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Other events of 2020 Timeline of Canadian history
Events for the year 2020 in Canada .
Incumbents [ ] The Crown [ ] Federal government [ ] Governor General – Julie Payette Prime Minister – Justin Trudeau Parliament – 43rd Provincial governments [ ] Lieutenant Governors [ ] Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Lois Mitchell (until August 26), then Salma Lakhani Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Janet Austin Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Janice Filmon Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Brenda Murphy Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Judy Foote Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Arthur LeBlanc Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Elizabeth Dowdeswell Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Antoinette Perry Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – J. Michel Doyon Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Russell Mirasty Premiers [ ] Premier of Alberta – Jason Kenney Premier of British Columbia – John Horgan Premier of Manitoba – Brian Pallister Premier of New Brunswick – Blaine Higgs Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – Dwight Ball (until August 19), then Andrew Furey Premier of Nova Scotia – Stephen McNeil Premier of Ontario – Doug Ford Premier of Prince Edward Island – Dennis King Premier of Quebec – François Legault Premier of Saskatchewan – Scott Moe Territorial governments [ ] Commissioners [ ] Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Margaret Thom Commissioner of Nunavut – Nellie Kusugak (until June 22), then Rebekah Williams (acting)Commissioner of Yukon – Angélique Bernard Premiers [ ] Premier of Northwest Territories – Caroline Cochrane Premier of Nunavut – Joe Savikataaq Premier of Yukon – Sandy Silver Events [ ] January [ ] January 1 – Quebec raises its minimum cannabis age from 18 to 21, the highest minimum cannabis age in Canada.[1]
January 5 – Canada defeats Russia 4–3 to win gold at the 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships .[2]
January 8 – Fifty-seven Canadians, as well as approximately 80 others ultimately travelling to Canada, are killed after Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down by Iran shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini Airport .[3]
January 12 – A nuclear alert is erroneously sent out to all Ontario residents, after the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station experiences anomalies.[4]
January 17 – January 2020 North American storm complex : St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador goes into a state of emergency after 76 centimetres of snow fell during a bomb cyclone .[5] Canadian Armed Forces were called in to help with the cleanup.[6]
January 20 – Start of national pipeline protests across the country.[7]
January 25 – The country confirms its first COVID-19 case in Toronto.[8] February [ ] February 21 – Ontario teachers held a one-day province wide strike.[9] March [ ] March 6 – Canada's first COVID-19 death is recorded in North Vancouver .[10]
March 8 – Yukon permanently ends Daylight Saving Time .[11] April [ ] April 18 – 19 – A series of shootings and arson attacks takes place in various Nova Scotia locations, with 23 people killed.[12]
April 26 – A large flood hits Fort McMurray , forcing 13,000 people to evacuate.[13] May [ ] May 30 – Protests across Canada begin in solidarity with Americans protesting the murder of George Floyd , and against police issues and racism in Canada .[14] [15] August [ ] August 7 – A tornado in southern Manitoba kills two and causes damage near Virden and Scarth .[16]
August 10 – Wildfire Red Lake 49 ignites near Red Lake, Ontario which advances within 2 km of the west-end of the town, forcing the evacuation of 95 percent of the 4000 residents of the community. Though small by comparison to the Fort McMurray fire of 2016 which was 800 times the size of this fire, it is unusual in the fire's proximity to the community.[17]
August 17 – The Canadian Football League cancels the 2020 CFL season .[18]
August 26 – Quebec's Minister of Justice and French Language Simon Jolin-Barrette announced plans for 2021 that he will be strengthening Bill 101 , the French language in the province of Quebec.[19] September [ ] September 14 – New Brunswick general election is held, resulting in a Progressive Conservative majority government.
September 10 – 21 – 2020 Toronto International Film Festival .
September 20 – Yukon stops the twice yearly changing of clocks, committing to UTC−07:00 . This puts solar noon around 14:00, effectively double daylight saving time year-round.
September 28 – The Tampa Bay Lightning win the Stanley Cup in Edmonton after defeating the Dallas Stars in Game 6 of the 2020 Stanley Cup Finals . October [ ] October 19 – 2020 Polaris Music Prize awarded.
October 21 – Trudeau minority government survives confidence vote 180 to 146, in the House of Commons .
