mary Williams . Canadian Leader Mulroney Quits After 8 Years . Los Angeles Times . 30 June 2022 . 25 February 1993.
3. Web site: Profile - Chrétien, Joseph Jacques Jean . . People . . 10 April 2022.
4. Web site: Gabrielle May - Women's Gymnastics . UIC Athletics . 26 May 2020 . en.
5. Web site: Jeanne Sauvé The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 29 January 2021.