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List of Canadian events in 1993
Events from the year 1993 in Canada .
Provincial governments [ edit ] Lieutenant governors [ edit ] Territorial governments [ edit ] 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.[2]
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. Arts and literature [ edit ] 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 American-born E. Annie Proulx 's The Shipping News 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 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 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[4]
Full date unknown - David Benoit, Canadian-American wrestler and son of Chris Benoit January 26 – Jeanne Sauvé , politician and first female Governor General of Canada (born 1922 )[5]
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 )
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