From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Events from the year 1993 in Canada .
Incumbents [ edit ]
Federal government [ edit ]
Provincial governments [ edit ]
Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
Premiers [ edit ]
Territorial governments [ edit ]
Commissioners [ edit ]
Premiers [ edit ]
January to June [ edit ]
January 25 - Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island , replacing Joe Ghiz following a leadership election . Is becoming Prince Edward Island's first female premier , and the first time in Canadian history 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 - 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 Arone's death
March 29 - Prince Edward Island general election, 1993 : 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 [ edit ]
Full date unknown [ edit ]
Arts and literature [ edit ]
New works [ 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
Television [ edit ]
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 26 - Jeanne Sauvé , politician and first female Governor General of Canada (born 1922 )
February 28 - Ruby Keeler , actress, singer and dancer (born 1910 )
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 )
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 )
1993 in North America
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories