Events from the year 1987 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Premiers
Events
- January 1 – Frobisher Bay changes its name to Iqaluit.
- April 21 РThe lifeless body of Claude Jutra was finally found in the Saint Lawrence River near Cap-Sant̩.
- April 30 – Provincial premiers agree to Meech Lake Accord.
- May 22 – Rick Hansen returns home to Vancouver after his Man in Motion world tour.
- June 30 – Canada introduces a $1 coin, commonly called loonie; the dollar bill is withdrawn in 1989.
- a bill to restore the death penalty was defeated by the House of Commons in a 148âÂÂ127 vote, in which Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Minister of Justice Ray Hnatyshyn, and Minister of External Affairs Joe Clark opposed the bill, whereas Deputy Prime Minister Donald Mazankowski and a majority of Progressive Conservative MPs supported it.
- July 3 – Quebec City becomes the first city in North America to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- July 14 – Montreal is hit by a series of severe thunderstorms during the Montreal Flood of 1987.
- July 31 – The Edmonton Tornado kills 27 people.
- 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.
- October 31 – The Reform Party of Canada is founded.
- 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.
- December 16 – Chartwell Technology company is founded in British Columbia.
Undated
- ElderTreks, Canadian adventure travel company is founded.
Arts and literature
New works
Awards
Music
Sport
Births
- January 1
- Gilbert Brulé, ice hockey player
- Devin Setoguchi, ice hockey player
- January 15
- Kelleigh Ryan, fencer
- Michael Seater, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- January 16 – Jake Epstein, actor
- January 19 – Alexandra Orlando, rhythmic gymnast
- January 21 – Andrew Forde, engineering graduate student and musician
- February 12 – Anna Hopkins, actress
- February 21 – Elliot Page, actor
- February 25
- Andrew Poje, figure skater
- Eva Avila, singer
- March 31 – Winston Venable, American football player
- April 1 – Mackenzie Davis, actress
- April 4 – Sarah Gadon, actress
- April 9 – Felix Cartal, DJ and producer
- April 10 – Shay Mitchell, actress, model, entrepreneur, and author
- April 11 – Lights (Valerie Poxleitner), singer and songwriter
- April 27
- Joëlle Békhazi, water polo player
- Alexandra Carter, voice actress
- Emma Taylor-Isherwood, actress
- April 30 – Jeremy Bordeleau, canoeist
- May 1 – Marissa Ponich, fencer
- May 16 – Kylie Stone, artistic gymnast
- May 17 – Con Kudaba, water polo player
- May 29 – Noah Reid, actor and musician
- June 18 – Niels Schneider, French-Canadian actor
- June 22 – Melanie Banville, artistic gymnast
- July 7
- Mylène Mackay, actress
- Steven Crowder, American-Canadian political youtuber
- August 7 – Sidney Crosby, ice hockey player
- August 8 – Jenn Proske, actress
- August 16 – Carey Price, ice hockey goaltender
- August 25
- Stacey Farber, actress
- La zarra, singer
- September 2
- Mazin Elsadig, American-Canadian actor
- Scott Moir, ice dancer
- September 13 – G.NA, singer
- September 16 – Christina Schmidt, actress and model
- September 23 – Shannon Chan-Kent, actress and voice actress
- September 29 – Kyle Riabko, pop singer and guitarist
- October 6 – Kia Byers, canoeist
- October 15
- Jesse Levine, Canadian-American tennis player
- Chantal Strand, actress and voice actress
- October 16 – Pascal Wollach, swimmer
- October 29 РJessica Dub̩, figure skater
- November 12 – Bryan Little, ice hockey player
- November 15 – Ludi Lin, Chinese-Canadian actor
- December 12 – Kate Todd, actress and singer-songwriter
Deaths
January to June
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)
- October 5 – Conrad Bourcier, ice hockey player (b.1915)
- October 13 – Hugh Alexander Bryson, politician (b.1912)
- October 15 – Juda Hirsch Quastel, biochemist (b.1899)
- November 1 РRen̩ L̩vesque, 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)
See also
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