2020 in Canada
List of Canadian Events in 2020
Events from the year 2020 in Canada .
Incumbents
The Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant Governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Premiers
Events
January
February
March
April
May
August
September
October
November
December
Events cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic
Deaths
January
January 1
January 2
January 3
January 4
January 5
January 6 – Reva Gerstein , psychologist and educator (b. 1917)
January 7 – Neil Peart , drummer and lyricist for Rush (b. 1952)[30]
January 9 – Leo Kolber , businessman and former Senator (b. 1929)[31]
January 10
January 14 – Eville Gorham , scientist (b. 1925)
January 15 – Rocky Johnson , wrestler (b. 1944)
January 16 – William J. Samarin , linguist (b. 1926)
January 17
January 18
January 18 – John Gibson , ice hockey player (b. 1959)
January 20 – Kit Hood , television editor (b. 1943)
January 21 – Norman Amadio , jazz pianist (b. 1928)
January 23
January 25
January 26 – Louis Nirenberg , mathematician (b. 1925)
January 29 – Alfred John Ellis , banker (b. 1915)
January 30
February
February 1 – Roger Landry , businessman (b. 1934)
February 2 – Bernard Ebbers , businessman and convicted fraudster (b. 1941)
February 3 – John Edward Brockelbank , instrument technician and politician (b. 1931)
February 4
February 5
February 7
February 8 – Bill Robinson , basketball player (b. 1949)
February 11
February 12
February 13 – Ralph Mercier , politician (b. 1937)
February 14 – Masao Takahashi , judoka (b. 1929)
February 17 – Georges Villeneuve , politician (b. 1922)
February 19
February 21
February 22 – Mark Zanna , social psychologist (b. 1944)
February 23 – Norene Gilletz , author and cooking instructor (b. 1940)
February 25 – Bob Steiner , football player (b. 1946)
February 26 – David Smith , senator (b. 1941)
February 26 – Craig Mackay , speed skater (b. 1927)[35]
March
March 1 – William MacEachern , politician (b. 1930)
March 2
March 3 – Réginald Bélair , politician (b. 1949)
March 4
March 6
March 7
March 9 – John Havelock Parker , politician (b. 1929)
March 11 – Ken King , ice hockey player (b. 1952)
March 13 – Dorothy Maclean , educator and writer (b. 1920)
March 14 – Galen Head , ice hockey player (b. 1947)
March 15 – Phil Olsen , athlete (b. 1957)
March 18 – Wray Downes , jazz pianist (b. 1931)
March 19 – Herbert Marx , politician (b. 1932)
March 20 – Claude Bennett , politician (b. 1936)
March 23
March 30
April
April 4
April 5 – Shirley Douglas , actress and activist (b. 1934)
April 6
April 7
April 8
April 9
April 10
April 11
April 12
April 16 – Kenneth Gilbert , musician (b. 1931)
April 18 – Allan Gotlieb , public servant and Ambassador (b. 1928)
April 19
April 20 – Hezakiah Oshutapik , politician (b. 1955 or 1956)
May
June
June 1
June 2
June 3 – Gary Potts , Temagami First Nation chief (b. 1940s)
June 4 – Walt Elliot , politician (b. 1933)
June 5 – Andrée Champagne , actress (b. 1939)
June 6 – Jean-Marc Chaput , author and public speaker (b. 1930)
June 7 – Hubert Gagnon , actor and voice dubber (b. 1946)
June 10
June 11
June 15
June 17
June 19
June 21 – Anthony J. Naldrett , geologist (b. 1933)
June 24 – David MacLennan , biochemist (b. 1937)
June 26
June 27 – Bob Warner , ice hockey player (b. 1950)
June 28 – Bill McFarlane , gridiron football player (b. 1930)
June 29
June 30 – John Metras , gridiron football player (b. 1940)
July
July 3
July 5
July 6 – Deborah Zamble , chemist (b. 1971)
July 7
July 9 – Bob Sabourin , ice hockey player (b. 1933)
July 10
July 11 – Rich Priske , bassist (b. 1967)
July 12 – Ignat Kaneff , construction executive and philanthropist (b. 1926)
July 13 – Daniel David Moses , poet and playwright (b. 1952)
July 16
July 17 – J. I. Packer , evangelical theologian (b. 1926)
July 18
July 19
July 20
July 24 – Claude Beausoleil , writer and poet (b. 1948)