October 24 – British Columbia general election is held, resulting in a New Democratic majority government.
October 26 – Saskatchewan general election is held, resulting in a fourth consecutive Saskatchewan Party majority government.
October 31 – Two people are killed and five injured in the Quebec City stabbing .[20] November [ ] November 1 Daylight saving time ends
November 24/25 – Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador will temporarily leave the Atlantic Bubble , due the latest wave in the pandemic. December [ ] December 1 – Yukon officials announce a mask mandate and urges people to stay home amid a rise of cases.[21]
December 3
COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The Quebec government cancels a plan to allow Christmas gatherings of up to 10 people amid a rise of cases.[22]
Alberta reports 1,854 new COVID-19 cases, a single-day record.[23]
December 7 – Prime Minister Trudeau says that the country will receive 240,000 doses of Pfizer and BioNTech ’s vaccine candidate by the end of the year.[24]
December 30 – The 2021 Canadian Honours List is announced.[25] Events cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic [ ] 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards 61st public duties season of the Ceremonial Guard of the Canadian Armed Forces
Anime North 2020All bowling national championships covering both five pin and tenpin.
Animethon 2020Calgary Expo 2020Calgary Stampede Canada Reads 2020 Canadian Football League season 2020 Canadian Junior Hockey League playoffs, including the 2020 Memorial Cup
Canadian National Exhibition and the Canadian International Air Show Celebration of Light Cirque du Soleil Esso Cup FIS Cross-Country World Cup Finals in CanmoreAll Golf Canada national championships (most provincial events proceeded under no-touch golf rules).
Honda Indy Toronto 20202020 IIHF Women's World Championship (ice hockey) in Halifax and TruroLabour Day parades
Montreal Comiccon 2020Northern Lights Festival Boréal Otafest 2020Pacific National Exhibition 2020Pride parades
Most Santa Claus parades
Shaw Charity Classic Stratford Festival 2020 Toronto Caribbean Carnival (Caribana)Telus Cup Toronto Comicon 2020Toronto Waterfront Marathon All university sports administered by Atlantic University Sport , Canada West Universities Athletic Association , Ontario University Athletics , and U Sports
2020 Royal Winter Fair
Most school events
Juno Awards of 2020 Deaths [ ] January [ ] January 1
János Aczél , mathematician (b. 1924)Peter Neumann , gridiron football player (b. 1931)
January 2
Bill Graham , gridiron football player (b. 1935)Tom Hickey , politician (b. 1933)
January 3
Harvey Reti , boxer (b. 1937)Douglas N. Walton , academic and author (b. 1942)
January 4
Russell Bannock , test pilot and World War II fighter ace (b. 1919)Bonnie Burstow , psychotherapist (b. 1945)John R. Cunningham , medical physicist (b. 1927)
January 5
Peter Dyck , Manitoba politician (b. 1946)Walter Learning , actor and theatre director (b. 1938)John Migneault , ice hockey player (b. 1949)
January 6 – Reva Gerstein , psychologist and educator (b. 1917)
January 7 – Neil Peart , drummer and lyricist for Rush (b. 1952)[26]
January 9 – Leo Kolber , businessman and former Senator (b. 1929)[27]
January 10
John Crosbie , provincial and federal politician (b. 1931)Bud Fowler , gridiron football player (b. 1925 or 1926)Michael Posluns , journalist (b. 1941)
January 14 – Eville Gorham , scientist (b. 1925)
January 15 – Rocky Johnson , wrestler (b. 1944)
January 16 – William J. Samarin , linguist (b. 1926)
January 17
