1987 in Canada

Table of contents

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Arts and Literature
4 Births
5 Deaths

Incumbents

January 1 - Frobisher Bay changes its name to Iqaluit
April 30 - Provincial premiers agree to Meech Lake Accord
May 22 - Rick Hansen returns home to Vancouver after his Man in Motion world tour
July 3 - Quebec City becomes the first city in North America to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site
July 31 - A tornado in Edmonton, Alberta kills twenty-seven
August 30 - Canadian sptinter Ben Johnson sets a new world record in the 100 metre dash
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
November 12 - Dennis Patterson becomes government leader of the Northwest Territories, replacing Nick Sibbeston
The Reform Party of Canada is founded

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 Munch