2007 in Canada

Events from the year 2007 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Premier of Alberta – Ed Stelmach
Premier of British Columbia – Gordon Campbell
Premier of Manitoba – Gary Doer
Premier of New Brunswick – Shawn Graham
Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – Danny Williams
Premier of Nova Scotia – Rodney MacDonald
Premier of Ontario – Dalton McGuinty
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Pat Binns then Robert Ghiz
Premier of Quebec – Jean Charest
Premier of Saskatchewan – Lorne Calvert then Brad Wall

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Premiers

Premier of the Northwest Territories – Joe Handley then Floyd Roland
Premier of Nunavut – Paul Okalik
Premier of Yukon – Dennis Fentie

Events

January to March

January 5 – The domed roof of BC Place Stadium in Vancouver collapses.
January 11 – A major blizzard rips through Central Saskatchewan.
January – The Quebec town of Hérouxville received international attention when its town council passed controversial measures concerning practices which the residents deemed unsuitable for life in Hérouxville for potential new immigrants, despite the fact that the town has no immigrant population. The mayor and the municipal council approved a code of behavior for immigrants, which occurred in the context of a debate on "reasonable accommodation" for other cultures in Quebec.
February 3 – At a Calgary Flames game, young Cree singer Akina Shirt becomes the first person to perform "O Canada" in an Aboriginal language at a major league sporting event.
February 8 – 2007 [Ontario provincial by-elections|Ontario provincial by-election] in Burlington; Markham; and York South–Weston electoral districts.
February 19 – During a live interview on CKRS in Saguenay, Quebec, talk radio host Louis Champagne attacks Parti Québécois candidate Sylvain Gaudreault and leader André Boisclair, both openly gay, in an interview with PQ candidate Alexandre Cloutier, asking "In Jonquière, listen, aren't you going to face the question, 'Is the Parti Québécois a club of fags?'"
February 20 – The Canadian government, along with American billionaire Bill Gates, announce the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative, a $139 million dollar plan to fight the AIDS virus.
March 13 – Canada 2006 Census data is released; the population of Canada in 2006 was 31,612,897. Notably, the census also indicates that for the first time in Canadian history, the three territories have a combined population of over 100,000.
March 26 – Quebec general election.

April to June

April 3 – Royal assent is granted to the Veterans' Bill of Rights.
April 27 – Three new Laval metro stations are inaugurated.
April 30 – Prince Andrew, fourth in line to the Canadian throne, arrives in Canada to undertake duties in Halifax, Toronto and Cambridge
May 3 – Fixed election dates introduced at the federal level.
May 18 – Governor General Michaëlle Jean appoints Pierre Duchesne as Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
May 22 – The 2007 [Manitoba general election|general election] in Manitoba is won by the governing New Democrats.
May 23 – Jordan Manners is the first Torontonian killed in a school shooting.
May 28 – 2007 [Prince Edward Island general election|Prince Edward Island election]. Robert Ghiz's Liberals win a majority, defeating Premier Pat Binns' Progressive Conservatives
June 2 – Prince Harry, third in line to the Canadian throne, arrives at CFB Suffield to train for a possible deployment to Afghanistan
June 2 – Princess Anne arrives in Saskatchewan to undertake various official duties
June 7 – Pierre Duchesne becomes Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, replacing Lise Thibault
June 12 – Robert Ghiz becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Pat Binns
June 18 – Passenger Protect goes into effect
June 22 – CTVglobemedia's takeover of CHUM Limited is completed.
June 29 – A national Aboriginal Day of Protest, including blockades of several major transportation routes in Ontario and Quebec, is held to protest the state of First Nations relations with the federal government.

