1989 in Canada
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See also: 1988 in Canada, other events of 1989, 1990 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
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Incumbents
- Premier of Alberta - Don Getty
- Premier of British Columbia - Bill Vander Zalm
- Premier of Manitoba - Gary Filmon
- Premier of New Brunswick - Frank McKenna
- Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford then Thomas Rideout then Clyde Wells
- Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
- Premier of Ontario - David Peterson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island - Joe Ghiz
- Premier of Quebec - Robert Bourassa
- Premier of Saskatchewan - Grant Devine
See also: 1989 Canadian incumbents for more
Events
- January 1 - The Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect
- March 1 - The Canadian Space Agency is created
- March 10 - An Air Ontario flight crashes near Dryden, Ontario killing 24
- March 20 - Alberta election: Don Getty's PCs win a sixth consecutive majority
- March 22 - Thomas Rideout becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Brian Peckford
- May 5 - Clyde Wells becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Thomas Rideout
- May 25 - In Montreal, the Calgary Flames win the Stanley Cup against the Montreal Canadiens
- June 5 - First baseball game in SkyDome is played
- June 5 - The federal government announces sweeping cuts to VIA Rail
- July 31 - Cable television network CBC Newsworld is launched.
- December 2 - Audrey McLaughlin is elected head of the NDP replacing Ed Broadbent becoming the first female major party leader in Canadian history
- December 6 - École Polytechnique Massacre - A gunman murders fourteen women at the École Polytechnique of the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec. The event proves a spur to both the Canadian feminist and gun control movements.
- December 21 - Quebec uses the notwithstanding clause for the first time
- Deborah Grey wins a by-election to become the first Reform Party Member of Parliament.
- Corel releases CorelDraw
- Heather Erxleben becomes Canada's first official female combat soldier
- Sidney Altman shares in the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Arts and Literature
- New Works
- Mordecai Richler - Solomon Gursky Was Here
- Steve McCaffery - The Black Debt
- Erin Mouré - WSW
- Joy Fielding - Good Intentions
- Dave Duncan - West of January
- Tomson Highway - Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
- William Bell - Death Wind
- Farley Mowat - The New Found Land
- Awards
- Books in Canada First Novel Award: Rick Salutin, A Man of Little Faith
- See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Geoffrey Bilson Award: Martyn Godfrey, Mystery in the Frozen Lands, and Dorothy Perkyns, Rachel’s Revolution
- Gerald Lampert Award: Sarah Klassen, Journey to Yalta
- Marian Engel Award: Merna Summers
- Pat Lowther Award: Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
- Stephen Leacock Award: John Kertes, Winter Tulips
- Trillium Book Award: Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring
- Vicky Metcalf Award: Stéphane Poulin
- Television
- Kids in the Hall premiers on CBC
Births
- September 1 - Katie Lai, actor
- Cassie Steele, actor
Deaths
- May 14 - E.P. Taylor, businessman
- November 11 - Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr., former minister and former Secretary of the Alberta Liberal Party