1987 in Canada
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Events from the year 1987 in Canada.
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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
- 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 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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] Music
- November 27 - Rock band Cowboy Junkies record their most famous album, The Trinity Session, at Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity.
[edit] Sport
- August 30 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson sets a new world record in the 100 metre dash
[edit] Births
- April 27 - Joëlle Békhazi, water polo player
- April 30 - Jeremy Bordeleau, canoeist
- May 17 - Con Kudaba, water polo player
- August 7 - Sidney Crosby, ice hockey player
- October 6 - Kia Byers, canoeist
- October 16 - Pascal Wollach, swimmer
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January to June
- January 5 - Margaret Laurence, novelist and short story writer (b.1926)
- January 5 - Herman Smith-Johannsen, ski pioneer and supercentenarian (b.1875)
- January 27 - Norman McLaren, animator and film director (b.1914)
- February 19 - Russell Doern, politician (b.1935)
- March 21 - Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (b.1906)
[edit] July to December
- September 11 - Lorne Greene, actor (b.1915)
- September 19 - Ralph Steinhauer, native leader, first Aboriginal to become the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (b.1905)
- November 1 - René Lévesque, politician, Minister and 23rd Premier of Quebec (b.1922)
- November 6 - George Laurence, nuclear physicist (b.1905)
- November 18 - George Ryga, playwright and novelist (b.1932)
- November 29 - Gwendolyn MacEwen, novelist and poet (b.1941)
[edit] Full date unknown
- Hugh Alexander Bryson, politician (b.1912)
- Juda Hirsch Quastel, biochemist (b.1899)
