1987 in Canada
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See also: 1986 in Canada, other events of 1987, 1988 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II
- Governor General: Jeanne Sauvé
- Prime Minister: Brian Mulroney
- Premier of Alberta: Don Getty
- Premier of British Columbia: Bill Vander Zalm
- Premier of Manitoba: Howard Pawley
- Premier of New Brunswick: Richard Hatfield then Frank McKenna
- Premier of Newfoundland: Brian Peckford
- Premier of Nova Scotia: John Buchanan
- Premier of Ontario: David Peterson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island: Joe Ghiz
- Premier of Quebec: Robert Bourassa
- Premier of Saskatchewan: Grant Devine
[edit] Events
- January 1: Frobisher Bay changes its name to Iqaluit
- April 30: Provincial premiers agree to Meech Lake Accord
- May 22: Rick Hansen returns home to Vancouver after his Man in Motion world tour
- July 3: Quebec City becomes the first city in North America to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- July 31: A tornado in Edmonton, Alberta kills twenty-seven
- August 30: Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson sets a new world record in the 100 metre dash
- September 10: Ontario election: David Peterson's Liberals win a majority
- September 20: Pope John Paul II visits the Northwest Territories
- October: Canadian and American negotiators reach agreement on the Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement
- October 27: Frank McKenna becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Richard Hatfield
- November 12: Dennis Patterson becomes government leader of the Northwest Territories, replacing Nick Sibbeston
- November 27: Rock band Cowboy Junkies record their most famous album, The Trinity Session, at Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity
- November 30: Several new Canadian specialty channels are licensed: YTV, VisionTV, CBC Newsworld, The Weather Network/MeteoMedia, and one pay-television channel: The Family Channel.
- The Reform Party of Canada is founded
[edit] Arts and literature
- New works:
- William Bell: Metal Head
- Dave Duncan: A Rose-Red City
- Michael Ignatieff: The Russian Album
- Irving Layton: Fortunate Exile
- Donald Jack: This One's on Me
- Steve McCaffery: Evoba
- Antonine Maillet: Margot la folle
- Farley Mowat: Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey
- Paul Quarrington, King Leary
- Mordecai Richler: Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur
- Awards:
- See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Books in Canada First Novel Award: Karen Lawrence, The Life of Helen Alone
- Gerald Lampert Award: Rosemary Sullivan, The Space a Name Makes
- Marian Engel Award: Audrey Thomas
- Pat Lowther Award: Heather Spears, How to Read Faces
- Stephen Leacock Award: W.P. Kinsella, The Fencepost Chronicles
- Trillium Book Award: Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
- Vicky Metcalf Award: Robert Munsch
[edit] Births
- August 7: Sidney Crosby, hockey player
[edit] Deaths
- September 11: Lorne Greene, actor
- November 1: René Lévesque, separatist premier of Quebec
- November 6: George Laurence, nuclear physicist
