1993 in Canada

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Events from the year 1993 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Elizabeth II
• Governor General: Ray Hnatyshyn
• Prime Minister: Brian Mulroney then Kim Campbell then Jean Chrétien
• 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 then John Savage
• Premier of Ontario: Bob Rae
• Premier of Prince Edward Island: Joe Ghiz then Catherine Callbeck
• Premier of Quebec: Robert Bourassa
• Premier of Saskatchewan: Roy Romanow

Events

January to June

• January 25 - Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Joe Ghiz
• January 28 - Six Innu youths from Davis Inlet, aged 11 to 14, are caught on video sniffing gasoline as a suicide attempt.
• February 24 - Brian Mulroney announces his plan to resign as Prime Minister
• 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 Arone's death
• March 29 - Prince Edward Island general election, 1993: 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
• 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. See 1993 Chrétien ad.
• 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

Arts and literature

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 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: Joseph 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

• October 23 - The Toronto Blue Jays win back-to-back World Series, the first on Canadian soil, as Joe Carter hit the series-winning home run, becoming the second person ever to do so.
• Ben Johnson is permanently banned from international competition after again testing positive for banned substances.
• Gary Bettman becomes commissioner of the National Hockey League.

Births

• January 26 - Cameron Bright, actor
• January 28 - Hollie Lo, actress

Full date unknown

• Jason Godin, politician

Deaths

• January 26 - Jeanne Sauvé, politician and first female Governor General of Canada (b.1922)
• February 28 - Ruby Keeler, actress, singer and dancer (b.1910)
• April 2 - Alexander Bell Patterson, politician (b.1911)
• April 15 - John Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist and geologist (b.1908)
• April 30 - Colin Emerson Bennett, politician and lawyer (b.1908)
• May 2 - Stephen Juba, politician and Mayor of Winnipeg (b.1914)
• May 30 - H. Gordon Barrett, politician (b.1915)
• June 9 - Alexis Smith, actress (b.1921)
• August 14 - Francis Mankiewicz, film director, screenwriter and producer (b.1944)
• September 12 - Raymond Burr, actor (b.1917)
• September 27 - Fraser MacPherson, jazz musician (b.1928)
• October 24 - Tracy Latimer, murder victim (b.1980)

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