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List of Canadian Events in 2021
Events from the year 2021 in Canada .
Incumbents
The Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant Governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Premiers
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
June 6
June 7 – The Montreal Canadiens advance to the semifinals of the
Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since 2014 after
Tyler Toffoli scored the overtime winner to sweep the
Winnipeg Jets .
June 21 – The
Government of Canada announces the first phase to easing the COVID-19 border measures for travellers,
[22] thus lifting quarantine requirements for fully immunised travellers starting on July 5,
[23] at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
[22] The quarantine exemption is only available to fully vaccinated people, who had gotten a combination of either of the following vaccines:
Pfizer ,
Moderna ,
AstraZeneca or
Janssen , at least two weeks prior to entering the Canadian border.
[22]
[24]
[25]
June 24
June 29 –
Lytton, British Columbia breaks the all-time record high temperature in Canada, recording a high of 49.6 °C (121.3 °F), after previously breaking the national record the prior two days as well.
[28]
June 30
July
August
September
October
November
December
Events cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic
Deaths
January
January 1
January 2 –
Rob Flockhart , ice hockey player (b. 1956)
January 4
January 6
January 8
January 9
January 10 –
Louis-Pierre Bougie , painter and printmaker (b. 1946)
January 11 –
Kathleen Heddle , Olympic rower (b. 1965)
January 12
January 13
January 16 –
Steve Molnar , gridiron football player (b. 1947)
January 17 –
Camille Cléroux , serial killer (b. 1954)
January 20 –
Wayne Roberts , food analyst (b. 1944)
January 24
January 26 –
Constance Isherwood , lawyer (b. 1920)
January 28 –
Rod Boll , Olympic sports shooter (b. 1952)
January 29 –
Christian Daigle , ice hockey agent (b. 1978)
January 31 –
Pierre-Paul Savoie , choreographer and dancer (b. 1955)
February
February 1
February 2 –
Charan Gill , social activist (b. 1936)
February 3
February 4
February 5
February 6 –
James Eayrs , historian (b. 1926)
February 7
February 8 –
Roland Berthiaume , caricaturist (b. 1927)
February 12 –
Marcia Diamond , actress (b. 1925)
February 13 –
Frank Orr , sports journalist (b. 1936)
February 15
February 16
February 18 –
Jack Vivian , ice hockey coach (b. 1941)
February 19 –
Jocelyn Hardy , ice hockey player (b. 1945)
February 20 –
Charlotte Fielden , writer and actress (b. 1932)
February 21 –
Geoffrey Ursell , writer (b. 1943)
February 22 –
Jack Whyte , writer (b. 1940)
February 23
February 25 –
Maurice Tanguay , businessman (b. 1933)
February 26
February 28 –
Ty Lund , politician (b. 1938)
March
March 1
March 2 –
Jim Hodder , politician (b. 1940)
March 4
March 7 –
Paul Devlin , curler (b. 1946)
March 8 –
Rhéal Cormier , baseball player (b. 1967)
March 11 –
Archie Lang , politician (b. 1948)
March 13 –
Bob McPhee , arts administrator (b. 1956)
March 14 –
Ray Cullen , ice hockey player (b. 1941)
March 15 –
Ian Waddell , politician (b. 1942)
March 19
March 21 –
Bob McKnight , ice hockey player (b. 1938)
March 22 –
Swede Knox , ice hockey referee (b. 1948)
March 23 –
John Ridpath , intellectual historian (b. 1936)
March 24 –
Bob Plager , ice hockey player (b. 1943)
March 26 –
Carole Lavallée , politician (b. 1954)
March 27
March 28
March 30 –
Guy Lelièvre , politician (b. 1952)
April
April 4
April 5 –
Tom Gibney , television journalist (b. 1936 or 1937)
April 6
April 9
April 11
April 12
April 14
April 15 –
Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk , nurse (b. 1932)
April 16
April 18 –
Douglas Bell , politician (b. 1926)
April 19 –
Bob Lanois , sound engineer, music producer, and harmonica player (b. 1947 or 1948)
April 21
April 22 –
Sharon Pollock , playwright, director, and actress (b. 1936)
April 24
April 27 –
Jean-Guy Pilon , poet (b. 1930)
April 28
April 30 –
Hugh Coflin , ice hockey player (b. 1928)
May
May 1 –
Nancy McCredie , Olympic athlete (b. 1945)
May 3
May 4 –
Jim Johnson , ice hockey player (b. 1942)
May 8
May 10 –
Serge Bouchard , anthropologist (b. 1947)
May 11 –
Bernard Lachance , singer-songwriter (b. 1974)
May 14
May 15 –
George Little , teacher and politician (b. 1937)
May 18
May 22 –
Cornelia Oberlander , landscape architect (b. 1921)
May 24 –
Hazen Myers , politician (b. 1934)
May 26
Murray Dowey , ice hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1926)
Paul Soles , actor and television personality (b. 1930)
May 30 –
George Tintor , rower (b. 1957)
June
July
July 2 –
Naïm Kattan , writer (b. 1928)
July 4 –
Raymond Brousseau , film director, screenwriter, art collector, and artist (b. 1938)
July 6 –
Harold Kalant , pharmacologist and physician (b. 1923)
July 7
July 8
Paul Birckel , businessman and Chief of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations (b. 1938)
Bryan Watson , ice hockey player (b. 1942)
July 15 –
Judith Keating , senator, provincial civil servant, and lawyer (b. 1957)
July 17 –
Dolores Claman , composer and pianist (b. 1927)
July 19 –
Bruce Kirby , sailboat designer, journalist, and dinghy and offshore racer (b. 1929)
July 20
July 21 –
Jack Cable , politician (b. 1934)
July 22 –
Michèle Lalonde , playwright and poet (b. 1937)
July 23 –
Peter Trueman , journalist and news presenter (b. 1934)
July 24
Kenzie MacNeil , songwriter, performer, producer and television, film, radio and stage director (b. 1952)
Alfie Scopp , English-born actor (b. 1919)
[53]
July 25 –
Doug Falconer , film producer, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and football player (b. 1952)
July 27 –
Jerry Pickard , politician (b. 1940)
July 31 –
Angela Bailey , track and field athlete (b. 1962)
August
August 1 –
David A. Gall , Thoroughbred horse racing jockey (b. 1941)
August 3 –
Jocelyne Bourassa , golfer (b. 1947)
August 8
August 9 –
Gord Cruickshank , ice hockey player (b. 1965)
August 10 –
Tony Esposito , ice hockey player and executive (b. 1943)
August 14
August 17
August 19 –
Rod Gilbert , ice hockey player (b. 1941)
August 21 –
Nick Volpe , football player (b. 1926)
August 23 –
Terry Driver , murderer (b. 1965)
August 26 –
Jérôme Proulx , politician (b. 1930)
August 28 –
Jacques Drouin , film director, animator, and editor (b. 1943)
September
September 3 –
Henriette Valium , comic book artist and painter (b. 1959)
September 4 –
Mort Ransen , film and television director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
September 6 –
Severian Yakymyshyn ,
Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch (b. 1930)
September 9 –
Jean-Paul Jeannotte , operatic tenor, teacher, and opera administrator (b. 1926)
September 10 –
Jack Egers , ice hockey player (b. 1949)
September 11 –
Catherine Sheldrick Ross , professor and dean of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the
University of Western Ontario (b. 1945)
September 13 –
Fred Stanfield , ice hockey player (b. 1944)
September 14 –
Norm Macdonald , stand-up comedian, writer, and actor (b. 1959)
September 15 –
Lou Angotti , ice hockey player and coach (b. 1938)
September 19 –
Allan Slaight , rock and roll radio pioneer, media mogul, and philanthropist (b. 1931)
September 20 –
Marcia H. Rioux , legal scholar (b. 1947)
September 21 –
Rae German , football player (b. 1940)
September 26 –
Ann Breault , teacher, nurse, journalist, and politician (b. 1938)
September 28 –
Ed Mason , newscaster (b. 1946 or 1945)
September 30 –
Philip Owen , politician and
36th Mayor of Vancouver (b. 1933)
October
October 3 –
Neil Hawryliw , ice hockey player (b. 1955)
October 4
October 5
October 7
October 8 –
Jim McInally , ice hockey player (b. 1948)
October 12 –
Brian Boudreau , politician (b. 1954)
October 14
October 16
October 19
October 20 –
Robert H. MacQuarrie , politician and teacher (b. 1935)
October 21 –
Martha Henry , American-born actress (b. 1938)
October 22 –
Adolfo J. de Bold , cardiovascular researcher (b. 1942)
October 25 –
Paul D. House , businessman (b. 1943)
October 26 –
Isabel Turner , British-born politician and Mayor of
Kingston, Ontario (b. 1936)
[56]
October 28
October 30 –
Tony Featherstone , ice hockey player (b. 1949)
October 31 –
Michel Robidoux , musician (b. 1943)
November
November 4 –
June Lindsey , English-born biochemist (b. 1922)
[57]
November 5 –
Charlie Burns , American-born ice hockey player (b. 1936)
November 6 –
Peter Aykroyd , actor, comedian, and writer (b. 1955)
November 11
November 13 –
David Fox , actor (b. 1941)
November 14 –
Pierre Reid , politician, educator, and member of the
National Assembly of Quebec (b. 1948)
November 17 –
Tom Colley , ice hockey player (b. 1953)
November 18 –
Richard Goldbloom , pediatrician, university professor, and the fifth chancellor of
Dalhousie University (b. 1924)
November 19 –
Norman Webster , journalist and an editor-in-chief of
The Globe and Mail and
The Gazette (b. 1941)
November 20
November 23 –
Rosalie Trombley , music director of the radio station
CKLW (b. 1939 or 1938)
November 29 –
Bob Kilger , politician (b. 1944)
November 30 –
Marie-Claire Blais , writer, novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1939)
December
December 1 –
Abla Farhoud , Lebanese-born writer (b. 1945)
December 4 –
Hans Blohm , German-born photographer and author (b. 1927)
December 5 –
Harry Giles , educator and founder of the
Toronto French School and
the Giles School (b. 1930)
December 9 –
Danielle Adams , politician (b. 1982)
December 10
December 11 –
Mel Lastman , businessman, politician, and
62nd Mayor of Toronto (b. 1933)
December 12 –
Len Thornson , ice hockey player (b. 1933)
December 13 –
Pete Petcoff , football player (b. 1932)
December 14 –
Bob Peters , ice hockey coach (b. 1937)
December 15 –
Huguette Lachapelle , politician (b. 1942)
December 16
December 18 –
Renée Martel , country singer (b. 1947)
December 19
December 20 –
Christopher Newton , actor and director (b. 1936)
December 21 –
Christian Ouellet , politician (b. 1934)
December 23
Ted Byfield , journalist, publisher, and editor (b. 1928)
Bob McCammon , ice hockey player, head coach, and general manager (b. 1941)
December 25
December 26 –
Jim Wiley , ice hockey player (b. 1950)
December 27 –
Howard Fredeen , animal breeding researcher (b. 1921)
December 30 –
Richard Patten , politician (b. 1942)
December 31 –
Joe Comuzzi , politician (b. 1933)
Full date unknown
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