Thérèse Dion , television personality (b. 1927)Rhona Wurtele , skier (b. 1922)Bobby Kay , wrestler (b. 1950)
January 18
John Burke , composer (b. 1951)Steve Gillespie , wrestler (b. 1963)Norm Hill , football player (b. 1928)Roger Nicolet , engineer (b. 1931)[28] Gordon A. Smith , artist (b. 1919)Jim Smith , politician (b. 1935)
January 18 – John Gibson , ice hockey player (b. 1959)
January 20 – Kit Hood , television editor (b. 1943)
January 21 – Norman Amadio , jazz pianist (b. 1928)
January 23
January 25
Siegfried Enns , politician (b. 1924)Clifford Wiens , architect (b. 1926)
January 26 – Louis Nirenberg , mathematician (b. 1925)
January 29 – Alfred John Ellis , banker (b. 1915)
January 30
Jake MacDonald , writer (b. 1949)Raymond Reierson , politician (b. 1919) February [ ] February 1 – Roger Landry , businessman (b. 1934)
February 2 – Bernard Ebbers , businessman and convicted fraudster (b. 1941)
February 3 – John Edward Brockelbank , instrument technician and politician (b. 1931)
February 4
Peter Hogg , legal scholar and lawyer (b. 1939)L. Jacques Ménard , businessman (b. 1946)Frank Plummer , scientist (b. 1952)
February 5
Diane Cailhier , filmmaker and director (b. 1947)Ian Cushenan , ice hockey player (b. 1933)
February 7
Ron Calhoun , executive (b. 1933)Brian Glennie , ice hockey player (b. 1946)Larry Popein , ice hockey player (b. 1930)
February 8 – Bill Robinson , basketball player (b. 1949)
February 11
Maurice Byblow , politician (b. 1946)Louis-Edmond Hamelin , geographer (b. 1923)Timothy Porteous , administrator (b. 1933)
February 12
Christie Blatchford , newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1951)[29] Charles Hubbard , politician (b. 1940)
February 13 – Ralph Mercier , politician (b. 1937)
February 14 – Masao Takahashi , judoka (b. 1929)
February 17 – Georges Villeneuve , politician (b. 1922)
February 19
Pete Babando , ice hockey player (b. 1925)Robert H. Lee , businessman (b. 1933)Hubert B. MacNeill , physician and politician (b. 1922)John Robertson , sailor (b. 1929)
February 21 – Phil Maloney , ice hockey player and coach (b. 1927)
February 22 – Mark Zanna , social psychologist (b. 1944)
February 23 – Norene Gilletz , author and cooking instructor (b. 1940)
February 25 – Bob Steiner , football player (b. 1946)
February 26 – David Smith , senator (b. 1941)
February 26 – Craig Mackay , speed skater (b. 1927)[30] March [ ] March 1 – William MacEachern , politician (b. 1930)
March 2
René Coicou , politician (b. 1935)William Johnson , author (b. 1931)Laird Stirling , politician (b. 1938)
March 3 – Réginald Bélair , politician (b. 1949)
March 4
Serge Deslières , politician and teacher (b. 1947)Jean Payne , politician (b. 1939)
March 6
Norm Fieldgate , football player (b. 1932)Henri Richard , ice hockey player (b. 1936)
March 7
Earl Pomerantz , screenwriter (b. 1945)Laura Smith , singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
March 9 – John Havelock Parker , politician (b. 1929)
March 11 – Ken King , ice hockey player (b. 1952)
March 13 – Dorothy Maclean , educator and writer (b. 1920)
March 14 – Galen Head , ice hockey player (b. 1947)
March 15 – Phil Olsen , athlete (b. 1957)
March 18 – Wray Downes , jazz pianist (b. 1931)
March 19 – Herbert Marx , politician (b. 1932)
March 20 – Claude Bennett , politician (b. 1936)
March 23
JR Shaw , businessman (b. 1934)Giles Walker , film director (b. 1946)
March 30
Joe Clark , businessman (b. 1941)Tim Petros , football player (b. 1961) April [ ] April 4
Barry Allen , musician (b. 1945)Marguerite Lescop , writer (b. 1915)
April 5 – Shirley Douglas , actress and activist (b. 1934)
April 6
John Dossetor , physician (b. 1925)Jean Little , author, primarily of children's fiction (b. 1932)
April 7
Peter Cory , Supreme Court of Canada judge (b. 1925)Ghyslain Tremblay , actor and comedian (b. 1951)
April 8
John Hughes , ice hockey player (b. 1954)Pat Stapleton , ice hockey player (b. 1940)
April 9
Jim Conacher , ice hockey player (b. 1921)Mark Golden , historian (b. 1948)Ho Kam Ming , martial artist (b. 1925)Jean-Pierre St-Louis , cinematographer (b. 1951)
April 10
Marke Raines , politician (b. 1927)Tom Webster , ice hockey player and coach (b. 1948)
April 11
Colby Cave , ice hockey player (b. 1994)Paul Haddad , actor (b. 1963)
April 12
Claude Beauchamp , journalist and political activist (b. 1939)Bill Langille , farmer and politician, (b. 1944)
April 16 – Kenneth Gilbert , musician (b. 1931)
April 18 – Allan Gotlieb , public servant and Ambassador (b. 1928)
April 19
Aileen Carroll , politician (b. 1944)Claude Lafortune , television presenter (b. 1936)
April 20 – Hezakiah Oshutapik , politician (b. 1955 or 1956) May [ ] May 2
Morris Belzberg , Canadian-born American businessman and sports team owner (b. 1929)[31] Jim Henderson , politician, Ontario MLA (b. 1940)[32]
May 3
Selma Barkham , maritime historian (b. 1927)[33] Paul Cholakis , football player (b. 1928)[34] Eugene Kostyra , politician, Manitoba MLA (b. 1947)[35]
May 4
Michael Lucas , Czechoslovakian-born Canadian political activist (b. 1926)[36] Lorne Munroe , Canadian-born American cellist (b. 1924)[37]
May 5 – George Henderson , politician, member of the House of Commons (b. 1935)[38]
May 6 – Nahum Rabinovitch , Canadian-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi and posek , head of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe (b. 1928)[39]
May 7
May 8 – Nancy Morin , goalball player (b. 1975)[42]
May 10 – Martin Pasko , Canadian-born American comic book writer and screenwriter (b. 1954)[43]
May 11
Doug McKay , ice hockey player (b. 1929)[44] Jean Nichol , singer (b. 1944)[45]
May 12 – Renée Claude , actress and singer (b. 1939)[46]
May 13
Gérard Dionne , Roman Catholic prelate and former Bishop of Edmundston (b. 1919)[47] Daren Zenner , Canadian-American boxer (b. 1971)[48]
May 15
Denny DeMarchi , multi-instrumentalist (b. 1962)[49] John Palmer , theatre and film director (b. 1943)[50]
May 16
Cliff Eyland , painter and writer (b. 1954)[51] Monique Mercure , actress (b. 1930)[52]
May 18
May 19
Ravi Zacharias , Indian-born Canadian-American Christian apologist (b. 1946)[56]
May 20 – Wilbur MacDonald , politician and former MP (b. 1933)[57]
May 21
Merlin Nunn , judge and former chief justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court (b. 1930)[58] Douglas Tyndall Wright , engineer and academic administrator, former President of the University of Waterloo (b. 1927)[59]
May 22
May 25
Francis Dufour , politician and former Quebec MNA (b. 1929)[62] Louise Feltham , politician (b. 1935)[63] Marv Luster , American Hall of Fame CFL football player (b. 1937)[64]
May 26
Floyd Hillman , ice hockey player (b. 1933)[65] Cliff Pennington , ice hockey player (b. 1940)[66]
May 27
Wally Gacek , ice hockey player (b. 1926)[67] Regis Korchinski-Paquet (b. 1990)[68] Arthur L. Thurlow , politician and judge, former Nova Scotia MLA (b. 1913)[69]
May 28 – Reed Scowen , politician (b. 1931)[70]
May 30
Michel Gauthier , politician, former Leader of the Opposition , MP , and Quebec MNA (b. 1950)[71] Edward O. Phillips , writer (b. 1931)[72] June [ ] June 1
Silver Donald Cameron , journalist and author (b. 1937)Garth Dawley , journalist (b. 1933)
June 2
Yvon Lamarre , politician (b. 1935)Muriel Kent Roy , demographer (b. 1921)
June 3 – Gary Potts , Temagami First Nation chief (b. 1940s)
June 4 – Walt Elliot , politician (b. 1933)
June 5 – Andrée Champagne , actress (b. 1939)
June 6 – Jean-Marc Chaput , author and public speaker (b. 1930)
June 7 – Hubert Gagnon , actor and voice dubber (b. 1946)
June 10
Joan Ferner , women's rights advocate (b. 1933)Paul Owen , cricketer (b. 1969)Stuart Lyon Smith , politician (b. 1938)Eppie Wietzes , Dutch-born racing driver (b. 1938)[73]
June 11
Roy Little Chief , First Nations rights activist, politician, and Chief of the Siksika Nation (b. 1938)Cy Strulovitch , Olympic basketball player (b. 1925)
June 15
Winston Backus , politician (b. 1920)Phil Takahashi , Olympic judoka (b. 1957)
June 17
Victor Feldbrill , conductor and violinist (b. 1924)Hugh Fraser , musician (b. 1958)
June 19
Thomas Brzustowski , engineer and academic (b. 1937)Ralph Haas , engineer and academic (b. 1933)Regan Russell , animal rights activist (b. 1955)
June 21 – Anthony J. Naldrett , geologist (b. 1933)
June 24 – David MacLennan , biochemist (b. 1937)
June 26
Ed Conroy , politician (b. 1946), museologist (b. 1945)
Don Seymour , jockey (b. 1961)
June 27 – Bob Warner , ice hockey player (b. 1950)
June 28 – Bill McFarlane , gridiron football player (b. 1930)
June 29
James Douglas Henderson , politician (b. 1927)Gene Lakusiak , gridiron football player (b. 1942)
June 30 – John Metras , gridiron football player (b. 1940) July [ ] July 3
Neil Erland Byers , politician (b. 1928)Len Cunning , ice hockey player (b. 1950)
July 5
Bill Barlow , politician (b. 1931)Nick Cordero , actor (b. 1978)[74] Aubert Pallascio , actor (b. 1937)
July 6 – Deborah Zamble , chemist (b. 1971)
July 7
George Boyd , playwright and news anchor (b. 1952)Yves Lever , film historian and academic (b. 1936)[75]
July 9 – Bob Sabourin , ice hockey player (b. 1933)
July 10
Robert Curtis Clark , politician (b. 1937)Genevieve Westcott , journalist and television presenter (b. 1965)
July 11 – Rich Priske , bassist (b. 1967)
July 12 – Ignat Kaneff , construction executive and philanthropist (b. 1926)
July 13 – Daniel David Moses , poet and playwright (b. 1952)
July 16
July 17 – J. I. Packer , evangelical theologian (b. 1926)
July 18
Ray Hannigan , ice hockey player (b. 1927)Hubert Kitchen , politician (b. 1928)
July 19
David Cliche , politician (b. 1952)Louis Dicaire , Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1946)Jack McIlhargey , ice hockey player and coach (b. 1952)
July 20
Doug Rogers , judoka (b. 1941)Harry Smith ice hockey player (b. 1935)
July 24 – Claude Beausoleil , writer and poet (b. 1948)
July 25
Eddie Shack , ice hockey player (b. 1937)Richard L. Weldon , politician (b. 1932)
July 26
Jim Abbott , politician (b. 1942)Brian Chewter , Olympic cyclist (b. 1954)Robert Smith , actor (b. 1966)
July 27 – Bernard Cleary , politician (b. 1937)
July 28 – John Loxley , economist (b. 1942)
July 29 – David Ramsay , politician (b. 1948) August [ ] August 1 – Douglas Wiseman , politician (b. 1930)
August 3
Ralph Klassen , ice hockey player (b. 1955)Sean Martin , cartoonist (b. 1950)
August 4 – Brent Carver , actor (b. 1951)
August 7
Tim Irwin , sailor (b. 1940)Mike Yaschuk , ice hockey player (b. 1922)
August 8
Salome Bey , blues singer (b. 1933)Adam Comrie , ice hockey player (b. 1990)
August 9 – Robert Fischer , politician (b. 1937)
August 11 – Marcel Adams , real estate investor (b. 1920)
August 13
Michel Dumont , actor (b. 1941)Irene Piotrowski , track and field athlete (b. 1941)Lorraine Thomson , dancer and television host (b. 1931)
