1989 in Canada

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Arts and literature
4 Births
5 Deaths

Incumbents

See also: 1989 Canadian incumbents for more

Events

January 1: The Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect
March 1: The Canadian Space Agency is created
March 10: An Air Ontario flight crashes near Dryden, Ontario killing 24
March 20: Alberta election: Don Getty's PCs win a sixth consecutive majority
March 22: Thomas Rideout becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Brian Peckford
May 5: Clyde Wells becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Thomas Rideout
May 25: In Montreal, the Calgary Flames win the Stanley Cup against the Montreal Canadiens
June 5: First baseball game in SkyDome is played
June 5: The federal government announces sweeping cuts to VIA Rail
July 31: Cable television network CBC Newsworld is launched.
September 1: French cable sports network, RDS, signs on.
December 2: Audrey McLaughlin is elected head of the NDP replacing Ed Broadbent becoming the first female major party leader in Canadian history
December 6: École Polytechnique Massacre: Marc Lépine murders fourteen women at the École Polytechnique of the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec. The event proves a spur to both the Canadian feminist and gun control movements.
December 21: Quebec uses the notwithstanding clause for the first time
Deborah Grey wins a by-election to become the first Reform Party Member of Parliament.
Corel releases CorelDraw
Heather Erxleben becomes Canada's first official female combat soldier
Sidney Altman shares in the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Arts and literature

New works

Mordecai Richler: Solomon Gursky Was Here
Steve McCaffery: The Black Debt
Erin Mouré: WSW
Joy Fielding: Good Intentions
Dave Duncan: West of January
Tomson Highway: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
William Bell: Death Wind
Farley Mowat: The New Found Land

Awards

Books in Canada First Novel Award: Rick Salutin, A Man of Little Faith
See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Geoffrey Bilson Award: Martyn Godfrey, Mystery in the Frozen Lands, and Dorothy Perkyns, Rachel’s Revolution
Gerald Lampert Award: Sarah Klassen, Journey to Yalta
Marian Engel Award: Merna Summers
Pat Lowther Award: Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
Stephen Leacock Award: John Kertes, Winter Tulips
Trillium Book Award: Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring
Vicky Metcalf Award: Stéphane Poulin

Music

Simply Saucer, Cyborgs Revisited

Births

September 1: Katie Lai, actor
Cassie Steele, actor
Thomas Haggerty

Deaths

February 9: Ken Adachi, writer and editor
May 14: E.P. Taylor, businessman
July 13: Samuel Boulanger, politician
June 14: Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger, politician
November 11: Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr., former minister and former Secretary of the Alberta Liberal Party

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