1993 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Elizabeth II

  Federal government

• Governor general – Ray Hnatyshyn
• Prime minister – Brian Mulroney then Kim Campbell then Jean Chrétien
• Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer
• Parliament – 34th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Gordon Towers
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – David Lam
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – George Johnson 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 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

  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.
• 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 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.
• 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 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: 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

• 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 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 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.
• 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 21 – Jason Godin, politician
• January 26 – Cameron Bright, actor
• January 28 – Hollie Lo, actress
• 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 20 – Kurtis Gabriel, ice hockey player
• April 23 – Brooke Palsson, actress
• May 16 - Atticus Mitchell actor and musician
• May 18 - Stuart Percy hockey player
• May 20 - Kevin Roy hockey player
• June 6 - Jesse Carere actor
• June 15 - Boone Jenner 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
• November 28 - Stephanie Park paralympic wheelchair basketball player
• December 16 - Stephan James actor
• December 29 - Gabby May, artistic gymnast

  Deaths

• January 26 – Jeanne Sauvé, politician and first female Governor General of Canada
• February 28 – Ruby Keeler, actress, singer and dancer
• April 2 – Alexander Bell Patterson, politician
• April 15 – John Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist and geologist
• April 30 – Colin Emerson Bennett, politician and lawyer
• May 2 – Stephen Juba, politician and Mayor of Winnipeg
• May 9 – Jacques Dextraze, Canadian general
• May 30 – H. Gordon Barrett, politician
• June 9 – Alexis Smith, actress
• August 14 – Francis Mankiewicz, film director, screenwriter and producer
• September 12 – Raymond Burr, actor
• September 27 – Fraser MacPherson, jazz musician
• October 24 – Tracy Latimer, murder victim