1999 in Canada

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1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Arts and literature
4 Births
5 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

Main article: 1999 Canadian incumbents

[edit] Events

January 1: An avalanche destroys a school gymnasium during New Year's celebrations in Kangiqsualujjuaq in far northern Quebec, killing 9.
February 9: Brian Tobin's Liberals are re-elected in Newfoundland
February 13: the last hockey game is played at Maple Leaf Gardens as the team moves to the new Air Canada Centre
April 1: Nunavut becomes the newest territory. Paul Okalik becomes its first premier
April 6: A disgruntled employee kills four in Ottawa before killing himself
April 16: Wayne Gretzky retires from hockey
April 28: W. R. Myers High School shooting: In Taber, Alberta, a 15-year-old boy, who has recently been withdrawn from public school to escape bullying, walks into W.R. Myers High School and shoots two students with a .22 rifle, killing one (Jason Lang) and injuring the other.
May 1: Sponsorship scandal: The federal government issues a $615,000 contract for a report from Groupaction into its own activities.
May 11: Chevron announces a major natural gas find in the Northwest Territories
May 17: The Saskatchewan government awards David Milgaard after he was jailed for 23 years for a murder he did not commit
May 20 the Supreme Court expands gay spousal rights
May 27: Julie Payette becomes the first Canadian to board the International Space Station
June 3: Ontario election: Mike Harris's PCs win a second consecutive majority
June 3: Canada and the United States sign a treaty to divide the Pacific salmon fishery
June 4: An agreement on split-run magazines prevents looming trade war with the United States
June 7: Bernard Lord's Conservatives win a surprise election victory in New Brunswick
June 10: The Reform Party of Canada votes to become the Canadian Alliance
June 17: Canadian citizen Stanley Faulder is executed in Texas, despite diplomatic complaints by the Canadian government
June 21: Bernard Lord becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Camille Thériault
June 30: A British Columbia court strikes down Canada's child pornography laws
July 23–August 8: The Pan American games are held in Winnipeg
July 27: The Conservatives win a majority government in Nova Scotia
August 16: John Hamm becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Russell MacLellan
August 20: The Supreme Court rules that Quebec cannot secede unilaterally, but that Canada is obliged to recognize a clear yes vote
August 20: Eaton's files for bankruptcy
August 24: Onex announces a plan to buy and merge Air Canada and Canadian Airlines
August 25: Dan Miller, as interim leader of the NDP, becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Glen Clark who resigned on the 21st
September 15: Louise Arbour appointed to the Supreme Court replacing Antonio Lamer
September 19: Saskatchewan election: Roy Romanow's NDP wins only a minority but forms a coalition with the Liberals to maintain control of the Legislative Assembly
September 25: The federal government refuses requests for aid by the six remaining Canadian NHL franchises
October 5: Gary Doer of the NDP becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Gary Filmon of the Conservatives
October 7: Adrienne Clarkson becomes Governor General
October 8: Bill Clinton dedicates the new Embassy of the United States in Ottawa
October 15: Robert Mundell wins the Nobel Prize for economics
October 19: Air Canada, backed by other airlines, announces a takeover bid for Canadian Airlines
November 3: Beverley McLachlin becomes the first female chief justice of the Supreme Court
November 5: A Quebec court decides that Onex's bid for Air Canada is illegal
November 5: Quebec sign law is overturned
November 13: Lennox Lewis defeats Evander Holyfield to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World
November 21: Nimiq 1 Canada's first direct broadcast digital TV satellite launched by a Proton K Blok DM-3 rocket from the Tyuratam launch centre in Kazakhstan.
December 8: Air Canada takes over Canadian Airlines
December 11: The verdict in the Just Desserts shooting case is handed down. Two of the accused are found guilty, the third is acquitted.
December 14: Montreal resident Ahmed Ressam is arrested in Seattle and found with large quantities of explosives