July to September

July 13 – Conrad Black is found guilty on three charges of fraud and one charge of obstruction of justice in Chicago.
July 19 – Jesse Imeson begins a murderous rampage in Ontario, prompting an international manhunt.
August – ditch, an on-line literary periodical is launched.
August 8 – A suspect, Gaétan Bissonnette, was arrested in relation to the business Denise Morelle, an actress who was murdered in Montreal in 1984. He later pleaded guilty to murder.
August 11 – World War 2 veteran James Silcox becomes the first victim of serial killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer in Woodstock, Ontario. Wettlaufer murdered her patients by injecting them with fatal doses of insulin.
August 20 – First incident of severed feet finding on British Columbia coast.
August 23 – Quebec Provincial Police admit to inserting "agents provocateurs" into the group protesting against the Montebello meeting.
August 28 – Steven Truscott is acquitted by the Court of Appeal for Ontario in a hearing to review his 1959 conviction for the murder of Lynne Harper.
September 5 – The Governor General appoints David Onley as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, replacing James Bartleman
September 11 – Stephen Harper becomes the first Canadian Prime Minister since Confederation to address the Parliament of Australia.
September 17 – Three by-elections in Quebec in Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean, Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot, and Outremont.

October to December

October 1 – General election in Northwest Territories.
October 1 – The Governor General appoints Steven Point as Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, replacing Iona Campagnolo
October 9 – The 2007 [Newfoundland and Labrador general election|general election] in Newfoundland and Labrador is won by the governing Progressive Conservatives.
October 9 – A series of small earthquakes start in the British Columbia Interior that expressed interest in the adjacent 7,200-year-old Nazko Cone.
October 10 – The general election in Ontario is won by the governing Liberals.
October 13 – Roger Duguay is chosen as the new leader of the New Brunswick New Democratic Party at the party's leadership convention.
October 14 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police taser a man, who died shortly thereafter, at the Vancouver Airport. The incident is videotaped and eventually released to the public.
October 17 – Floyd Roland is selected as the new Premier of the Northwest Territories.
October 19 – In Surrey, British Columbia, six people are murdered in a highrise apartment. Chris Mohan, and Ed Schellenburg, were innocent victims in the murder. The other four were drug dealers. This is known as the Surrey Six slayings.
October 25 – The Government of Canada announces the creation of the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area, the largest freshwater marine protected area in the world.
October 31 – The Conservative Party of Canada drops Mark Warner as its candidate in the pending Toronto Centre byelection, citing unspecified differences.
October 31 – Rogers Communications officially takes ownership of Citytv.
November 1 – A provincewide Amber alert is issued in Ontario after a newborn baby is abducted from the Sudbury Regional Hospital in Greater Sudbury. A Kirkland Lake resident, Brenda Batisse, is arrested later the same evening; the baby is recovered safely.
November 7 – The 2007 [Saskatchewan general election|general election] in Saskatchewan is won by the opposition Saskatchewan Party.
November 21 – Brad Wall is sworn in as Premier of Saskatchewan, succeeding Lorne Calvert.
November 30 – A fire destroys much of the beachfront shopping area in the resort town of Wasaga Beach, Ontario.

Arts and literature

Music

March 30 – Final concert by influential Canadian rock band Rheostatics.

New books

Todd Babiak, The Book of Stanley
David Chariandy, Soucouyant
Barbara Fradkin, Dream Chasers
Barbara Gowdy, Helpless
Don Hannah, Ragged Islands
Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon's Arms
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine
Bob Mersereau, The Top 100 Canadian Albums
Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
M. G. Vassanji, The Assassin's Song
Michael Winter, The Architects Are Here
Alissa York, ''Effigy''

Literary awards

Heather O'Neill's 2006 novel Lullabies for Little Criminals wins the 2007 edition of Canada Reads
Barbara Fradkin's 2006 novel Honour Among Men wins the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel
Elizabeth Hay's 2007 novel Late Nights on Air wins the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize
2007 Governor General's Awards: ''TBA''

Sport

Image:Roughriders win3.jpg|thumb|The Saskatchewan Roughriders celebrate their Grey Cup victory

