1994 in Canada

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Events from the year 1994 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – Elizabeth II ^[1]

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

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 – John Savage
Premier of Ontario – Bob Rae
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Catherine Callbeck
Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa (until January 11) then Daniel Johnson, Jr. (January 11 to September 26) then Jacques Parizeau
Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Commissioner of Yukon – John Kenneth McKinnon
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Daniel L. Norris

Premiers

Events

January to June

Winter – One of the coldest winters on record affects much of Canada.
January 1 – North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect.
January 11 – Daniel Johnson, Jr., becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Robert Bourassa.
February – The first Liberal budget slashes spending in an effort to cut the deficit. Unemployment Insurance and provincial transfer payments are especially hard hit.
March 21 – A civilian inquiry in the behaviour of the Canadian Airborne in Somalia is launched.
April 1 – The community of Arctic Red River, Northwest Territories, is renamed to Tsiigehtchic.
April 5 – The Just Desserts shooting occurs in Toronto,
May 10 – Annular solar eclipse happened in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.
June – An Ontario farmer is allowed to grow 10 acres (40,000 m²) of marijuana for research purposes.
June 9 – Ontario's Equality Rights Statute Amendment Act (Bill 167), a bill proposed by the government of Bob Rae to extend civil union rights to same-sex couples, is defeated on a vote of 68–59 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

July to December

September 12 – Quebec election, the Parti Québécois defeats the Parti libéral du Québec, which had been in power for nine years.
September 26 – Jacques Parizeau (Parti Québécois) is sworn in as premier of Quebec, replacing Daniel Johnson, Jr.
October 5 and October 6 – Members of the Solar Temple cult commit mass suicide.
December – Lucien Bouchard is infected with necrotizing fasciitis and loses a leg.

Full date unknown

Conrad Black's company buys the Chicago Sun-Times.
Bertram Brockhouse shares the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Cigarette taxes are slashed to battle smuggling and black market organizations.
Canadian troops leave CFB Lahr, ending the Canadian armed forces presence in Europe.
The Alberta Court of Appeal strikes down a lower court ruling that homosexual persons are to be covered under the province's human rights legislation. The case, originally brought by Delwin Vriend, was subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada.
American hardware retail chain, Home Depot buys the Aikenhead's Hardware chain.

Arts and literature

New works

Margaret Atwood: Good Bones and Simple Murders
Robert J. Sawyer: Foreigner
William Bell: Five Days of the Ghost
Michael Ignatieff: Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism
Réjean Ducharme: Va savoir
Mordecai Richler: This Year in Jerusalem
Dave Duncan: The Living God
Hank Snow: Just a Hank Snow Story
Alice Munro: Open Secrets
Douglas Coupland: Life After God
Farley Mowat: Born Naked

Sport

February 14 – The Vancouver Grizzlies are established as the NBA's second Canadian team. They started play in 1995
February 27 – The 1994 Winter Olympics end in Lillehammer, Norway.
May 14 – The Kamloops Blazers win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Laval Titan 5 to 3. The entire tournament took place at Colisée de Laval in Laval, Quebec
June 14 – New York Rangers win their fourth (and first since 1940) Stanley Cup by defeating the Vancouver Canucks 4 games to 2.
July 6 – 3 more American teams (Las Vegas Posse, the Shreveport Pirates and the Baltimore Stallions) are established in the Canadian Football League
August 18–28 – 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia
October – A lockout closes the National Hockey League for the entire first half of the season.
November 19 – The Western Ontario Mustangs win their sixth Vanier Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Huskies 50–40 in the 30th Vanier Cup played at Skydome in Toronto
November 27 – The BC Lions win their third Grey Cup by defeating the Baltimore Stallions 26 to 23 in the 82nd Grey Cup played at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver. Vancouver's own Lui Passaglia is awarded the game's Most Valuable Canadian
Ice hockey is made Canada's official winter sport. Lacrosse is named official summer sport.

Births

February 8 – Nikki Yanofsky born in Hampstead, Quebec
February 16 – Matthew Knight, actor
February 19 – Jean-Carl Boucher born in Regina, Saskatchewan
February 25 – Eugenie Bouchard born in Westmount, Quebec
March 1 – Justin Bieber born in London, Ontario
March 5 – Aislinn Paul, actress
March 13 – Andrea Macasaet born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
March 25
- Keffals, transgender activist
- Keven Aleman, Costa Rican-born soccer player
April 17 – Alanna Goldie, fencer
April 19 – Maddison Bird born in Scarborough, Ontario
May 1 – Antoine Bibeau, ice hockey player
May 4 – Kurtis Conner, comedian and podcaster
June 2 – Shroud, Canadian streamer
July 17 – Jessica Amlee, actress
July 27 – Winnie Harlow, fashion model
August 25 – Paul-André Brasseur, actor
September 8 – Élie Dupuis, actor
October 2 – Brendan Meyer, actor
October 9 – Jodelle Ferland born in Nanaimo, British Columbia
November 11 – Connor Price born in Toronto, Ontario
December 23 – Tianda Flegel

Full date unknown

Sean Collins, son of politician Chris Collins (died 2007)

Deaths

February 12 – Sue Rodriguez, advocate for assisted suicide (born 1950)
March 4 – John Candy, comedian and actor (born 1950)
April 17 – Robert Legget, civil engineer, historian and non-fiction writer (born 1904)
June 17 – Helen Battle, first Canadian woman PhD in marine biology (born 1903)
July 1 – Michael Cook, playwright (born 1933)
August – Wally Downer, politician (born 1904)
October 12 – Gérald Godin, poet and politician (born 1938)
December 10 – Alex Wilson, track and field athlete and Olympic silver medalist (born 1905)
December 20 – John Wintermeyer, politician (born 1916)

Full date unknown

Arthur Julian Andrew, diplomat and author (born 1915)
Felix Partz, artist and co-founder of the artistic collective General Idea (born 1945)
Jorge Zontal, artist and co-founder of the artistic collective General Idea (born 1944)
Gordon Sparling, filmmaker (born 1900)

References

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

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

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1994 in Canada

Contents

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Premiers

Events

January to June

July to December

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Arts and literature

New works

Awards

Television

Films

Sport

Births

Full date unknown

Deaths

Full date unknown

See also

Related Research Articles

References