August 14 – Joe Norton , politician (b. 1949)
August 15
Richard Gwyn , writer (b. 1934)Francis O'Brien , politician (b. 1927)Lefty Reid , museum curator (b. 1927)
August 16 – Cathy Smith (b. 1947)
August 18
Joseph Gosnell , Nisga'a indigenous leader (b. 1936)Dale Hawerchuk , ice hockey player (b. 1963)Rick Pugliese , water polo player (b. 1952)
August 19
Cora Etter , politician (b. 1924)Allan Fotheringham , journalist (b. 1932)
August 21 – Chris Kooy , association football player (b. 1982)
August 22 – Jean-Marie Brochu , Roman Catholic priest and founder of Le Noël du Bonheur (b. 1926)
August 23
Peter Borwein , mathematician (b. 1953)Bill Burega , ice hockey player (b. 1932)
August 24
Nancy Guptill , politician (b. 1941)P. B. Waite , historian (b. 1922)
August 25 – Tommy Joe Coffey , gridiron football player (b. 1936)
August 26 – Gaston Roberge , priest and film historian (b. 1935)
August 30
Ralph Ferguson , politician (b. 1929)Jacques Galipeau , actor (b. 1923)
August 31 – Norm Spencer , voice actor (b. 1958) September [ ] September 1
Moose Lallo , ice hockey player (b. 1924)James A. Taylor , politician (b. 1928)
September 2 – Stephen M. Drance , ophthalmologist (b. 1925)
September 4
Vince Agro , politician and novelist (b. 1936 or 1937)Bryan Anderson , politician (b. 1942)Lucille Starr , singer (b. 1938)
September 10 – Terry Buckle , Canadian Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Yukon (b. 1940)
September 12 – Aline Chrétien , spouse of former prime minister (b. 1936)[76]
September 17 – Harvey Hodder , politician (b. 1943)
September 19
Al Langlois , ice hockey player (b. 1934)John Turner , politician and 17th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1929)
September 20 – Marian Packham , biochemist (b. 1927)
September 21 – Bob Nevin , ice hockey player (b. 1938)
September 23 – Brenda Robertson , politician (b. 1929)
September 25 – George Sayliss , ice hockey player (b. 1931)
September 26 – Suzanne Tremblay , politician (b. 1937)
September 28 – Joyce Echaquan , Atikamekw woman (b. 1983 or 1982) October [ ] October 1
Gord Brooks , ice hockey player (b. 1950)Glen Despins , curler (b. 1964)
October 2 – Alan Abraham , politician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (b. 1931)
October 4 – Louis Fortier , biologist and oceanographer (b. 1953)
October 8
October 10 – Stanley Schumacher , politician (b. 1933)
October 12 – Ezra Schabas , musician and educator (b. 1924)
October 13
Dean Bandiera , gridiron football player (b. 1926)Percy Schmeiser , farmer and politician (b. 1931)
October 14 – William Keir Carr , military officer and Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force (b. 1923)
October 19 – Louise Renaud , painter and dancer (b. 1922)
October 20 – James Randi , magician and skeptic (b. 1928)
October 23 – R. M. Vaughan , writer (b. 1965)
October 26
David Braley , politician (b. 1941)Peter Cardew , architect (b. 1939)Jacques Godin , actor (b. 1930)Joey Moss , dressing room attendant (b. 1963)
October 27 – Don Mazankowski , politician and the 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1935)
October 28 – Robert Wells , politician (b. 1933)
October 28 – Margaret Birch , politician (b. 1921)
October 31 – Michel Auger , journalist (b. 1944) November [ ] November 2 – Max Ward , aviator (b. 1921)
November 3 – Anne Covell , sprinter (b. 1950)
November 5 – Robert Peterson , politician (b. 1937)
November 6
Ray Daviault , baseball player (b. 1934)Jim Neilson , ice hockey player (b. 1940)
November 8
Howie Meeker , ice hockey player and sports announcer (b. 1923)Alex Trebek , host of Jeopardy!
