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Events from the year 1992 in Canada.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II
• Governor General: Ray Hnatyshyn
• Prime Minister: Brian Mulroney
• Premier of Alberta: Don Getty then Ralph Klein
• Premier of British Columbia: Mike Harcourt
• Premier of Manitoba: Gary Filmon
• Premier of New Brunswick: Frank McKenna
• Premier of Newfoundland: Clyde Wells
• Premier of Nova Scotia: Donald Cameron
• Premier of Ontario: Bob Rae
• Premier of Prince Edward Island: Joe Ghiz
• Premier of Quebec: Robert Bourassa
• Premier of Saskatchewan: Roy Romanow

See also: 1992 Canadian incumbents

[edit] Events

Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space on January 22

• January: CBC Television's documentary series The Valour and the Horror is criticized by Canadian veterans' groups for reportedly misrepresenting Canadian military conduct during World War II.
• January 22: On STS-42, Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
• May: Geological Survey of Canada expedition sets official elevation of Mount Logan to 5,959m.
• May 7: Three employees are murdered and one permanently disabled during a robbery at a McDonald's restaurant in Sydney River, Nova Scotia
• May 9: 26 miners are killed in the Westray Mine Disaster
• July 1: The Vandoos launch a successful operation to secure control of Sarajevo's airport
• July 2: a two-year shutdown of the cod fishery is announced
• August 12: the details of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are released
• August 22: The final draft of the Charlottetown Accord, a proposed package of constitutional amendments, is released
• August 24: A mechanical engineering professor, Valery Fabrikant, opens fire at Concordia University in Montreal killing four people
• September 18: Nine workers at the Giant Mine are killed after striking employee Roger Warren detonates a bomb in the mine shaft.
• October 26: The Charlottetown Accord is rejected in a nationwide referendum
• October: The ban on homosexuals in the Canadian military is lifted, following a legal challenge by Michelle Douglas.
• November 7: John Ostashek becomes government leader of the Yukon, replacing Tony Penikett
• November 12: A referendum endorsing the creation of Nunavut is successful in the Northwest Territories
• December 15: The first members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment arrive in Somalia on an ill-fated humanitarian mission
• December 16: Ralph Klein succeeds Don Getty as Premier of Alberta
• December 17: Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signs the NAFTA deal

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• Rudolph A. Marcus wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
• Agriculture Canada introduces a national BSE prevention program
• Delwin Vriend, an Alberta teacher, wins a court case against the Alberta Human Rights Commission regarding the status of LGBT persons under the province's human rights legislation. The case was appealed to the Alberta Court of Appeal; see 1994 in Canada.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New books

• The English Patient: Michael Ondaatje
• Tales from Firozsha Baag: Rohinton Mistry
• Inkorrect thots: bill bissett
• Mother, not mother: Di Brandt

[edit] Awards

• Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient wins the Booker Prize, the first Canadian to do so.
• See 1992 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Books in Canada First Novel Award: Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
• Gerald Lampert Award: Joanne Arnott, Wiles of Girlhood
• Pat Lowther Award: Kate Braid, Covering Rough Ground
• Marian Engel Award: Joan Barfoot
• Stephen Leacock Award: Roch Carrier, Prayers of a Very Wise Child
• Trillium Book Award: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
• Vicky Metcalf Award: Kevin Major

[edit] Music

• Alanis, Now Is the Time
• Barenaked Ladies, Gordon
• Beau Dommage, Beau Dommage au Forum
• Blue Rodeo, Lost Together
• Bootsauce, Bull
• La Bottine Souriante, Jusqu'aux p'tites heures
• Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, Superior Cackling Hen
• The Box, Decade of the Box
• Change of Heart, Smile
• Leonard Cohen, The Future
• Cowboy Junkies, Black Eyed Man
• 54-40, Dear Dear
• Front Line Assembly, Tactical Neural Implant
• Hart-Rouge, Le dernier mois de l'année
• hHead, Fireman
• Intermix, Intermix
• Jr. Gone Wild, Pull the Goalie
• Lava Hay, With a Picture in Mind
• Leslie Spit Treeo, Book of Rejection
• Martha and the Muffins, Modern Lullaby
• Moxy Früvous, Moxy Früvous
• Sarah McLachlan, Live EP
• The Northern Pikes, Neptune
• The Nylons, Live to Love
• The Rankin Family, Fare Thee Well Love
• Rheostatics, Whale Music
• Jane Siberry, A Collection 1984–1989 and Summer in the Yukon
• Skydiggers, Restless
• Sloan, Peppermint and Smeared
• The Tragically Hip, Fully Completely
• The Waltons, Lik My Trakter
• The Watchmen, mclarenfurnaceroom

[edit] Sport

• February 8–February 23 - 1992 Winter Olympics are held in Albertville, France. Canada finishes ninth in the medal count.
• July 25–August 9 - Canada competes in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
• October 8 - The modern-day Ottawa Senators play their first game in the National Hockey League, defeating the Montreal Canadiens.
• October 24 - The Toronto Blue Jays become the first non-US team to win the World Series.
• Grey Cup - Calgary Stampeders win 24–10 over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
• Vanier Cup - Queen's Golden Gaels win 31–0 over the St. Mary's Huskies.

[edit] Births

• June 4 — Savannah King, swimmer

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• February 1 - Gary Lautens, humorist and newspaper columnist (b.1928)
• February 5 - Maxwell Meighen, financier (b.1908)
• March 3 - Robert Beatty, actor (b.1909)
• March 14 - Bill Allum, ice hockey player (b.1916)
• March 26 - Barbara Frum, radio and television journalist (b.1937)
• April 10 - Cec Linder, actor (b.1921)
• April 19 - Kristen French, murder victim (b.1976)
• May 9 - James Allan, politician (b.1894)

[edit] July to December

• July 5 - Pauline Jewett, politician and educator (b.1922)
• July 11 - Munroe Bourne, swimmer (b.1910)
• July 30 - Joe Shuster, comic book artist (b.1914)
• September 8 - Corrine Gustavson, rape and murder victim (b.1986)
• September 14 - Paul Joseph James Martin, politician (b.1903)
• September 27 - Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, diplomat and civil servant (b.1898)
• December 13 - K. C. Irving, entrepreneur and industrialist (b.1899)
• December 28 - Pudlo Pudlat, artist (b.1916)

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• Greg Curnoe, painter (b.1936)