2001 in Canada

Sponsorship the way you would do it

See also: 2000 in Canada, other events of 2001, 2002 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.

Table of contents

1 Incumbents

1.1 Events
1.2 Arts and literature

2 Births
3 Deaths

Incumbents

Events

January 21 - Chris Jericho wins Intercontinental Championship from Chris Benoit
February 8 - Lorne Calvert becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Roy Romanow
February 13 - Roger Grimes becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Beaton Tulk
March 8 - Bernard Landry becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Lucien Bouchard
March 12 - Alberta election: Ralph Klein's PCs win a ninth consecutive majority
May 4 - Chretien's longtime Chief of Staff, Jean Pelletier, is made the head of VIA Rail
May 18 - Conrad Black renounces his Canadian citizenship
May 21 - Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit win WWF Tag Team Championship
May 23 - Federal Ethics Commissioner releases a report which clears Alfonso Gagliano of any wrongdoing in the sponsorship scandal
May 28 - Chris Jericho wins Hardcore title losing it that day
June 5 - Gordon Campbell becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Ujjal Dosanjh
July - Canada becomes the first country in the world to legalize medical marijuana
July 17 - Infighting in the Canadian Alliance forces out leader Stockwell Day
August 24 - Conrad Black sells the National Post to Izzy Asper's CanWest
September 11 - Canada closes its border with the United States in the aftermath of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks in the United States. Canadian government initiates Operation Support. All commercial airplanes flying over the United States are diverted to Canadian airports and passengers are welcomed to stay in Canada (some invited into strangers homes) until they are allowed back into the U.S
October 7 - the 2001 Attack on Afghanistan begins. Canadian fighter pilots and ground troops are involved in the war
October 21 - Chris Jericho wins WCW Championship
October 22 - Chris Jericho and The Rock win the WWF Tag Team Championship
December 9 - Chris Jericho becomes first to unify WWE and the WCW Championships hence becoming first ever Undisputed Champion
Chris Hadfield becomes the first Canadian to perform a spacewalk
CTV purchases the Globe and Mail

Arts and literature

New Books

Dolce Agonia - Nancy Huston
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Stone Carvers - Jane Urquhart
Eunoia - Christian BÃÂÃÂ¶k
Discipline of Power - Jeffrey Simpson

New Plays

Shadows - Timothy Findley

Awards

Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief wins the lucrative IMPAC Award
Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Richard B. Wright - Clara Callan
See 2001 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Books in Canada First Novel Award: Michael Redhill, Martin Sloane
Geoffrey Bilson Award: Sharon McKay, Charlie Wilcox
Gerald Lampert Award: Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You
Griffin Poetry Prize: Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
Marian Engel Award: Elizabeth Hay
Matt Cohen Prize: Mavis Gallant
Norma Fleck Award: Gena K. Gorrell, Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale
Pat Lowther Award: Sharon Thesen, A Pair of Scissors
Stephen Leacock Award: Stuart McLean, Vinyl CafÃÂÃÂ© Unplugged
Trillium Book Award English: Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan
Trillium Book Award French: MichÃÂÃÂ¨le Matteau, Cognac et Porto
Vicky Metcalf Award: Linda Granfield

Music

March 4 - Bruce Cockburn is inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame

New Music

Ten New Songs - Leonard Cohen
Silver Side Up - Nickelback
Pretty Together - Sloan
All Killer No Filler - Sum 41

Film

Television

Rick Mercer leaves; Colin Mochrie joins This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Births

Deaths

January 31 - Gordon R. Dickson, author
April 2 - Charles Daudelin, painter, sculptor
July 3 - Mordecai Richler
November 19 - Marcelle Ferron, sculptor
Jack Harman, sculptor
Louis Dudcek, poet