1993 in Canada

Events from the year 1993 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II

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)

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

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

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.
 * 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.

Full date unknown

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

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
 * 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)
 * 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)