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Events from the year 1986 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

Main article: 1986 Canadian incumbents

Crown[]

  • Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government[]

  • Governor General – Jeanne Sauvé[1]
  • Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney
  • Chief Justice – Brian Dickson (Manitoba)
  • Parliament – 33rd

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.[2][3]
  • 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.[4]
  • 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[]

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 17 – The Guelph Platers win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the Hull Olympiques 6 to 2.
  • May 24 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 23rd Stanley Cup by defeating the Calgary Flames. The deciding Game 5 is played at Olympic Saddledome in Calgary
  • November 22 – The UBC Thunderbirds win their second championship by defeating the Western Ontario Mustangs by a score of 25–23.
  • November 30 – Hamilton Tiger-Cats win their 7th Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Eskimos 39 to 15 in the 74th Grey Cup played at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver

Unknown date

  • The Canadian Amateur Football Association is renamed Football Canada.
  • Canada participates in the FIFA World Cup for the first, and to date only, time.
  • Montreal Concordes are re-branded as the "new" Montreal Allouettes

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
  • May 12 – Emily VanCamp, actress
  • May 31 – Melissa McIntyre, actress
  • June 5 – Amanda Crew, actress
  • June 18 – Meaghan Rath, actress
  • August 19 – Marie-Christine Schmidt, canoeist
  • August 29 – Lauren Collins, actress
  • September 19 – Carrie Finlay, voice actor
  • November 4 – Alexz Johnson, singer-songwriter, actress, and philanthropist
  • November 5 – Heather Purnell, artistic gymnast
  • November 8 – Kaniehtiio Horn, actress
  • December 7 – Corey Vidal, online video content provider and digital media consultant
  • December 12 – Marie-Pier Beaudet, archer[5]
  • December 16 – Scott Tupper, field hockey player
  • December 19 – Annie Murphy, actress [6]

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)

See also[]

  • 1986 in Canadian television
  • List of Canadian films of 1986

References[]

  1. ^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Yukon History at Hougen Group of Companies
  4. ^ (in French) Bilan du Siècle
  5. ^ "Marie-Pier BEAUDET - Olympic Archery | Canada". International Olympic Committee. 19 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  6. ^ Instagram. "Login • Instagram". {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help); Cite uses generic title (help)
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