Incumbents Prime Minister - Jean Chretien Governor General - Ray Hnatyshyn then Romeo LeBlanc Premier of Alberta - Ralph Klein Premier of British Columbia - Mike Harcourt Premier of Manitoba - Gary Filmon Premier of New Brunswick - Frank McKenna Premier of Newfoundland - Clyde Wells Premier of Nova Scotia - John Savage Premier of Ontario - Bob Rae Premier of Prince Edward Island - Catherine Calbeck Premier of Quebec - Robert Bourassa then Daniel Johnson, Jr then Jacques Parizeau Premier of Saskatchewan - Roy Romanow Events Winter - One of the coldest winters on record hits much of Canada January 11 - Daniel Johnson, Jr, becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Robert Bourassa February - the first Liberal budgetslashes spending in an effort to cut the deficiet. Unemployment Insurance and provincial transfer paymens are especially hard hit February 27 - The 1994 Winter Olympics beign in Lillehammer Norway. March 21 - A civilian inquiry in the behaviour of the Canadian Airborne in Somalia is launched June and Ontario farmer is allowed to grow 10 acres of marijuana for research purposes June 14 - The New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup September 26 - Jacques Parizeau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Daniel Johnson, Jr. October - A lock-out closes the NHL for the entire first half of the season. October 5 and October 6 - Members of the Solar Temple cult committ mass suicide December - Lucien Bouchard is infected with necrotizing fasciitis and loses a leg Conrad Black's company buys the Chicago Sun-Times Bertram Brockhouse shares the Nobel Prize in Physics Hockey is made Canada's official winter sport, Lacrosse is demoted to being official summer sport Cigarette taxes are slashed to battle smuggling and black market organizations Canadian troops leave CFB Lahr ending the Canadian armed forces presence in Europe Arts and Literautre New Works Margaret Atwood - Good Bones and Simple Murders Robert J. Sawyer - Foreigner William Bell - Five Days of the Ghost Michael Ignatieff - Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism Réjean Ducharme - Va savoir Mordecai Richler - This Year In Jerusalem Dave Duncan - The Living God Hank Snow - Just a Hank Snow Story Alice Munro - Open Secrets Douglas Coupland - Life After God Farley Mowat - Born Naked Awards See 1994 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Giller Prize: M.G. Vassanji - The Book of Secrets Books in Canada First Novel Award: Deborah Joy Corey, Losing Eddie: A Novel Geoffrey Bilson Award: Kit Pearson, The Lights Go On Again Gerald Lampert Award: Barbara Klar, The Night You Called Me a Shadow and Illya Tourtidis, Mad Magellan's Tale Marian Engel Award: Jane Urquhart Pat Lowther Award: Diana Brebner, The Golden Lotus Stephen Leacock Award: Bill Richardson, Bachelor Brother's Bed and Breakfast Trillium Book Award English: Donald Haram Akenson, Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien; Volume 1 Narrative, Trillium Book Award French: Andrée Lacelle, Tant de vie s'égare Vicky Metcalf Award: Welwyn Wilton Katz Television Kids in the Hall ends Films Atom Egoyan's Exotica is released Births Deaths March 4 - John Candy, comedian and actor
Deaths March 4 - John Candy, comedian and actor
