# 1993 in Canada

Events from the year 1993 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – Elizabeth II

### Federal government

* Governor General – Ray Hnatyshyn
* Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney (until June 25) then Kim Campbell (June 25 to November 4) then Jean Chrétien
* Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
* Parliament – 34th (until September 8)

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Gordon Towers
* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – David Lam
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – George Johnson (until March 5) then Yvon Dumont
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Gilbert Finn
* Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Frederick Russell
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Lloyd Crouse
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Hal Jackman
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Marion Reid
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Martial Asselin
* Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Sylvia Fedoruk

#### 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 – Donald Cameron (until June 11) then John Savage
* Premier of Ontario – Bob Rae
* Premier of Prince Edward Island – Joe Ghiz (until January 25) then Catherine Callbeck
* Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa
* Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow

### Territorial governments
#### Commissioners

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

#### Premiers

* Premier of the Northwest Territories – Nellie Cournoyea
* Premier of Yukon – John Ostashek

## Events
### January to June

* January 25 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Joe Ghiz following a leadership election. This is Prince Edward Island's first female premier, and the first time in Canada that two provinces or territories have simultaneously had female premiers (until March 2011).
* January 28 – Six Innu youths from Davis Inlet, aged 11 to 14, are caught on video sniffing gasoline as a suicide attempt.
* February 24 – Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announces his resignation (effective June 25) amidst political and economic turmoil.
* 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 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 – 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.
* September 27 – The Social Credit Party of Canada is officially deregistered by Elections Canada.
* 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.
* October 23 - The Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, winning their second World Series Title.
* 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, set in Newfoundland, 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: John 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

* February 23 – The Sacramento Gold Miners are established as the first US franchise in the Canadian Football League
* March 12 to 14 – Toronto hosts the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships at the Skydome.
* May 23 – The Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Peterborough Petes 4 to 2. The entire tournament was played at Sault Memorial Gardens in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
* June 9 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 24th (and last to date) Stanley Cup by defeating the Los Angeles Kings 4 games to 1. The deciding Game 5 was played at the Montreal Forum. Quebec City, Quebec's Patrick Roy is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
* October 23 – The Toronto Blue Jays win their second World Series by defeating the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 2. The deciding Game 6 was played at Skydome in Toronto making this the first World Series to be decided on Canadian soil.
* November 4 – The Toronto Raptors are established as the National Basketball Association's first Canadian team since the Toronto Huskies in 1947. They will play their first game in 1995
* November 20 – The Toronto Varsity Blues win their second (and first since 1965) Vanier Cup by defeating the Calgary Dinos by a score of 37–34 in the 29th Vanier Cup played Skydome in Toronto
* November 28 – The Edmonton Eskimos win their 11th Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 33 to 23 in the 81st Grey Cup played at McMahon Stadium in Calgary.
* Ben Johnson is permanently banned from international competition after again testing positive for banned substances.
* As of 2020, this is the only year in which the Stanley Cup and the World Series were both won by Canadian teams.

## Births

* 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
* Full date unknown - David Benoit, Canadian-American wrestler and son of Chris Benoit

## Deaths

* January 26 – Jeanne Sauvé, politician and first female Governor General of Canada (born 1922)
* January 28 – Helen Hogg-Priestley, astronomer (born 1903)
* February 28 – Ruby Keeler, actress, singer and dancer (born 1909)
* April 2 – Alexander Bell Patterson, politician (born 1911)
* April 15 – John Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist and geologist (born 1908)
* April 30 – Colin Emerson Bennett, politician and lawyer (born 1908)
* May 2 – Stephen Juba, politician and Mayor of Winnipeg (born 1914)
* May 9 – Jacques Dextraze, Canadian general (born 1919)
* May 30 – H. Gordon Barrett, politician (born 1915)
* June 9 – Alexis Smith, actress (born 1921)
* July 9 – Garry Hoy, lawyer (born 1955)
* August 14 – Francis Mankiewicz, film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1944)
* September 12 – Raymond Burr, actor (born 1917)
* September 27 – Fraser MacPherson, jazz musician (born 1928)
* October 24 – Tracy Latimer, murder victim (born 1980)