November 9 – Lê Dinh , songwriter (b.1934)
November 11
Michel Mongeau , actor (b. 1946)Reg Morelli , ice hockey player (b. 1935)Faye Urban , tennis player (b. 1945)
November 11 – Pierre Mercier , politician (b. 1937)
November 13 – Max Gros-Louis , politician and businessman (b. 1931)
November 16
Rick Fraser , ice hockey player (b. 1954)David Hemblen , actor (b. 1941)Bill Morgan , producer (b. 1940)
November 18
Claire Boudreau , enealogist and historian (b. 1965)Kirby Morrow , actor (b. 1973)
November 20
Patricia Beatty , choreographer and dancer (b. 1936)Ken Schinkel , ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932)
November 23 – Christian Mistral , novelist, poet, and songwriter (b. 1964)
November 24 – Fred Sasakamoose , ice hockey player (b. 1933)
November 25 – Marc-André Bédard , politician (b. 1935)
November 27 – Lou Nistico , ice hockey player (b. 1953) December [ ] December 1 – Sol Tolchinsky , basketball player (b. 1929)
December 2
December 3
Bill Fitsell , sports journalist and historian (b. 1923)André Gagnon , composer and conductor (b. 1936)William King , politician (b. 1930)
December 4
Goldie Hershon , activist (b. 1941)Larry Mavety , ice hockey player (b. 1942)
December 5 – Ron Irwin , politician and diplomat (b. 1936)
December 6 – Neil Armstrong , ice hockey referee (b. 1932)
December 7
Joseph Arvay , lawyer (b. 1949)Sheila A. Hellstrom , military officer (b. 1935)
December 10 – Cal Hockley , ice hockey player (b. 1931)
December 12
Ronald James Baker , academic administrator (b. 1924)Claude Castonguay , politician and educator (b. 1929)Alfonso Gagliano , politician (b. 1942)
December 13
Pierre Lacroix , ice hockey player (b. 1948)Barry Sonshine , Olympic equestrian (b. 1948)
December 12 – Alpha Boucher , actor (b. 1943)
December 15
Awesome Again , racehorse (b. 1994)Jim Gorst , politician (b. 1922)
December 16 – John Martin Crawford , serial killer (b. 1962)
December 17
Lorraine Monk , photographer (b. 1922)Bill Sveinson , politician and poker player (b. 1946)
December 18
Charlie Brooker , ice hockey player (b. 1932)Joan Dougherty , politician (b. 1927)
December 19 – Leo Panitch , political scientist (b. 1945)
December 23 – Joel Yanofsky , writer (b. 1955)
December 26 – Derek Aucoin , baseball player (b. 1970)
December 27 – Ed Finn , politician and trade unionist, (b. 1926)
December 28 – Wilma Pelly , actress (b. 1937)
December 29 – Elaine McCoy , politician (b. 1946) See also [ ]
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^ World-Renowned Christian Apologist Ravi Zacharias Dies ^ Former P.E.I. MP, MLA Wilbur MacDonald dies at 86 ^ 'Formidable' 21-year Nova Scotia Conflict of Interest Commissioner Merlin Nunn 'has gently passed away' ^ Dr. Douglas Tyndall Wright OC ^ Le comédien André Cartier est décédé à 74 ans (in French) ^ Denise Cronenberg, who dressed her little brother David Cronenberg’s film stars for success, dead at 81 ^ L’ancien maire et député de Jonquière Francis Dufour décède à 91 ans (in French) ^ Louise Feltham ^ CFL mourns the loss of all-star Marv Luster ^ Floyd Hillman ^ Cliff Pennington ^ Obituary of Walter Frank Gacek ^ ‘I want people to know she’s more than a hashtag’: Family remembers Regis Korchinski-Paquet ^ Obituary for The Rt. Hon. Judge Arthur Louis Thurlow ^ L'ancien député Reed Scowen, défenseur des Québécois anglophones, est mort (in French) ^ "Former Bloc Québécois leader Michel Gauthier dies at 70" . Montreal Gazette . Retrieved September 16, 2020 .^ Novelist Edward O. Phillips penned a series featuring gay sleuth Geoffry Chadwick ^ Pye, Marcus. "Two-time F1 starter and 1981 Trans-Am champion Eppie Wietzes dies" . Autosport.com . Retrieved September 16, 2020 . ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (July 6, 2020). "Nick Cordero Dies Of COVID-19: Broadway Actor's Medical Crisis Was Chronicled By Wife Amanda Kloots" . Deadline . Retrieved September 16, 2020 . ^ André Duchesne, "L’historien du cinéma Yves Lever est décédé" . La Presse
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