Events from the year 1982 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Premiers
Events
January to June
- January 11 - CBC's The National moves to 10 p.m. and The Journal debuts at 10:22 p.m.
- January 15 - Striking Quebec transit workers are forced back to work.
- February - First reported cases of AIDS in Canada.
- February 14 - 84 are killed when the Ocean Ranger oil platform capsizes.
- March 4 - Bertha Wilson is appointed Canada's first female Supreme Court justice.
- March 8 - The Canada Act is passed by the British House of Commons.
- April 14 - 1982 Northwest Territories division plebiscite
- April 17 - Elizabeth II signs Canada's newly patriated constitution in Ottawa and the new Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms comes into effect.
- April 26 - Saskatchewan election: Grant Devine's PCs win a landslide majority, defeating Allan Blakeney's NDP.
- May 5 - Peru requests Canadian intervention in the ongoing Falklands War.[1]
- May 8 - Grant Devine becomes Premier of Saskatchewan after defeating Allan Blakeney's NDP.
- May 23 - André Besette beatified by the Pope.
- June 12 - The first drawing of Lotto 6/49 occurs with a jackpot of CA$500,000 (equivalent to $1,200,000 in 2018). Winning numbers are 03, 11, 12, 14, 41, 43, bonus 13.
- June 28 - Access to Information Act passed.[2]
July to December
Full date unknown
Arts and literature
New books
Awards
Film
Dance
Sports
Births
- January 5 – Tiiu Nurmberg, skier
- January 31 - Jay Malinowski musician
- March 10 – Kathleen Stoody, swimmer
- March 18 – Matthew Lombardi, ice hockey player
- March 30 – A-Trak, DJ and turntablist
- April 3 – Cobie Smulders, actress and model
- April 9 – Jay Baruchel, actor and comedian
- April 14 – Lise Leveille, gymnast
- April 16 – Aaron Feltham, water polo player
- May 6 – Kyle Shewfelt, gymnast
- May 10 – Adam Sioui, swimmer
- May 11 – Cory Monteith, actor (d. 2013)
- May 12 – Rhian Wilkinson, soccer player
- May 23 – Linda Consolante, soccer player
- June 9 – Rachel Schill, softball player
- June 16 – Kathy Tremblay, triathlete
- June 23 – Derek Boogaard, hockey player (d. 2011)
- July – Gregory Despres, murder
- July 6 – Kelly Stefanyshyn, swimmer
- July 9 – Viola Yanik, wrestler
- July 17 – Jessi Cruickshank, television host
- July 24 – Luka Magnotta, convicted murderer
- September 1 – Jeffrey Buttle, figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist and World Champion
- September 2 – Kelly Haxton, soccer player
- September 21 – Cindy Eadie, softball player
- October 31 – Justin Chatwin, actor
- November 26 – Alison Braden, water polo player
- November 29 – Elizabeth Collins, swimmer
- December 29 – Brian Hill, Paralympic swimmer
- December 30 – Kristin Kreuk, actress
Full date unknown
Deaths
January to June
July to December
- July 25 - Hal Foster, cartoonist (b.1892)
- October 4 - Glenn Gould, pianist (b.1932)
- October 16 - Hugh John Flemming, politician and 24th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1899)
- October 16 - Hans Selye, endocrinologist (b.1907)
- October 18 - John Robarts, lawyer, politician and 17th Premier of Ontario (b.1917)
- November 2 - J. Dewey Soper, Arctic explorer, zoologist, ornithologist and author (b.1893)
- November 19 - Erving Goffman, sociologist and writer (b.1922)
- November 29 - Percy Williams, athlete and double Olympic gold medallist (b.1908)
- December 7 - Harry Jerome, track and field runner (b.1940)
- December 19 - George Isaac Smith, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1909)
See also
References
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Sovereign states |
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
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Dependencies and other territories |
- Anguilla
- Aruba
- Bermuda
- Bonaire
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Curaçao
- Greenland
- Guadeloupe
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Martin
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saba
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
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