January 9–15 – 2007 Canadian Figure Skating Championships
*Men's medalists – Jeffrey Buttle, Gold; Christopher Mabee, Silver; Emanuel Sandhu, Bronze.
*Women's medalists – Joannie Rochette, Gold; Mira Leung, Silver; Lesley Hawker, Bronze.
*Pairs' medalists – Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison, Gold; Valérie Marcoux / Craig Buntin, Silver; Anabelle Langlois / Cody Hay, Bronze.
*Dance medalists – Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon, Gold; Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir, Silver; Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje, Bronze.
January 14 – Toronto's Christian Cage wins his second NWA World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Abyss at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando at Total Nonstop Action's Genesis 2006
March 23 – Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon wins the silver medal in Ice Dancing at the World Figure Skating Championships in Tokyo.
May 13 – Cage is awarded the first TNA Heavyweight Championship when Total Nonstop Action severs ties with National Wrestling Alliance
May 27 – The Vancouver Giants wins their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Medicine Hat Tigers 3 to 1. The tournament was played at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver
June 6 – The Anaheim Ducks win their first Stanley Cup by defeating the Ottawa Senators 4 games to 1. Edmonton's Scott Niedermayer was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
November 23 – The Manitoba Bisons win their third Vanier Cup by defeating the Saint Mary's Huskies by a score of 28 to 14 in the 43rd Vanier Cup played at the Rogers Centre in Toronto
November 25 – The Saskatchewan Roughriders win their third Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 23 to 19 in the 95th Grey Cup played at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. Chatham, Ontario's Andy Fantuz is named the game's Most Valuable Canadian

Births

January 21 – Kennedi Clements, child actress
July 29 – Lil Tay, rapper

Deaths

January to March

January 3 – Earl Reibel, ice hockey player
January 6 – Charmion King, actress
January 8 – Yvonne De Carlo, actress, dancer and singer
January 15
*James Hillier, scientist and inventor, jointly designed and built first electron microscope
*Percy Saltzman, meteorologist and television personality, first English-speaking weatherman in Canadian television history
January 18 – Julie Winnefred Bertrand, supercentenarian, oldest living Canadian and oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death
January 19 – Denny Doherty, singer and songwriter
January 20
*Cyril Lloyd Francis, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
* Richard Vollenweider, limnologist
January 26 – Gump Worsley, ice hockey player
February 14 – Ryan Larkin, animator, artist and sculptor
February 17 – Dermot O'Reilly, musician, producer and songwriter
February 19 – Celia Franca, ballet dancer and founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada
February 27 – Myron Wolf Child, youth activist, public speaker and politician
March 2 – Doris Anderson, author, journalist and women's rights activist
March 10 – Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé, pianist, soprano and teacher
March 23 – Agnes Benidickson, first female chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario

April to June

April 10 – Charles Philippe Leblond, pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research
April 14 – June Callwood, journalist, author and social activist
April 23 – Jim Walding, politician
April 28
*Lloyd Crouse, businessman, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
* Bertha Wilson, jurist and first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
May 7 – Myfanwy Pavelic, artist
June 15 – Richard Bell, musician
June 21 – Peter Liba, journalist and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
June 24 – Chris Benoit, wrestler
June 27 – William Hutt, actor

July to September

July 9 - Sean Collins, son of politician Chris Collins
July 11 – Ed Mirvish, businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario
July 15 – Bluma Appel, philanthropist and patron of the arts
July 31 – Margaret Avison, poet
August 17 – Elmer MacFadyen, politician
August 22 – Gilles Beaudoin, politician and mayor of Trois-Rivières
August 23 – William John McKeag, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
August 24 – Andrée Boucher, politician and 39th Mayor of Quebec City
September 8 – George Crum, conductor, pianist, vocal coach and musical arranger
September 23 – Ken Danby, artist

October to December

October 24 – David Adams, ballet dancer
October 30 – Robert Goulet, singer and actor
November 21 – Tom Johnson, sports executive and hockey player
November 24 – Antonio Lamer, lawyer, jurist and 16th Chief Justice of Canada
November 25 – Neil Hope, actor
November 27 – Jane Rule, novelist and non-fiction writer
November 29 – James Barber, cookbook author and television chef
December 4 – Norval Morrisseau, artist
December 10 – Aqsa Parvez, murder victim
December 23 – Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist and composer