1993 in Canada

Crown

• Monarch – Elizabeth II^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Ray Hnatyshyn
• Prime Minister – Brian Mulroney (until June 25) then Kim Campbell (June 25 to November 4) then Jean Chrétien
• Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
• Parliament – 34th (until September 8)

Provincial governments

Territorial governments

January to June

• January 25 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Joe Ghiz following a leadership election. This is Prince Edward Island's first female premier, and the first time in Canada that two provinces or territories have simultaneously had female premiers (until March 2011).
• January 28 – Six Innu youths from Davis Inlet, aged 11 to 14, are caught on video sniffing gasoline as a suicide attempt.
• February 24 – Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announces his resignation (effective June 25) amidst political and economic turmoil.^[2]
• March 4 – Canadian soldiers shoot and kill a Somali man outside their base in Somalia.
• March 12 – Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn proclaims a constitutional amendment adding section 16.1 to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
• March 16 – Canadian soldiers beat to death Shidane Arone, a Somali teenager, in Somalia.
• March 18 – Master Corporal Clayton Matchee is arrested in connection with Shidane Arone's death.
• March 29 – 1993 Prince Edward Island general election: Catherine Callbeck's Liberals win a majority. She is the first female premier to lead a party to victory in a general election.
• April 2 – The Farm Credit Corporation Act is passed.
• June: The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act and the Nunavut Act are passed, leading to the eventual creation of Nunavut in 1999.
• June 11 – John Savage becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Donald Cameron.
• June 15 – Alberta election: Ralph Klein's PCs win a seventh consecutive majority.
• June 20 – A landslide on the South Nation River destroys the abandoned townsite of Lemieux, Ontario.
• June 25 – Kim Campbell becomes prime minister, replacing Brian Mulroney. She is the first woman to be the country's head of government.

July to December

• September 16 – Canadian forces engage in an intensive firefight with Croatian forces during Operation Medak Pocket.
• September 27 – The Social Credit Party of Canada is officially deregistered by Elections Canada.
• October 4 – The Krever Inquiry into Canada's blood system begins.
• October 14 – The Tories release an election ad that many see as mocking Jean Chrétien's facial paralysis.
• October 23 - The Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, winning their second World Series Title.
• October 25 – Federal election: Jean Chrétien's Liberals win a majority, defeating Kim Campbell's PCs, which are reduced to two seats. Campbell loses her own seat. The Bloc Québécois form the official opposition.
• November 4 – Jean Chrétien is sworn in as prime minister, replacing Kim Campbell.^[3]

Full date unknown

• Canadian Major-General Roméo Dallaire appointed commander of the U.N. forces in Rwanda.

New works

• Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
• Réjean Ducharme, Dévadé
• Dave Duncan, The Stricken Field
• William Gibson, Virtual Light
• Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue
• Thomas King, One Good Story, That One
• Antonine Maillet, Le nuit des roi
• Yann Martel, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
• Farley Mowat, My Father's Son
• Robert J. Sawyer, Fossil Hunter
• Jeffrey Simpson, Faultines, Struggling for a Canadian Vision

Awards

• American-born E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, set in Newfoundland, wins the American National Book Award
• See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Books in Canada First Novel Award: John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright: A Novel
• Geoffrey Bilson Award: Celia Barker Lottridge, Ticket to Curlew
• Gerald Lampert Award: Elisabeth Harvor, Fortress of Chairs and Roberta Rees, Eyes Like Pigeons
• Marian Engel Award: Sandra Birdsell
• Pat Lowther Award: Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
• Stephen Leacock Award: John Levesque, Waiting for Aquarius
• Trillium Book Award: Jane Urquhart, Away and Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
• Vicky Metcalf Award: Phoebe Gilman

Television

• This Hour Has 22 Minutes premieres on CBC

Film

• Harmony Cats earns 11 Genie Award nominations
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is released

Music

• Bryan Adams, So Far So Good
• Jann Arden, Time for Mercy
• The Band, Jericho
• Big Sugar, Five Hundred Pounds
• Blinker the Star, Blinker the Star
• Blue Rodeo, Five Days in July
• Cowboy Junkies, Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
• Crash Test Dummies, God Shuffled His Feet
• Crash Vegas, Stone
• cub, Betti-Cola
• Céline Dion, The Colour of My Love
• Doughboys, Crush
• Eric's Trip, Love Tara
• Lawrence Gowan, ...but you can call me Larry
• Great Big Sea, Great Big Sea
• Grievous Angels, Watershed
• Hart-Rouge, Blue Blue Windows
• The Headstones, Picture of Health
• I Mother Earth, Dig
• The Inbreds, Hilario
• Intermix, Phaze Two
• Junkhouse, Here Lies Happiness and Strays
• King Cobb Steelie, King Cobb Steelie
• The Look People, Crazy Eggs
• Lost Dakotas, Sun Machine
• Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
• Me Mom and Morgentaler, Shiva Space Machine
• Moxy Früvous, Bargainville
• Odds, Bedbugs
• The Pursuit of Happiness, The Downward Road
• The Rankin Family, North Country
• Rose Chronicles, Dead and Gone to Heaven
• Rush, Counterparts
• Jane Siberry, When I Was a Boy
• Skydiggers, Just Over This Mountain
• Spirit of the West, Faithlift
• The Tea Party, Splendor Solis
• 13 Engines, Perpetual Motion Machine
• Shania Twain, Shania Twain
• Voivod, The Outer Limits