List of Canadian Events in 2022
Events from the year 2022 in Canada .
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January 3–9 – The 2022 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts and 2022 Boston Pizza Cup are held in Grande Prairie , Alberta , with Laura Walker winning the former and Kevin Koe winning the latter.[citation needed ]
January 3 – An official death toll from COVID-19 in Canada exceeds 30,000 people.[citation needed ]
January 5–9 – The 2022 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts is held in Assiniboia , Saskatchewan , with Penny Barker winning the competition.[citation needed ]
January 7 – Conversion therapy becomes illegal in the country.[ 1]
January 10 – The number of daily COVID-19 infections in Canada exceeds 55,350 people for the first time since the pandemic begin, fueled by highly transmissible Delta cron hybrid variant.[citation needed ]
January 13 – An explosion kills six people in an industrial suburb of Ottawa , Ontario.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
January 14:
January 19 – The four members of the Patel family froze to death near Emerson, Manitoba .[ 6]
January 22–February 23 – The Freedom Convoy , a series of protests over vaccination mandates, occurs throughout the country.[citation needed ]
May 6 – After a 23-game winning streak, Mattea Roach , a tutor from Toronto , loses on Jeopardy! to Danielle Maurer. Roach won a total of $560,983 (US).[ 13] As of May 2022[update] , she was the most successful Canadian to play on the show and ranks 5th in all-time regular season wins.[ 14] [ 15]
May 12 – An official death toll from COVID-19 in Canada exceeds 40,000 people since the start of the pandemic.
May 14 – The Toronto Maple Leafs lose game 7, 2-1 , to the Tampa Bay Lightning , extending the Stanley Cup championship drought to 55 years. The drought surpasses the New York Rangers 54-year drought .[ 16]
May 15 – The Juno Awards of 2022 are held in Toronto , Ontario .[ 17]
May 17–19 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall tour the country . The tour mainly focuses on reconciliation with Indigenous people.[ 18]
May 19 – The first case of monkeypox was confirmed in Toronto.[ 19]
May 21 – An extreme derecho formed in Sarnia, Ontario and continued through the Quebec City-Windsor corridor , causing widespread power outages and damage, affecting 900,000 people, and killing 11.[ 20]
May 24 – Quebec's French Language Bill 96 is adopted, with 78 MNAs in favour (from the CAQ and Québec solidaire ) and 29 against (from the Liberal Party and Parti Québécois ).[ 21]
January 1 – Barbara Chilcott , actress (b. 1922)
January 2 – John Efford , politician (b. 1944)
January 4 – Darwin Semotiuk , football coach and professor of kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario (b. 1945)
January 6
January 7
January 8 – Frank Hasenfratz , Hungarian-born businessman who founded and owned the car parts maker Linamar (b. 1935)
January 10 – Ian Greenberg , businessman and media pioneer (b. 1942)
January 11
January 12 – William Hogan , politician (b. 1937)
January 14
January 15
January 16 – Michael Brecher , political scientist and teacher (b. 1925)
January 17 – Karim Ouellet , Senegalese-born singer-songwriter (b. 1984)
January 19
January 21 – Clark Gillies , ice hockey player (b. 1954)
January 23 – Guy Saint-Pierre , politician and businessman (b. 1934)
January 25 – Jean-Claude Corbeil , linguist and lexicographer (b. 1932)
January 29
January 30 – Jeffrey A. Hutchings , fisheries scientist (b. 1958)
January 31 – Mike Nykoluk , ice hockey player and coach (b. 1934)
February 1 – Remi De Roo , Catholic bishop (b. 1924)
February 3
February 4
February 5
February 7 – Bruce Owen , lawyer and politician (b. 1931)
February 8 – Ricky Hunter , wrestler (b. 1936)
February 9
February 11 – Jean-Marc Piotte , philosopher and sociologist (b. 1940)
February 12 – Ivan Reitman , Czechoslovakian-born film director and producer (b. 1946)
February 14 – Elliott Leyton , social-anthropologist, educator, and author (b. 1939)
February 15 – Charles Juravinski , businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)
February 17
February 18
February 19
Emile Francis , ice hockey player, coach, and general manager (b. 1926)
Latjor Tuel , South Sudanese immigrant to Canada (b. 1980 or 1981)
February 20 – Robert Silverman , cycling activist (b. 1933)
February 23 – Bernard Langer , surgeon and educator (b. 1932)
February 25 – Gérard-Joseph Deschamps , Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1929)
February 27 – Brian Fawcett , writer and cultural analyst (b. 1944)
March 2 – Evérard Daigle , politician (b. 1925)
March 3
March 4
March 9 – Ron Hansen , politician (b. 1943)
March 10 – Gerry Goyer , ice hockey player (b. 1936)
March 14 – Eric Mercury , musician, singer, and composer (b. 1944)
March 15
Joan Langdon , American-born competitive swimmer and breaststroker (b. 1922)
Jean Potvin , ice hockey player (b. 1949)
March 18
March 21 – Lawrence Dane , actor (b. 1937)
March 23 – James Downey , academic (b. 1939)
March 24
March 26 – Claudette Bradshaw , politician (b. 1949)
March 28 – Eugene Melnyk , businessman, philanthropist, owner of the Ottawa Senators , and founder of Biovail (b. 1959)
March 29 – Joyce Fairbairn , politician and senator (b. 1939)
March 30
June 3
June 4
June 5
June 8 – Myron Kowalsky , politician and teacher (b. 1941)
