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INCUMBENTS

Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II

Governor General - Jeanne Sauvé

Prime Minister - Brian Mulroney

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

'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 - Marc Lépine 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''

, ''A Man of Little Faith''

See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Mystery in the Frozen Lands'', and Dorothy Perkyns , ''Rachel’s Revolution''

, ''Journey to Yalta''

, ''The Word for Sand''

, ''Winter Tulips''

, ''Rites of Spring''

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