1989 in Canada

none April 2026 December 2009 1989 Events from the year 1989 in Canada. Incumbents 1989 Canadian incumbents Crown Monarch – Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth II The Canadian Encyclopedia https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/timeline/queen-elizabeth-ii www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca 4 December 2022 Federal government Governor General – Jeanne SauvéLentz Harris M. Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 4 February 2014 Routledge 978-1-134-26490-2 144 https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA144 en Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney Chief Justice – Brian Dickson (Manitoba) Parliament – 34th Provincial governments Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Helen Hunley Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – David Lam Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – George Johnson Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Gilbert Finn Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – James McGrath Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alan Abraham (until February 20) then Lloyd Crouse Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Lincoln Alexander Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Lloyd MacPhail Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gilles Lamontagne Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Sylvia Fedoruk Premiers 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 (until March 22) then Tom Rideout (March 22 to May 5) 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 Territorial governments Commissioners Commissioner of Yukon – John Kenneth McKinnon Commissioner of Northwest Territories – John Havelock Parker (until October 2) then Daniel L. Norris Premiers Premier of the Northwest Territories – Dennis Patterson Premier of Yukon – Tony Penikett Events January 1: The Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect. January 21: Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford announces his resignation from politics, giving the PC Party 2 months to find a replacement as party leader and premier. January 30: Prime Minister Brian Mulroney shuffles his cabinet, appointing 6 new ministers and reassigning the responsibilities of 19 others. February 10: President of the United States George H. W. Bush Prime Minister Mulroney in Ottawa, laying the groundwork for the Acid Rain Treaty of 1991. February 20: In the Yukon Territory, the ruling New Democrats narrowly maintain control of the Yukon Legislative Assembly, winning 9 seats vs. the Progressive Conservative Party's 7. 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.http://www.windows2universe.org/spaceweather/blackout.html Space Weather Blackout – Massive Power Grid Failure NBC Washington Weathernet 2010-08-04 4 August 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100814223910/http://www.windows2universe.org/spaceweather/blackout.html 14 August 2010 live March 13: Deborah Grey wins a by-election to become the first Reform Party Member of Parliament.http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/ElectedByElection.aspx Elected in By-Elections parl.gc.ca 2012-03-04 March 19: LGBT activist Joe Rose is murdered on public transit in Montreal."Pink hair and leather cost Joe Rose his life". Edmonton Journal, March 22, 1989. March 20: Alberta election: Don Getty's PCs win a sixth consecutive majority. March 22: Thomas Rideout becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Brian Peckford. April 20: The Liberal Party of Newfoundland, led by Clyde Wells, wins the Newfoundland general election. May 3: John Turner resigns as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. May 5: Clyde Wells becomes premier of Newfoundland, defeating Thomas Rideout in a general election. May 25: The Calgary Flames defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the 1989 Stanley Cup Final. May 29: The Liberal Party of Prince Edward Island, led by Joe Ghiz, remains in power following the Prince Edward Island general election. June 3: The SkyDome (now known as Rogers Centre) is opened in Toronto. June 5: The federal government announces sweeping cuts to Via Rail. July 31: Cable television network CBC Newsworld is launched. August 2: Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs Bernard Valcourt resigns after he is convicted of drunk driving. September 1: French cable sports network, RDS, signs on. September 25: In the Quebec general election, the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa, is reelected with a large Liberal majority. October 6: Prime Minister Mulroney nominates Ray Hnatyshyn to succeed Jeanne Sauvé as Governor General of Canada. October 8: The Cormier Village hayride accident kills 13 people and injures 45. October 15 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the leading scorer in the history of the National Hockey League. 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. Full date unknown Corel releases Corel Draw. Heather Erxleben becomes Canada's first official female combat soldier. Sidney Altman shares in the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Arts and literature New works Mordecai Richler: Solomon Gursky Was Here Steve McCaffery: The Black Debt Erín Moure: 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 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 Music Simply Saucer, Cyborgs Revisited The Tragically Hip, Up to Here Sport May 13 – The Swift Current Broncos win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Saskatoon Blades 4 to 3. The final game was played at Saskatchewan Place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan May 25 – The Calgary Flames win their only Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 is played at the Montreal Forum. Inverness, Nova Scotia's Al MacInnis is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy June 5 – The Toronto Blue Jays lose the first baseball game played at the SkyDome to the Milwaukee Brewers 3 to 5. November 18 – The Western Ontario Mustangs win their fifth Vanier Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Huskies 35 to 10 in the 25th Grey Cup played at the SkyDome in Toronto. November 26 – The Saskatchewan Roughriders win their second (and first since 1966) Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 43 to 40 in the 77th Grey Cup played at the SkyDome in Toronto. Births January 9 – Nina Dobrev, actress January 14 – Karine Thomas, synchronized swimmer February 11 – Jesse Rath, actor February 13 – Carly McKillip, actress February 14 – Emma Miskew, curler February 20 – Melanie Leishman, actress March 3 – Andrea Brooks, actress March 19 – Stephanie Horner, swimmer April 5 - Rachel Homan, curler April 13 – Mallory Deluce, ice hockey player April 19 – Simu Liu, actor April 25 – Marie-Michèle Gagnon, skierGAGNON Marie-Michele - Athlete Information https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=al&competitorid=104663 www.fis-ski.com 14 February 2020 April 28 – Steffi DiDomenicantonio, singer May 11 – Alyssa Brown, artistic gymnastGymn.ca: Alyssa Brown http://www.gymn.ca/athletes/women/brown.shtml www.gymn.ca 13 May 2020 May 17 – Tessa Virtue, ice dancer May 23 – Grace Mahary, model June 11 – Keith Aulie, ice hockey player June 17 – Brandon Jones, singer July 27 – Charlotte Arnold, actress July 31 – Marshall Williams, actor August 2 – Dominic Jalbert, ice hockey player September 12 – Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs, artistic gymnast September 23 – Craig Sharpe, singer September 25 – Jordan Gavaris, actor October 20 – Colin Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player October 24 – Shenae Grimes, actress November 3 – Nav, rapper November 5 – Joey Lawrence, photographer November 24 – Nicole Sassine, sprinter December 2 – Cassie Steele, actress and singer-songwriter December 22 – Derek Famulare, Canadian ice hockey player Deaths 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) John Duffie, writer (b. 1913) 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) July to December July 3 – Peter Fox, politician (b. 1921) July 13 – Samuel Boulanger, politician (b. 1909) July 24 – Michael Estok, poet August 10 – George Ignatieff, diplomat (b. 1913) November 11 – Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr., minister and librarian (b. 1912) September 12 – Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs, gymnast November 13 – Victor Davis, swimmer, Olympic gold medalist and World Champion (b. 1964) November 15 – George Manuel, Aboriginal leader (b. 1921) November 29 – Nancy Bell, senator (b. 1924) 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) See also 1989 in Canadian television List of Canadian films of 1989 References 1989 Canada Canada Category:1980s in Canada Category:Years of the 20th century in Canada