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Incumbents

Main article: 1987 Canadian incumbents

Crown

Monarch – Elizabeth II^[1]

Federal government

Governor General – Jeanne Sauvé^[2]
Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney
Chief Justice – Brian Dickson (Manitoba)
Parliament – 33rd

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Helen Hunley
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Robert Gordon Rogers
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – George Johnson
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – George Stanley (until August 20) then Gilbert Finn
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – James McGrath
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alan Abraham
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Lincoln Alexander
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Lloyd MacPhail
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Gilles Lamontagne
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Frederick Johnson

Premiers

Premier of Alberta – Don Getty
Premier of British Columbia – Bill Vander Zalm
Premier of Manitoba – Howard Pawley
Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield (until October 27) then Frank McKenna
Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Peckford
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

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Premiers

Premier of the Northwest Territories – Nick Sibbeston (until November 12) then Dennis Patterson
Premier of Yukon – Tony Penikett

Events

January 1 – Frobisher Bay changes its name to Iqaluit.
April 21 – The lifeless body of Claude Jutra was finally found in the Saint Lawrence River near Cap-Santé.^[3]
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June 30 – Canada introduces a $1 coin, commonly called loonie; the dollar bill is withdrawn in 1989.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 148–127 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.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]
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.^[8]

Undated

ElderTreks, Canadian adventure travel company is founded.

Arts and literature

New works

William Bell: Metal Head
Dave Duncan: A Rose-Red City
Michael Ignatieff: The Russian Album
Irving Layton: Fortunate Exile
Donald Jack: This One's on Me
Steve McCaffery: Evoba
Antonine Maillet: Margot la folle
Farley Mowat: Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey
Paul Quarrington, King Leary
Mordecai Richler: Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur

Awards

See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Books in Canada First Novel Award: Karen Lawrence, The Life of Helen Alone
Gerald Lampert Award: Rosemary Sullivan, The Space a Name Makes
Marian Engel Award: Audrey Thomas
Pat Lowther Award: Heather Spears, How to Read Faces
Stephen Leacock Award: W.P. Kinsella, The Fencepost Chronicles
Trillium Book Award: Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
Vicky Metcalf Award: Robert Munsch

Music

November 27 – Rock band Cowboy Junkies record their most famous album, The Trinity Session, at Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity.

Sport

January 26 – Calgary's Bret Hart wins his first title when he became the third Canadian to win the World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championship (with Jim Neidhart as The Hart Foundation) by defeating the British Bulldogs in Tampa, Florida, for the WWF's Superstars of Wrestling
May 15 – Medicine Hat Tigers win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Oshawa Generals 6 to 2. The final game was played at Oshawa Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, Ontario
May 31 – Edmonton Oilers win their third Stanley Cup by defeating the Philadelphia Flyers 4 games to 3. The deciding Game 7 was played at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton. Brandon, Manitoba's Ron Hextall was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy in a losing effort.
June 24 – The "new" Montreal Allouettes cease operations
August 30 – Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson sets a new world record in the 100-metre dash.
November 21 – McGill Redmen win their first Vanier Cup by defeating the UBC Thunderbirds by a score of 47–11 in the 23rd Vanier Cup
November 29 – Edmonton Eskimos win their tenth Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Argonauts 38 to 36 in the 75th Grey Cup played at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver

Births

January 1
- Gilbert Brulé, ice hockey player
- Devin Setoguchi, ice hockey player
January 15
- Kelleigh Ryan, fencer^[9]
- 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^[10]
February 12 – Anna Hopkins, actress
February 21 – Elliot Page, actor^[11]
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^[12]
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 – Jessica Dubé, 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

January 5 – Margaret Laurence, novelist and short story writer (b.1926)
January 5 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, ski pioneer and supercentenarian (b.1875)
January 27 – Norman McLaren, animator and film director (b.1914)
February 19 – Russell Doern, politician (b.1935)
March 21 – Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (b.1906)

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 – René Lévesque, 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)

References

^ "Queen Elizabeth II | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
^ (in French) Bilan du Siècle
^ "Abolition upheld". CBC Archives. 10 April 2013. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
^ "The death penalty in Canada: facts, figures and milestones". Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty. Archived from the original on 2011-10-19. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
^ "Majority of Canadians support return of death penalty, poll finds". thestar.com. 8 February 2012.
^ "Canada Considers Restoring Death Penalty". tribunedigital-sunsentinel.
^ "Chartwell Technology Inc". www.sec.gov. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
^ "Kelleigh Ryan". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. 25 October 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
^ "Jerome award winner accomplished on many levels | Share News". Archived from the original on 2012-09-26. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
^ "Elliot Page | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
^ "Marissa Ponich". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2020.

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Events

Arts and literature

New works

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Births

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