June 9 – Matt Zimmerman , actor (b. 1934)
June 11 – Loretta Rogers , English-born philanthropist and director of Rogers Communications (b. 1939)
June 14 – Bearcat Murray , athletic trainer for the Calgary Flames (b. 1933)
June 16 – Big Rude Jake , musician (b. 1963)
June 25 – John Leefe , author, educator, and politician (b. 1942)
June 27
June 29 – Jim Pappin , ice hockey player (b. 1939)
June 30 – Jean-Guy Gendron , ice hockey player (b. 1934)
July 2
July 3 – Irving Abella , historian who served as a professor at York University (b. 1940)
July 4 – Patrick Watson , broadcaster, writer, and producer (b. 1929)
July 6 – Bryan Marchment , ice hockey player (b. 1969)
July 7
July 8 – Alan Pope , Scottish-born politician (b. 1945)
July 10 – Maurice Boucher , murderer, outlaw biker, and president of the Hells Angels ' Montreal chapter (b. 1953)
July 11 – Terence Macartney-Filgate , British-Canadian filmmaker (b. 1924)
July 13 – Pat John , actor (b. 1953)
July 16 – Paul Hannam , physician and sailor (b. 1971)
July 18
July 20
July 26
July 27
July 28
July 31 – A. Jean de Grandpré , president and chief executive officer of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. (b. 1921)
August 2
August 3 – Terry Caffery , ice hockey player (b. 1949)
August 6 – Bob Skelly , politician (b. 1943)
August 7
August 8 – Tom Hedderson , politician (b. 1954)
August 10 – Julian Klymkiw , ice hockey player (b. 1933)
August 12 – Lyle Bradley , ice hockey player (b. 1943)
August 16 – Alex Polowin , Lithuanian-born World War II veteran (b. 1924)
August 17 – Mabel DeWare , politician, curler, and senator (b. 1926)
August 18 – Ellen Leonard , systematic theologian and Roman Catholic religious sister (b. 1933)
August 19 – Harrison Gray , ice hockey player (b. 1941)
August 24 – Paul Knox , ice hockey player (b. 1933)
August 25
August 27 – Dave Bailey , track and field athlete (b. 1945)
August 29
Sam Glucksberg , professor (b. 1933)
Pat McGeer , physician, professor, medical researcher, and basketball player (b. 1927)
August 30 – Bob Russell , American-born politician (b. 1930)
August 31 – Normand Chaurette , playwright (b. 1954)
September 2 – Denis Berthiaume , academic and researcher (b. 1969)
September 3 – Scott Campbell , ice hockey player (b. 1957)
September 4 – John Till , musician (b. 1945)
September 8 – Elizabeth II , Queen of Canada (b. 1926)
September 9 – Clive Tanner , English-born politician (b. 1934)[ 58]
September 11 – Elias Theodorou , mixed martial artist (b. 1988)
September 12 – Michael DeGroote , Belgian-born businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933)
September 15 – Jeanne Renaud , dancer, choreographer, and artistic director (b. 1928)
September 18 – Diane Guérin , actress and singer (b. 1948)
September 19 – Harry Langford , football player (b. 1929)
September 21 – Tom Benner , sculptor, painter, and installation artist (b. 1950)
September 22 – Dave Barrow , Mayor of Richmond Hill, Ontario (b. 1947)
September 24
September 25
September 28 – Andre Payette , ice hockey player (b. 1976)
September 29 – Gilles Loiselle , politician (b. 1929)
October 1
October 4
October 7 – Brenda MacGibbon , mathematician, statistician, decision scientist, and professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (b. 1944)
October 8 – André Chagnon , businessman, philanthropist, and founder of Vidéotron (b. 1928)
October 11
October 13 – Jeff Barnaby , filmmaker (b. 1976)
October 14
October 15 – Simon Roy , author and professor at the Collège Lionel-Groulx (b. 1968)
October 16
October 20
October 21 – Cynthia Lai , Chinese-Canadian politician (b. 1954)
October 22 – Rodney Graham , artist and musician (b. 1949)
October 23 – Michael Kopsa , actor (b. 1956)
October 24 – Myer Horowitz , academic and president of the University of Alberta (b. 1932)
October 26 – Mike Birch , navigator (b. 1931)
October 28 – Larry South , politician (b. 1925)
October 30 – Andrew Dawes , violinist (b. 1940)
November 1 – Brent Pope , ice hockey player (b. 1973)
November 4 – Alvin Segal , American-born businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933)
November 5
November 10 – Alan Park , comedian and political satirist (b. 1962)
November 12 – Pierre Fournier , comic book writer, artist, editor, promoter, and publisher (b. 1949)
November 15 – Gudrun Parker , filmmaker (b. 1920)
November 18
Myriam Cliche , poet, illustrator, artisan, and linguist (b. 1961)
Jean Lapointe , actor, comedian, singer, and politician (b. 1935)
November 21
Josef Svoboda , Czechoslovakian-born Arctic tundra scientist and botanist (b. 1929)
Peter Trynchy , businessman, farmer, and politician (b. 1931)
November 26
November 27 – Murray Waxman , Olympic basketball player (b. 1925)
November 28 – Rob Armitage , curler (b. 1957)
December 2
December 4
December 5
John Beckwith , composer, writer, pianist, teacher, and administrator (b. 1927)
Sam Wakim , lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
December 8
December 9 – Pedro Miguel Arce , Nicaraguan-born actor (b. 1976)
December 12
December 15
December 16
December 17 – Albert Reichmann , Austrian-born businessman (b. 1929)
December 18
December 24 – Jean Paré , caterer and author (b. 1927)
December 27 – Maximilien Polak , Dutch-born judge and politician (b. 1930)
December 29 – Ian Tyson , musician (b. 1933)
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