in Canada

See also: 1993 in Canada, other events of 1994, 1995 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Incumbents

• Prime Minister - Jean Chrétien
• Governor General - Ray Hnatyshyn

• 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 Callbeck
• 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 1 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
• January 11 - Daniel Johnson, Jr., becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Robert Bourassa
• February - the first Liberal budgetslashes spending in an effort to cut the deficit. Unemployment Insurance and provincial transfer payments 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
• April 5 - The Just Desserts shooting occurs in Toronto
• June and Ontario farmer is allowed to grow 10 acres (40,000 m²) of marijuana for research purposes
• June 14 - The New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup
• September 12 - Quebec election, the Parti québécois defeats the Parti libéral du Québec, which had been in power for nine years.
• September 26 - Jacques Parizeau (PQ) is sworn in as premier of Quebec, replacing Daniel Johnson, Jr.
• October - A lockout 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

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