1986 in Canada
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Events from the year 1986 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II (consort – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)
Federal government
- Governor general – Jeanne Sauvé (viceregal consort – Maurice Sauvé)
- Prime minister – Brian Mulroney
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Helen Hunley
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Gordon Rogers
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Pearl McGonigal (until December 11) then George Johnson
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – George Stanley
- Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – William Anthony Paddon (until September 5) then James McGrath
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alan Abraham
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Lincoln Alexander
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Lloyd MacPhail
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gilles Lamontagne
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Frederick Johnson
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – Don Getty
- Premier of British Columbia – Bill Bennett (until August 6) then Bill Vander Zalm
- Premier of Manitoba – Howard Pawley
- Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield
- Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Peckford
- Premier of Nova Scotia – John Buchanan
- Premier of Ontario – David Peterson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – James Lee (until May 2) then Joe Ghiz
- Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa
- Premier of Saskatchewan – Grant Devine
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon – Douglas Bell (until March 27) then John Kenneth McKinnon
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – John Havelock Parker
Premiers
Events
January to June
- January 22 - An investigation determines that a bomb caused the crash of Air India flight 182
- January 31 - The Canadian dollar hits an all time low of 70.2 U.S. cents on international money markets
- February 8 - Hinton train collision: 23 people are killed when a Via Rail train collides with a Canadian National Railway train near Hinton, Alberta
- May 1 - Shirley Carr becomes the first female head of the Canadian Union of Public Employees
- May 2
- Joe Ghiz becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James Lee
- The 1986 World Exposition (Expo 86) in Vancouver opens.
- May 8 - Alberta election: Don Getty's PCs win a fifth consecutive majority, but a smaller majority than before
- May 9 - Roger Coles resigns as leader of Yukon Liberal Party and MLA for Tatchun after being arrested and charged with selling cocaine to an undercover police officer.[1][2]
- May 25 - In Vancouver an attempt is made to assassinate Malkiat Singh Sidhu, a cabinet minister in the Indian state of Punjab
- June 14 - An accident involving the "Mindbender" roller coaster at West Edmonton Mall kills three people and seriously injures a fourth
- June 19 - The new Competition Act comes into force
- June 20 - Jean Drapeau resigns as mayor of Montreal
July to December
- August 5 - Canada adopts sanctions against South Africa for its apartheid policies
- August 6 - Bill Vander Zalm becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Bill Bennett
- August 11 - Tamil refugees are found drifting off the coast of Newfoundland
- September 16 - Elizabeth II augments the Coat of Arms of Saskatchewan with a crest and supporters
- September 30 - MPs elect the Speaker by secret ballot for the first time.
- October 6 - Canada receives a United Nations award for sheltering refugees
- October 20 - Saskatchewan election: Grant Devine's PCs win a second consecutive majority
- November 13 - The announcement that the film producer Claude Jutra was reported missing for over one week. He had started to suffer the first symptoms of the Alzheimer's disease.[3]
- December 8 - The University of Toronto's John C. Polanyi shares the Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of the chemical laser.
Full date unknown
- Negotiators begin work on what would eventually be the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement
- The birds series of Canadian banknotes is released
- Supreme Court rules on the RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd. case
- Conrad Black buys The Daily Telegraph
- Dinosaur fossils are found near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia
Arts and literature
New works
- Margaret Atwood - Freeforall
- W.P. Kinsella - The Fence Post Chronicles
- Robert Munsch - Love You Forever
- Alice Munro - The Progress of Love
- Antonine Maillet - Garrochés en paradis
- Hugh Hood - The Motor Boys in Ottawa
- William Gibson - Count Zero
Awards
- See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Books in Canada First Novel Award: Wayne Johnson, The Story of Bobby O'Mally
- Gerald Lampert Award: Joan Fern Shaw, Raspberry Vinegar
- Marian Engel Award: Alice Munro
- Pat Lowther Award: Erin Mouré, Domestic Fuel
- Stephen Leacock Award: Joey Slinger, No Axe too Small to Grind
- Vicky Metcalf Award: Dennis Lee
New music
- Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
- Neil Young - Landing on Water
New movies
- James Cameron's Aliens is released
- David Cronenberg's The Fly
- Denys Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire
Sport
- March 15 - In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium (England) Canada beats England 3 – 1.
- May 24 - In Calgary, the Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup against the Calgary Flames.
- The Canadian Amateur Football Association is renamed Football Canada.
- Canada participates in the FIFA World Cup for the first, and to date only, time.
Births
- January 8 - Jaclyn Linetsky, actress (d.2003)
- January 20 - Krystina Alogbo, water polo player
- February 13 - Matthew Hawes, swimmer
- February 19 - Jayde Nicole, model
- April 4 - Cam Barker, ice hockey defenceman
- April 8 - Jevohn Shepherd, basketball player
- April 21 - Kevin Graham, water polo player
- April 28 - Brandon Jung, water polo player
- August 19 - Marie-Christine Schmidt, canoeist
- September 19 - Carrie Finlay, voice actor
- December 12 - Marie-Pier Beaudet, archer
- December 16 - Scott Tupper, field hockey player
Deaths
January to June
Dr. W.R. Franks
- January 4 - Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (b.1901)
- January 26 - Norman MacKenzie, author, lawyer, professor and Senator (b.1894)
- February 23 - Louis-Philippe Pigeon, judge of the Supreme Court of Canada (b.1905)
- February 24 - Tommy Douglas, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1904)
- February 27 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey player (b.1929)
- March 4 - Richard Manuel, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist (b.1943)
- March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, poet and novelist (b.1913)
July to December
- July 25 - Alison Parrott, murder victim (b.1974)
- August 20 - Milton Acorn, poet, writer and playwright (b.1923)
- November 5 - Claude Jutra, actor, film director and writer (b.1930)
- November 10 - King Clancy, ice hockey player (b.1903)
- November 19 - Don Jamieson, politician, diplomat and broadcaster (b.1921)
- December 31 - Donald Fleming, politician, International Monetary Fund official and lawyer (b.1905)
References
- ↑ Kenneth Coates, Judith Powell (1989). The modern North: people, politics and the rejection of colonialism. James Lorimer & Company. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-55028-120-0. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- ↑ Yukon History at Hougen Group of Companies
- ↑ (French) Bilan du Siècle
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