July 25
July 26
July 27 – Bernard Cleary , politician (b. 1937)
July 28 – John Loxley , economist (b. 1942)
July 29 – David Ramsay , politician (b. 1948)
August
August 1 – Douglas Wiseman , politician (b. 1930)
August 3
August 4 – Brent Carver , actor (b. 1951)
August 7
August 8
August 9 – Robert Fischer , politician (b. 1937)
August 11 – Marcel Adams , real estate investor (b. 1920)
August 13
August 14 – Joe Norton , politician (b. 1949)
August 15
August 16 – Cathy Smith (b. 1947)
August 18
August 19
August 21 – Chris Kooy , association football player (b. 1982)
August 22 – Jean-Marie Brochu , Roman Catholic priest and founder of Le Noël du Bonheur (b. 1926)
August 23
August 24
August 25 – Tommy Joe Coffey , gridiron football player (b. 1936)
August 26 – Gaston Roberge , priest and film historian (b. 1935)
August 30
August 31 – Norm Spencer , voice actor (b. 1958)
September
September 1
September 2 – Stephen M. Drance , ophthalmologist (b. 1925)
September 4
September 10 – Terry Buckle , Canadian Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Yukon (b. 1940)
September 12 – Aline Chrétien , spouse of former prime minister (b. 1936)[82]
September 17 – Harvey Hodder , politician (b. 1943)
September 19
September 20 – Marian Packham , biochemist (b. 1927)
September 21 – Bob Nevin , ice hockey player (b. 1938)
September 23
September 25 – George Sayliss , ice hockey player (b. 1931)
September 26 – Suzanne Tremblay , politician (b. 1937)
September 28 – Joyce Echaquan , Atikamekw woman (b. 1983 or 1982)
October
October 1
October 2 – Alan Abraham , politician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (b. 1931)
October 4 – Louis Fortier , biologist and oceanographer (b. 1953)
October 8
October 10 – Stanley Schumacher , politician (b. 1933)
October 12 – Ezra Schabas , musician and educator (b. 1924)
October 13
October 14 – William Keir Carr , military officer and Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force (b. 1923)
October 19 – Louise Renaud , painter and dancer (b. 1922)
October 20 – James Randi , magician and skeptic (b. 1928)
October 23 – R. M. Vaughan , writer (b. 1965)
October 26
October 27 – Don Mazankowski , politician and the 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1935)
October 28 – Robert Wells , politician (b. 1933)
October 28 – Margaret Birch , politician (b. 1921)
October 31 – Michel Auger , journalist (b. 1944)
November
November 2 – Max Ward , aviator (b. 1921)
November 3 – Anne Covell , sprinter (b. 1950)
November 5 – Robert Peterson , politician (b. 1937)
November 6
November 8
November 9 – Lê Dinh , songwriter (b.1934)
November 11
November 11 – Pierre Mercier , politician (b. 1937)
November 13 – Max Gros-Louis , politician and businessman (b. 1931)
November 16
November 18
November 20
November 23 – Christian Mistral , novelist, poet, and songwriter (b. 1964)
November 24 – Fred Sasakamoose , ice hockey player (b. 1933)
November 25 – Marc-André Bédard , politician (b. 1935)
November 27 – Lou Nistico , ice hockey player (b. 1953)
December
December 1 – Sol Tolchinsky , basketball player (b. 1929)
December 2
December 3
December 4
December 5 – Ron Irwin , politician and diplomat (b. 1936)
December 6 – Neil Armstrong , ice hockey referee (b. 1932)
December 7
December 10 – Cal Hockley , ice hockey player (b. 1931)
December 12
December 13
December 12 – Alpha Boucher , actor (b. 1943)
December 15
December 16 – John Martin Crawford , serial killer (b. 1962)
December 17
December 18
December 19 – Leo Panitch , political scientist (b. 1945)
December 23 – Joel Yanofsky , writer (b. 1955)
December 26 – Derek Aucoin , baseball player (b. 1970)
December 27 – Ed Finn , politician and trade unionist, (b. 1926)
December 28 – Wilma Pelly , actress (b. 1937)
December 29 – Elaine McCoy , politician (b. 1946)
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