1986 in Canada

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Last updated September 03, 2024

Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – Elizabeth II ^[1]

Federal government

Governor General – Jeanne Sauvé ^[2]
Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney
Chief Justice – Brian Dickson (Manitoba)
Parliament – 33rd

Provincial governments

Premiers

Premier of Alberta – Don Getty
Premier of British Columbia – Bill Bennett (until August 6) then Bill Vander Zalm
Premier of Manitoba – Howard Pawley
Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield
Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Peckford
Premier of Nova Scotia – John Buchanan
Premier of Ontario – David Peterson
Premier of Prince Edward Island – James Lee (until May 2) then Joe Ghiz
Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa
Premier of Saskatchewan – Grant Devine

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Commissioner of Yukon – Douglas Bell (until March 27) then John Kenneth McKinnon
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – John Havelock Parker

Premiers

Events

January to June

January 22 – An investigation determines that a bomb caused the crash of Air India flight 182.
January 31 – The Canadian dollar hits an all-time low of 70.2 U.S. cents on international money markets.
February 8 – Hinton train collision: 23 people are killed when the Super Continental passenger train collides with a Canadian National Railway freight train near Hinton, Alberta.
April 4 – Port Simpson, British Columbia, is renamed to Lax Kwʼalaams .
May 1 – Shirley Carr becomes the first female head of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
May 2
- Joe Ghiz becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James Lee.
- The 1986 World Exposition (Expo 86) in Vancouver opens.
May 8 – Alberta election: The PCs, led by Don Getty, win a fifth consecutive majority, but a smaller majority than before.
May 9 – Roger Coles resigns as leader of Yukon Liberal Party and MLA for Tatchun after being arrested and charged with selling cocaine to an undercover police officer.^[3]^[4]
May 25 – In Vancouver an attempt is made to assassinate Malkiat Singh Sidhu, a cabinet minister in the Indian state of Punjab.
June 14 – An accident involving the Mindbender roller coaster at West Edmonton Mall kills three people and seriously injures a fourth.
June 19 – The new Competition Act comes into force.
June 20 – Jean Drapeau resigns as mayor of Montreal.

July to December

August 5 – Canada adopts sanctions against South Africa for its apartheid policies
August 6 – Bill Vander Zalm becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Bill Bennett
August 11 – Tamil refugees are found drifting off the coast of Newfoundland
September 16 – Elizabeth II augments the coat of arms of Saskatchewan with a crest and supporters
September 30 – MPs elect the speaker by secret ballot for the first time.
October 6 – Canada receives a United Nations award for sheltering refugees
October 20 – Saskatchewan election: Grant Devine's PCs win a second consecutive majority
November 13 – The announcement that the film producer Claude Jutra was reported missing for over one week. He had started to suffer the first symptoms of the Alzheimer's disease.^[5]
December 8 – The University of Toronto's John C. Polanyi shares the Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of the chemical laser.

Full date unknown

Negotiators begin work on what would eventually be the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement
The birds series of Canadian banknotes is released
Supreme Court rules on the RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd. case
Conrad Black buys The Daily Telegraph
Dinosaur fossils are found near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia

Arts and literature

New works

Margaret Atwood - Freeforall
W.P. Kinsella - The Fence Post Chronicles
Robert Munsch - Love You Forever
Alice Munro - The Progress of Love
Antonine Maillet - Garrochés en paradis
Hugh Hood - The Motor Boys in Ottawa
William Gibson - Count Zero

Awards

See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Books in Canada First Novel Award: Wayne Johnston, The Story of Bobby O'Mally
Gerald Lampert Award: Joan Fern Shaw, Raspberry Vinegar
Marian Engel Award: Alice Munro
Pat Lowther Award: Erín Moure, Domestic Fuel
Stephen Leacock Award: Joey Slinger, No Axe too Small to Grind
Vicky Metcalf Award: Dennis Lee

New music

Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
Neil Young - Landing on Water

New movies

James Cameron's Aliens is released
David Cronenberg's The Fly
Denys Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire

Sport

March 15 – In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium (England) Canada beats England 3 – 1.
May 17 – The Guelph Platers win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Hull Olympiques 6 to 2.
May 24 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 23rd Stanley Cup by defeating the Calgary Flames. The deciding Game 5 is played at Olympic Saddledome in Calgary
June 1 - Canada participates in the FIFA World Cup for the first, and to date only, time.
November 22 – The UBC Thunderbirds win their second championship by defeating the Western Ontario Mustangs by a score of 25–23.
November 30 – Hamilton Tiger-Cats win their 7th Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Eskimos 39 to 15 in the 74th Grey Cup played at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver

Unknown date

The Canadian Amateur Football Association is renamed Football Canada.
Montreal Concordes are re-branded as the "new" Montreal Allouettes

Births

January 8 – Jaclyn Linetsky, actress (d. 2003)
January 20 – Krystina Alogbo, water polo player
February 13 – Matthew Hawes, swimmer
February 19 – Jayde Nicole, model
April 4 – Cam Barker, ice hockey defenceman
April 8 - Jevohn Shepherd, basketball player
April 21 – Kevin Graham, water polo player
April 28 – Brandon Jung, water polo player
May 12 – Emily VanCamp, actress
May 31 – Melissa McIntyre, actress
June 5 – Amanda Crew, actress
June 18 – Meaghan Rath, actress
July 16 – Dustin Boyd, ice hockey player
July 19 – Jinder Mahal, pro wrestler
August 16 – Sarah Pavan, volleyball player
August 19 – Marie-Christine Schmidt, canoeist
August 20 – Linus Sebastian, youtuber
August 29 – Lauren Collins, actress
September 8 – Leah LaBelle, singer (d. 2018)
September 19 – Carrie Finlay, voice actor
October 24 – Drake, Canadian-American actor and rapper
November 4 – Alexz Johnson, singer-songwriter, actress, and philanthropist
November 5 – Heather Purnell, artistic gymnast
November 8 – Kaniehtiio Horn, actress
December 7 – Corey Vidal, online video content provider and digital media consultant
December 12 – Marie-Pier Beaudet, archer^[6]
December 16 – Scott Tupper, field hockey player
December 19 – Annie Murphy, actress^[7]

Deaths

January to June

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January 4 - Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (b. 1901)
January 26 - Norman MacKenzie, author, lawyer, professor and Senator (b. 1894)
February 23 - Louis-Philippe Pigeon, judge of the Supreme Court of Canada (b. 1905)
February 24 - Tommy Douglas, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1904)
February 27 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey player (b. 1929)
March 4 - Richard Manuel, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist (b. 1943)
March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, poet and novelist (b. 1913)
June 13 - Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944 (b. 1901)

July to December

July 25 - Alison Parrott, murder victim (b. 1974)
August 20 - Milton Acorn, poet, writer and playwright (b. 1923)
September 28 – Howard Graham, army officer, Chief of the General Staff (b. 1898)
October 11 – Barker Fairley, painter (b. 1887 in the United Kingdom)
October 26 – John Henry Cates, businessman and political figure (b. 1896)
November 5 - Claude Jutra, actor, film director and writer (b. 1930)
November 8 - King Clancy, ice hockey player (b. 1903)
November 19 - Don Jamieson, politician, diplomat and broadcaster (b. 1921)
December 31 - Donald Fleming, politician, International Monetary Fund official and lawyer (b. 1905)

References

↑ "Queen Elizabeth II | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
↑ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
↑ Kenneth Coates; Judith Powell (1989). The modern North: people, politics and the rejection of colonialism. James Lorimer & Company. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-55028-120-0 . Retrieved 1 October 2010.
↑ Yukon History Archived 2007-10-26 at the Wayback Machine at Hougen Group of Companies
↑ (in French) Bilan du Siècle
↑ "Marie-Pier BEAUDET - Olympic Archery | Canada". International Olympic Committee. 19 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
↑ "Annie Murphy". AlloCiné (in French). Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020. Naissance 19 décembre 1986 / Born 19 December 1986

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[1] "Queen Elizabeth II | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.

[2] Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.

[3] Kenneth Coates; Judith Powell (1989). The modern North: people, politics and the rejection of colonialism. James Lorimer & Company. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-55028-120-0 . Retrieved 1 October 2010.

[hougen-4] Yukon History Archived 2007-10-26 at the Wayback Machine at Hougen Group of Companies

[5] (in French) Bilan du Siècle

[6] "Marie-Pier BEAUDET - Olympic Archery | Canada". International Olympic Committee. 19 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019.

[7] "Annie Murphy". AlloCiné (in French). Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020. Naissance 19 décembre 1986 / Born 19 December 1986

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1986 in Canada

Contents

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Premiers

Events

January to June

July to December

Full date unknown

Arts and literature

New works

Awards

New music

New movies

Sport

Births

Deaths

January to June

July to December

See also

Related Research Articles

References