1986 in Canada
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See also: 1985 in Canada, other events of 1986, 1987 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
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Incumbents
- Premier of Alberta - Don Getty
- Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett 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 then Joe Ghiz
- Premier of Quebec - Robert Bourassa
- Premier of Saskatchewan - Grant Devine
See 1986 Canadian incumbents for more
Events
- 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
- March 15 - In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium,Wembley,England, Canada beat England 3-1.
- 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
- May 2 - The 1986 World Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia opens.
- May 8 - Alberta election: Don Getty's PCs win a fifth consecutive majority, but a smaller majority than before
- May 24 - In Calgary, the Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup against the Calgary Flames
- May 25 - An attempt is made to assassinate Malkiat Singh Sidhu a cabinet minister in the Indian province of Punjab in Vancouver
- June 19 - The new Competition Act comes into force
- June 20 - Jean Drapeau resigns as mayor of Montreal
- 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 30 - Canadian 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
- December 8 - The University of Toronto's John C. Polanyi shares the Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of the chemical laser
- 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 in Parsboro, 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:
- See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Books in Canada First Novel Award: Wayne Johnson, The Story of Bobby O'Mally
- Gerald Lampert Award: Joan Fern Shaw, Raspberry Vinegar
- Marian Engel Award: Alice Munro
- Pat Lowther Award: Erin Mouré, Domestic Fuel
- Stephen Leacock Award: Joey Slinger, No Axe too Small to Grind
- Vicky Metcalf Award: Dennis Lee
- New Music:
- Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
- Neil Young - First We Take Manhattan
- New Movies:
- James Cameron's Aliens is released
- David Cronenberg's The Fly
- Denys Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire
Births
- January 8 - Jaclyn Linetsky, actor
- December 12 - Marie-Pier Beaudet, Olympian
Deaths
- February 27 - Jacques Plante, hockey star
- March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, poet and novelist
- August 20 - Milton Acorn, poet
- November 5 - Claude Jutra, filmmaker