From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of Canadian events in 1993
Events from the year1993 in Canada .
Provincial governments [ edit ] Lieutenant governors [ edit ] Territorial governments [ edit ] January 25 –Catherine Callbeck becomespremier of Prince Edward Island ,replacingJoe Ghiz following aleadership election .This is Prince Edward Island's firstfemale premier ,and the first time in Canada that two provinces or territories have simultaneously had female premiers (untilMarch 2011 ).
January 28 – SixInnu youths fromDavis Inlet ,aged 11 to 14, are caught on videosniffing gasoline as asuicide attempt.
February 24 – Prime MinisterBrian 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 inSomalia .
March 12 – Governor GeneralRay Hnatyshyn proclaims a constitutional amendment addingsection 16.1 to theCanadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms .
March 16 – Canadian soldiers beat to deathShidane Arone ,aSomali teenager, in Somalia.
March 18 – Master CorporalClayton 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 – TheFarm Credit Corporation Act is passed.
June: TheNunavut Land Claims Agreement Act and theNunavut Act are passed, leading to the eventual creation ofNunavut in 1999.
June 11 –John Savage becomes premier ofNova Scotia ,replacingDonald Cameron .
June 15 –Alberta election :Ralph Klein 's PCs win a seventh consecutive majority.
June 20 – A landslide on theSouth Nation River destroys the abandoned townsite ofLemieux, Ontario .
June 25 –Kim Campbell becomes prime minister, replacingBrian Mulroney .She is the first woman to be the country's head of government. Arts and literature [ edit ] 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 American-bornE. Annie Proulx 'sThe Shipping News National Book Award
See1993 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 andRoberta 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 andMargaret Atwood ,The Robber Bride Vicky Metcalf Award :Phoebe Gilman 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 andStrays 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 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 ofChris Benoit January 26 –Jeanne Sauvé ,politician and first femaleGovernor General of Canada (born1922 )[5]
January 28 –Helen Hogg-Priestley ,astronomer (born1903 )
February 28 –Ruby Keeler ,actress, singer and dancer (born1909 )
April 2 –Alexander Bell Patterson ,politician (born1911 )
April 15 –John Tuzo Wilson ,geophysicist and geologist (born1908 )
April 30 –Colin Emerson Bennett ,politician and lawyer (born1908 )
May 2 –Stephen Juba ,politician and Mayor ofWinnipeg (born1914 )
May 9 –Jacques Dextraze ,Canadian general (born1919 )
May 30 –H. Gordon Barrett ,politician (born1915 )
June 9 –Alexis Smith ,actress (born1921 )
July 9 –Garry Hoy ,lawyer (born1955 )
August 14 –Francis Mankiewicz ,film director, screenwriter and producer (born1944 )
September 12 –Raymond Burr ,actor (born1917 )
September 27 –Fraser MacPherson ,jazz musician (born1928 )
October 24 –Tracy Latimer ,murder victim (born1980 )
