2001 in Canada explained
Events from the year 2001 in Canada.
Incumbents
See main article: 2001 Canadian incumbents.
Estimated Canadian population
31,110,565
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Premiers
Events
January to March
April to June
July to December
Full date unknown
Arts and literature
New literature
Yann Martel
Timothy Taylor
Jane Urquhart
Literary awards
Richard B. Wright: Clara Callan
Michael Redhill, Martin Sloane
Sharon McKay, Charlie Wilcox
Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You
Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
Elizabeth Hay
Mavis Gallant
Gena K. Gorrell, Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale
Sharon Thesen, A Pair of Scissors
Stuart McLean, Vinyl Café Unplugged
Linda Granfield
New music
Film
- wins the Golden Reel for Best First Feature at Cannes
Television
Sport
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[5]
- October 8 - Percy Hynes White, Canadian actor
- October 9 - Kyla Leibel, swimmer[6]
- October 11 - Alexis Lafrenière, ice hockey player
- October 17 - Jake Beale, actor
- November 7 - Amybeth McNulty, actress
Deaths
January to March
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
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Queen Elizabeth II The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 4 December 2022.
- Web site: About rabble.ca - rabble.ca. rabble.ca.
- News: Dear Zachary... Your mother destroyed our lives. Twice . The Telegraph . 25 January 2009 . I2I6.
- CCGHR Partnership Strategy; http://www.ccghr.ca/Resources/Documents/CCGHR_Partnership_Strategy-Policy_e.pdf.
- Web site: Dalila Bela Verified Instagram . https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/B3Q0rZnhCSz . 2021-12-24 . limited. Instagram . June 7, 2020 . Today was such an amazing 18th birthday!! It was a day filled with family, friends, love, and entering adulthood! Thank you everyone for all the birthday wishes! .
- Web site: Kyla Leibel . Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website . 22 June 2020 . 8 April 2019.
- Book: Stephen E. Atkins. Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremist Groups. 2002. Greenwood Press. 978-0-313-31502-2. 196.